Archive For The “.NET” Category
Just a quick tip I found today – If you’re a NuGet package author and want to be notified when updates are published for upstream packages you depend, you can do so by subscribing to an OData query in an RSS reader. For example, in order to keep protobuf-net-data in sync with the latest protobuf-net, [...]
.NET, as a mostly-statically typed language, has a lot of really good options for serializing statically-typed objects. Protocol Buffers, MessagePack, JSON, BSON, XML, SOAP, and the BCL’s own proprietary binary serialization are all great for CLR objects, where the fields can be determined at runtime. However, for data that is tabular in nature, there aren’t [...]
When working with SQL, I often find I need to quickly spin up/tear down local developer database instances – for example, setting up a clean environment for integration tests on the build server, or blowing away test data. To help make this easier, here are a couple of MSBuild tasks I wrote that allow you [...]
Here’s a little CLR brain teaser for you: A method is throwing a NullReferenceException. The stack trace indicates it is originating on a line that has only a closing curly brace on it (i.e. }). How could this be explained? Note that: The code is not optimized. The PDB file is the correct version. The [...]
If someone asked you, what are the building blocks of MVVM, what would you say? Models, Views, and ViewModels, of course. It’s in the name. But really, there are two others: Models Views ViewModels Commands Events If Commands and Events aren’t strongly represented in your application, I’d say there is a strong chance it isn’t [...]
