Fridathon: unstructured learning or hacking you can opt-in to do on any random Friday.

• How to get rid of the auto-generated #region for implemented interfaces

  Posted on March 13, 2008

  I HATE this default so much. Every stupid interface gets its own #region in my code file. I wonder who thought regions were so cool… [Read More]

• How to hide System.Object members from your interfaces: the IFluentInterface

  Posted on March 10, 2008

  Sometimes, System.Object methods (Equals, GetHashCode, GetType and ToString) only contribute clutter to VS intellisense. Everyone knows those members are always there, yet they are seldom used explicitly. This is especially important (and annoying) for fluent APIs that define the flow of invocations in terms of interfaces and usually have few members at each “step” of the statement. [Read More]

• Silverlight + Seadragon = amazing Hard Rock memorabilia

  Posted on March 5, 2008

  Just go and see it at the Memorabilia Hard Rock site. [Read More]

• PowerCommands for VS2008

  Posted on March 3, 2008

  From Pablo’s announcement: [Read More]

• Integrating SMS-based data entry with geographical visualization: a TED demo

  Posted on February 29, 2008

  For the past couple weeks, we‘ve been very busy putting together a prototype that was running at an InSTEDD booth in the prestigious TED conference. Of anecdotal interest is the fact that it’s the first time in TED’s history that such a demo is run remotely from South America (Buenos Aires, Argentina, in this case :)). [Read More]

• New Moq features for mock verification and creation

  Posted on February 2, 2008

  I wrote before about What’s wrong with the Record/Reply/Verify model for mocking frameworks, and in that context, why Moq didn’t provide a mock verification functionality. [Read More]

• Beware of typeparamref XML documentation tag

  Posted on January 21, 2008

  Most projects use “Warnings as Errors” project-level setting together with the “XML documentation file” so that you can spot early on which areas of your public APIs are not documented or have broken links etc. in it. I’ve come to rely on it, especially in the face of refactoring, which even in VS2008 still doesn’t refactor code documentation references. [Read More]

• Pipelines Using Iterators, Lambda Expressions and Extension Methods in C# 3.0

  Posted on January 20, 2008

  Inspired by Pipelines Using Fibers in Ruby 1.9, I set to explore what could be done with C# 3.0 in the same area. I’ll also follow that article’s overall structure. [Read More]

• foreach to from..select (I)

  Posted on January 4, 2008

  Build a coma-separated list of the string representation of an array of objects, rendering null values as “null”, string values with quotes ( i.e. 15, true, "foo", null ) and everything else using object.ToString(): [Read More]

• Statically-typed reflection with LINQ

  Posted on December 30, 2007

  Quite some time ago I posted about how to use LINQ to provide a strong-typed reflection API. I used a very old LINQ preview back then. [Read More]

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