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Resharper 4.0

ReSharper 4.0 has just hit beta! I have been using ReSharper for about a year now, and it is an awesome productivity boost. You can really concentrate on writing code, and let ReSharper take care of the little stuff, as well as some pretty major refactoring Read More
posted Monday, June 02, 2008 4:41 PM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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Linq to SQL vs. NHibernate

It finally clicked with me this afternoon while watching Luca Bolognese demonstrate Linq to SQL to the EMEA crowd. Linq to SQL (L2S from here on) is about the data. NHibernate is about the domain. At least as far as I understand. In the demo, Luca at Read More
posted Friday, April 04, 2008 11:08 PM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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Fluent interfaces

These are things I see popping up a bit these days. I like the way they expose their intent through the "fluency" of the language of the statements. For example, I've been used to writing asserts in my unit tests like so: 1: Assert.AreEqual("This Read More
posted Tuesday, March 11, 2008 12:54 PM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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Coding standards

I'm just reading Pete Goodliffe's Code Craft. I'm only at the beginning of the book and he's devoted a chapter to coding standards, reinforcing my own belief that good code presentation goes a long way towards good code. One of the things he neglects, Read More
posted Monday, March 10, 2008 4:34 PM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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Nifty NAnt and CruiseControl.NET example

This article is actually about versioning your automated builds, but in the end it does a pretty good job of an introduction to NAnt and CruiseControl.NET for build automation. Sticking it here for the ol' BAS... Read More
posted Tuesday, December 04, 2007 10:06 AM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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Configuration section fun and games

I've been pulling my hair out all weekend over a configuration issue that still doesn't make sense to me. I've created a custom configuration file section in order to simplify the configuration of one application I work on and was following along the Read More
posted Monday, November 19, 2007 8:05 AM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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Validation implementation

Nifty way of implementing domain validation using extension methods and generics: http://www.lostechies.com/blogs/jimmy_bogard/archive/2007/10/24/entity-validation-with-visitors-and-extension-methods.aspx Read More
posted Thursday, October 25, 2007 10:12 AM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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ReSharper

This is the tool any serious .NET developer must have. I should perhaps qualify it with saying Visual Studio.NET developer.I've installed the 3.0 beta, as I spend quite a bit of my day in VB.NET now and it has better support than the 2.5 version (plus Read More
posted Wednesday, June 13, 2007 3:29 PM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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Worst. Login. Dialog. Ever.

Playing around with XAML animations tonight. I should be placed against the wall for this, but I couldn't resist. Might start a new craze... Open up XAMLPad and past this rubbish into it: <Page xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" Read More
posted Sunday, June 10, 2007 9:27 PM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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XSD xs:integer to VB.NET type mapping foolishness

I don't know if you should blame Microsoft, or the... people... who did the XSD spec. Anyway, according to the XSD spec, the integer type is a numeric value with no upper or lower bounds. .NET therefore struggles to find a way to map it to any value, Read More
posted Friday, June 08, 2007 3:52 PM by Geoff | (Comments Off)
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