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To “as” or not to “as”

Iris Classon is asking and finding answers for “stupid” questions on her blog. First of all, they are definitely not stupid questions. There are a lot of nuances of .NET that slip out of our daily thinking. When I first started my Getting Geeky with the .NET Framework series I’d ask...

Posted to Leaning Into Windows by Kathleen on Sun, Aug 12 2012
Filed under: Filed under: .NET, Visual Basic, C#
Creating an IE plug-in

I was recently approached by a customer about an intriguing project, unfortunately I can’t tell you too much about it since I’m under an NDA, but it involved creating an add-in for Internet Explorer and a custom Windows Service which would act as the backend. I’ve never created any add-ins for IE before...

Posted to Joacim's view on stuff by Joacim Andersson on Tue, Nov 15 2011
Filed under: Filed under: vb, visual basic, .net, c#, add-in, internet explorer
When OOP stinks and when you instead should leave a smell behind…

I just saw an interesting video blog post by the CTO of Devexpress entitled Pac-Man and Object-Oriented Programming , in which Julian talks about how we’ve been doing object-oriented programming for 20 years now (or even more than that if you come from the SmallTalk world) and how we, as OOP/OOD...

Posted to Joacim's view on stuff by Joacim Andersson on Fri, Aug 6 2010
Filed under: Filed under: vb, visual basic, .net, c#, OOD, OOP
Microsoft is switching the light but will it turn on or off?

During the VSLive! keynote in Redmond, Microsoft yesterday announced a new Visual Studio product called LightSwitch . LightSwitch is a new SKU for Visual Studio that will allow people to create line of business (LOB) applications for the desktop and the cloud without writing a single line of code. It...

Posted to Joacim's view on stuff by Joacim Andersson on Wed, Aug 4 2010
Filed under: Filed under: vb, visual basic, .net, c#, lightswitch
MVC Performance in IIS - Part II

Last 2 weeks, I run MVC training kit to IIS 7.5 and was trying to figure out the baseline for the performance tuning for my project. I tested 3 Scenarios, S1) Hosting MVC 1.0 Training Kit in Application under Default Website S2) Hosting MVC 1.0 Training Kit in New Website with port 8081 S3) Hosting my...

Posted to VB MVP KenLin @HKSAR by kenlin on Fri, May 14 2010
Filed under: Filed under: .NET, Visual Basic, C#, ASP.NET/AJAX, Server2008, Windows 2008 R2, Performance, Benchmark, IIS
GetType and TypeOf confusion

Both VB and C# have an operator called TypeOf (or typeof in C#) but they perform two completely different things. In VB there are also two kind of GetType () calls, the object .GetType() method which is part of the .Net framework and the VB language specific GetType () operator . Are you confused yet...

Posted to Joacim's view on stuff by Joacim Andersson on Mon, Aug 31 2009
Filed under: Filed under: vb, visual basic, .net, c#, GetType, TypeOf
Boxing and Unboxing in .Net

In this article I will try to explain the concepts of Boxing and Unboxing. There are two types of objects within the .Net framework, value types and reference types . Value types are stored on the stack while reference types are always stored on the heap . Converting a value type into a reference type...

Posted to Joacim's view on stuff by Joacim Andersson on Sun, Aug 30 2009
Filed under: Filed under: vb, visual basic, .net, boxing, widening, unboxing, conversion, c#, narrowing
Technology Related Links – Post #1

I’m going to try to put together a list of links I grab and post them to intermittent blog posts. I’d like to do a post like this once a day or at the very least once a week, but let’s see where things go. :) Anyway, here’s the first batch of links summarized...

Posted to Jason N. Gaylord's Blog by on Tue, Apr 28 2009
Filed under: Filed under: ASP.NET, .NET, AJAX, Silverlight, Tips and Tricks, Visual Basic, C#, General Software Development, JavaScript, Software, Books, Microsoft, MVC, Design/Development Tools, Windows Development (Win Forms)
Open Source

It’s occurred to me that if you are following this and my DNR TV show a logical reaction would be “OK, so that’s a lot of hot air, where do I get it?” I intend for all of this to be released Open Source, on whichever site s hot when I release it. I hope I’ll start releasing pieces in just a matter of...

Posted to Leaning Into Windows by Kathleen on Wed, Feb 13 2008
Filed under: Filed under: .NET, Code Generation, Visual Basic, C#
Isolating Metadata

In code generation, metadata is the information about your application, generally about your database and definitions to express your data as business objects. If you use Entity Framework, your metadata is the edmx file which is displayed via the designers. If you’re using CodeSmith, the metadata is...

