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Wed, Nov 3 2010 8:23

Deep Dive on Closure Pitfalls

I've blogged about closures in C# and their pitfalls before. I keep seeing problems with closures--more now that lambdas expressions and statements ("lambdas") are becoming more widespread--even with experienced developers. So, I'd thought...
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Thu, Mar 26 2009 11:33

DevTeach 2009 Vancouver

The schedule for DevTeach 2009 Vancouver has been announced ( http://www.devteach.com/ ). There’s lots of great software development sessions from some of the leaders in our industry. If you’re planning on improving yourself, this is the conference...
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Tue, Aug 26 2008 15:06

Trials and Tribulations of DataGridView, Column Selections, and Sorting

I had to implement some custom sorting in a DataGridView recently. Essentially, the stakeholders wanted full column selection (like Excel) while still having the ability to sort the data based on a particular column. This particular DataGridView is data...
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Fri, Jul 18 2008 11:46

Drag-copying in Visual Studio Solution Explorer.

NOTE: I've tried this in Visual Studio 2008 (VS2k8), I'm assuming the same thing happens in Visual Studio 2005 (VS2k5). In the process of refactoring, it's *very* common for me to rename a type. This is most easily done by renaming the file...
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Tue, Jul 15 2008 9:47

Nested Types

Recently Michael Features blogged about nested types . The title was almost "nested types considered harmful". I don't agree. I don't agree that they're any more harmful than any other C# construct (except goto...). Nested types...
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Thu, Mar 13 2008 10:46

Upcoming C# 3 Guidance From Microsoft

Mircea Trofin has some design guidelines with regard to some C# 3 language additions (that I assume will make it into a revised Framework Design Guidelines of some sort). They more less agree with the guidelines I published in Code Magazine a while ago...
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Mon, Feb 4 2008 12:31

CoDe Magazine Article.

The January/February edition of Code Magazine includes my article " C# 3.0 Syntax Additions-Design Guidelines ".
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Thu, Jan 3 2008 14:27

Visual C# Developer Center Article

My latest Visual C# Developer Center Article Inferred Typing with Factory Methods as Extension Methods is now online.
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Sun, Dec 9 2007 16:38

New Warning CS1060 in C# 3 (Visual Studio 2008)

Recompiling C# 2 (Visual Studio 2005) code in C# 3 (Visual Studio 2008), you may incounter a new warning that didn't used to ocur: Warning CS1060: Use of possibly unassigned field 'fieldName'. Struct instance variables are initially unassigned...
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