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Wed, Apr 29 2009 21:14

DataContractSerializer.ReadObject is easily confused.

With WCF services you need to declare contracts and generate contract classes that encapsulate those contracts.  Most of the time you can simply let the framework deal with whatever it needs to do to deal with these objects.  Sometimes, you...
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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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Fri, Feb 8 2008 12:52

Playing with LINQ

If you're interested in seeing what you can do with LINQ and want to learn the syntax, there's a wonderful new utility called LINQPad that is available. It basically lets you type in LINQ statements (or create statements from tables) and see what...
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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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Mon, Nov 26 2007 14:31

New warning CS0809 in C# 3 (Visual Studio 2008)

There were several breaking changes (fixes) in C# 3 from C# 2. One is the ability to attribute a member override with ObsoleteAttribute without also attributing it the virtual member in the base class. For example, the following will compile without error...
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