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November 2005 - Posts

• Design Patterns Humor

  You owe it to yourself to read Scott Allen's post Design Patterns: A Love Story. Posted Nov 24 2005, 11:09 AM by darrell with 3 comment(s)

• NUnit 2.2.3 is out - now works with .NET 2.0

  Charlie Poole announced the availability of NUnit 2.2.3: NUnit 2.2.3 is now out. You can get it at our SourceForge site. The release notes are available here. So far, only the .msi file is available. It’s built with VS2003 but, as always, will run on .Net 2.0 - including the RTM. The zipped binaries and source will follow in the next few days, depending on how much connectivity I have while I’m travelling. A version built against .NET 2.0 is in the cards, but we’re still looking at alternative ways to organize the releases. Posted Nov 15 2005, 05:01 PM by darrell with 1 comment(s) Filed under: TDD

• Command-line reference for Post-build events

  You can do some pretty nifty things using post-build events. I think there is a lot of untapped power there, though. You have the full capability to use ANYTHING that you can do at the cmd line, although I probably wouldn't recommend defrag-ing your hard drive in a post-build event. The full list of commands is available at Command-line reference A-Z. Posted Nov 09 2005, 02:21 PM by darrell with 2 comment(s) Filed under: .NET

• DirectX will throw an InvalidDataException if file is not found

  Using Managed DirectX I was getting the following error: An unhandled exception of type 'Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.InvalidDataException' occurred in System.Windows.Forms.dll Unhandled Exception: Error in the application. On a very simple TextureLoader.FromFile(device, filePath) operation. Now an exception like InvalidDataException made me double-check that TextureLoader.FromFile can open tga files, which it can. It turns out, though, that DirectX will throw an InvalidDataException if it CANNOT find the file. I would have expected a FileNotFoundException, but I guess not. And this is from the latest DirectX SDK (October 2005). So double-check your filePath to make sure there's a file there! Hey DirectX team, WTF were you thinking? Posted Nov 08 2005, 01:58 PM by darrell with 2 comment(s) Filed under: .NET

• PROPFIND request failed when connecting to Subversion using self-issued server certificates

  If you get the following error while connecting to Subversion using TortoiseSVN: Error: PROPFIND request failed on '/path/to/SVN'  Error: PROPFIND '/path/to/SVN': could not connect to server (https://sample.svnserver.domain)  and the Subversion server is using a server certificate from a non-trusted authority (i.e., they created it themselves), TortoiseSVN will fail with this error message but without telling you why. Solution:  First make sure it's not a proxy issue. Then go into the repo-browser and navigate to the Subversion server URL. This time you'll get prompted to accept the server certificate (permanently) and to enter your username and password. If you choose Accept Permanently, you'll never need to do this again. Posted Nov 07 2005, 10:26 AM by darrell with 4 comment(s)