So if any of you actually gave my last post a shot, you might’ve found that one of the annoying parts about the Azure Visual Studio image is that it’s on Server 2012. The problem with that is, of course, you can’t dev for Windows 8 (8.1) from that OS using VS 2013. What a… Read More »
I attended a Microsoft dev camp yesterday where I learned some more about Azure and what you can use it for in your corporation. The material was presented by David Washington (@dwcares), a Microsoft Technical Evangelist here in the Twin Cities. When I signed up for the session, titled “Sharpening your skills on the Microsoft… Read More »
UPDATE: C# has introduced Range Expressions as of C# 8. Check them out instead! While porting some Python code, I wanted to make it as close of a match as possible so I came up with this extension method. Enjoy.
If you try to add “something.mysite.com” to the Compatibility List via IE’s Internet Options, you’re met with an error and your only recourse is to add the full domain, “mysite.com” to the list instead – which might not be ideal if the rest of mysite.com works great, but only something.mysite.com has compatibility issues.
Because you haven’t read enough of them, this is yet another blog post on Microsoft’s new Windows Phone App Studio – the online “point & shoot” method of creating an app for Windows Phone (8). Before we start, did anybody notice that the App Studio is located at windowsstore.com? #justSayin I’ve wanted to make a… Read More »
LINQ is great, isn’t it? I freakin’ love it. Along with LINQ, came our also-now-familiar friend, IEnumerable<T>. Whenever I’m passing around a collection now, I pass around IEnumerable. It’s flexible and can always be changed in to whatever I need at the time (List<T>, Array, etc) as well as supports all the awesome LINQ stuff… Read More »
While typing on a (large) touch screen isn’t difficult – I find myself almost able to touch-type on my Surface or Yoga 13 – it’s certainly not convenient unless you’re able to set the tablet down and actually type on your lap or something. With this in mind there’s something of a little-talked-about feature of… Read More »
I just posted this to my blog at work but thought I’d also pass it along to my .Netitude readers. Hope you find it useful! If you’re familiar with NuGet you know the benefits it provides .Net developers in consuming packages created by 3rd parties. Well, what if you want to treat somebody internal to… Read More »
I think we can all agree that extension methods are something that many of us have taken quite a shining to. Using them to adapt external dependencies, encapsulate common functionality for a 3rd party, and other conveniences has really helped to clean up my own codebase – I know that much.
Pretty cool trick I found today on StackOverflow. I’ve often struggled with the fact that when you’re writing a generic method, while you can constrain the type of the method, you can only specify the constraint of having a constructor, and even then, only a default constructor (eg: new()); not one with parameters.