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Patten Matching in C# 3.0

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:08:50 GMT

Pattern matching works best with built in facilities in the language, yet this was fun to implement. Basically a pattern matching statement(expression, computation) is of type Type1 => Type2 which means it get a value of type Type1 and returns a value of type Type2. We need a set of pairs of lambdas. Each pair consists of computations of type (Type1 => bool, Type1 => Type2). First item of this pair helps us to decide if we must execute the second part or not...

QuickSort for Fun!

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:07:54 GMT

This is a quick sort, implemented in C# 3.0. It was fun to implement it!

The true meaning of readonly for value types

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:53:05 GMT

The article describes the side effects of making value type fields readonly.

Fluent NHibernate and those sweet LINQ repositories

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:16:02 GMT

Hidden gems in this cool open source library.

NotNorthwind - Update #1 - All Your Northwind Are Belong To Us

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:00:28 GMT

create a better demo database than Northwind

The ASP.NET MVC Information Portal

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:46:02 GMT

A content aggregator of everything related to ASP.NET MVC

VS2008 Web Server Here Shell Extension

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:31:02 GMT

This shell extension adds a right click menu on any folder that will start WebDev.WebServer.exe (aka Cassini) pointing to that directory.

How To Create a WPF Custom Context Menu

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:01:02 GMT

An easy to learn and implement example about WPF custom context menu creation

Wafagy

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:59:55 GMT

A new design pattern is being forged into new interesting technologies and this is a re-arrangement of it's concepts. This design pattern has four main steps in implementation; and it is for unifying or making constraint on boundaries of somthing (some context): - Wrap it - Formalize it - Generalize it - Simplify it

Another Use for C# Using

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:16:02 GMT

If you are a C# developer you're familiar with the using directive. It appears at the top of every one of your class files informing the compiler what namespaces should be looked at while compiling this code page so that you don't have to fully qualify every object. (This isn't the interesting bit)

C# Glorified: Nemerle

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 07:23:59 GMT

Nemerle is a cross platform CLR based language. It is very powerful too

Cool links for programmers

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:46:02 GMT

In this post I do not intend to make a list of the best programmers web sites, but to share with you some you might not know:

One Aspect of a Successful Programming Language (Yes! Again!)

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 07:36:38 GMT

We have 2 different points here (of views): 1 - Feel tha joy and enjoy 2 - Make it done Or we can mix them up (unconsciously): 3 - Make it doomed ...

Creating great thumbnails in ASP.NET

Sat, 10 May 2008 02:01:03 GMT

The built in function for creating thumbnails in ASP.NET is extremely convenient and very simple to implement. The trouble is that it produces relatively poor quality results and excessively large file sizes. The thumbnails tend to look very muddy when using this route, but many times it's good enough for whatever your needs may be.

Using a Windows Service just to run a scheduled process is Wrong!

Sat, 10 May 2008 17:46:02 GMT

A classic post by Jon Galloway: A Windows Service is the wrong solution to scheduling one-off custom processes. The right solution for scheduling simple processes is the Windows Task Scheduler.

Why Should You Wrap Your ASP.NET Session Object

Wed, 07 May 2008 13:16:03 GMT

ASP.NET provides mechanisms for storing information for a single user session or across multiple sessions. This is done using the HttpSessionState and HttpApplicationState classes. The Page class has Application and Session attributes to provide access to current objects. The simple way to access them is as following:

... functional programming might be the next big shift

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:16:02 GMT

Some thoughts on the growing trend towards functional programming (for those not aware of it).

Duck Typing In C# 3.0

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:21:30 GMT

In C# 3.0 we achieve this feature by employing Extension Methods. The whole point came straightly from definition of Extension Methods, where says: "An extension method with the same name and signature as an interface or class method will never be called.". That means we can call a method on objects without providing a specific type for the compiler. Of course we have the choice to add the extension methods to just one type/class of objects; that for example have implemented a specific interface.

Dependency Injection Not Needed In C#

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:32:23 GMT

We do not need Dependency Injection in C# 3.0. Because we already have it in a very cleaner way!... (Using extension methods in a different way to make everything inside-out!)

OOP and FOOP

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:22:10 GMT

As we are using functional programming techniques more and more, new point of view is needed for some already well known concepts. In this text some thoughts on this has been presented.

Monad Described Imperatively

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:49:33 GMT

I have written a Monad thing in C#. This Monad has a private field that I have not access to, but I can change it in any way that I want to! :O And that's the interesting thing about it :P. Once I have pushed a data into it; There is no way out of it. But I can still make any modifications to the data in the Monad. ...

Microsoft Takes C# to Second Life

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:37:48 GMT

Microsoft will hold a Microsoft C# Day on the Second Life virtual world platform to introduce C# to developers that are new to the language