A few months back, I wrote a post about changes to my site and work. Today, I have another announcement in that same vein: I’ve recently partnered with NDepend to help start and create content for their blog. If you go there now, you can see the maiden post which announces the release of the newest version…
I recently had a comment on a very old blog post that led to a conversation between the commenter and me. During the conversation, I made the comment that extension methods in C# are just syntactic sugar over plain ol’ static methods. He asked me to do a post exploring this in further detail, which…
A while back, I made a post encouraging people to get fed up every now and then and figure out a better way of doing something. Well, tonight I take my own advice. I am sick and tired of rifling through old projects to find code that I copy and paste into literally every non-trivial…
I’d like to tell you a harrowing, cautionary tale of my experience with the MS Office Interop libraries and then turn it into a story of redemption. Just to set the stage, these interop libraries are basically a way of programatically creating and modifying MS Office files such as Word documents and Excel spreadsheets. The…
Rather than the traditional lecture approach of providing an official definition and then discussing the subject in more detail, I’m going to show you what static analysis is and then define it. Take a look at the following code and think for a second about what you see. What’s going to happen when we run…
