Archive for the ‘.NET’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/16
This is one of the things I tend to forget, as you do it once per machine, and the place to do it is not logical to me.
I mainly use it to quickly record a Macro (boy, I wish Office had a TemporaryMacro feature like Visual Studio had. Alas no more: Macro Recording/Playback has been removed in Visual Studio 2012).
The logical place for me would be to have a context-menu on the ribbon where you can enable the Developer tab.
Anyway, this is how to enable the Developer tab in Word 2007/2010/2013: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/15
At clients, I see quite a few people being confused by this compiler error message:
Error 1 The type 'string' must be a non-nullable value type in order to use it as parameter 'T' in the generic type or method 'System.Nullable'
One of the reasons about the confusion is that a string variable behaves like a value type, but in fact is a reference type because their values can consume a huge amount of memory (thanks User codekaizen).
A few interesting questions on that on StackOverflow:
Anyway, back to the error message above.
Lots of people are confused by it, just see a few questions on StackOverflow: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/09
Reading c# – Type.IsSubclassOf does not behave as expected – Stack Overflow, I found this very interesting link via Assembly Load Contexts Subtleties at Sasha Goldshtein’s blog (I love the name of the blog: All Your Base Are Belong To Us).
He explains the reasons for the error message
System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast object of type ‘Plugin.MyPlugin’ to type ‘Plugin.MyPlugin’.
Actually his blog entry is an abstract of a 200+ page thesis on that is also recommended reading: Flexible Dynamic Linkin for .NET (by Anders Aaltonen, Alex Buckley and Susan Eisenbach).
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/07
Thanks Pedro! (emphasis below is mine)
The ContextSwitchDeadlock doesn’t necessarily mean your code has an issue, just that there is a potential.
If you go to Debug > Exceptions in the menu and expand the “Managed Debugging Assistants”, you will find ContextSwitchDeadlock is enabled.
If you disable this, VS will no longer warn you when items are taking a long time to process.
In some cases you may validly have a long-running operation.
It’s also helpful if you are debugging and have stopped on a line while this is processing – you don’t want it to complain before you’ve had a chance to dig into an issue.
–jeroen
via: c# – Visual Studio: ContextSwitchDeadlock – Stack Overflow.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/01
For a project, I needed to strip the potential Path.DirectorySeparatorChar and Path.AltDirectorySeparatorChar.
Where Path.Combine will combine two paths and insert the DirectorySeparatorChar, I could not find the opposite, so I wrote this little piece of code:
using System.IO;
namespace BeSharp.IO
{
public class PathHelper
{
public static string RemoveTrailingDirectorySeparators(string directory)
{
string result = directory.TrimEnd(Path.AltDirectorySeparatorChar, Path.DirectorySeparatorChar);
return result;
}
}
}
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/29
Thanks Uncle Bob Martin for posting this.
I’ve been trying (with increasing success: it takes time to get this all right) to practice XP (through various name changes) as much and wide as possible since almost 14 years, and only the last few years it is starting to be common practice for many more people.
take a moment to reflect back on 1999. A time when Kent Beck wrote a ground-breaking book. A book that changed everything. Look back and remember: Extreme Programming; and recognize it as the core of what we, today, simply think of as:
Good Software Practice.
–jeroen
via: Extreme Programming, a Reflection | 8th Light.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/26
My mental association with getting LogicalDrives was always the System.IO namespace, so I’ve always used Directory.GetLogicalDrives Method (System.IO) .
Recently I bumped into Environment.GetLogicalDrives Method (System), and discovered it has been available for the same time: since .NET 1.x.
I was not so much amazed that these methods return exactly the same data, but that they have identical code. Not just a single call to some common code: their code is the same, line by line. In .NET 4, they have the code below. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/25
StackOverflow user Joe (sorry, no last name) helped me big time by answering my question on Business logic shared by ASP.NET / WinForms: find the location of the assembly to access relative files to it.
Before showing the code at the bottom of this blog post, let me explain the question in more detail:
Basically I was in the midst of refactoring some ‘inherited’ business logic code that – before refactoring – for the ASP.NET side needs to be initialized with an absolute path, but on the WinForms / WPF side only with a relative path to a GetExecutingAssembly directory.
To ease xcopy deployment, I wanted all configuration settings to be relative. But I hadn’t found a common means for these platforms to obtain a directory usable as a root for accessing relative files.
That way I could put identical settings in both the Web.config and App.config, heck even generate them based on a common fragment, whithout having to hard-code absolute path names.
I knew about Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly, but in ASP.NET that location is not where the web site is (both IIS and the WebDevelopment server make use of temporary locations to store the assemblies).
ASP.NET does have Server.MapPath and HostingEnvironment.MapPath, but I didn’t want to make the business logic depend on ASP.NET.
Joe came up with this solution, which works dandy: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/22
Cool stuff: DelphiSpec library, inspired by Cucumber. It runs on top of DUnit.
via DelphiSpec Library Announce « Роман.Янковский.me.
A similar one in the .NET realm: SpecFlow – Pragmatic BDD for .NET.
–jeroen
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