Archive | July, 2009
A fix to the awesome WPF Snoop utility.
Anyone developing on the WPF platform surely knows the Snoop utility by Pete Blois. It is absolutely awesome and I cannot imagine developing WPF applications without it. However, there is a problem with it. One cannot snoop WPF framework elements nested too deep. By too deep I mean somewhere around 60 layers. Trying to snoop [...]
Continue reading...Using Linq expressions in a client-server application.
16. July 2009
Imagine the following situation: A client-server application, where the client side has no knowledge of the DAL. Even the DAL assemblies are not found on the client side. The client should have an API to fetch entities using some flexible criteria. One of the likable ways to satisfy the second bullet is let the client [...]
Continue reading...Business Process Performance Monitoring – A WAN Emulation Solution
10. July 2009
Recently I was brainstorming with an insurance company for ways we could help them reduce their costs for business process (application) performance monitoring by introducing WAN emulation into their environment. The problem was that they had thousands of locations accessing a wide variety (250+) applications. Being an insurance company, most of the applications really were [...]
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21. July 2009