Patrick Steele's .NET Blog

We've all seen and written code that accesses data from our app.config or web.config file.  We'll throw some simple settings in there:

This year's CodeMash website has two URI's that expose CodeMash Information:

I'm using Windsor as my IoC container for an ASP.NET MVC application.  To get dependency injection in my controllers, I'm using a slightly modified WindsorControllerFactory from Andre Loker's post earlier this year.  It works great and allows me to easily test my controllers.

A couple of weeks ago, a post I made about Strongly Typed Session Variables in ASP.NET led to some interesting comments and discussion.  One of the comments asked "Why can't we just have extension properties…?".  Now, Eric Lippert has provided the answer.  See his "Why No Extension Properties?" post to read about the decisions that go into adding (or not adding) a language feature.

I just saw something odd in a diff before a check-in.  Basically, I had a trailing comma in an object initializer:

I recently found some code that had a couple of issues:

My daughter asked me to check her homework today.  One of the math problems was:

Last night, SRT vice president and co-founder Bill Wagner received the "Emerging Leader of the Year Award" from Automation Alley.  This annual event is Southeast Michigan’s most prestigious, competitive honors for technology organizations and their leaders.  As an employee of SRT solutions, this comes as no surprise to me.  Bill's continuous emphasis on new technologies is an everyday occurrence.  Whether he's speaking at User Groups (or running them!), updating Effective C# for .NET 4.0 or working on tough technology problems with clients, Bill is always the go-to guy with the answers.