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I don’t know if you’re the same, but when coding away I often find myself wishing for a String.Unformat function – call it the evil twin of String.Format . With String.Format I can build up strings like this; var result = String .Format( "http://{0}:{1}/{2}"
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Is this a question of taste, or something more serious? [ Warning : this post won’t change your life J ] I found myself writing the following extension method yet again the other day; public static void ForEach<T>( this IEnumerable <T> source,
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I’ve been reading Mike Taulty’s blog for ages now, and I love his balance of technologies, the length of his posts, and his style of writing. So if you’re not a subscriber, go check it out. But I just had to draw attention to his recent post – “ Anonymous
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Maybe I’m biased because he’s on the same team as me (ahem, sorry for the plug J ), but I really liked Stuart Leeks ’ post on improving the “Include” method on ObjectQuery<T>. It’s another example, like the MVC Framework he mentions, of how lamba
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No, I’m not talking about NEANDERTHALS (there’s a joke in there somewhere), but rather a technique that a colleague of mine, Josh Twist , has recently blogged about – “ Avoiding Primitive Obsession to tip developers into the pit of success ”. I’d always
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Josh Twist is running a vote on the use of the “var” keyword. Get voting ! Oh, and make sure you vote “var is for anonymous types only” or he’ll never let me live it down. Ever. I’ll be watching J
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Have you used Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) or Policy Injection? They’re pretty much the same thing. If you haven’t, I’d highly recommend doing some reading, as I believe it is a Software Engineering practice that has moved out of the “fashionable”
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After being prompted by a friend (or ex-colleague, or drinking buddy, whatever you want to be called J ) I think I owe further explanation about my previous post on generics . Consider these two classes; public class FirstClass <T> { public FirstClass
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OK, so it isn’t really a sensible name for a pattern. In reality, this post is just about a useful technique to use when developing with generics that initially can feel a little counter intuitive. I’ve found many uses for it, so I think it is worth sharing.
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For a while now I’ve used this handy bit of code to add a message programmatically to a Validation Summary control, without associating it with a Validator. I’ve no idea where it came from – perhaps my head, perhaps someone cleverer than I... so if it
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I have to say, I love how easy it is to do SQL-like expressions over collections of objects with LINQ... If we have two simple classes that define our data; class Person { public int Id { get ; set ; } public string Name { get ; set ; } public int AddressId
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Background I’m in the process of writing a small windows application with a very straightforward architecture, for which the only twist is the need to be able to plug in different data providers according to how it is used. This means it must be able
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