So I’ve been messing around with Generics and Reflection in C# this week. I’m busy writing something that’s going to support a plugin system so that the same core can be used for multiple clients.

But my question is where can I learn more about this kind of stuff? While the basics can easily be picked up from the net and through a bit of experimentation. (I’ve found the best sources of info to be many of the msdn blogs…) I’m not sure how to solve weirder issues in my design like what happens if certain parts of the application become multi-threaded? I’ve got to come up with a way to process more things “at once” in the system so a multi-threaded solution seems to be the best way to go. This is very hard when you have a 40hour time scale to complete and test the whole “core” system.

So any suggestions of where to look for more info would be greatly appreciated along with any hints on slowing down time and no sleep less is not a good enough as

Been getting a bit bored with the whole C# .NET thing and decided to take a stab at learning a new language.

It’s not that I don’t like C# I really do like it, but I spend all my time working in it at work and I never really get to “fool around” in it. So I decided to learn something new, something that is very far removed from anything I use at work.

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Well Ok, technically it didn’t “eat” the setup project just manage to nibble at the dependencies.. (Of course this happens when you’re on a deadline racing against the clock trying to get something finished and built so that it can go off to a customer who is about to fly off to install it.)

So the problem is as follows you’ve got a Setup Project and when you build it you get an error similar to the one below, possible more than one error message (I had 5).

The dependencies for the object ‘policy_8_0_microsoft_vc80_atl_x86.msm’ cannot be determined.

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