I?ve been following the ScriptCS project with great interest over the last couple of months. As you may know by now, I?ve been searching for a more lightweight .NET development experience for quite some time. The ScriptCS project is here to fulfill this desperate need. Driven by the open-source .NET community, this wonderful initiative promises […]
Read MoreA common complaint of the Entity Framework is slow insert times for larger datasets. Last night I was trying to insert a catalog of 15k products and it was taking a very long time (I gave up after 5 minutes). I recalled this post a while back from Mikael Eliasson demonstrating SqlBulkCopy using .NET. I […]
Read MoreEarlier this week, I ran into an issue while using the dynamic keyword in C#. I learned from C# in Depth that there are a couple of restrictions with dynamic, most notably when using extension methods or converting lambda expressions. But apparently there are more restrictions than meets the eye, which came as an unpleasant […]
Read MoreI really learned a lot from reading the first edition of C# in Depth, so I was very glad that I finally found some time to make my way through the second edition. The content on C# 2.0 and 3.0 was only slightly revised compared to the first edition. Never change a winning combination :-). […]
Read MoreLast week I finally managed to hunt down and resolve a bug that I had been chasing for quite some time. A couple of years ago I built an ASP.NET web service that makes use of a native library to provide most of its functionality. This native DLL exposes a C API, much like the […]
Read MoreI?ve talked a few times about how the best code you can write is code you never write. One of the major places I end up seeing developer writing code that they don?t need to write is when parsing XML. A word of caution before I go into how to not have to parse XML! […]
Read MoreIn a previous blog post I showed a basic example of how to use the Delegate.CreateDelegate() method as an alternative to the slow MethodInfo.Invoke() for dynamically invoking a method of a class at runtime. The only downside of using CreateDelegate is that its not strongly typed. This is usually not a problem when the signature […]
Read MoreIKVM.NET is something I?ve been playing with for a while now, but seeing this awesome trailer today reminded me that I should write a post about it. I always considered Java to be some kind of parallel universe compared to .NET where a lot of interesting lessons can be learned. I never did any serious […]
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