Continued from “Building a Windows Service – Part 4: Extending the Service Installer” So with our installer working it would be nice to have a way to just run the install right from the command-line. There are several options here, one way would be to use the Process object, set the start parameters to not [...]
Continued from “Building a Windows Service – Part 3: Creating a Service Installer” In the previous post we created a rough draft of our service installer. In this post we will focus on extending the capabilities of the default ServiceInstaller class and enhancing the behavior of the default class. Here are the goals: Use declarative [...]
Continued from “Building a Windows Service – Part 2: Adding a Service to a Console Application” We are going to take this in two steps, first the minimal we need to do to make something *sorta* work, then we are going to get fancy. This post will focus on the first part, making something work. [...]
Continued from “Building a Windows Service – Part 1: Getting started” So now that we’ve built ourselves a console application it’s time to add the service. Doing this is strait-forward and we can use the Visual Studio template for both the service and a basic installer. The first thing I’ve done is to create a [...]
This is the first of what I hope to be a multi-part deep-dive into building managed Windows services. As with any task the first thing we need to discover is the why and what for. Services can be very useful for a number of situations. On the client side of things one might be using [...]
So I ran into this article entitled “How to Create a Personal Encryption Scheme to Easily Hide Your Data in Plain Sight” on lifehacker. I just want to say: This is a REALLY bad idea. The recommendation is to create you’re very own personal ‘encryption‘ system to encode you’re personal information in plain site. The [...]
Nov 032011
So now that I’ve finally got around to releasing a protocol built on top of the RpcLibrary I thought it would be fun to re-run some benchmarks. The protocol has been around unreleased for almost a year waiting on some required changes in protobuf-csharp-port which have finally been published in a release. The protocol I’m [...]
Let’s face it the clever guys at Google have more bandwidth than the rest of the nation combined. What better to do with all that excess pipe ;) There are of course numerous posts about the performances of +1 buttons. If you missed them there is the ever popular Google +1 Button Performance Review, and [...]
Oct 182011
A few weeks ago I published NuGet packages for version 1.11.924.348. CSharpTest.Net.BPlusTree CSharpTest.Net.Library CSharpTest.Net.Logging CSharpTest.Net.RpcLibrary I also managed to get protobuf-csharp-port on board. I absolutely live by protobuffers. Google.ProtocolBuffers Google.ProtocolBuffersLite Finally I recently published a complete protobuf services rpc layer build on the RpcLibrary and protobuf-csharp-port. Of course much of the code there [...]
Oct 162011
Recently I published a set of B+Tree benchmarks comparing a few of the available libraries against my own C# BPlusTree implementation. The author of RaptorDB wrote to me and requested that I review the latest version, 1.7 of RaptorDB. The points you made regarding RaptorDB were all valid in the previous version (pre the current [...]