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 would imagine that most developers reading have heard of code smells. I’ve also seen various references to other concepts such as design smells (which are probably similar to code smells) or process smells. Generally, when you read these, you chuckle or nod in agreement, thinking that you’ve seen them before. For those not familiar…
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…
I imagine that inversion of control is a relatively popular concept to talk or blog about, particularly in object-oriented circles, so rather than do a garden-variety explanation of the term followed by a pitch for using it, I thought I’d take a slightly different approach. I’m going to talk about the reason that there is…
