July, 2009

This is kind of a re-blog. My goal is to have a more specific blog than before. Generic Delegates Let’s warm up with some generic delegates to start getting used to some of the code. Lines 23 to 26 we build a collection of delegate functions that we later...

I started coding with Visual Basic 3 in 1991. I ended up teaching it all over Asia,, Latin America, Canada, and the US. Language wise I’m more about C# and C++, but I still code VBScript once in a while. It is one of the biggest success stories in computer...

Dynamic languages are a class of high-level programming languages that execute at runtime many common behaviors that other languages might perform during compilation, if at all. Most of you probably spend most of your time in static languages. What are...

Many of us just spent a decade or so with languages designed from the ground up as object oriented languages using dynamic dispatch, with syntax similar to C++. The notion of a Lambda Expression is new. Lambdas sometimes seem a little syntactically sugary...

Why bother with something painful? What is event tracing and why is it worth my time to work with it? Trace events describe the current state of an application or operation for the purpose of debugging or performance tuning. Some Good Reasons to use Event...