Testing is hard but debugging just sucks A$$

published 14 days ago, submitted by Jemm 16 days, 9 hours ago

devlicio.us — "At the users group I asked the question to the group 'who creates automated tests as part of their daily development cycle?'. After I asked this question I followed it up with, and if you don't WHY, WHY, WHY, WHY...... Below are some of the answers I received (btw, not the first time I have heard these reasons)." read more...

1 comment | category: Unit Testing | Views: 343

Breaking changes to the String class in .NET 4.0

published 17 days, 6 hours ago, submitted by johnsheehan 18 days, 4 hours ago

davesbox.com — This change will affect the behavior of the String.StartsWith, String.EndsWith, String.IndexOf and String.LastIndexOf methods by changing them to perform an ordinal (byte-for-byte) comparison by default instead of a culture-sensitive comparison using CultureInfo.CurrentCulture. In addition, the default overloads of String.ToUpper, String.ToLower, Char.ToUpper and Char.ToLower will be changed to use CultureInfo.InvariantCulture instead of CultureInfo.CurrentCulture. read more...

4 comments | category: CLR | Views: 472

Suspicious DNK Accounts

mattberseth.com — Conclusion There is an incentive for publishers that use DNK to setup phony accounts that will help get stories from certain domains on the front page. So guess what happens ... it would appear that a certain number of people are doing this. read more...

8 comments | category: Other | Views: 329

Donut Caching in ASP.Net MVC - Revisited by Phil Haack

haacked.com — In this article Phil makes an improvement to the Maarten Balliauw's MVC OutputCache substitution ActionFilter Attribute read more...

add a comment | category: ADO.NET | Views: 166

Pavel Nikolov's blog: Visual Studio 2010

pavkata.blogspot.com — My first look at Visual Studio 2010 codename "Rosario". I showed some screen shots and and some new features of the new visual studio. read more...

2 comments | category: Visual Studio | Views: 666

Capacity Property on Collections

dotnetperls.com — I really wanted to know if it is worth the bother to set the Capacity of Dictionary or List in C#. This page provides some benchmarks and analysis. read more...

add a comment | category: C# | Views: 9

Measuring Programming Progress By Lines Of Code

dev102.com — Software Managers all around the globe, need to have some metric to estimate their workers. Sometimes the management event wants to create a precise and measurable way to know the programming progress and the developers productivity and performance. One of those methods is called SLOC - Source Lines Of Code. This metric is used measure the size of the software by counting... read more...

1 comment | category: Architecture | Views: 318

Expose New Linq Operations from the HashSet<T> Performance Monster

published 2 months, 22 days ago, submitted by dcarr 2 months, 22 days ago

blog.domaindotnet.com — Linq is not just about databases. It’s about reading the registry, your hard-disk, or even a list of function pointers to be invoked. Linq is about more event then sets (collections). It’s about making tasks easier in many cases and vastly more powerful (and most importantly your code more readable and maintainable at the same time). It’s astounding just how fast the HashSet<T> collection is. This post will show how to gain additional power that is fully supported from Microsoft which is often overlooked, yet it can solve some of the hardest problems (especially around performance however don’t prematurely optimize!). Linq, HashSet, ORM, NHibernate, Linq to NHibernate, Linq Undocumented, Functional Programming, .NET 3.5 read more...

3 comments | category: C# | Views: 361