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06/18/2009, Phil Gilmore I've been a CodeRush fan since I bought my first copy from Eagle Software for Delphi many years ago. I recently downloaded CodeRush Xpress for Visual Studio 2008, version 3.2.1. I have constructed a cheat sheet for it which is...
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06/03/2009, Phil Gilmore ASP.NET MVC can support file uploads. You need two components to support file uploads. A form in your markup (view) which contains an <input type="file"...> tag and which has the proper enctype attribute. A controller action...
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05/19/2009, Phil Gilmore Beyond the overlap they share with enumerable collections, sequences are mostly unsupported in C#. A notable exception are some of the static methods of the Enumerable class. Check them out. This support is all I need for most...
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We have all seen the TV commercials of Mac and PC standing there while the Mac makes some funny remark about how unreliable PC is or how much more fun Mac is. We all got a good laugh and I even started recording them before realizing that they were available...
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I have been playing with Windows 7 in my VM machine for a few weeks now and have found it to be amazingly fast and lean! So what will keep people from making the leap from XP to Windows 7? Application and hardware compatibility of course! ...
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Silverlight 2 is great! Silverlight 3 is AWESOME! My first experiences with the beta framework and tools have been overwhelmingly positive. In this post I’ll go over my experience creating an application using some of the new features and I’ll...
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Windows 7 hasn't even been released (Currently RC1) and there is already buzz about Windows 8. Of course I know that in terms of development Windows 7 is in it’s stabilization phase so naturally the kernel team and perhaps even some others have...
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One of the headlines on my news feed came across about anti-tax ‘tea parties’ being held across the U.S. These demonstrations are a form of protest to wasteful government spending. I was quite disappointed that the article included a blurb...
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It may come as no surprise to those who know me that I have recently confirmed that I am certifiable! After all, when you have been doing what I do for as long as I have been doing it it’s hard not to be affected. It happens to a very large...
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04/07/2009 Phil Gilmore Here I will present a solution that provides method chaining in C# 3.5. I hope it helps you and I hope that we will see it added as part of the next update to the .NET. Is it really a big deal? I've been working more and more with...
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It's time for another episode of Good Idea / Bad Idea: Good Idea! Catching a specific exception from a suspect numeric conversion and showing a polite input error message. Bad Idea! Catching all exceptions and "swallowing" the exception. Okay, so it's...
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Phil Gilmore I was recently working on an application that had had 2 problems. I found that at one level the code repeats itself many times over. Every method in the business layer used the same try / catch / catch structure to wrap calls to the data...
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I’m not easily impressed by even the best of software. There is usually some little thing that ruins my user experience. I tell you this so you know that what I say next is something special. Visual NDepend is AWESOME! Everything...
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Phil Gilmore Not all merge programs are equal. Where possible, it's nice to have the merge program automatically resolve any conflicts that it can before forcing you to make any manual merge selections. Of the tools that I've used, KDIFF3 always does...
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I fell in love with WPF the first time I saw it in action! WPF is a thing of pure beauty! Anyway, from the second I saw how the data binding worked I knew that there was going to be a lot to figure out there! It also seems as though there is no real data...
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