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Tuesday, September 02, 2008 1:49 PM

Becoming a Visual Studio Jedi Part 1

Becoming a Visual Studio 2008 (and often Visual Studio 2005) Jedi In much the same grain as James' Resharper Jedi posts, I'm beginning a series of posts on becoming a Visual Studio Jedi. It involves getting the most out of Visual Studio off-the...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008 3:06 PM

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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Monday, August 11, 2008 5:34 PM

DataGridViewColumn.Frozen

DataGridViewColumn.Frozen is documented as "When a column is frozen, all the columns to its left (or to its right in right-to-left languages) are frozen as well." Which is nice until you think of the consequences. The consequences being that...
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Monday, July 28, 2008 2:00 PM

ITSWITCH #1: Answer

Last post I detailed some code that may or may not have something wrong in it.  If you thought InitializeOne and IntializeTwo are semantically identical (e.g. they differ only by performance), you'd be wrong. If you simply ran the code, you'd...
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Friday, July 25, 2008 1:58 PM

ITSWITCH: #1

A short pop quiz on design/coding in C#...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008 9:47 AM

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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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 8:17 PM

Comparing CodeRush Refactor! Pro and Resharper 4, part 1 or N -- first glance.

Metadata view of code in referenced assemblies This is a big one for me. For whatever reason, Refactor 4 (and prior) completely disables this and sends you to the Object Browser instead. You get metadata view with CodeRush Refactor! Pro. Keyboard layout...
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 12:21 PM

Entity Framework Petition of Vote of Non Confidence

I had intended to be happy simply being a signatory of ADO .NET Entity Framework Vote of No Confidence. But, there's people suggesting signatories of this petition are wackos or on the fringe. Do yourself a favour and read the petition . Read what...
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Monday, May 26, 2008 9:25 AM

Spaces or Tabs?

In this day and age it seems silly to get into a discussion about whether your companies coding guidelines should have a section mandating either spaces or tabs for indents. Tabs are clearly more flexible, but I really don't think it matters at all;...
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 9:08 AM

Overcoming problems with MethodInfo.Invoke of methods with by-reference value type arguments

I ran into an interesting problem on the Forums recently. Basically, when you use MethodInfo.Invoke to invoke a method with by-reference value type arguments you can't have the invoked method update a variable/argument. The problem is, when you invoke...
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Friday, March 28, 2008 4:12 PM

Licences for Microsoft products

Occasionally I get development questions that are governed by one or more product licenses (End-User License Agreement, "EULA"). One question that I see is "I've used Reflector to decompile the .NET Framework and want to use that C#...
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Friday, March 07, 2008 8:48 AM

Single-Entry, Single-Exit, Should It Still Be Applicable In Object-oriented Languages?

Before the modern high-level languages Edsger Dijkstra came up with "Structured Programming". This programming methodology relied on the programmer to form and enforce most of the structure of the program--manually keeping sub-structures and...
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Monday, January 28, 2008 11:04 AM

"Object is currently in use elsewhere" error.

I was debugging what I thought was a strange exception the other day. The exception was an InvalidOperationException and the message was "Object is currently in use elsewhere". Unless you're familiar with this exception, it really doesn't...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008 5:35 PM

Formatting/parsing for a specific culture redux

In recent blog post I detailed how creating a culture via the CultureInfo constructor could actually create a user-overridden culture--which could be completely different than the culture that you've requested by name. Fortunately there's a way...
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Thursday, January 03, 2008 2:27 PM

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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Thursday, December 27, 2007 9:47 AM

Formatting/parsing for a specific culture

Sometimes you may want to use a specific format for formatting and parsing of textual data. The easiest way to do this is to select a specific culture and use that with formatting and parsing methods. Unfortunately, the CultureInfo constructor that just...
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Friday, December 21, 2007 9:45 AM

Bridges and Factories

In my previous post , I talked about Dependency Injection (DI). One implementation of DI is using interface-oriented design to abstract a class from an injected dependency via an interface. This is one possible implementation of the Bridge pattern. Depending...
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Thursday, December 13, 2007 9:42 AM

Dependency Injection

Dependency injection (DI) is a form of inversion of control. There seems to be a tendency in some circles to refer to dependency injection as inversion of control (IoC). Dependency injection is a form of abstraction by removing physical dependencies between...
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Friday, October 12, 2007 12:13 PM

Using Exceptions For Normal Logic Flow

The generally accepted wisdom is that you shouldn't use Exceptions for normal logic flow. Normal logic flow is a bit subjective; but anything that must happen at least once in all known scenarios is normal logic flow. Enter XML Serialization in the...
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Thursday, July 12, 2007 9:30 PM

Performance Implications of try/catch/finally, Part Two

In a previous blog entry Performance Implications of try/catch/finally I outlined that the conventional wisdom that there are no performance implications to try blocks unless an exception is thrown is false. I have some clarifications and details to add...
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