Author Archives: erictummers

About erictummers

Working in a DevOps team is the best thing that happened to me. I like challenges and sharing the solutions with others. On my blog I’ll mostly post about my work, but expect an occasional home project, productivity tip and tooling review.

Run unit tests in 64-bit

Posted on November 12, 2012 by erictummers

Some unit tests fail since my “upgrade” to Windows 8 64 bit coming from a 32 bit installation. The exception is shown below System.BadImageFormatException: Could not load file or assembly ‘XXX SQLite’ or one of its dependencies. An attempt was … Continue reading →

Posted in Test | Tagged BadImageFormatException, Sqlite, unittest, x32, x64 | Leave a comment

Change Visual Studio background color

Posted on November 1, 2012 by erictummers

The background color of Visual Studio 2010 is a dark blue gradient. Problem is the gradient gives a flickering effect on external monitors when the frequency is under 75 Hz. I want to change it to a solid color. Visual … Continue reading →

Posted in Tooling | Tagged Color, extension, Theme, Visual Studio 2010 | Leave a comment

Remote debugger setup

Posted on October 29, 2012 by erictummers

Setting up the remote debugger from Windows 8 (Visual Studio) to Windows XP SP3 (Program) was a fight, but I won. Read my steps below. Program machine ~ virtualxp Add a user for remote debugging that will be available on … Continue reading →

Posted in Development | Tagged Attach to Process, Firewall, PDB, Remote debugger, Security Policy, Visual Studio 2010, windows 8 | 2 Comments

ILMerge alternative with embedded resources for class library

Posted on September 25, 2012 by erictummers

In my previous post I pointed out how to implement the Jeffrey Richter alternative to ILmerge on WPF applications. Now I want to show you how to do this with class libraries using module initializers tool from Einar Egilsson. Again … Continue reading →

Posted in Development | Tagged .NET, asp.net, class libraries, class library, embedded resources, ilmerge, injectmoduleinitializer, jeffrey richter, public static void | Leave a comment

ILMerge alternative with embedded resources

Posted on September 17, 2012 by erictummers

We use ILMerge to merge a lot of assemblies to a single one for simpler deployment. The result is not compatible with Mono and has issues with WPF. “… ILMerge works only on Windows-based platforms. It does not yet support … Continue reading →

Posted in Development | Tagged AssemblyResolve, build action, DispatcherUnhandledException, embedded resource, ilmerge, Just-In-Time Debugger, mono, solution explorer, WPF | 3 Comments