December 2005 - Posts

You gotta love the little things in .NET Framework 2.0: File.ReadAllLines()
I was recently reviewing some samples and I ran across one that made me really appreciate the work we did in BCL in .NET Framework 2.0... it maybe a very trivial thing, but it really improves the code. The code sample in question looked something like: Read More...
Posted 27 December 05 03:44 by BradA | 16 Comments   
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Novice tip for doing Ajax development
I spent a little time over the holiday break experimenting with Ajax development specifically with the December Atlas preview . Overall I am very impressed with what you can do with zero client impact. One problem I ran into fairly quickly was that I Read More...
Posted 26 December 05 12:12 by BradA | 6 Comments   
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Program Manager Wisdom #78: Reveal your stupidity
I have been doing a little thinking recently about how to be a good Program manager. What skills, habits and practices I have seen successful in the past? And I have been making my way through Orson Scott Card’s Ender series . I never thought the two Read More...
Posted 17 December 05 08:04 by BradA | 16 Comments   
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Some thoughts on concurrency
Joe recently published some thoughts on concurrency in the CLR… this is still early thinking kind of stuff, but it does give you an idea of where our current thinking is. http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/01/EndBracket/ Love to hear your thoughts\comments Read More...
Posted 14 December 05 09:04 by BradA | 1 Comments   
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Framework Design Guidelines: The right number of exceptions
A reader asks me about a salutation where they are catching a SoapException and wrapping it with their own API specific exception type. I think this is a fairly common scenario so I wanted to start a dialog about it here. Part of this is covered in chapter Read More...
try{}catch{} changes in .NET Framework 2.0
David did a little digging and came up with the good write up… take a look! http://davidbetz.net/winfx/2005/12/trycatch-in-net-20-part-2.aspx Read More...
Posted 06 December 05 03:00 by BradA | 4 Comments   
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Framework Design Guidelines on Names of Generic Type Parameters
Framework Design Guidelines on Names of Generic Type Parameters Continuing in the series of discussing topics from the Framework Design Guidelines … The last post generated some good discussion on generic type parameter naming I though I’d include this. Read More...

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