Yay! Re-sharper 4 just shipped (in the last hour by the looks of it, their blog entry says 10th of June and it's still the 9th) after the shortest Beta/RC period I think I've seen ever. Finally, support for all the clever new C#3.0 bits.

For the past week or so in my spare time I've been trying to get my head around DI and IoC. Last night the light flickered on and stayed on thanks to this series of articles by Simone Busoli on dotnetslackers:

http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/designpatterns/InversionOfControlAndDependencyInjectionWithCastleWindsorContainerPart1.aspx
http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/designpatterns/InversionOfControlAndDependencyInjectionWithCastleWindsorContainerPart2.aspx
http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/designpatterns/InversionOfControlAndDependencyInjectionWithCastleWindsorContainerPart3.aspx
http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/designpatterns/InversionOfControlAndDependencyInjectionWithCastleWindsorContainerPart4.aspx

Although the articles focus on the Castle Windsor container, the principles apply to containers such as Microsoft's own Unity container.

So I succumbed to peer pressure (or something like that) and got me a Twitter account. I'm still not sure I get the whole 'micro-blogging' thing but I'll give it a go. So if you fancy tuning in and finding out when I've gone to the bathroom, scratched my arse or wiped my nose then get it hot off the press from here: http://twitter.com/cosmicklev.

Look what we have to put up with in Perth. This is my residential line (Nildram, but shows as Tiscali now):

This is the business line:

This is on a good day. Neither results them are particularly inspiring and BT refuse to do anything about fixing the residential line to match the business line, other than having replaced the master socket when a fault manifested itself last year. Both copper circuits follow the same path back to the exchange (or so a BT engineer assured me) so I'm guessing the residential line has some pretty crappy jointing along the way. To make matters worse, changes in humidity, temperature and the phases of the moon can reduce the speed by as much as 30%. There's even some folk in the estate who've been turned down by BT Broadband, yet the adjacent business estate which houses HBoS, The Scottish Executive and Scottish and Southern Energy had new fibre especially pulled up to this end of town for them.

There's also Virgin Cable duct roughly a 100 yards round the corner from the estate but sadly they never made it down our street when the houses were built. So much for de-regulation, competition and choice.

1. Running the wrong version of SysInternals Process Monitor makes your screen go blue:

Remember to launch Procmon64.exe and not procmon.exe.

2. Remember to enable 32 bit mode in your app pool when running those legacy 32 bit COM widgets in your antiquarian ASP apps:

Otherwise...

Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a01ad'

ActiveX component can't create object: 'MSSOAP.SoapClient30'

I spent a good hour and a half installing/uninstalling/installing/regsvr32'ing/etc the MS SOAP SDK (yeah...how quaint).