Since I have experienced the same error more than three times while creating Windows Service (.NET 3.5) on Visual Studio 2012 and/or 2013, I think I should post a solution here for my quick reference. If you create a Windows Service and target .NET 3.5 on Visual Studio 2012 or 2013, you might experience the … Continue reading →

I thought it would be nice to share some of the technical books that I have learnt most from, and still love to look through or use as reference to this day.   These are in no particular order and cover a variety of technical subjects, and some are far from recent.  If you are interested in any of these areas and have not read these books, I cannot recommend them highly enough!  I have many, many many books and have read countless over the years, many of them are awesome but are not making this list as it [...]

This is the fourth post of my notes from Emerging Languages Camp last year. If you haven’t seen it already, you might want to read the Introduction to this series. Nimrod: A new approach to meta programming Andreas Rumpf Homepage · Slides · Presentation Nimrod’s creator, Andreas Rumpf, describes the language as a statically typed, systems programming language with [...]

One function that I used very frequently in Functional Programming language like F# is map. For C# I can use Select function in LINQ to do the same thing. With ECMAScript5, JavaScript also comes with built-in map function. Here are how map functions looks like in JavaScript: However, if you still have to support IE8, … Continue reading →

The SQL provider now supports basic transactional CRUD functionality and an ODBC provider. A new nuget package is up for you to grab here. As always, you can download and build from source here. The nuget package is still pre-release. You can find it in Visual Studio by toggling the search filter to include pre-release packages. I'm sure Xamarin has a similar feature.  Once this work has been tested well enough,  I will likely upgrade the SQL Provider to a proper release. Experimental ODBC Support We now h[...]