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Windsor WCF Integration

I've been playing with the Windsor WCF Integration facility today. I've been using a recent trunk build of the Castle project, and since there's been a lot of...

0 replies - 1278 views - 12/15/08 by mikehadlow in News

Unit Testing Legacy Code With C# 3.0 Language Features

We all have some old legacy code from the C# 2.0 days floating around--Legacy in the Feathers sense of the word that there are no unit tests around it.  We...

0 replies - 822 views - 12/12/08 by jeremyjarrell in News

.NET Fireside Chats - Bill Wagner on 'More Effective C#'

DZone recently had a chance to sit down with Bill Wagner, author of 'More Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#'.  In this interview, Bill...

0 replies - 2072 views - 12/11/08 by alashcraft in Articles

Using Sealed in CSharp

Another potentially useful but not very popular keyword in CSharp is the sealed keyword.  While not a keyword that you will need to use often, it is a...

0 replies - 779 views - 12/08/08 by DaveMBush in Articles

How to Build Facebook Applications with Silverlight 2 RTW – Part 1 of 2

I’m about to embark on some very different Silverlightapplication development projects (primary around data-driven UI, andone potential one even about...

0 replies - 2413 views - 12/04/08 by Psychlist1972 in News

10 Ways To Shoot Yourself In The Foot - Part A

There are several things a software developer can do to make his life much more difficult in the future. One day, some pieces of an old code may make us sorry...

0 replies - 1903 views - 11/14/08 by shaharDev102 in News

C# 4.0 Feature Focus - Part 2 - Named Parameters

In the previous episode of this feature focus series we talked about optional parameters. Today we'll cover another feature introduced in C# 4.0,...

0 replies - 4250 views - 11/11/08 by bdesmet in News

C# 4.0 Feature Focus - Part 1 - Optional Parameters

Welcome to the first post in my new C# 4.0 Feature Focus series. Today we'll start by taking a look at optional parameters, a long-standing request from the...

1 replies - 2299 views - 11/06/08 by bdesmet in News

Thoughts of a PDC (2008) Gone By...

PDC 2008 in LA is over now, and like most PDCs, it definitely didn't disappoint on the technical front--Microsoft tossed out a whole slew of new technologies,...

0 replies - 666 views - 11/03/08 by Ted Neward in News

Microsoft PDC 2008: Day 3 Wrap-Up

Announcments from Microsoft Research The PDC 2008 Day 3 keynote was presented by Rick Rachid, senior vice president of Microsoft Research. Eight different...

0 replies - 970 views - 10/31/08 by alashcraft in News

Terrible Code Example - Methods From Hell

I have been wanting to write this series of articles for a long time. Over the years I have come across very bad code examples and I have always wanted to...

0 replies - 1065 views - 10/30/08 by AmitDev102 in News

Microsoft PDC 2008: Day 2 Wrap-Up

Windows 7, Office 14, Live Services, Visual Studio 2010 Tuesday’s first keynote focused on several different Microsoft products and technologies: Windows 7,...

0 replies - 1239 views - 10/29/08 by alashcraft in News

Microsoft PDC 2008: Day 1 Wrap-Up

Ray Ozzie took center stage this morning at the Day 1 Keynote at PDC 2008 and everybody knew he had at least one surprise up his sleeve. He teased the audience...

0 replies - 1837 views - 10/28/08 by alashcraft in News

“The C# Programming Language Third Edition” and thoughts on language evolution

With a hypothetical next release of the C# language around the corner (more about that after Anders, our language Caesar, has delivered his “Future of C#”...

0 replies - 836 views - 10/24/08 by bdesmet in Articles

Back to Basics – The Default Keyword in Generic Code

In the following posts I’m going to describe basic tools which every developer needs to know. In today’s post I’m going to explain what is the...

0 replies - 1067 views - 10/20/08 by gilf in News