An interesting link I received from a colleague and friend of mine. Here it is, after a few editions (of course) ———— link from DH —————— http://tweakers.net/nieuws/79440/plug-in-voegt-achievements-toe-aan-visual-studio.html Haven’t made my mind up whether this is a smart way to motivate developers or whether we have now reached rock bottom as a serious profession.
Handy IDE
Projects in Visual Studio use references in order to include code from external DLLs. Obviously these references must have relative or absolute paths to the DLLs. You would think that if everything is fine and all references get resolved, you never worry about the paths. And if a reference is missing, you want your IDE to show you where […]
Regions in OOP
Object Oriented Programming principles require classes to be dedicated for one and only one aim, to have a very isolated purpose. And there is a quote from MSDN
Lack of alternatives
I wonder if it’s just a project I’m working on now or it’s a nature of development in .NET. Whenever a technical challenge appears, things are being looked up on Internet and the first suggestion, fragment of code, which proves to work, is being used as a solution for the challenge. In such environment Java development seems to be […]
Triangles in VS
Do you notice the two identical green triangle buttons in Visual Studio 2010? These buttons are close to each other and look the same, but have very different effect.
Enumeration in C#
Quote from page 21 of “Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform” book of Andrew Troelsen (ok, quality of this book is a potential subject of another post): “Enumerations are a handy programming construct that allow you to group name/value pairs”