[Backalaika-developers] Mehul and stabilizing code

[Nando F. <nan...@ma...>]

Dear Backalaikers,

There is now a fourth subscriber to this mailing list: Choube Mehul, an
Indian developer who has been working with C, C++, Linux and CVS for 3
years.

Mehul asks if you, Fabio and Ian, could recommend a book about C#.

Mehul will probably start coding with us soon -- in a week he will
already have internet connection at home and will certainly know
everything about C#  :-)

Fabio must have gone to the beach during the weekend or something. But I
have been studying and working hard on remoting and things are looking
better: if you build the projects, you already can start BackupServer,
then start AdminGUI and *CREATE* remote backup profiles. You can't
*edit* profiles yet, but by the time you read this, I will probably have
fixed it. So I guess the 3 tiers will be working soon.

Why did I have so much trouble? Remoting starts generating lots of
serialization exceptions (whose reason I was unable to find) when you
call, on the remote object, methods which take as argument the
ProfileSingle class, which is a complex type. The ProfileSingle argument
simply wouldn't reach the remote ProfilesList object. I finally worked
around this by serializing the argument to string and passing the string
instead.

Possible tasks for anyone to assume now or in the near future:
- Do not implement new features while we are still debugging the basic beast
- Fix anything from the TODO task list generated in SharpDevelop
- Learn how tests are integrated in SharpDevelop
- Write tests for any class. I have ideas for the ProfileSingle class.

Nando