Blog Post Archive

The #region preprocessor directive can make your C# code very organized. It is a shame that so many coders do not learn to use #region early and often. Sure #region allows Visual Studio 2010 to collapse your code block down into one-line, but better yet it can be used to ... Read More

If you have used Visual Studio 2008 or the Visual Studio 2010 Betas you should remember a distinct feature. When you moved through documents inside the IDE with CTRL + TAB you would get a nice little preview of the documents you were flipping through. If you have used the ... Read More

A few days ago I compared and contrasted Asynchronous and Parallel Programming. Today I would like to walk you through a very simple threading example in C#, and why the concept of “thread safety” is important to know before you start writing parallel applications. Since we already know what exactly ... Read More

If you have ever worked with an application that bounces from your workstation, to QA, then to production the odds are high you have dealt with C# preprocessor directives. While C# does not have a preprocessing engine, these directives are treated as such. They have been named as such to ... Read More

The last decade has brought about the age of multi-core processors to many homes and businesses around the globe. In fact, you would be more hard-pressed to find a computer with no multi-core (either physical, or virtual) support for sale on the market today. Software Engineers and Architects have already ... Read More

The other day I posted an article discussing my issue tracking down a bug in a ClickOnce application. I had noted that once I made a change to maxRequestLength in my web.config file the issue went away. Well, that change was not the real solution. While the maxRequestLength does help ... Read More

I have been tracking a random issue in one of our projects here at Mercer. It is a simple ClickOnce application, with a handful of hosted services through an IIS website. When I worked on the tool in my local development environment everything worked fine. When I deployed the tool ... Read More

In a previous post I went over some random C# operators. This article is a follow-up to that one, covering some more advanced C# operators and techniques. Specifically, the ?: operator, the ~ operator, |= operator, and the ^= operator. We will start off with the conditional operator ?:. This ... Read More

So the other day I wrote about dynamic types in C#. I covered a few use cases from COM interaction to working with other languages. Well, today I have put together an example for you that will load a Python file into C#, through IronPython. Before we can work with ... Read More

When C# 4.0 was released, it added a new type for variables called dynamic. The dynamic type is a static type, but it is an object that bypasses static type checking. Now if your head has just exploded from reading that last sentence I apologize. When you compile an application ... Read More