March 21, 2009 - ElegantCode

21 Mar

2009

One Scenario Where the System.DirectoryServices. AccountManagement API Falls Down

By: Jan Van Ryswyck Category:General PostTag: New Post:5 Comments

About a year ago, I wrote a post about Directory Programming with System.DirectoryServices. AccountManagement. I’ve been using the AccountManagement API of the .NET 3.5 framework since then and I still like its simplicity over the raw API of the System.DirectoryServices namespace. Over the past year, however, I’ve encountered one scenario where I was forced to […]

21 Mar

2009

Progressive Interfaces

By: Jan Van Ryswyck Category:General PostTag: New Post:9 Comments

David wrote this post about a month ago where he challenged the usefulness of fluent interfaces. One of his concerns is the discoverability of a fluent API in order to determine what the correct syntax should be. Whenever you’re new to a particular fluent API, it may not always be obvious what the API developer […]

21 Mar

2009

Be Careful With the var Keyword and Expression Builders

By: Jan Van Ryswyck Category:UncategorizedTag: .Net 3.5:5 Comments

I just want to point out a small tidbit I ran into earlier this week. I was using the following simplified expression builder that provides a fluent interface for creating an instance of a Product. public class Product { public Double Price { get; private set; } public String Name { get; private set; } […]