When I first became aware of the Extension Method in C#, my reaction was similar to that of a lot of people–I thought it was a pretty neat trick. For anyone not familiar with extension methods, they are a construct introduced in C# along with LINQ to allow ‘extension’ of a class. Here’s an example:…
I’m currently working on an ongoing side project, and we’re using Microsoft Code Contracts, so I thought that I would create a series of posts documenting my experience with this as a new and curious user. The basic idea of it is to standardize and formalize preconditions, post conditions, and invariants in your classes. For…
One of the central idioms of WPF development is having presentation tier classes implement the INotifyPropertyChanged interface. Anybody who has done more than a “Hello World” WPF application or two is almost certainly familiar with this and quite probably knows it like the back of his or her hand. As I’ve been learning WPF with…
I just finished reading Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C# by Bill Wagner, and thought I’d cover it a bit here. On the whole, I thought that this was an excellent book. It’s quite helpful and interesting, and it provides a nice counterpoint to many technical books in that you have immediate…
In the previous post on this subject, I created a basic DXCore plugin that, admittedly, had some warts. I started using it and discovered that there were subtle issues. If you’ll recall, the purpose of this was to create a plugin that would convert some simple stylistic elements between my preferences and those of a…
