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Sat, Aug 25 2012 17:12

Visual Studio 2010 Best Practices published

Most of my spare time in the last few months has been taken up by writing Visual Studio 2010 Best Practices . This has now been published and is available through publisher (no longer pre-order) at http://bit.ly/Px43Pw . The pre-order price is still available...
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Thu, Feb 23 2012 10:06

Software Design and First Principles–Part 0: Concepts of Object Orientation

I often compare software development with building houses or woodworking.  I sometimes even compare software development with the vocation of electrician.  In each of these other vocations, craftspeople need to go through a period of apprenticeship...
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Thu, Nov 24 2011 8:50

If You’re Using “#if DEBUG”, You’re Doing it Wrong

I was going through some legacy code the other day, refactoring it all over the place and I ran into many blocks of code wrapped in “#if DEBUG”.  Of course, after a bit of refactoring in a RELEASE configuration these blocks of code were quickly out...
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Sat, Dec 18 2010 10:53

The Custom Configuration Section Code Smell

I was recently involved in a project that involved some design-time configuration.  That design-time configuration was based on custom config sections. I didn't really pay too much attention to it at the time because I don't write my own...
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