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Build Conference 2011: Wednesday 18 Sep 2011 | 11:02 am
[This is my notes from Wednesday. See Tuesday's Notes.] Important: some of these are out of date and superceded by later notes I took after talking with Microsofties. I’ve tried to mark them as such ...
Build Conference 2011: Tuesday 17 Sep 2011 | 04:41 am
I’ve been at Microsoft’s Build 2011 conference. Over the years I’ve gone to a handful of Microsoft conferences – Gamefest, Meltdown, Gamestock, Windows World (if you go waaay back). Mostly gaming rela...
Enable SkyDrive for OneNote 2010 16 Jul 2011 | 04:22 am
Using OneNote 2010? Trying to create a new notebook on SkyDrive through OneNote and can’t choose “Web” from File | New? Error is “This service is disabled by policy. Contact your system administrator...
Quickie: “NullOr” For Fluent Null-Friendly Member Access 4 Oct 2010 | 01:53 pm
Are you a fan of C#’s ?? operator like I am? It’s one of the lesser known features of the language, so don’t feel bad if you don’t. I like it because I’m a fan of special language syntax to shorten su...
Quickie: Fluent Object Casting 18 May 2010 | 04:40 pm
I’m a big fan of fluent interfaces. C# picked this style up in a big way starting with 3.5 and the Enumerable operators class. People are going nuts with it, often for replacing verbose old XML with s...
Quickie: Case Insensitive WordPress Login 11 May 2010 | 04:30 pm
Do you have a locked down WordPress site that has a case-sensitive login even though the Googles are telling you that in WordPress 2.8 they went case-insensitive? Most likely you have John Kolbert’s n...
Quickie: Building P4.Net 26 Apr 2010 | 11:23 am
In my last post I wrote about building AnyCPU assemblies that can reference 32 or 64 bit DLL’s automatically based on the environment. Just wanted to make a quick followup for people who are actually ...
Automatically Choose 32 or 64 Bit Mixed Mode DLL’s 19 Apr 2010 | 04:39 pm
[Update: Stefan posted in a comment below a much simpler method. I recommend going with this instead of my considerably more complex method.] Here’s a problem that was bugging me at my last job that ...
Quickie: Adding Utility Functions To Interfaces 22 Mar 2010 | 06:20 am
In working in C#, one thing I miss from C++ is being able to implement interfaces via a rich base class. C#’s lack of multiple inheritance (a good decision on balance) just about prevents this. I hav...
Assertive Finalizers 9 Mar 2010 | 03:04 pm
In my previous post, I talked about why I have stopped using finalizers for unmanaged resource collection. I want this to be done through the disposable pattern instead, forcing the programmer to mana...