Posted to Leaning Into Windows by Kathleen on Wed, Feb 13 2008
Filed under: Filed under: .NET, Code Generation, Design, Visual Basic, C#
CurrentTypeInfo and the Context Stack

Creating templates requires a lot of access to the thing you’re currently creating. That’s the current output type, which as I discussed in yesterday I suffix with “Info.” The CurrentTypeInfo is thus what you’re currently outputting. I neglected to clarify in that post that the Data and the Info classes...

Posted to Leaning Into Windows by Kathleen on Tue, Feb 12 2008
Filed under: Filed under: .NET, Code Generation, Visual Basic, C#
Two Parallel Entities - Metadata and Info

One of the confusing things about templating is that you are writing two programs simultaneously and there is no way around it. My brilliant son may write a templating language for a class project, and this is exactly what he wants to address – that and the issue of escaping. You can’t avoid it, he just...

Posted to Leaning Into Windows by Kathleen on Mon, Feb 11 2008
Filed under: Filed under: .NET, Code Generation, Visual Basic, C#
Inheritance and Templates

One of the most valuable things about templates written in .NET code of any style is the ability to use inheritance. This is classic inheritance where local state allows you to push functionality into base class methods that would become cumbersome and have excess dependencies if treated as external...

Posted to Leaning Into Windows by Kathleen on Mon, Feb 11 2008
Filed under: Filed under: .NET, Code Generation, Visual Basic, C#
.NET Template Organization

So, now that you know where I’m going with this – language neutral templates – I want to step back to the basics. Even if you don’t want to build language neutral templates, there are things to learn along the way about making good XML literal templates, and why this approach might be better than your...

Posted to Leaning Into Windows by Kathleen on Sun, Feb 10 2008
Filed under: Filed under: .NET, Code Generation, Visual Basic, C#
The Punch Line

I mentioned a few days ago that there was a punch line for the XML Literal Code Generation. I planned to unveil this slowly, but it just sprung out of the box when Carl posted episode #102 (which I thought was due for next Friday. And I’m afraid that I need to add that I was sick during the taping and...

Posted to Leaning Into Windows by Kathleen on Sun, Feb 10 2008
Filed under: Filed under: .NET, Code Generation, Visual Basic, C#
Code for DNR TV # 97 and #98 Sample Code

Sometimes I drop the ball and I did on getting these samples posted. Note that this is for the two episodes I did on 3.5 languages. I think these episodes are a good run through of the features in both languages. The title wound up with the word "Compare" in the title. I'm not sure I really...

Posted to Leaning Into Windows by Kathleen on Sun, Feb 10 2008
Filed under: Filed under: .NET, Visual Basic, C#
XML Literal Code Genaration - Code again again

Crap. For now, I'm just removing the coloring. Paste this into VS for coloring. It's much prettier: Private Function MemberDataPortalFetch() As String ' TODO: Add special handing for timestamp Return _ <code> Private Overloads Sub DataPortal_Fetch(ByVal criteria As Criteria) Using cn...

Posted to Leaning Into Windows by Kathleen on Sun, Feb 10 2008
Filed under: Filed under: .NET, Code Generation, Visual Basic, C#
XML Literal Code Generation - Code again

OK, that code listing got friend on load. Let me try again. Private Function MemberDataPortalFetch() As String Return _ < code > Private Overloads Sub DataPortal_Fetch(ByVal criteria As Criteria) Using cn As New SqlConnection( <%= mObjectData.ConnectionStringName %> ) cn.Open() Using cm As...

Posted to Leaning Into Windows by Kathleen on Sun, Feb 10 2008
Filed under: Filed under: .NET, Code Generation, Visual Basic, C#
XML Literal Code Generation

You must use VB for XML Literal Code Generation. Sorry, that’s life. I don’t have a crystal ball on this, but for now even if you’re a C# programmer you’ve got to suck it up and use VB. The code you output can be VB or C# however, but the template itself has to be written in VB. If you’re allergic to...

Posted to Leaning Into Windows by Kathleen on Fri, Feb 8 2008
Filed under: Filed under: .NET, Code Generation, Visual Basic, C#
Let’s Talk Templates

Code generation templates have several competing pressures – they need to be easy to use and they need to be powerful. They need to be flexible but encourage best practices. If you ever say “my templates got me started then I had to customize them” you’re templating can be better. I’m not aware of any...

Posted to Leaning Into Windows by Kathleen on Thu, Feb 7 2008
Filed under: Filed under: .NET, Code Generation, Visual Basic, C#

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