Ross McNichol

I am a Solutions Architect

ABOUT ME

Ross McNichol

A hands-on IT Manager and .NET solutions architect developing desktop apps with WPF, web apps with Aurelia, and mobile apps with Xamarin. Sometimes I have found it difficult to find solutions to enterprise development patterns and solutions. This blog shares some of my favourite solutions to some difficult problems and elegant solutions I have found over the years

Me

My Professional Skills

Broad skills are listed below, most of my software development revolves around the Microsoft platform. C# is my specialty mixing in a bunch of other things like T-SQL, XAML, Typescript, HTML, CSS to get the job done

Web Development 70%
Mobile Development 75%
Desktop development 90%
Server Side Developer 99%

Services

Aurelia Web Development

Aurelia is an elegant componentised SPA framework by Rob Eisenberg who also created Caliburn Micro which I have been using for many years. I have only been using it since late 2016 but it has worked really well for us

Xamarin/WPF desktop application development

More of a hobby at the moment and a way to contribute to the Caliburn micro project on GitHub. I have created the samples for WPF, UWP and Xamarin for official Caliburn micro GitHub repository

MS-SQL, Sqlite Database Development

I have been developing against SQL databases since 2005 and have a plenty of practice with designing building and tuning them. I have recently started using SQlite for integration testing in .NET applications

Solutions Architecture

Being involved in SMB's for my entire career I have had the opportunity to create multiple architectures to suit various needs. I take a great deal of pride in being able to discuss a business need and being able to confidently propose a solution that has a high probability of success

IT management

I am a pretty easy going and understanding manager, but I do expect a personal drive, innovation and results from my staff

Quality Assurance

I have developed over the years a comprehensive and proven quality assurance patterns. I have patterns for unit, integration, functional and manual testing to bring software solutions to their highest quality

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Blog Posts

  • Click once application wont start

    Click once application wont start


    I could not beleive it when i figured out why a click once application would not start on one of the networks machines. Over the past few days I have been helping a few people install our main business application from click once rather than over the network as it has been for the last 12 months, All was going well except for one machine. I tried reinstalling .NET 2.0 framework and going through the registry looking for any references that may have been left behind but to no avail.

    Our user naming convention is firstname and first letter of last name, this one particular users account was firstname.lastname noticing this I logged on using my domain account and sure enough my clickonce started working properly.

    So it seems having a full stop in the login username causes the software to fail with this mesage
    The system cannot find the path specified. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070003)

    Crazy I know. but true.

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