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The Future Of C#

If you were able to attend this session at PDC or Tech-Ed EMEA Developers , you were presented with a first class presentation of the future of C# , presented, respectively, by Anders Hejlsberg and Mads Torgersen . For the near future ( .NET 4.0) C# will have: Dynamically Typed Objects Optional and Named...

Posted to Paulo Morgado by Paulo Morgado on Tue, Dec 2 2008
Filed under: Filed under: .NET, C#, Microsoft, MSDN, VisualStudio, TechEd, PDC, TechEd2008, VisualBasic, PDC2008, VisualStudio2010
MSDN Ramp Up Program

I just came across this: www.MyRampUp Ramp Up is a free, online, community-based program that can help users save time in learning Microsoft technology. The easy-to-access content (provided by subject-matter gurus) is specifically tailored to the Ramp Up program, and offered in a variety of forms (whitepaper...

Posted to Paulo Morgado by Paulo Morgado on Thu, Nov 6 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Community, C#, Microsoft, MSDN, VisualStudio, Training, SharePoint, VisualBasic, VisualStudio2008
PDC2008: Meet Me In Los Angeles

It’s not the first time I try but, for one reason or another, this is the first time I will go to the PDC ( Microsoft ’s Professional Developers Conference). According to the site “The PDC is designed for leading-edge developers and software architects. If you’re interested in the future of the Microsoft...

Posted to Paulo Morgado by Paulo Morgado on Wed, Sep 3 2008
Filed under: Filed under: .NET, SoftDev, C#, Events, Microsoft, MSDN, PDC, PDC2008
Clone Detective For Visual Studio

Clone Detective is a tool that integrates with Visual Studio and uses the ConQAT ( Con tinuous Q uality A ssessment T oolkit) to analyze C# projects and search for duplicated source code. Watch the videos and see if this is the tool you were looking for.

Posted to Paulo Morgado by Paulo Morgado on Thu, Aug 28 2008
Filed under: Filed under: .NET, SoftDev, C#, Microsoft, MSDN, Tools, VisualStudio, CodePlex
StyleCop 4.3 Is Out

The StyleCop team announced the release of a version 4.3 of the StyleCop tool . You can get it from here . On this version there are some bug fixes, new rules and documentation. Also in this version, the list of errors and warnings goes to the Errors List window like with the compilers. I whish that...

Posted to Paulo Morgado by Paulo Morgado on Wed, Aug 20 2008
Filed under: Filed under: .NET, SoftDev, C#, Microsoft, MSDN, Tools, CodingConventions
More On Another Way For Using The “using” Keyword

In the past I presented another possible use for the using keyword: as hints on LINQ . I’ve been giving some thought about this lately and refined my proposal. var q = from person in personCollection using MyEnumerableExtensions group person by person.LastName into g using new MyOtherComparer () orderby...

Posted to Paulo Morgado by Paulo Morgado on Sun, Aug 10 2008
Filed under: Filed under: .NET, SoftDev, C#, Microsoft, MSDN, LINQ
How About Property Assignment And Collection Adding Like Object And Collection Initializers In C#?

C# 3.0 introduced object and collection initializers . It is now easier to initialize objects or collections: var person = new Person { FirstName = "Paulo" , LastName = "Morgado" }; var persons = new List < Person > { new Person { FirstName = "Paulo" , LastName = "Morgado"...

Posted to Paulo Morgado by Paulo Morgado on Sun, Aug 10 2008
Filed under: Filed under: .NET, SoftDev, C#, Microsoft, MSDN
C# And Visual Basic Generate Different Expression Trees

(This was pointed out to me by Frans Bouma and explained by Jon Skeet ) Imagine you have this set of classes: public class A { public virtual string P { get { return "A" ; } } } public class B : A { } public class C : B { public override string P { get { return "C" ; } } } And this...

Posted to Paulo Morgado by Paulo Morgado on Sun, Aug 3 2008
Filed under: Filed under: .NET, SoftDev, C#, Microsoft, MSDN, LINQ, VisualBasic
Microsoft Source Analysis for C# (aka StyleCop)

I’ve learned from a fellow GASP er of the release of Microsoft Source Analysis for C# (aka StyleCop) . It’s still a work in progress but it’s already very useful.

Posted to Paulo Morgado by Paulo Morgado on Wed, Jun 4 2008
Filed under: Filed under: .NET, SoftDev, C#, Microsoft, MSDN, Tools, VisualStudio, CodingConventions
Stretching Type Inference

Note: Code in italics is not actual C# 3.0 syntax. Local Variable Type Inference C# 3.0 brought us local variable type inference mainly because of LINQ . The output of a query can vary from an IEnumerable<T> or an IQueryable<T> to a single instance of T where T can even be a projection which...

Posted to Paulo Morgado by Paulo Morgado on Mon, Apr 21 2008
Filed under: Filed under: .NET, C#, Microsoft, MSDN, VisualStudio
TypeMock: How to Make Reflective Mocks More Natural

Like I said before , this as been on the back of my mind for a while. A while back I introduced a way to get the MethodInfo of a method in a strongly typed way using LINQ , and that's how I'm going to make Reflective Mocks more Natural . Well, it's as easy as this: public static class MockExtender...

