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Archive for the ‘C# 5.0’ Category

On why there is no Assert.AreEqual(T t1, T t2) where T: IEquatable – via Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/09/08

On why there is no

Assert.AreEqual<T>(T t1, T t2) where T: IEquatable<T>

Interesting. And I need to give some thought because when calling Assert.AreEqual<T1, T2>(T1 object1, T2 object2) where T1 does not equal T2 will map to Assert.AreEqual(object, object) without compile time warning.

Assert.AreEqual(object, object) ultimately calls Assert.AreEqual<T>(T, T, String, Object[]) which calls Object.Equals(object, object) failing only at run-time.

This has bitten me too many times.

I wonder what NUnit provides here; will look into that later.

–jeroen

via: c# – Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.Assert generic method overloads behavior – Stack Overflow.

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Convert List/Enumerable of Enums to CSV – via Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/09/01

I like simple solutions, thanks vcsjones for answering this:

Perhaps this:

var str = String.Join(", ", SupportedNotificationMethods.Select(s => s.ToString()));

You can read more about the String.Join method at MSDN. Older versions of String.Join don’t have an overload that takes an IEnumerable. In that case just call ToArray() after select.

–jeroen

via: c# – Convert List<Enum> to List – Stack Overflow.

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anoymyous type trick: Check if KeyValuePair exists with LINQ’s FirstOrDefault – via Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/08/27

When you have a Dictionary<TKey, TValue>, then LINQ results will get you a enumerables of KeyValuePair<TKey, TValue>.

Since KeyValuePair is a struct, selecting FirstOrDefault will not get you a null, but a default(KeyValuePair<TKey, TValue>) which is a lot harder to handle than null.

Sometimes, being able to get a null out of FirstOrDefault is very useful, so a bit thank you to Marc Gravell for answering this very neat trick:

If you just care about existence, you could use ContainsValue(0) or Any(p => p.Value == 0) instead? Searching by value is unusual for a Dictionary<,>; if you were searching by key, you could use TryGetValue.

One other approach:

       var record = data.Where(p => p.Value == 1)
            .Select(p => new { Key = p.Key, Value = p.Value })
            .FirstOrDefault();

This returns a class – so will be null if not found.

The trick is this portion:

p => new { Key = p.Key, Value = p.Value }

It introduces an anonymous type with two fields: Key and Value. (Note you can introduce any anonymous type here). Since these are classes, FirstOrDefault will return null if nothing was found.

–jeroen

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.NET enable and disable Fusion log to investigate assembly loading issues

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/08/18

Had to investigate some Assembly Loading issues, so I wrote two batch files to enable and disable the .NET Fusion Log:


reg add "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion" /v EnableLog /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f


reg add "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion" /v EnableLog /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

They modify the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion key REG_DWORD value EnableLog.

A few notes:

  • It is very important to turn of the Fusion log settings as soon as you are finished investigating. Fusion logs potentially take a lot of resources.
  • When you have a .NET host like ISS, you have to restart that host (for instance by running iisreset)
  • There is also Fuslogvw.exe Assembly Binding Log Viewer, but I like logging over viewing as logs are persistent.
  • There are more values under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Fusion you can configure; see the answer by Gary Kindel on StackOverflow:
    • DWORD ForceLog set value to 1
    • DWORD LogFailures set value to 1
    • DWORD LogResourceBinds set value to 1
    • String LogPath set value to folder for logs e.g. C:\FusionLog\ (ensure the final backslash is there and the folder exists).

–jeroen

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Fuzzing in addition to Unit Tests – via: David Millington G+

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/08/11

I need to give this link from Jonathan Lange which was shared by David Millington some thought:

Embedded in Academia : How to Fuzz an ADT Implementation.

There they add fuzzers to help testing an ADT: in this case an Abstract Data Type in the form of  a red-black tree.

And then see if it can be added to DUnit and NUnit or MSTest/VSTest in some way.

