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NDepend update brings 64 bit compatibility

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:06:09 GMT

The current version of NDepend added support for dependency graphs under 64 bit operating systems. If you remember, this was one of the few points of criticism I mentioned in my little review on NDepend. Visual NDepend can now visualize the dependencies between types, namespaces and members

NDepend 2.10 Released - Interactive Code Dependencies Graph

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:16:02 GMT

This is indistinguishable from magic!

Getting rid of strings (3): take your app settings to the next level

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:31:02 GMT

In the first article of this series I talked about the problems with strings in code. This article will show you how you can use lambda expressions and expression trees as another tool to avoid strings

Retrieving values from an IDataReader

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:01:52 GMT

Despite the undoubted advantages of ORM you probably need to fetch data directly from an IDataReader from time to time. Getting values out of the data reader is easy at first glance. However, there are some issues that you should be aware of

Chrome didn't survive long...

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:31:07 GMT

I uninstalled Google Chrome after considering the potential threads for privacy

Upgrading BlogEngine.NET from 1.4 to 1.4.5.x

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:32:21 GMT

The article describes some issues I came across when upgrading from BlogEngine.NET 1.4 to 1.4.5.7

Google Chrome Beta available

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:45:45 GMT

Google has released a beta version of it's browser Chrome. I've just downloaded it and only browsed over some sites I frequently use so I can't give an in-depth review. At least so far everything worked fine.

The true meaning of readonly for value types

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:53:05 GMT

The article describes the side effects of making value type fields readonly.

How to enable sound in Remote Desktop sessions on WinServer

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:25:49 GMT

Shows how to enable audio in remote desktop sessions to a Windows Server 2003 server.

RedGate acquires .NET Reflector

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:24:54 GMT

This morning I got an e-mail from Lutz Roeder, creator of the marvelous .NET Reflector in which he announces that he handed development of .NET Reflector over to Red Gate Software

Andre Loker - How deep is your clone?

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:38:27 GMT

Someone asked in a forum: Why is there no ICloneable<T> only ICloneable? Good question. It wouldn't have taken too much effort to introduce a generic version when .NET 2.0 came out. But I think MS had a good reason not to introduce ICloneable<T>. And that's because they realized that ICloneable sucks in the first place! Why is that? Because it is effectively undefined what cloning does

Things to note when upgrading to BlogEngine.NET 1.4

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:08:21 GMT

Describes some changes from BlogEngine.NET from 1.3 to 1.4 that you might want to revert.

Did you know that...

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:26:04 GMT

Did you know that you can annotate an attribute class with an attribute of that very type?

NDepend: code metrics at your service

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:31:08 GMT

If you ever wrote code for a non-trivial project chances are that from time to time you stop an think: "I don't know, but I have the feeling that the code is not really clean/too complex/[insert adjective here that makes you feel bad about your code]". Chances are even that you did not had these thoughts - but your source code indeed was not really clean, too complex or what not. While the latter situation is certainly the worse of the two, both situation make clear that we need means to quantify the quality of our code. NDepend is an excellent tool that can be used to generate those metrics

Load a font from disk, stream or byte array

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:32:28 GMT

Describes how to load a font from a true type font file on disk, a stream or a byte array in C#.

Subversion 1.5 released

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:10:47 GMT

OK, it has already been some days since release, nevertheless you might not have noticed. Subversion 1.5 has been released, bringing some improvements and changes

Post-Redirect-Get

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:03:22 GMT

Returning web pages from POST request can cause a lot of trouble. The POST-Redirect-GET pattern avoids those problems by redirecting the browser to a GET request after a POST request.

Get the names of databases on a SQL Server

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:38:39 GMT

Ever needed to get the names (and only the names) of all databases on a SQL Server? This article shows how to do it.

Using table valued results of stored procedures

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:37:43 GMT

If a stored procedure returns a table of data, it's not as easy as one might think to work with the result. This article shows one possible solution: using table variables.

Firefox 2 and 3 side by side

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:56:25 GMT

As a developer you'd probably like to have Firefox 2 and 3 installed side by side to check for compatibility etc.. This article describes how to do it.

Speed up Firefox when using Development Server

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:31:02 GMT

Using Firefox on Vista to view websites hosted by the Visual Studio Development Server can be unbearably slow. Pages take aeons (i.e. several seconds) to load while viewing the same site under IE does not suffer from this issue. Here's how to solve the problem.

Keep your .config clean with external config files

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:01:19 GMT

The web.config (or app.config for non-web applications) file is the central place to configure your web application, starting from connection strings, over application settings to ASP.NET specific topics like caching, authentication & authorization, sessions as well as HTTP handlers and modules. Normally the web.config starts as a neat little pet you can easily manage. But as soon as your project grows mature, web.config turns out to be a huge beast. This article shows you a way to tame the beast.

Getting rid of strings (2): use lambda expressions

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:31:02 GMT

Castle DictionaryAdapter

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:05:20 GMT

DictionaryAdapter is a component of the Castle stack which can create an adapter between an interface and a dictionary at runtime. The DictionaryAdapter combines the flexibility of a dictionary with the type safety and convenience provided by a strong API.

Getting rid of strings (1): meet the villain

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:31:30 GMT

This series covers the potential problems that arise from the use of string literals in source code. Avoiding string literals can make your source code more robust, more manageable and less fragile regarding refactoring. The articles in this series will show several solutions on how to replace string literals with smarter constructs.