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In part 1 of this series, I constructed a pair of classes to supporting persisting MIDI data to files.   In this entry, I’ll now leverage that code to support an (admittedly limited) music editor experience. Caveat :   As I mentioned in the first post, I’m sure many readers will be far more knowledgeable about MIDI than I am, and will justifiably roll their eyes at this code due to its limited scope.   I will only be generating simple type-1 MIDI files that only use t ... [ read more ]
The results from InfoWorld's 2009 Technology of the Year Awards are in. Visual Studio 2008 was voted Best IDE, with the following commentary: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Visual Studio stands alone as the preferred development environment for applications using Microsoft's .Net Framework, and it's peerless among IDEs for any language. The 2008 version expands the development targets to include SOA, Web 2.0, Windows Presentation Framework, and Silverlight applications, and extends the da ... [ read more ]
I don’t know the history of the term red herring, but to me it means something you’re looking at thinking it’s the problem, when it’s just not the right problem. I have to return to the red-herring in my recent MEF debugging post. I wasted a lot of calendar time thinking the problem was in MEF. It wasn’t. It was in my code. The biggest hurdle to effective debugging, the biggest time waster, the mind killer of debugging is the red herring. When you are debugging the quickest way to become in ... [ read more ]
I’ve gotten into what feels like a gnarly debugging problem in a MEF application. Debugging MEF can be challenging so I’ll describe the process I went through. Obviously you are unlikely to have an identical problem, but it might help to see the specific questions I asked as I walked through the debugging process. NOTE: This describes a problem with the import process; problems in the composition process have very good error messages. With composition problems, you’ll often get “no expor ... [ read more ]
I’m giving a talk at the MVP Summit in Seattle on Sunday afternoon. The session focuses on the premise that it’s easier to create user interface (UI) that includes formatting, aggregates, graphics and the rest with a report (or several). I’ve provided some of the technical details here.


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