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Why is LINQ absent from debugger windows?
As the owner of the VB.Net portion of the overall debugging experience, I frequently hear the request from customers to add LINQ support into the Watch / Immediate and Locals window. Virtually every other type of expression is available in the debugger Read More...

Posted Wednesday, August 26, 2009 8:00 AM by Jared Parsons | 9 Comments

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VB Catch ... When: Why so special?
The VB Catch syntax has a particular feature not present in C#: When. It allows users to filter expressions based on something other than their type. Any arbitrary code can enter a When block to decide whether or not to handle an Exception Sub Sub1() Read More...

Posted Thursday, October 09, 2008 8:00 AM by Jared Parsons | 5 Comments

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Dealing with Exceptions in a Future
Besides waiting, the another important issue when dealing with Futures is how to deal with exceptions thrown by the user specified code.  Option 1: Ignore the Exception Don't take any actions in the future code and force users to write exception Read More...

Posted Monday, February 11, 2008 11:36 AM by Jared Parsons | 7 Comments

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Tuples Part 1
A tuple in computer science can be described as a set of name/value pairs. In some cases it can be described as simply a set of values that are accessible via an index [1]. Previously I discussed how to create a Tuple inside of PowerShell . This series Read More...

Posted Thursday, January 03, 2008 11:25 AM by Jared Parsons | 6 Comments

C# Keyword Identifiers
This falls into the "learn something new everyday but not necessarily entirely useful bucket". An app I spend a bit of time on leverages the CodeDom heavily to spit out managed code. While running through some test cases the other day I noticed that it Read More...

Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2007 12:31 PM by Jared Parsons | 1 Comments

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Singleton Pattern
Quite awhile back I posted about how to create a re-usable singleton pattern in .Net. Link is here . A bit of time has passed and I've altered the pattern a bit. The reasons for the change are some new type inference patterns and FxCop cleanliness. The Read More...

Posted Tuesday, September 04, 2007 1:58 PM by Jared Parsons | 3 Comments

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