Eduasync part 19: ordering by completion, ahead of time...
Today's post involves the MagicOrdering project in source control (project 28). When I wrote part 16 of Eduasync, showing composition in the form of majority voting, one reader mailed me a really...
View ArticleRun Your Unit Tests in Parallel to Maximize Performance
If you’re at all serious about testing, at some point you’re going to have a rather large suite of tests that need to run, and you’ll find that your builds are taking longer than you would like because...
View ArticleAnonymous types unify within an assembly, Part One
Back in my last post of 2010 I said that I would do an example of anonymous types unifying within an assembly "in the new year". I meant 2011, but here we are "in the new year" again, so, no time like...
View ArticleForeach, IEnumerable, IEnumerator, and Duck Typing
During my Software Craftsmanship Precompiler session, I heard one of the students say, “all you need is an IEnumerable to use a foreach loop”. This sparked a bit of fun when I asked Steve Smith, my...
View ArticleDynamic Types and DynamicObject References in C#
I've been working a bit with C# custom dynamic types for several customers recently and I've seen some confusion in understanding how dynamic types are referenced. This discussion specifically centers...
View ArticleCode Review Singleton Pattern Issues
One of my applications relies on a singleton pattern to create a single instance of a server which processes requests from many different ASP.NET handlers. It is created using pretty much standard...
View ArticleWhat is "binding" and what makes it late?
"Late binding" is one of those computer-sciency terms that, like "strong typing", means different things to different people. I thought I might describe what the term means to me. First off, what is...
View ArticleCreating a dynamic, extensible C# Expando Object
I love dynamic functionality in a strongly typed language because it offers us the best of both worlds. In C# (or any of the main .NET languages) we now have the dynamic type that provides a host of...
View ArticleFixing Floating Rectangles in ASP.NET StackedBar Chart
In working on a client’s reporting system, I ran across some StackedBar charts that were using the System.Web.DataVisualization.Chart control that were having some problems. The biggest one was that...
View ArticleBad Metaphors
The standard way to teach beginner OO programmers about classes is to make a metaphor to the real world. And indeed, I do this all the time in this blog, usually to the animal kingdom. A "class" in...
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