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Tue, Nov 18 2008 11:55

Pontificating Virtual Parameterized Constructors in C#

Tom Hollander recently posted about a change he required to the Enterprise Library for date/time validation. He had to create a new class (rather than modify the Enterprise Library) that derived from another, defective class. One of his complaints was...
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Wed, Aug 20 2008 20:24

Location of unit tests.

I had a short conversation at Alt.Net Canada about the location of unit tests. I personally tend towards a distinct unit test project. But, I deal with mostly commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) projects where I simply can't ship code like that. I also...
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Tue, Feb 12 2008 10:57

My Wishlist for C# 4

[Edit: fixed the not-ready-for-publication problems] There seems to be more than few people blogging about what they hope C# 4 will do for them. I haven't seen one that really synchronizes with my thoughts, so I'd thought I'd post my own list...
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Tue, Jan 29 2008 10:03

Is C++/CLI a Second Class Language with Microsoft?

The post frequency on the Visual C++ team blog is reasonably high. Some posts deal with new features that were added to VC++ 2008. But, is Visual C++ a second-class citizen in the Visual Studio product group? Recently the Visual Studio 2008 Product Comparison...
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Sun, Apr 8 2007 10:21

Unified Field Theory, is it Possible?

Is Unified Field Theory possible? It sounds like it's more than elusive.. I was reading about some interesting theories that our reality may simply be a perception of several different realities. Not entirely ground breaking; but, my take on it is that...
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