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Conquering VB envy with C# 4

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:24:43 GMT

Hints at how the embedded XML syntax of VB.Net might be implemented using the dynamic language features of C# 4.0

Passing references to events (almost)

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:32:26 GMT

Have you ever needed to pass a reference to an event into another object? Think you can't do it in C#? This article shows how you can - some times!

Doing Planning the Agile way

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:18:52 GMT

An introduction to planning and estimating a project using Agile

Best practices for creating websites in IIS 6

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:46:02 GMT

A list of steps that I always take while creating ASP.NET websites in IIS 6. It ensures better performance maintainability, and scalability of your application.

Handling Events by Executing Commands in WPF

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:44:49 GMT

Shows how to hook up a Command in a View-Model so that it is executed when an event is raised in a WPF View.

How to Label CruiseControl.Net Builds with Folder Version Number

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:09:35 GMT

The source code for a CruiseControl.Net plugin that labels builds with the version number of the source code trunk folder in a SourceGear Vault repository.

How to Create a Gantt Control in WPF

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:41:48 GMT

Describes the first baby step towards creating a Gantt Control in WPF. That is, creating a new WPF panel that allows controls to be laid out by date.

Comparing .NET DI (IoC) Frameworks, Part 2

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:46:03 GMT

A second part of popular IoC frameworks comparison.

Using DataBinding in a ConverterParameter

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:28:04 GMT

But this time without reflection!

Avoiding Inheritance Dependencies Using Generics and Lambdas

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:24:27 GMT

A nice implementation of the Command pattern using generics and lambdas

Reporting Progress During LINQ queries

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:12:57 GMT

Shows how to enable progress reporting in long-running LINQ queries.

Speech Recognition Input Binding in Xaml

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:22:56 GMT

Implementing speech recognition as a first-class input device in WPF and enabling easy speech recognition input binding directly in Xaml (no C#).

Microsoft cracking down on community extensions

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:01:02 GMT

Microsoft released a tool called Microsoft Source Analyzer, or StyleCop. It analyzes source code for standards violations. It's a 1.0 release, so it doesn't do some things ... like have a published API for custom rules or MSBuild integration. So the community dug in and figured out how to do these things and now MS is firing off license-violation emails. Don't they get it? The community wants to use the product, but it's too limited ... these extensions help make it better.

Extending Stopwatch

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:04:43 GMT

Helper methods to make it even easier to get accurate timings for you code.

Getting rid of strings (2): use lambda expressions

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:31:02 GMT

In the first article of this series I talked about the problems with strings in code. This article will show you how you can use lambda expressions and expression trees as another tool to avoid strings

Zip method added to Dizzy

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:29:11 GMT

A Functional Zip method for processing multiple sequences, one "column" at a time

DebuggerNonUserCode: Suppressing ignorable exceptions in the debugger

Mon, 19 May 2008 22:55:15 GMT

Shows how to apply the DebuggerNonUserCode attribute so that the debugger doesn't break in methods that catch and handle exceptions.

7 tricks to simplify your programs with LINQ

Mon, 19 May 2008 17:31:03 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, ...

(Mis)Using IDisposable: beyond resource clean-up

Thu, 15 May 2008 23:07:56 GMT

Anybody who has ever done any work with files, databases and so on, in C#, has had it drummed into them that they must be good citizens and always tidy up after themselves. Usually that means using using. But did you know that the using statement has uses that go far beyond resource cleanup?

String Format - Made Simple

Fri, 16 May 2008 00:16:04 GMT

A Silverlight tool for discovering the correct format strings for string.Format() calls

Software Developers Never Change

Wed, 14 May 2008 23:31:24 GMT

So if you are to take anything away from this rant, take this, do what you love, and become the best at it. And if what you love isn't your 9-5 job, deeply understand this and get out of the way of people who's 9-5 job is what they love.

How-to: Create a Server Certificate for a WCF Service

Tue, 13 May 2008 22:10:16 GMT

An easier way of creating better Test certificates for WCF Services

Lazy instantiation one-liner with the coalesce operator

Wed, 14 May 2008 17:31:33 GMT

The one-liner for lazy instantiation of instance fields using the coalesce-operator

How to create a virtual machine from a physical one

Tue, 13 May 2008 05:31:02 GMT

P2V options - converting a physical machine to a virtual machine

LINQ-to-Console

Thu, 08 May 2008 16:06:25 GMT

Using a LINQ query to sanitise user's input from the console.