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Regex in WPF

Thu, 15 May 2008 02:01:04 GMT

First look at a WPF regex tool I'm working on to learn WPF (databinding, skinning, etc).

WPF best practices: decoupling behavior from the view

Tue, 13 May 2008 15:31:13 GMT

One of the most interesting concepts in WPF is that a control's logic is completely decoupled from its layout. This post explain how this is done and how to leverage this feature

It's OK to use Unit Test tools

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:07:39 GMT

Relying on unit test tools too much can ruin your TDD practice, but unit test tools are still valuable or even indispensable.

XmlOutput vs XmlSerializer performance

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:16:04 GMT

I got quite a lot of comments for my XmlDocument fluent interface, and I'm very glad I did. I'm always open towards new ways to solve problems, and I got a couple of suggestions to my post that I afterwards experimented with. One of those is using the XmlSerializer to serialize strongly typed classes (or structs - performance is the same) into XML. Here's a performance comparison.

Serialize any data to XML in .Net

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:48:39 GMT

How to serialize any data structure to XML? My first idea was XmlSerializer. But then I found out it had some serious drawbacks. Luckily, there is a better option - NetDataContractSerializer.

Simple way to Convert IEnumerable<Entity> to List<IEntity>

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:06:03 GMT

Simple way to Convert IEnumerable<Entity> to List<IEntity>

Stop creating custom delegate types!

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:16:03 GMT

If you declare even a single delegate type in your code (and you're using .NET 3.5), stop and make sure there isn't already an Action or Func delegate that works for you.

.NET structs

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:09:56 GMT

Some interesting insight into structs in .NET