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Working With DTO Auto Translators -- Mapperly

Posted on Thursday, November 7, 2024

Avoiding Identity Obsession in .NET with Entity Framework Core

Posted on Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Identity Obsession and Domain-Driven Design

Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2024

Working With DTO Auto Translators -- Mapster

Posted on Monday, August 26, 2024

What Are the Proposed C# Type Unions and How Do They Relate to Discriminated Unions?

Posted on Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Aspiring Links for Period Ending July 14, 2024

Posted on Sunday, July 14, 2024

Aspiring Links for Week Ending June 14, 2024

Posted on Friday, June 14, 2024

New And Proposed Changes For C# 13 - June 5, 2024

Posted on Wednesday, June 5, 2024

“CONSIDER providing method Close(), in addition to the Dispose(), if close is standard terminology in the area” considered deprecated

Posted on Monday, September 8, 2014

Long Paths and .NET

Posted on Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Iterator Methods

Posted on Thursday, July 17, 2014

Math.Round(value) does to-even rounding

Posted on Monday, May 26, 2014

Windows Store production mill

Posted on Wednesday, April 30, 2014

The case of the not-so-useful XBF error

Posted on Sunday, March 23, 2014

Data virtualization in Windows Phone 7.1 (or Why INotifyCollectionChanged is fundamentally broken)

Posted on Saturday, December 7, 2013

Persisting Azure Mobile Services authentication tokens and handling expiry

Posted on Thursday, October 24, 2013

Accessing Private Fields and Properties

Posted on Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Introducing EffectiveIoC

Posted on Monday, March 11, 2013

Dependency Injection

Posted on Friday, March 8, 2013

Azure Table Storage and the Great Certificate Expiry of 2013

Posted on Friday, March 1, 2013

async/await Tips

Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2013

IDisposable and Class Hierarchies

Posted on Monday, January 21, 2013

The Dispose Pattern as an anti-pattern

Posted on Sunday, January 20, 2013

Introduction to Productivity Extensions

Posted on Friday, November 30, 2012

Thread synchronization of non-atomic invariants in .NET 4.5

Posted on Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Thread synchronization of atomic invariants in .NET 4.5

Posted on Sunday, September 9, 2012

Visual Studio 2010 Best Practices published

Posted on Saturday, August 25, 2012

Automated Testing Isn’t Just for Business Logic

Posted on Friday, May 25, 2012

Dispose Pattern and “Set large fields to null”

Posted on Thursday, April 26, 2012

“Virtual method call from constructor” What Could Go Wrong?

Posted on Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Software Design and First Principles–Part 0: Concepts of Object Orientation

Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2012

Avoid the volatile Modifier

Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2012

C#, Async, Limits, oh my!

Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2012

If You’re Using “#if DEBUG”, You’re Doing it Wrong

Posted on Thursday, November 24, 2011

Developing Windows Services in Visual Studio

Posted on Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Fluent Builders, Part 1

Posted on Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Deep Dive on Closure Pitfalls

Posted on Wednesday, November 3, 2010

More on Async Functions

Posted on Friday, October 29, 2010

A New Asynchronicity Awaits You

Posted on Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Book Review: WCF 4.0 multi-tier services development with LINQ-to-Entities

Posted on Friday, August 20, 2010

Using the dynamic Keyword in C# to Improve Object Orientation – A Follow-up

Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2010

Using the dynamic Keyword in C# to Improve Object-Orientation

Posted on Monday, May 24, 2010

Refactoring with Visual Studio 2010

Posted on Monday, May 17, 2010

Modify VS 2010 Template to Reference System.Configuration

Posted on Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Unit testing WCF data contract serialization.

Posted on Monday, May 4, 2009

DataContractSerializer.ReadObject is easily confused.

Posted on Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Evolving code over time

Posted on Monday, March 30, 2009

DevTeach 2009 Vancouver

Posted on Thursday, March 26, 2009

Pass-through Constructors

Posted on Friday, November 21, 2008

Pontificating Virtual Parameterized Constructors in C#

Posted on Tuesday, November 18, 2008

.NET 4.0, Evolving .NET Development

Posted on Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Becoming a Visual Studio Jedi Part 1

Posted on Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Trials and Tribulations of DataGridView, Column Selections, and Sorting

Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008

DataGridViewColumn.Frozen

Posted on Monday, August 11, 2008

ITSWITCH #1: Answer

Posted on Monday, July 28, 2008

ITSWITCH: #1

Posted on Friday, July 25, 2008

Nested Types

Posted on Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Entity Framework Petition of Vote of Non Confidence

Posted on Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Comparing CodeRush Refactor! Pro and Resharper 4, part 1 or N — first glance.

Posted on Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Fundamentals of OOD Part 3: Method Cohesion

Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Spaces or Tabs?

Posted on Monday, May 26, 2008

RFC: Conditionals on false

Posted on Sunday, May 11, 2008

Fundamentals of OOD, Part 2 – Encapsulation Scope

Posted on Thursday, May 8, 2008

Fundamentals of Object-Oriented Design (OOD) Part 1

Posted on Thursday, May 1, 2008

Overcoming problems with MethodInfo.Invoke of methods with by-reference value type arguments

Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Resharper Isn’t Always Smart

Posted on Monday, March 31, 2008

Licences for Microsoft products

Posted on Friday, March 28, 2008

Single-Entry, Single-Exit, Should It Still Be Applicable In Object-oriented Languages?

Posted on Friday, March 7, 2008

My Wishlist for C# 4

Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2008

A Time and Place for Code Comments

Posted on Tuesday, February 5, 2008

"Object is currently in use elsewhere" error.

Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008

Formatting/parsing for a specific culture redux

Posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Visual C# Developer Center Article

Posted on Thursday, January 3, 2008

Formatting/parsing for a specific culture

Posted on Thursday, December 27, 2007

Bridges and Factories

Posted on Friday, December 21, 2007

Dependency Injection

Posted on Thursday, December 13, 2007

New warning CS0809 in C# 3 (Visual Studio 2008)

Posted on Monday, November 26, 2007

Using Exceptions For Normal Logic Flow

Posted on Friday, October 12, 2007

Thread.Abort is a Sign of a Poorly Designed Program

Posted on Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Exception Logging

Posted on Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Performance Implications of try/catch/finally, Part Two

Posted on Thursday, July 12, 2007

Performance Implications of try/catch/finally

Posted on Friday, June 22, 2007

The Religion of Class Member Prefixing

Posted on Sunday, June 17, 2007

Oww, my brain hurts. Extension methods *will* cause me grief.

Posted on Thursday, May 31, 2007

Accumulative Construction

Posted on Friday, May 18, 2007

Contribution to Microsoft Visual C# Develper Center

Posted on Friday, February 23, 2007

Guest Blogging on Microsoft Canada Developer Connection

Posted on Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Visual Studio 2005 Clean doesn’t clean everything

Posted on Thursday, November 16, 2006

Writing Solid Code

Posted on Monday, October 16, 2006

Code Analysis: How to Correctly Resolve CA1300 – "Specify MessageBox Options"

Posted on Sunday, October 15, 2006

Changing TextBox Text as an Undo-able Action

Posted on Sunday, September 10, 2006

Docking With Run-Time-Created Controls

Posted on Friday, July 7, 2006

SYSK 149: Performance Analysis of the 'yield return' Statement

Posted on Wednesday, July 5, 2006

A code snippet for Visual Studio 2005 that implements a skeleton value type adhering to Framework Design Guidelines

Posted on Saturday, March 25, 2006

Sortable Value Type Code Snippet

Posted on Saturday, March 25, 2006

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