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Faking extension methods
I just read a post from Daniel Cazzulino about mocking extension methods. He wants to mock an extension method so that it behaves as he defines in his test, instead of actually calling the real method. To do this, Daniel creates an interface where every...
ClickOnce deployment, signed manifests and automated builds and ResolveKeySource failing…
I love ClickOnce, automated builds and a lot more Microsoft stuff. Unfortunately not for everything there is a simple solution. I ran into a new problem today. I was playing around with certificates, signed manifests and all of this in an automated build...
Who is actually using LINQ or LINQ to SQL?
Microsoft UK sends out these MSDN Flash newsletters once in a while. Every one of them has this poll with some .NET related question and the results come in the next letter. I got the latest today and last time the poll was about the following: What really...
Microsoft project “Velocity”
Thursday September the 4th I gave a presentation for DotNed about Velocity, the framework to enable distributed cache on the Windows platform. It was a fun evening for me with lots of great questions from the audience. You can download the slides from...
LINQ to SQL objects and doing in-memory queries over them
This is extremely easy and for most of you probably so obvious that you’ll start spamming me that this is time spend better on other things. But it has helped others and maybe it can help some of my visitors. I’ve used it when migrating data between two...
"How Do I?" Videos
When people want start learning about .NET in general or a specific subject like Silverlight or security, can be send to the "How Do I?" videos. I do this myself a lot of times, because a lot of videos aren't 60+ minutes. Just as a reminder...
Getting data from Excel the fast way, using LINQ
David , Alex and me just needed to get a load of data from some Excel sheets and work with the data. What's better than to load the data into a DataSet using OleDB and process it using LINQ to DataSets? Make sure you know what the format of your columns...
Read-only automatic property
I got a question during my latest presentation about automatic properties (full name is actually automatically implemented properties) with just a 'getter'. I could not remember the syntax, thought it was something with the readonly keyword. I...
LINQ to SQL vs. DBA's
Why is it that in Oracle world, it's much more custom to have a database administrator (DBA) on your project than when you're working with SQL-Server? I believe it brings great value to a project to have a dedicated experienced DBA working in...
Compiling a .NET 3.5 project and running on a .NET 2.0 machine
For those that are still curious after my previous post about using C# 3.0 features in .NET 2.0 . You can compile any .NET Framework 3.5 project and run it in a .NET Framework 2.0 environment (read, no .NET Framework 3.5 installed) without any problems...
Using C# 3.0 from .NET 2.0
Yesterday I wrote an article on the property snippet in Visual Studio 2008 and that it had changed from Visual Studio 2005. Only a few hours later, I questioned myself if even a few people might be interested in this. Not because of the snippet, but because...
Automatic properties and replacing the Visual Studio 2008 'prop' snippet
In .NET Framework 3.5, we've gained automatic properties. Automatic properties are really simple to understand. Instead of writing a full getter and setter with a private field (called a backing field, because it belongs to the property) you just...
Borrow and extend; Summer Class
When Microsoft takes a great idea from someone else, they always enhance it. They call this "borrow and extend". Take tabbed browsing for example, where you can view QuickTabs and get a screen with every open tab in a preview window. It seems...
~Visual Studio 2005
Forget about VPC, VMWare and the likes, I finally got it on my laptop! Let's play... Oh, by the way, after I've finished Call of Duty 4. This game ROCKS! Technorati Tags: Visual Studio 2008 , .NET Framework 3.5 , .NET 3.5 , Team System
.NET Framework 3.5 in February
Normally I get flooded with messages about stuff like the official release-date for .NET Framework 3.5. But since my Omea Reader database crashed (for the third time, but this time I can't find a solution to get it working again) and I still haven't...
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