Contents tagged with .NET Development
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.NET Languages
Finally, after talking about it like he had signed an NDA, Jason Bock has launched his .NET Languages website, dedicated to .NET linguistic investigations. Should be interesting to watch it grow.
Jason also keeps a listing-style page of all the .NET Languages (not sure how up to date it is but still a very thorough list) here.
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Windows Forms Programming in C#
I'd like to know if there's anyone out there that would be willing to part with their copy (or a copy) of Chris Sells' Windows Forms Programming in C# book. Let me know how much you want for it and how I can pay you (PayPal preferably). Just leave a comment or e-mail me at jason dot mauss at gmail dot com
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Changing the way I think about managing SCM repositories
Every now and then I read something or have a thought that affects the way I think about something so greatly that I feel compelled to tell others about it. Since this blog is the only way for me to tell those that might care, (I don't think any close friends or family care about different ways of managing SCM repositories) I'm doing it here.
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.NET Licensing - who are all the players?
For the piece of software I'm about to build, I need a way of implementing licensing. I've read product information about XHEO's Licensing components, and they seem to fit my needs pretty well. I just thought I'd throw the question out there to others reading this post - do you know of other licensing products that work well with .NET software?
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VSS Tips & Tricks
I noticed today on Korby Parnell's blog he highlighted a comment I left in regards to a VSS Performance post he made. I actually copied and pasetd that comment straight from an article I had written on VSS a long time ago so, I figured I would post that VSS article in it's entirety for anyone that might like to read more about some useful feaures of VSS. I'll probably include this article with DevCampus content when I add content to the site too. I've personally found the items discussed to be useful to me in my everyday development tasks.
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Unit Testing and Mock Objects
Last night I read chapter 6 of Pragmatic Unit Testing - In C# with NUnit which covered using mock objects. I found the idea of mock objects interesting but, despite the examples given in the book, had a hard time trying to think of some good cases for using mock objects. Sure, the network could become unavailable, hard drives can fail, memory failures can happen, etc. I'm curious what other NUnit and perhaps DotNetMock users have found to be useful cases for employing mock objects in their unit tests. Anyone care to share their experiences?
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New Unit Testing Books
I picked up a couple of new books recently that cover testing topics related to development.
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What's wrong with this T-SQL? #2
Hint: Today's question is pretty easy if you understand which SQL Server data type are valid for which operations with user-defined functions. What you want to build is a scalar-value function named GetBooleanTextFromInt that returns a boolean text string based on an integer passed to it. So if you pass 0 (zero) to it, it returns the text 'False'. Any other integer value passed to it should return the text 'True'. For example:
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What's wrong with this T-SQL? #1
In an effort to increase my T-SQL skills, and possibly help others learn T-SQL better, I'm kicking off a series of posts today that will show a T-SQL batch that has a problem with it, and after people have had ample time to try to solve the problem, I will post the answer.
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Constructor chaining in VB.NET?
I came across some C# code today where a constructor had a few overloads, all of which contained about 10 lines of the exact same initialization code (for private members). The only difference was that some of the constructors allowed you to pass in values for some of the properties. I refactored the code to use constructor chaining, for example: