If there is one thing I dislike about C#, it’s that it allows you to place definition statements where ever you want to.  While there is technically a similar freedom in C++, the nature of header files and visibility blocks encourages people to group...

For all of the euphoria surrounding the exciting things coming out on the Internet these days, I think it’s important to remind ourselves of the limitations that web technologies naturally imposes on us. All executed code needs to be compiled into machine...

I have had the hardest time getting my self-hosted WCF service to play nicely with Silverlight. I thought this was supposed to be simple, but it turns out that exposing a self-hosted, WCF service with a callback contract to a Silverlight application is...

I have an application that self-hosts a WCF service. Now I want to add an HTTP endpoint to that application and have a Silverlight application call my service. Sounds easy. Except that it’s not, because the Silverlight app is trying to do a cross-domain...

A common problem I run into when writing applications is this: I have a situation where a series of tasks need to be assembled and arranged in a way that does something complicated.  Each individual section may be simple, but the process as a whole...

I managed to incite a small riot a few weeks ago when I got involved in a somewhat heated debate internally about how far one should go with their unit testing.  How much should you be mocking in your unit tests?  Should you mock the file system...