Lars Wilhelmsen

Microsoft Connected Systems MVP

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WCF Test Client doesn’t speak Norwegian…

22 June, 2010 (10:24) | Bug?, WCF | By: larsw

…at least when it comes to handling of decimal numbers – and it probably goes for all other non-English locales that doesn’t use period as the decimal delimiter. If you look closely at the screenshots below, you’ll notice that I’ve entered 2500,00 – that is two thousand comma zero zero in Norwegian. 250000 – two [...]

Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0-related blogs

9 June, 2010 (10:54) | Blogging, Blogroll, WF | By: larsw

I’ve compiled a list of bloggers who seem to focus on WF4.0. Please post a comment if you have any blogs I’ve missed. Matt Winkler [MSFT] http://blogs.msdn.com/mwinkle/ Kushal Shah [MSFT] http://blogs.msdn.com/kushals/ Ron Jakobs [MSFT] http://blogs.msdn.com/rjacobs/ The Activity Designer [MSFT] http://blogs.msdn.com/tilovell/ Request/Reply [MSFT] http://blogs.msdn.com/endpoint/ Zafar Mohammed [MSFT] http://blogs.msdn.com/mimran/ The .NET Endpoint [MSFT] http://blogs.msdn.com/endpoint/ Cathy Dumas [MSFT] [...]

Solution: Add Service Reference does not always work properly in WF4 scenarios

3 June, 2010 (10:03) | Visual+Studio, WF, Workaround | By: larsw

Now, the title is a bit cryptic, so let me elaborate; earlier this week, I noticed that when I tried to add a service reference to a WCF Workflow service in the same ASP.NET Web Application, I didn’t get the expected result; custom activities for the service operations in the toolbox (when designing another WF [...]

Migrating Work Items from one TFS Project to another

5 May, 2010 (09:37) | Migration, TFS2010 | By: larsw

Recently, we upgraded our Team Foundation Server from 2008 to 2010 at work. Long overdue getting rid off some custom TFS Project templates, we were eager to use the new MSF for Agile 5.0 template. Now, we knew on beforehand that we couldn’t just upgrade existing team projects, so we had to come up with [...]

Countdown to Microsoft PDC 2009 – part 2

9 November, 2009 (22:32) | Conferences, Microsoft, PDC'09 | By: larsw

In the first installment of this pre-PDC blog post series, I published the list of the sessions I’ll likely attend and a list of sessions that would be cool to see, but that isn’t really target material (for me). Microsoft has now published the time & location of each session, and I must say that [...]

Countdown to Microsoft PDC 2009 – part 1

1 November, 2009 (21:22) | Conferences, Microsoft, PDC'09 | By: larsw

So, we’ve reached November 1st – the day after Halloween and it’s only 15 days to the PDC! (Woohoo! ) I’m travelling with two of my colleagues and we’re staying at the Omni from the 14th, send me a message (typically on Twitter: larsw) if you want to hang out before / during the conference. [...]

TFB210602: Failed to copy.

27 October, 2009 (21:01) | Bug?, Continuous+Integration, Microsoft, TFS2010, Workaround | By: larsw

Build error: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: path1. Now that’s a cryptic title, right? First of all; a big thanks to Jason Barile/MSFT that set me in contact with Aaron Hallberg that in turned found a workaround for the bug I’m about to describe. Second; The bug is fixed in MSFTs trunk version of [...]

Easier Unit Testing of WCF Services with ServiceTestContext

8 September, 2009 (10:42) | .NET, TDD, WCF | By: larsw

Hi, and apologies for being so awfully quiet the last couple of months. Expect the traffic to pick up again (I’ll explain the silence in a blog post later). Now, when unit testing WCF Services, I’ve often ended up with cluttering my tests with a lot of plumbing code to wire up the SUT; that is [...]

Moving the blog to a new hosting provider

22 May, 2009 (13:21) | Blogging | By: larsw

Hi, I’m about to move the blog to a new more sane hosting provider that wordpress.com. If the blog is temporarily out of order, please go to the alias for this site larsw.wordpress.com instead. Thank you. Update 2009/06/02: Transition to the new hosting provider should now be done. Please contact me if experience any errors.

Amazon–; BookShelf++;

15 May, 2009 (11:54) | Books, Computer+Science, Patterns, Refactoring, Semantic+Web, TDD | By: larsw

From time to time, I need to “restock” my book shelfs, e.g. order a batch of Computer Science-related books from Amazon. I placed a new order on Thursday and hopefully I’ll get them all during the week to come. xUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code Author: Gerard Meszaros Hardcover, 833 pages Published: 2007 Continuous Integration: [...]