David Anderson is a software engineer with expertise in C#, .NET and other Microsoft technologies, and this is his blog.
This was inspired by this question on StackOverflow. First off, this is bad design unless you are designing some sort of setup application. But, specifically for those who still wish to proceed, here is how you do it. Download Example…
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.NET Framework 2.0 does not support extension methods out of the box, because you cannot reference System.Core that was introduced in .NET 3.5. However, by adding a simple attribute class you can use extension methods in .NET 2.0 as well….
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N-Tier Architecture Best Practices, Part 1: 2-Tier Architecture with just a Data Tier N-Tier Architecture Best Practices, Part 2: 3-Tier Architecture with interfaces and a Data Tier → this article N-Tier Architecture Best Practices, Part 3: DLinq / Linq to…
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Before I start off on my lengthy post, this article is what sparked my interest. With that linked for you, this will be split into a 5 part blog series each part covering a specific type of n-tier architecture. If…
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If you are still using .NET threads to do multi-threading in your applications (compared to the Task Parallel Library or something else), then it is often a mistake of developers on how they update their UI thread. First off, stay…
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Download Example Code TasksWithThreadSafeEvents.zip In this article we will be using the following technologies: .NET 4.0 Windows Forms (WinForms) Task Parallel Library (TPL, part of .NET 4.0) In a nutshell, I am talking about writing thread-safe events for WinForms. I’ve…
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I started learning the Entity Framework so I can add support for MySQL side-by-side MSSQL in FaultTrack Professional (issue tracking software I am developing), and I started to run into quite a few limitations with MySQL. #1Â Â Â Â DDL Generation (SSDLToMySQL.tt (VS))…
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C# 3.0 introduced a new keyword, var. The var keyword allows you to utilize type inference at compile time which is a really cool feature. Here’s an extremely basic example. This should be self-explanatory: The compiler will resolve the local…
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Did you know that the public access modifer in C# is essentially the equivalent to extern in C++? According to the C# 4.0 language specification, it is. People need to be careful with the public keyword. public in C# is not…
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The other day someone asked a question about the relation between the Socket class, and the UdpClient class. Specifically, what is the relation? While the answer is simple because UdpClient is merely wrapper around a UDP initialized socket, this also…
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