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More on best practices for exception handling

Mon, 04 Sep 2006 11:31:02 GMT

Bill Wagner (author of "Effective C#"), adds his smart thoughts to Scott Hansleman's post on best practices for exception handling.

Programmatically Detect if an Assembly is Compiled in Debug or Release

Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:31:01 GMT

A small util to run against a compiled assembly and see if it is a Debug or Release version.

Add validation to business objects

Sat, 02 Sep 2006 08:31:02 GMT

Here's a good example of doing validation on business objects, without changing too much and keeping it simple.

Overriding GetHashCode Method

Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:31:01 GMT

What you Should know befor you override the GetHashCode method but were afraid to ask ;-)

Source Control: Anything But SourceSafe

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 08:31:01 GMT

VSoft, the makers of FinalBuilder, just published the results of their annual customer survey. One of the questions is which version control systems do you currently use, or plan to use, in the next 12 months? The top 9 responses are reprinted here. I'm disheartened to see that Visual SourceSafe is still at the top of the list. If you are serious about the practice of software development, you should avoid SourceSafe.

How To Get The Calling Method And Type

Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:31:01 GMT

Here are a couple of useful methods for getting information about the caller of a method. The first returns the calling method of the current method. The second returns the type of the caller. Both of these methods require declaring the System.Diagnostics namespace.

CSS Menu system with No JavaScript

Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:31:02 GMT

This is a page with a navigation menu that uses only CSS. It uses No JavaScript.

.NET - Serialization

Sat, 12 Aug 2006 11:31:03 GMT

This article deals with the BinaryFormatter and SoapFormatter classes in the .NET Framework, and gives an example of how you might serialize a custom object

NDepend

Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:31:01 GMT

NDepend analyses .NET assemblies of an application and generates reports containing design quality metrics, warnings and diagrams. The VisualNDepend tool allows analysing all these data thanks to an interactive view. Such view can be tuned according to numerous software metrics. Currently free until september

TRULY Understanding ViewState

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 19:01:01 GMT

ViewState is a very misunderstood animal. I would like to help put an end to the madness by attempting to explain exactly how the ViewState mechanism works, from beginning to end, and from many different use cases, such as declared controls vs. dynamic controls.

ASP.NET 2.0 Page Life Cycle

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 06:21:01 GMT

A repost of the diagram by Léon Andrianarivony.