David Anderson is a software engineer with expertise in C#, .NET and other Microsoft technologies, and this is his blog.
A common practice is to do property-level validation in the property setter of an object like the following. Most of the time though, this violates the DRY principle (Don’t Repeat Yourself), because you may need to do the same exact…
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If you have tried to create a new Team Project from Visual Studio 2010 against a TFS 2012 server, you have undoubtedly encountered this error message. After doing some research, it’s quite apparent that some changes were made to Team…
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Get it now. Released on 9/5/2012. I personally have been waiting a while for this, and now I can use Visual Studio 2012 without my eyes hurting so much.
I was excited that the base class library in .NET 4.5 now includes native support for working with Zip files, but in my excitement I overlooked System.IO.Compression.FileSystem. The name of the assembly is actually misleading, because the namespace is still…
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I’m very excited about this. First off, I hate third-party dependencies. I always try to accomplish everything with the platform I use, in this case the BCL. A friend of mine was asking me to write a blog article on…
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Apparently there is fuss going on about what WinRT (Windows Runtime) is and how it affects .NET. I’m going to talk about that based on my understanding of WinRT. WinRT, or the Windows Runtime, is theoretically the successor to Win32….
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Probably the most common question I get from people new to WPF is how to bind the Visibility of a control based on a System.Boolean value. WPF provides IValueConverter in System.Windows.Data specifically for converting one type to another and back…
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I finished the screencast and have uploaded it to YouTube here. I also have attached the source code to this blog post, but I wanted to comment on a few post-video changes I have made. I removed App.config from the…
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This thread on Msdn was one I came across, and I felt it needed a much better answer. His question in short, is what is the difference between null, Empty, and “” in C#. I assume that you know what…
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Apparently there is a registry edit to remove the all capital lettering for the main menus in Visual Studio, and get the normal pascal casing by changing the value of the following registry entry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\General\SuppressUppercaseConversion to REG_DWORD value: 1