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Update to "Solving Problems in C# and F# - Part 2"

It's been pointed out that I didn't need to write the extension method RaiseToThePowerOf. BigInt has it's own static Pow method. I blame code blindness. So, with this in place Problem 25 is solved like this... 1: var ten = BigInt.FromInt32(10); 2: var Read More...

Posted Wednesday, April 01, 2009 8:29 AM by mpeck | 2 Comments

Filed under: .NET Dev

Solving Problems in C# and F# - Part 2

UPDATE: It's been pointed out that the extension method RaiseToThePowerOf isn't required. I've updated the C# solution to Problem 25 here , but left this post "as is". This is part one of a three part post where myself and Giles Knap play around with Read More...

Posted Wednesday, April 01, 2009 12:17 AM by mpeck | 5 Comments

Filed under: .NET Dev

StyleCop for ReSharper Release Candidate

Howard van Rooijen has just announced that the Release Candidate for StyleCop for ReSharper is now available. If you like StyleCop (you do, don't you?) then you should definately take a look at this. Howard wants all your feedback, so go download StyleCop Read More...

Posted Thursday, February 12, 2009 2:15 PM by mpeck | 0 Comments

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Not Writing Code is Great

I love writing code. Sometimes, though, not writing code is even better. Less code written means less to test, less to maintain, less to document etc etc. Ben Vincent, Lead Program Manager for Windows Live Calendar, likes to spend his free time pretending Read More...

Posted Monday, October 06, 2008 8:02 PM by mpeck | 1 Comments

Filed under: .NET Dev, Random Stuff

Microsoft Source Analysis (StyleCop) Released

I've been using StyleCop within Microsoft for some time now. I'm a big fan, and really excited to see that it's just been released to the rest of the world. Go find out about the release here . Read More...

Posted Friday, May 23, 2008 4:01 PM by mpeck | 0 Comments

Filed under: .NET Dev

Hiding Methods With The “new” Modifier

We were discussing the use of the new modifier in C# in my team today, and I was expressing my opinion that I don't like it. The new modifier is used to explicitly hide a method in a base class. I'm sure there are good reasons to do this, but generally Read More...

Posted Tuesday, December 11, 2007 11:35 PM by mpeck | 0 Comments

Filed under: .NET Dev

SDC Tasks Moving to CodePlex

I'm currently in the process of setting up a new home for the SDC Tasks on CodePlex. As soon as the project is properly set up I'll announce the URL, but for the moment you can still access the code on GotDotNet. Alternatively, use the url www.BuildFramework.com Read More...

Posted Thursday, April 19, 2007 6:24 PM by mpeck | 0 Comments

Filed under: MSBuild, .NET Dev

Blogging Code Samples

So, I tried to big-up Word 2007's blog publishing features in my last post and somewhat put my foot in it. Word 2007 in general does an excellent job of posting to blogs, but when I cut and paste from Visual Studio 2005 into Word 2007 what popped out Read More...

Posted Tuesday, September 26, 2006 3:54 PM by mpeck | 0 Comments

Filed under: .NET Dev

Taking Off The Training Wheels

I've had some technical interviews recently. One of the hard parts of being interviewed is the part where you're asked to do some whiteboard coding. In the past the statement "could you write some code on the whiteboard" has caused my brain to reset and Read More...

Posted Sunday, September 24, 2006 5:27 PM by mpeck | 0 Comments

Filed under: .NET Dev

New Version SBF and SDC Tasks Uploaded Today

If you're a user of the SBF framework and SDC Tasks then you should be aware that we've just uploaded a new version (v2.0.060717.001). This build fixes a few bugs in the BizTalk 2006 tasks, so if you're using these tasks then it's probably worth downloading Read More...

Posted Monday, July 17, 2006 5:02 PM by mpeck | 1 Comments

Filed under: MSBuild, .NET Dev

SBF Gets Improved Docs and Tutorial

There's a new version of the Microsoft UK Solution Build Framework up on GotDotNet. This version has a bunch of new features and bug fixes including: Support for TFS Source Control New MSBuild tasks for Biztalk 2006 configuration Improvements to the Biztalk Read More...

Posted Friday, July 07, 2006 4:28 PM by mpeck | 0 Comments

Filed under: MSBuild, .NET Dev