Ok, so here I am trying out W.Blogger, I still have Visual Bloggar installed, and of course have Internet Explorer as a backup. each application I've tried seems to have some nice features, it would be awesome to get the following into a single application...

This one was pretty much TheoY’s. I coded it up, which probably means I corrupted his idea. So, give him credit for the good parts and I’ll take balme for the bad parts. Pretty much the same approach was taken in C++ by Johny in his...

I hoped I could write a generic helper class that you could use when Refactoring your enum to a class. I wrote this: class EnhancedEnum <T> where T : struct { public readonly T Value; public EnhancedEnum (T value) { this .Value...

This is the follow up to the enum->class refactoring post . So, one approach is to try to decode what ‘enum’ does in C#. Thomas Eyre’s answer is pretty much the same, with a couple differences: · Thomas wrote his TDD...

You know that you are really living in the future when your mother sends an instant message to your SPOT watch telling you that Starbucks are opening their first coffee shop in Northern Ireland . Now when I return home for a visit I won't have to wander...

Ben Hutchings digs up the answer....

But you need a license....

Or, in this case, the lack thereof. It sucks when you've coded everything out in your mind and you're stuck waiting for your tools to catch up to you. My mind starts getting antsy and the amount of time it takes to do something simple balloons out endlessly...

I seem to be in some sort of state where if I ever touch this one file I trigger a complete rebuild of all our source. I'm in the middle of taking some of our core types and doing the dual job of making them Immutable objects Good const citizens...

By way of John Lawrence , I read that Neno Loje has assembled a handy list of Visual Studio Team System links .

Repro, Man Written communication is amazingly difficult. Even when you’re aware of some of the pitfalls, as I was when I wrote my last post about the disk full save error in Word, it’s still all too easy say something that...

There is a lot of hype about agile methods in general and eXtreme Programming in particular, as with many other hot topics in our software industry. How can this be? We are supposedly the masters of information and knowledge management, bah! We...