In the original post by Jonathan Lange, an important remark was made by Eric Castelijn:

… the downside being that having non deterministic tests means having test failures that are hard to repeat

When fuzzing multiple or composite values, the chances that you will hit interesting edge cases semi-reliably will drop dramatically, in my experience

–jeroen

via “This post has two points. First, you should write ADT fuzzers. It is often….

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Difference Between Int32.Parse, Convert.ToInt32, and Int32.TryParse – CodeProject

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/08/05

Every C#/VB/.NET developer should read Difference Between Int32.Parse, Convert.ToInt32, and Int32.TryParse – CodeProject.

Then also read TryParse with default values.

It is all about handling values that are not Integers, Overflow values and Nulls. There are subtle differences, in the handling of the methods, and the exceptions they could throw: ArgumentNullException, FormatException and OverflowException.

Finally read all about the NumberStyles enumeration, IFormatProvider interface and CultureInfo (especially the difference between InvariantCulture, CurrentCulture, CurrentUICulture and InstalledUICulture).

Because getting your conversions right matters.

–jeroen

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Example of xsd2code only handling xsd annotations for attributes, not for elements, types and other places where they can be used in an XSD.

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/07/22

See the gist below:

Example of xsd2code only handling xsd annotations for attributes, not for elements, types and other places where they can be used in an XSD.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Install xsd2code and Visual Studio.
  2. Put all these files in one directory.
  3. Run `generate-C#-from-XSD-annotations.bat`.
  4. Diff `annotations.xsd.exe.cs` and `annotations.xsd2code.exe.cs`.
  5. Observe only 1 spot in `annotations.xsd2code.exe.cs` has the annotations converted to C# comments.

Gist: Example of xsd2code only handling xsd annotations for attributes, not for elements, types and other places where they can be used in an XSD. Steps to reproduce.

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Boolean parameters usualy are a sign of weakness (via: Avoiding Booleans)

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/07/16

During a recent code review, I bumped into a couple of C# constructors having boolean parameters, leading to the dreaded magic booleans code smell.

This reminded me of the infamous Avoiding Booleans post on Coding Horror, which now is almost 10 years old.

To celebrate, I will coin the Dutch phrase when marking these in a review:

Boolean parameters en literals zijn vrijwel altijd een zwaktebod. Een teken dat beter nagedacht moet worden over het doel van de code.

The Dutch word zwaktebod is used when bidding Bridge using the Acol system. It is the equivalent of a “weak takeout” response to a bid of 1 NT (notrump or no trump, in other languages sometimes sans atout).

The English translation is just about this:

Boolean parameters and literals virtually always are a sign of weakness. It indicates you need to give more thought to the goal of the code.

–jeroen

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Performance Considerations of Class Design and General Coding in .NET – CodeProject

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/06/25

The Performance Considerations of Class Design and General Coding in .NET – CodeProject article is a big peek into the content of the book Writing High-Performance .NET Code | Get the best performance out of your .NET code.

Both are highly recommended.

–jeroen

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Aspect Oriented Programming in Delphi

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/06/24

I’ve been doing Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) in .NET for a long while, mostly using PostSharp LAOS as that was the first AOP .NET library I encountered (5 years ago it became PostSharp 2.0, now it is already at its 10th anniversary!).

AOP allows you to perform separate of concerns (SoC) in your application, especially in the area of cross-cutting concerns like for instance logging, authorization, monitoring, etc.

It took a while in Delphi to allow for AOP, but the TVirtualMethodInterceptor (that introduced in Delphi 2010) can be used to do AOP (only for Virtual Methods, which is still way better than having no AOP at all).

The code requires a lot of manual labor. so I was glad that DSharp (a great library by Stefan Glienke – one of the leading Spring4D contributors) contains a nice wrapper around TVirtualMethodInterceptor so you can use AOP in an attribute based fashion.

Nick Hodges recorded a good introductory video on AOP in Delphi with slides and demo code:

Note that besides DSharp, also MeAOP and Infra provided support for AOP in Delphi, but these haven’t had updates since 2010.

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