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"If you're using a loop, you're doing it wrong" by Chuck Jazdzewski is a quick primer to LINQ. It's a reminder that a lot of developers are going to make a conscious effort to change the way they approach problem solving when they're using LINQ. Of course any ex Notes/Domino developers with @Function programming experience will be used to stringing operators together, so they should be right at home! Tags: LINQ
The December CTP of Microsoft's Parallel extensions has recently been released. Some info from the download page: Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework is a managed programming model for data parallelism, task parallelism, and coordination on parallel hardware unified by a common work scheduler. Parallel Extensions makes it easier for developers to write programs that scale to take advantage of parallel hardware by providing improved performance as the numbers of cores and processors increase without having to deal with many of the complexities of today’s concurrent programming models. Basically a set of extensions...
Ok, it's a pretty crappy pun, but someone had to use it. A couple of MVC/MVP related links: MVC demo sourcecode MVC or MVP Pattern – Whats the difference?
I love working with LLBLGenPro. However sometimes I go through a process of adapting what I want to do into LLBL speak. I'm still pretty new to using the tool, so I figured I'd throw up some of the more useful chunks of code relating to real world problems just in case someone else finds them useful. The Problem You have a list of entities, lets call them "Categories". You're dynamically creating a total related to these categories, lets say "the number of images in each category". Finally, you want to filter your result set (using LLBLGenPro -...
Fans Bouma is documenting the process of adding linq support to LLBLGenPro in a series of posts. One of the pingbacks named the series "A diary of LINQ pain" which sounds pretty appropriate! Tags: LLBLGenPro, Linq
A little note to remember when working with DateTime.AddDays().
Luckily I only spent a few minutes with my code stuck in an infinite loop before googling, but still..
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ReSharper 2.5.3 is now out, and represents the last 2.5.x release for those of you who aren't planning/able to go to 3.0. There are a fair few fixes, specifically in the area of ASP.NET support. Grab it if you're not planning to move to 3.0.
(3.0 has been fine on my XP machine at home, but I still need to find time to re-test it on my work Vista box, where I was experiencing weird behaviour)
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Seeing as I mentioned the ReSharper 3.0 release, I thought I should also mention that I've reverted my main work box (which is running Vista) back to ReSharper 2.5.2. I was having some weird issues around shortcuts not quite sticking, as well as some functionality simply not working (the compilation checking seemed either disabled or incredibly lagged, ctrl-p for parameter info was only working intermittently, and the automatic insertion of using statements wasn't firing either). It was a weird few hours working without full ReSharper functionality - it scared me thinking about how much I missed it. Unfortunately I...
Wow, what a post title. It's a couple of weeks old, but this list over at haacked.com is a quick list of classes that developers tend to code themselves rather than use what's provided in the framework. The constant reinvention is symptomatic of a large and comprehensive framework - there's so much in there, it's sometimes hard to know where to look for something that does what you're trying to do.
Looking through the list was quite refreshing. There were a few obvious ones such as System.IO.Path.Combine, however I'd never thought that a framework which is destined to...
ReSharper 3.0 is now out of beta and available for download. So far I've installed it on both b0xes I develop on, but haven't really used it as yet. I have to confess, there's not a lot in the new release which has wowed me so far - although I'm hoping the XAML support might be useful in the near future. The addition of 'code suggestions' also sounds like something that will be quite welcomed - there were a few situations before where ReSharper would 'warn' you about things which were fairly legitimate. It'll be nice now to receive...
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