Category Archives: Software

Template Toolkit for .NET

Posted on June 12, 2009 by claco

A while back I got the urge the waste time on yet another project. This time, it’s a version of Template Toolkit for .NET. As usual, you can find the project on GitHub. Not knowing anything about what it takes … Continue reading →

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So Long Parallels. Hello VirtualBox.

Posted on March 6, 2009 by claco

Back when my XP laptop died and I finally bought a MacBook Pro, Parallels was one of my first purchases so I could run multiple VMs to do Perl software testing. At the time, that was Parallels version 3. Everything … Continue reading →

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ConfigurationElementCollection Gotcha

Posted on November 1, 2008 by claco

Here’s a fun way to waste 2 hours of your life. I was writing a custom config section, and trying to figure out why this wasn’t throwing a duplicate key error:

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CsvDataReader Updates

Posted on September 25, 2008 by claco

A few batches of udates to CsvDataReader this week. I added support for schema.ini files including all of the TabDelimited, CsvDelimited, FixedLength and Delimited(*) formats. I also added support and tests for using Streams.

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CsvDataReader

Posted on September 17, 2008 by claco

Yes, there a few of these out there. Some free. Some not free. Some with IDataReader. Some without IDataReader. Some support IsDbNull. Some insist on always using Empty. Some are NotInheritable. Some are.