I thought I would put a quick note up about this. I’ve been using the ReSharper 4. 0 EAP (Early Access Program) Build 755 for over a week now with no real issues. First Note: I know using beta software is not for everyone, so I don’t really recommend this. But if you are fine […]
Read MoreI have heard a lot of debates lately about the usage of var within a code base. I for one am a var convart, I love it, use it all ovar…. var var var. Some common complaints I hear: Makes the code hard to read It’s not the var that is making it hard to […]
Read MoreSeriously. They can’t. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=259259&SiteID=1 You may delete specific values, but not the list itself. This means you can effectively "zero out" a list by deleting all of it’s items. I don’t quite understand why this would be a good feature, as it doesn’t really stand up for a test of trace-ability. I just deleted a […]
Read MoreThere are tons of companies out there referring to themselves as Agile training organizations. When I was asked recently for recommendations on specific silos of expertise, here were my recommendations. Lean / Agile Net Objectives EMS Strategies Scrum Ken Schwaber Mountain Goat Software (Mike Cohn) Danube Software Development Practices Object Mentor Net Objectives
Read MoreI’m still one of those freaks that insists on having ReSharper around to code with. When I go to a client, I ask (politely) that they get it for all of their developers. When I talk at a user group I tell the attendees (not so politely) to get it. But the one question comes […]
Read MoreIs it 2008? I am just checking because I thought maybe it would be high time to bake in the ability to mount an ISO into a modern operating system. You know, like OS X does. Seriously! And don’t think I don’t realize I am sounding like a turtle neck wearing, smug, metrosexual developer. Dang […]
Read MoreHaving just inherited a TFS installation to manage, I received a request to add some values to a global list. I got a little nervous about this when I saw that the server had many (MANY) global lists in it already and I wanted to be very careful not to break anything during this change. […]
Read MoreI’ve been playing with the yield keyword lately. It gives you a custom iterator, and I have found it to clean up my api quite nicely. Here is my case in point. I’m writing some code to work with the GridView. I want to go through the GridView rows, but only the DataRows (not the […]
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