Jason Rowe

Be curious! Choose your own adventure.

Category: .NET

  • ReSharper Introduction

    I’ve used ReSharper for 2-3 years and decided to share my experience with it by creating an introduction video. Most of the information is from http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/ with some additional input and comments.

  • Testing WCF Soap Messages Using Fiddler

    The following is how I generate test soap requests for .Net WCF services and work with them in Fiddler. This comes in handy when I want to see how the service is responding to HTTP header changes. The great thing is once you get the request into Fiddler you can change the request body or […]

  • Learning RavenDB from Raccoon Blog

    I’m starting a new project that will require RavenDB. I’ve been to a user group which gave an overview of RavenDB and read some of the docs. Now I’m going to walk through the official sample project Raccoon Blog to learn more. The first thing I’ll look for is how does the app expect RavenDB […]

  • NetMsmqBinding Brain Dump

    I started experimenting with WCF’s NetMsmqBinding and found the abstraction to be a bit tricky. WCF takes care of all the MSMQ details and all you need to do is define the contract and do configuration. The following are some notes about that process. Links msmq wcf and iis getting them to play nice AutoFac […]

  • Right Click Add To Path

    I do lots of installs on my windows machine and got tired of having to change the path environment variables manually. I created a AddPath.exe that will do this for me and added a short cut to the right click context menu. In one right click I can get this result: Here is how it […]

  • ejabberd offline messages

    The following is how I created a custom ejabberd module to POST offline messages to a web application. I should mention this is not production ready I’ve only just started working with Erlang and the XMPP server ejabberd. The main reason I’m experimenting with XMPP is to provide apple push notifications once a user closes […]