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.Net Coding Standards

January 18, 2013January 31, 2018 by admin

The C#/.Net coding style that I recommend is documented in MSDN: MSDN’s “Design Guidelines for Developing Class Libraries”: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229042 MSDN’s “Guidelines for Names”: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229002 For more in-depth guidance, I consult Microsoft’s authoritative book, Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries. Although it’s a bit pricey, it also includes a DVD with several video … Read more.Net Coding Standards

List by Date in Subversion

October 5, 2012January 31, 2018 by admin

So far, I haven’t been able to find a nice (flat) way in AnhkSVN or TortoiseSVN to simply display all the recent changes to a directory in a repository recursively, with files sorted in chronological descending order. This is often useful if you want to get a flat summary (bird’s eye view) of what files … Read moreList by Date in Subversion

Reduce Exception Handling Bloat

September 28, 2012January 31, 2018 by admin

Most developers are probably familiar with exception handling guidelines that advise you to “avoid catching System.Exception or System.SystemException, except in top-level exception handlers”, and “if you can’t handle the exception in your part of the chain, throw it upwards rather than swallow it”. These spirit of these guidelines basically encourage you to: Create your own typed exceptions … Read moreReduce Exception Handling Bloat

Delivery (Build-Deploy-Release) Reading List

September 9, 2012January 31, 2018 by admin

Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)) Thorough coverage of the “deployment pipeline”: an automated process for managing all changes: from check-in to build, testing (unit, acceptance, capacity); deployment, and release. Finally gives a name for many of the concepts (and headaches) that I’ve either seen or heard … Read moreDelivery (Build-Deploy-Release) Reading List

Why Regular Expression “Does Not Exist” Tests are Convoluted

August 26, 2012January 31, 2018 by admin

In order to perform a “does not exist” test in a regular expression, you have to leverage negative lookaheads (negative lookarounds), if your flavor of regular expressions supports them: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/406230/regular-expression-to-match-string-not-containing-a-word Although this expression seems to works in RegEx Buddy’s .Net evaluation mode, it actually does NOT in production .Net code (call to RegEx.IsMatch) : C# … Read moreWhy Regular Expression “Does Not Exist” Tests are Convoluted