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Boy Scout Check-ins

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 23:16:02 GMT

How to leave your code campground cleaner than you found it.

How Do Locks Lock?

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:31:02 GMT

A detailed explanation of how a locks like ReaderWriterLockSlim really work.

Meta-FizzBuzz

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:13:34 GMT

Create a language implementation and write a solution to the FizzBuzz problem using it.

TimeZone vs. TimeZoneInfo in .Net

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:31:04 GMT

Understanding the TimeZoneInfo classin .Net 3.5 and how it compares to the standard TimeZone class.

Building an Object-Oriented Parasitic Metalanguage in .NET

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:31:03 GMT

Details the early stages for how OMeta# is being implemented.

OMeta#: Who? What? When? Where? Why?

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:16:03 GMT

Introducing a new open source project whose aim is to bring the OMeta language to .net.

Microsoft Source Analysis for C# Released

Fri, 23 May 2008 18:31:14 GMT

From post: "Source Analysis is similar in many ways to Microsoft Code Analysis (specifically FxCop), but there are some important distinctions. FxCop performs its analysis on compiled binaries, while Source Analysis analyzes the source code directly. For this reason, Code Analysis focuses more on the design of the code, while Source Analysis focuses on layout, readability and documentation."

6 Useful Visual Studio Tweaks You Need To Know

Fri, 09 May 2008 13:16:02 GMT

Here is a list of 6 Visual Studio tweaks you can do to make your development experience much better...

My "Better Know a Framework" Talk at IndyCodeCamp

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:16:02 GMT

Today at the IndyCodeCamp I gave a talk in much of the same spirit as the "Better Know a Framework" series on ".NET Rocks!" The talk had no slides, but featured me in the debugger highlighting a few of my favorite (but lesser known classes). This code is included. As part of my preparation, I researched every topic covered on each show and included a brief summary as part.

From Developer to Technical Manager

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:16:03 GMT

Organizations with an outdated organizational structure have got to wake up and change before it's too late. They will either lose or ruin their people. Either way, the company loses because people are the company.

How to grayout an image in .Net

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:31:02 GMT

This article shows how to gray out an image in .net programmatically. This can be useful for making "Disabled" versions of images, etc.

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.

How Super Mario Bros Made Me a Better Software Engineer

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:16:05 GMT

Playing NES video games does have some advantages!

What Does It Take To Become A Grandmaster Developer?

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:31:02 GMT

Provides an analogy between chess grandmasters and software developers including some C# examples.

Does Your Code Pass "The Turkey Test?"

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:16:02 GMT

How careful are you about using the correct form of string and number formatting? How about your use of String.Compare and String.Equals?

SKU Driven Development

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:45:59 GMT

Covers a way of unifying some of the many things that we have to "keep in mind" as developers in order to ship good software.

How to use delegates to remove duplicated code

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:31:02 GMT

Sometimes you have duplicated code, that is not easy to remove with "ordinary" coding approaches. Think about the following example. You have two or more methods that needs to be encapsulated with try-catch blocks.

For Loops: Using i++, ++i, Enumerators, or None of the Above?

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:01:02 GMT

A quest to move away from the 50 year old style of "for loops" and embrace newer ways of getting the same job done.

Expression Tree Basics

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:01:09 GMT

Newcomers to LINQ often find expression trees difficult to grasp. In this post I hope to show that the subject is not quite as difficult as it might appear at first. Any reader who has an intermediate level understanding of LINQ should find the material in this post easy to grasp. An expression tree provides a method of translating executable code into data. This can be very valuable if you want to modify or transform code before executing it. In particular, it can be useful if you want to transform C# code such as a LINQ query expression into code that operates on another process, such as a SQL database. But I'm getting ahead of myself. By the end of this post you will find it easy to understand why it is helpful to translate code into data. First I need to provide a little background. Let's start by seeing the relatively simple syntax for creating an expression tree.

Confessions of a Software Developer

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:01:02 GMT

Has anybody else ever felt overwhelmed with the sheer mass of "stuff" involved with software development?

Finally Understanding COM After Changing a Light Bulb

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:17:38 GMT

After years of ignoring it, a .net programmer is forced to actually understand COM (component object model)

Future Focus I

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:46:02 GMT

This is the first of a series of monthly posts designed to give insight into the C# team's current plans for future versions of Visual Studio. Each post will highlight one or more key subjects that will impact users of the C# language. In this issue you will learn about the team's plan for Dynamic Lookup.

C# by Contract - Using Expression Trees

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:31:02 GMT

Using Lambda Expressions to get more bang for my buck! This Article is part of a series exploring the capabilities of .NET 3.5 and how new advances allow the development of a very powerful Design by Contract (or Contract First or Contract Driven Development) system in very few lines. DBC can help you write better code and although the examples in this post are in C#, they will work equally well in VB.NET.

.NET Framework Library Source Code now available

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:46:02 GMT

Scott Guthrie announces that the .NET framework source code can now accessed in Visual Studio

Borrowing Ideas From 3 Interesting Internal Classes in the .NET 3.5

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:31:03 GMT

Improve your code by borrowing ideas from System.Linq.Strings, System.Linq.Error, and Microsoft.Contracts.Contract.