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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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Monday, July 21, 2008 3:32 PM

Working with Resharper's External Annotation XML Files

Resharper 4.0 has external annotation XML files that you can create to give Resharper more information about your code. For example, you can tell Resharper that a particular method does not accept a null argument. For example, the following method does...
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Friday, July 18, 2008 11:46 AM

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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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, July 02, 2008 1:15 PM

Sandcastle Source Code Published

The source for the Sandcastle project has been published . This is great news. For more information, see http://www.codeplex.com/Sandcastle/SourceControl/ListDownloadableCommits.aspx .
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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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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 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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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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Sunday, December 09, 2007 4:38 PM

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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Tuesday, June 26, 2007 11:36 AM

System.Collections classes are obsolete

Collection classes like ArrayList, SortedList, Stack and Hashtable will shortly be obsoleted (i.e. the ObsoleteAttribute will be applied to them in upcoming .NET Framework builds). You can start to see this in the Silverlight Alpha (i.e. the Obsolete...
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 12:25 PM

DateTime.ToUniversalTime *Should* Throw Exceptinos.

A recent .NET Base Class Library blog post points out that DateTime.ToUniversalTime does not throw an exception for overflow values. This circumvents different Microsoft-sanctioned guidelines about using exceptions for exceptional situations, error reporting...
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007 12:45 PM

.NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1

I noticed mention of .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 on a Microsoft site today. The BCL Team's latest blog entry http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/archive/2007/05/21/the-regexoptions-compiled-flag-and-slow-performance-on-64-bit-net-framework-2-0-josh...
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Friday, May 18, 2007 11:02 AM

Accumulative Construction

A while back someone asked for guidance on what order should polymorphic construction occur in C# classes. I guess I had never really put much thought into it before and have never seen other guidance on the topic; but, I can see where this can become...
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Thursday, April 26, 2007 9:41 PM

Thread.Sleep is a sign of a poorly designed program.

Thread.Sleep has it's use: simulating lengthy operations while testing/debugging on an MTA thread. In .NET there's no other reason to use it. Thread.Sleep(n) means block the current thread for at least the number of timeslices (or thread quantums...
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