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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.

Compiling mono

Posted on October 27, 2011 by erictummers

As you could read in my previous post I’m playing with mono. This is open source so any problem can actualy be fixed by you. All you need to do is make some changes to the sources and compile. A … Continue reading →

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Cross platform development with mono

Posted on October 17, 2011 by erictummers

The DotNET framework is an open standard and mono is the implementation for multiple platforms, including Linux, MacOSX and Windows. Mono is behind on the Microsoft dotNET framework, but there might be just enough features for your program to run … Continue reading →

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Trace to Windows EventLog

Posted on September 27, 2011 by erictummers

In dotNET we use the System.Diagnostics.Trace and some TraceListerner implementation to log information, warnings and errors. My applications use the Windows Eventlog with the EventLogTraceListener. But what if your custom EventSource is not available and your user has no administrative … Continue reading →

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Windows 8 developer preview

Posted on September 21, 2011 by erictummers

Windows 8 is released as a preview version for developers. The post on Scott Hanselman‘s blog inspired me to download and install it. I started by creating the USB stick version of the image but ran into some trouble. After … Continue reading →

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Custom AutomationPeer classes

Posted on September 6, 2011 by erictummers

When you use custom controls in your silverlight application, you should implement custom AutomationPeer classes. These AutomationPeer classes will be used in your unittests. Below some different flavours I use in my project. Inherited, when you inherit from a control … Continue reading →

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