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How do I get someWin32API method to work in .Net?

It was some time since I last needed to use P/Invoke but it seems like I always need something from a standard C DLL or the Win32 API. Not that I needed it today, but I stumbled across this site which I will remember for future reference. Looks very helpful Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 01, 2009 1:11 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Exceptions or not?

I've always had mixed feelings for exceptions. First of all exceptions should only be used for exceptional things, not things that are expected. For example if you open a file it may fail for several reasons; it does not exists, you do not have rights Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 01, 2009 10:01 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Remember to allocate memory just in case you run out of memory

Today I read this blog post about how all .Net applications create three exceptions upon start; System.ExecutionEngineException, System.StackOverflowException and System.OutOfMemoryException. The reason is that if these are not allocated from the start, Read More...
Posted Monday, August 10, 2009 9:04 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Fun introduction to F#

There is a very funny introduction to F# available here . So if you want an introduction to F# and/or a few laughs you should watch it. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 12, 2009 3:49 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Refactoring for dummies

I was recently looking at a web-cast and it was not related to refactoring at all, but the presenter said something about refactoring that just blew my mind. The code he started with looked something like this: public ClassD GetD() { ClassA a = new ClassA Read More...
Posted Monday, November 03, 2008 1:13 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Beginners should not use LINQ

When I first heard of LINQ I got really scared. I could see that it was a very powerful tool but also a tool that would be easy to abuse. Most experienced developers tend to agree that putting SQL statements into your logic or even GUI code is a bad design. Read More...
Posted Friday, October 17, 2008 7:01 PM by cellfish | 12 Comments
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Exit Mocks. Enter Stubs!

Since I'm not a fan of mocks I guess my prayers have been heard. Microsoft Research will soon release a stub framework . That's right. Stubs and not mocks! It is part of Pex that I have mentioned before . And you don't need to use Pex if you don't want. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 14, 2008 11:13 AM by cellfish | 2 Comments
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My new favorite .Net unit test framework

I recently had a chance to really sink my teeth into xUnit.net . Since I've been stuck with CPPUnit for quite some time and working with xUnit.net was a relief. Compared to NUnit I find xUnit much easier and convenient to work with (and compared with Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 24, 2008 10:53 AM by cellfish | 1 Comments
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The implementation of iterators in C# and its consequences

Recently oldnewthing wrote a series av articles on C# iterators. Especially part four is interesting since it describes how iterators can be used to simplify asynchronous code. I'm not a big fan of this kind of exploit of a programming language since Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 23, 2008 8:23 AM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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C# source analysis

And if you listened to me and started to write nice looking SQL , maybe you wanna look ate making your C# code look nice too... Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 14, 2008 12:45 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Robot competitions

Even though I never played crobots , I have always been intrigued by the idea. I even played RoboForge for a few months a couple of years ago. And today I stumbled across a new robot game; RoboChamps . RoboChamps does not seem to be like all other classical Read More...
Posted Monday, April 28, 2008 8:13 AM by cellfish | 1 Comments
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Yet another unit test framework for .Net released

Version 1.0 of xUnit.net has been released . So do we need another unit test framework? And I think the answer is yes . There are a number of things that I've found a little bit weird in NUnit and with xUnit.net they have been removed. I definitely think Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 24, 2008 8:09 AM by cellfish | 1 Comments
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Selenium the test tool

I almost forgot that before the BDD/DDD presentation , there was a presentation about Selenium . I didn't forget it because it was a bad presentation but because the following presentation was so good... I've never had any good experiences with tools Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 09, 2008 8:39 PM by cellfish | 3 Comments
 
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