Having just listened to a recent .Net Rocks! podcast with Anders Hejlsberg (chief architect of the C# language) in a fittingly named show, “Anders Hejlsberg blows our mind!”, I felt it worthwhile to note down some of the views Anders shared with us, and some nice quotes for you to use in your next geek …
Anders Hejlsberg’s podcast session with .Net Rocks! Read More »
If you have created a WCF service in the past then I assume you’re aware that WCF is very heavily configuration-driven and that you can specify the service behaviour including the throttling parameters (MaxConcurrentCalls, MaxConcurrentInstances, MaxConcurrentSessions) in the config file. But to specify the type of service (PerCall, PerSession or Singleton) you need to apply …
Serialization Overhead When it comes to serializing/deserializing objects for transport through the wire, you will most likely incur some overhead in the serialized message though the amount of overhead varies depends on the data interchange format used – XML is overly verbose where as JSON is much more light-weight: XML representation: JSON representation: {“MyProperty”:10} As …
Extension methods for compressing/decompressing string Read More »
One of the more obscure things I have had to do inside a Castle config is to specify an IEnumerable<T> instance which required taking the technique I showed in this post a little further: I specified the lifestyle of this IEnumerable<T> to be singleton as in most cases where you would want to do something …
Castle Windsor Tips – specifying IEnumerable
Usually an enum type is used to define a set of constants such as colours, etc. but you can also use it to define bit flags and stored any combination of the defined values. You use the FlagsAttribute attribute to create an enum type as bit flags which you can then interact with using the …
You should already know that in C# all types derive from System.Object and that C# supports both reference types (which are allocated onto the heap) as well as value types (primitives, enum, struct, etc. which are allocated onto the stack). One of the key differences between value types and references types is that when you …
Oh, the Pain! For a long time, unit testing non-public methods in C# has been a pain in the back side. In order to test a non-public method (most likely private methods) you have a number of choices each with an undesired effect: The easiest way out is to make the methods public. However, this …
.Net Tips – using InternalsVisibleTo attribute to help testing non-public methods Read More »
As you might know already, an object is immutable if its state doesn’t change once it has been created. In C# the most used immutable type is string, this means every time you modify the value of a string variable you are actually creating a new string object and updating the reference of the variable …
.Net Tips – making a serializable immutable struct Read More »
enum is a tremendously useful structure in C#, but when defining a new enum there is one thing you should always ask yourself: What should the default value be for my enum? The problem with default value is that enum is really an int underneath, and as do all integers in C# an enum has …
.Net Tips – marking the default enum value ‘Undefined’ Read More »
If you’re reading this then you should already know what an enum is in C# and that the underlying type of an enum element is int and you can convert between int and enum using casting: However, sometimes you want to convert an enum element to and from strings instead of ints because: they’re more …
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