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Dynamic Expression Trees

I have been working on a project that uses the Entity Framework as the persistence store.  I am implementing a global search capability that returns results from the various entities that have a string property that start with a given query string.  Read More...
Posted Friday, February 06, 2009 2:30 AM by Jeremiah.Clark | 2 Comments
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Provide Caching For Your Complex Functions

Function caching, or more specifically memoization , is a code optimization technique that can be used to speed up code that calls complex functions with the same inputs.  Let's take a look at the classic fibonacci function: 1: private int Fib( int Read More...
Posted Sunday, December 07, 2008 11:42 PM by Jeremiah.Clark | 2 Comments
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Organizing A SharePoint Document Library

Let's say that you have a document library in SharePoint where you programmatically upload log files or daily reports.  After a few weeks the document library might contain multiple pages of documents, making finding the document that you are looking Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 06, 2008 2:45 AM by Jeremiah.Clark | 5 Comments
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Managed BF Language Compiler

As usual, I received my February 2008 copy of MSDN magazine and proceeded to devour it. An article that I found quite interesting was " Create a Language Compiler for the .NET Framework " by Joel Pobar . It talks about using the code generation features Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 17, 2008 12:32 AM by Jeremiah.Clark | 0 Comments
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Design By Contact Approach: Spec#

I recently attended a very interesting presentation by Matt Podwysocki where he talked about Spec#. This is an extension to the C# language that implements the DBC (Design By Contract) approach to development. Spec# was developed by Microsoft Research Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 12, 2008 2:30 AM by Jeremiah.Clark | 1 Comments
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StringBuilder.ToString() vs Reflection

I had an intriguing conversation with a friend on Friday about the performance of using the StringBuilder.ToString() method to return the value of the String contained in the StringBuilder object. Following this conversation, I decided to take a deeper Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 20, 2007 9:21 PM by Jeremiah.Clark | 6 Comments
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Replacing CMD with PowerShell

First off, I really like Windows PowerShell . I have been using it for a while now and I find it extremely powerful. I now use it for every command line thing that I do. (I would also recommend the PowerShell Community Extensions . These add some very Read More...
Posted Friday, September 07, 2007 11:23 PM by Jeremiah.Clark | 4 Comments
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Simple GZip compression of files with .NET

I had to do some file compression recently (which oddly enough I had never had to do before). Compressing files using GZipStream in a few lines of code: using (FileStream fStream = new FileStream( @"C:\test.docx.gzip" , FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write)) Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 05, 2007 5:52 PM by Jeremiah.Clark | 2 Comments
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C# 3.0 Anonymous Types

I have been playing around with some of the new C# 3.0 features, and I really have to say that I like the anonymous types. In reality, they do not present a great advantage over typical code defined classes, but they are simple and easy to use and require Read More...
Posted Monday, September 03, 2007 3:29 PM by Jeremiah.Clark | 1 Comments
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