If you’re a Visual Studio user you’re more than familiar with snippets (I would hope). ctor, propa, testm, all very useful. But have you created your own snippets? You can do this with tools like the Snippet Designer extension, or roll your own by creating & editing a snippet XML file by hand based on… Read More »
Long before Roslyn was a thing at this years’ BUILD developer conference, it was being used by a small group of Microsofties to create something pretty sweet. This thing allowed you to write C# at the command line. So yeah, think Python, but with C#. Quick to get started, quick to work with, quick to… Read More »
Getting your Windows Phone or Windows 8 app published is only half the battle. Marketing is the other half. The folks at ExGrip have now made this insanely easy with App Additives. In this post, I’ma give you the rundown of just how easy it is to create some sweet promo materials for your app… Read More »
Microsoft’s Managed Extensibility Framework is somewhat of an unsung hero in the .Net world in my opinion. The framework itself is insanely powerful and magical but when you combine it with other patterns and frameworks like MVVM it becomes pure sorcery. If you haven’t checked out MEFedMVVM, I suggest doing so after you get up… Read More »
One of the more interesting aspects of moving to VisualStudio Online for my source control and builds when I did it was seeing that I now had the choice between TFS Version Control (TFSVC) and Git to use as my source control. At that time I had never used Git. However, when I saw this… Read More »
If you haven’t signed up for Team Foundation Service yet, you should. Especially if it’s just you and a couple buddies coding away on apps for Windows Phone and Windows 8. But hey, you get SO much w/ TFS, why let it go to waste? Take advantage of it! Specifically, I’m talking about Builds. CI… Read More »
One of the things I have seen people applaud about Python is its “namedtuple” class. If you could describe this in terms of .Net’s Tuple (and <T1, T2, etc>) it would be to basically say that it’s the same as Tuple, but if instead of “Item1” on Tuple you got “Name” or “Age” or whatever… Read More »
A co-worker of mine was working on some UTs for his current setup and wanted to invoke/access private members on some of his production objects. I introduced him to the PrivateObject type in .Net to get his work done. That all went well until he wanted to get at a private field that was in… Read More »
There are some navigational paradigms out there that use navigation strings to hit, in turn, methods within your own codebase. It’s a sound idea, but generating those URIs as strings which you in turn use in a Navigate() call can be problematic. What happens when you add a parameter to the method? Rearrange the parameters?… Read More »
Debug.Asserts are useful during development, but have you hit a time where one pops during a unit test run? Totally screws up your chi. But what can you do about it, #ifdef them out all over? Nah. Config file to the rescue!