Cook Computing

I'm working in London the second half of this week so I've registered for the DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper event at Microsoft, Reading, on Saturday. Working in a small development group things can get a bit stale at times and it will be good to meet some other developers, absorb some enthusiasm for software development for a change, and hopefully learn a thing or two.

I am about to switch. My Mac Mini is slowly making it way across Europe after leaving Pardubice in the Czech Republic on Saturday. By 5:05GMT this morning it had reached Luxembourg. I ordered the base model with an upgrade to 512M memory.

A while ago I mentioned a couple of problems with XML-RPC.NET and Whidbey. One remains in beta 2: proxy generation using System.Reflection.Emit failed because TypeBuilder.CreateType could not create the proxy class due to an "inaccessible interface" error. I reported the bug to the MSDN Product Feedback Center, and it has since been fixed for the RTM milestone. Proxy generation fails if you define the interface like this:

[XmlRpcUrl("http://www.cookcomputing.com/sumAndDiff.rem")] 
interface ISumAndDiff
{ 
  [XmlRpcMethod] 
  SumAndDiffValue SumAndDifference(int x, int y);
}

The workaround is to define the interface as public. Obviously this is not much use if you don't have the source code.

The next release of XML-RPC.NET is overdue. Finishing off the documentation remains, always the hardest part.