In February, I wrote about unit testing CodeDomSerializers , but although it was a good initial attempt, there was room for improvement (as I also described in the article). Back then, my main priority was just to get my unit tests working, so other issues...

So, a couple of days ago I discovered just how easy it is to create code snippets for Visual Studio 2005, and this apparently put me into snippet mode. My first attempt at code snippets unintentionally caught a bit of flak, so I hope this second one is...

When raising events, the .NET framework design guidelines recommend that this is done from a protected virtual method named On<EventName> (unless the class is sealed or the event is static, etc.). This leads to a recurring pattern of similarly looking...

From time to time, people ask me about coding styles; if they have seen some of my code, many are curious about my use of post-fixed underscores in private member names. Is this a new Microsoft standard? No. It is my own, private coding convention...

My former Microsoft Consulting collegue Michel Baladi now has a blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/baladi . Michel is still a Microsoftie, but he now works with ISVs from Europe and beyond in the Microsoft Technology Centre in Vedbæk, Denmark. Michel and...