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CodeRush with Refactor! Pro vs ReSharper

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:41:54 GMT

Every developer knows already, that Visual Studio is not sufficient enough for code writing. Maybe this comparission will show other developers what can do with theses addons.

ReflectionHelper - DSL-like reflection manipulating

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:20:51 GMT

Helper class useful for manipulating objects by reflection. This is part of just developing rod.Commons library.

7 tricks to simplify your programs with LINQ

Mon, 19 May 2008 09:31:03 GMT

Ever since I learned about LINQ, I keep discovering new ways to use it to improve my code. Every trick makes my code a little bit faster to write, and a little bit easier to read. This posting summarizes some of the tricks that I came across. I will show you how to use LINQ to: initialize an array, iterate over multiple arrays in a single loop, generate a random sequence, ...

NHibernate 2.0 Supa' Layer

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:46:03 GMT

Essentially I wanted a way to make queries work better within the context of a Domain Driven Design approach. I'm a big believer in Persistence Ignorance, so this means that I had to find a way to represent queries in a provider independent way. LINQ does this for me, mostly, but I still need a 'syntactically pleasing' way to get the LINQ provider to the query at runtime. Well, it turns out that doing this is pretty easy.

Compiling VS and generating project version based on SVN revision.

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:31:02 GMT

Solution for dynamic and automatic AsseblyInfo generation with version number based on SVN revision. It is using just csproj file.

The custom MSBuild task cookbook

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:38:07 GMT

Learn how to extend the MSBuild build system with your own custom tasks. You'll learn how to write, register and debug custom tasks easily.