Dan Barvitsky

Detecting SearchServer (and other services) in SharePoint farm

Jake and I just got into an interesting problem while working on search functions for VizitSP . My code was using types from Microsoft.Office.Server.Search, which is not available if SearchServer is not installed, so trying to access search functions

A word of praise for relevant error messages

What do you think about the following code: byte [] privateParams, publicParams; using (var rsa = new System.Security.Cryptography.RSACryptoServiceProvider()) { privateParams = rsa.ExportCspBlob( true ); publicParams = rsa.ExportCspBlob( false ); } using

ILMerge and ConfigurationSection

Note to self: dearest Dan! If you happen to use ILMerge with an exe file, please make sure you check the app.config file. Why?  Well, suppose you have a custom settings section in your app.config, just like this: < configSections > < sectionGroup

Which formats does OpenOffice support?

What can you extract from the following dialogue between P rospect and E mployee? P: Which formats does <application name> support? E: Which one are you interested in? P: Err… Give me all you have! E: We support many formats, including… which one

My solution for unit testing concurrent code in NUnit

I blogged recently about testing parallel code in NUnit. I think I settled with requirements: I want to use threads; I want to use assertions in threads; I want to control how threads step on each other; Too bad that solutions I tested did not fit 100%.

Techniques for testing concurrent code in NUnit

Last time I blogged about a way to make concurrent unit tests deterministic. This time I’d like to focus on the technical aspects, namely NUnit . Let us start with the following test: [Test] public void TestThread() { int n = 0; var thread1 = new Thread(()

Thinking aloud: concurrent Unit tests

While working on conversion service for VizitSP , I run once again into unit testing the concurrent code. The problem is not new, yet I did not see 100% solution yet. The difficulty is coming from the fact that unit tests are deterministic to the bone

Deploying debug assemblies in the GAC

Don’t ask me why, but at some point I ended up with the necessity of having debug assemblies in the GAC. OK, if you still ask, it is about SharePoint remote debugging. After dragging-and-dropping PDBs and DLLs for 651th time I almost started feeling an