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Dotnet development

Video Mirroring IOS Apps with MonoTouch

For an on-stage demo of an iPad app I needed to build in video mirroring. Luckily I found this code and everything worked within 10 minutes, waiting for compile – package – deploy took that long 😉 This code is … Continue reading

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Microsoft Web Camp

Microsoft uses (boot)camps to promote new products. The website devcamps.ms contains the curriculum. At the writing of this post there is Windows Phone, Windows Azure, Web and Windows. It’s free so I registered for the Web Camp and signed up … Continue reading

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DataContract weird characters and Mono

My solution will run on dotNET and Mono in a variety of mixes. Connecting the pieces of the Service Oriented Architecture design using WCF. Testing some setups showed me another difference between dotNET and Mono. The returntype of an operation … Continue reading

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BasicHttpBinding blocking under Mono

Hosting services in Mono using the BasicHttpBinding will block incomming requests until the previous request is handled. In dotNET this is not the case. Another difference between dotNET and Mono. I’ll demonstrate this by using a self calling service. See … Continue reading

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Mono.Data.Sqlite and filelocks

While porting my projects to Mono I noticed some file locking on databases. There were no problems with the dotNET code. Seems like a difference in behavior between the two frameworks. A simple query to a Sqlite database would look … Continue reading

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