Posted to Paulo Morgado by Paulo Morgado on Thu, Jan 31 2008
Filed under: Filed under: .NET, SoftDev, C#, Microsoft, MSDN, MVP, Tools, Testing, LINQ, UnitTests, TypeMock
Stop Designing for Testability (by Eli Lopian)

Eli Lopian from TypeMock™ , has an article on CodeProject about the disadvantages of design for testability and how to use TypeMock™ to remove these disadvantages while keep the advantages of unit testing. I have to say that I agree with Eli: design for testability is BAD. It exposes more that it needs...

Posted to Paulo Morgado by Paulo Morgado on Wed, Dec 26 2007
Filed under: Filed under: .NET, SoftDev, C#, Microsoft, MSDN, MVP, Testing, UnitTests, TypeMock
Unit Test Patterns for .NET (from TypeMock™)

There is a good set of articles about Unit Test Patterns in the TypeMock™ site: Unit-Test Patterns for .NET - Part I This article looks at patterns in unit testing and describes the main patterns found in tested .NET code. It also describes the problems with each pattern. Unit Test Patterns for .NET...

Posted to Paulo Morgado by Paulo Morgado on Wed, Dec 26 2007
Filed under: Filed under: .NET, Community, SoftDev, C#, Microsoft, MSDN, MVP, Tools, Testing, UnitTests, TypeMock
TypeTypeConverter vs. TypeNameConverter

Some time ago I complained about the fact that a TypeConverter for Type s was missing from the .NET Framework . At the time I had search for one in the framework but only found internal or private implementations. As it turns out, the version 2.0 of the .NET Framework introduced a TypeNameConverter that...

Posted to Paulo Morgado by Paulo Morgado on Sun, Nov 25 2007
Filed under: Filed under: .NET, SoftDev, C#, Microsoft, MSDN, MVP
.NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 and .NET Framework Service Pack 1 available as a standalone download

For those who can't (or don't want to) deploy .NET Framework 3.5, the service packs included for the 2.0 and 3.0 versions of the framework are available as standalone downloads. Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 (x86) Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 (x64) Microsoft .NET...

Posted to Paulo Morgado by Paulo Morgado on Wed, Nov 21 2007
Filed under: Filed under: .NET, WinForms, ASP.NET, SoftDev, C#, Microsoft, MSDN, MVP, VisualStudio, WCF, WPF, WF, WindowsClient
Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 shipped!

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 has finally shipped. MSDN subscribers can download the final version of Visual Studio 2008 from MSDN Subscription Downloads , but anyone can get a trial version or an Express Edition . The .NET Framework 3.5 contains many new features building incrementally upon...

Posted to Paulo Morgado by Paulo Morgado on Tue, Nov 20 2007
Filed under: Filed under: .NET, WinForms, ASP.NET, SoftDev, C#, Microsoft, MSDN, SQLServer, XML, VisualStudio, WCF, WPF, WF, WindowsClient, LINQ
Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 to RTM before the end of November 2007

Today, S.Somasegar announced at TechEd Developers EMEA , amongst other things, that they the product team at Microsoft is putting the finishing touches on Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5. They are on track to shipping these products before the end of November 2007. They will have the marketing launch...

Posted to Paulo Morgado by Paulo Morgado on Mon, Nov 5 2007
Filed under: Filed under: .NET, Architecture, ASP.NET, Community, SoftDev, C#, Microsoft, MSDN, MVP, VisualStudio, TechEd
A new phase for the Acropolis project

The Acropolis Team has announced that Acropolis is going to enter a new phase.

Posted to Paulo Morgado by Paulo Morgado on Sat, Nov 3 2007
Filed under: Filed under: .NET, Architecture, SCSF, SoftDev, C#, MSDN, MVP, WPF, PnP, SoftwareFactories, WindowsClient
Are Page Modules Still Useful In IIS7?

With IIS7 a new transfer method is available in the HttpServerUtility class . It's the TransferRequest method . What this method is intended to do is behave like the HttpResponse.Redirect method without the penalty of traveling to the client and back . I said "is intended to behave" because...

Posted to Paulo Morgado by Paulo Morgado on Sun, Oct 14 2007
Filed under: Filed under: .NET, Architecture, ASP.NET, Community, SoftDev, C#, Microsoft, MSDN, MVP, Web, PageModules, IIS
VS REGEX: Commenting Generated Assert Instructions

Visual Studio's Unit Test generator generates a call to Assert.Inconclusive but, usually generates a call to another method of the Assert class. I find that very annoying because, some times, this makes the test fail instead of being reported as inconclusive. To comment out these extra calls to Assert...

Posted to Paulo Morgado by Paulo Morgado on Sun, Oct 7 2007
Filed under: Filed under: .NET, SoftDev, C#, Microsoft, MSDN, MVP, VisualStudio

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