6 lesser-known features of C# / .NET that you should be using
Introduction This post is going to setup 6 features of the .NET Framework which I feel are under-utilised by a
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Unit testing – Making existing code testable
Introduction Unit testing (and integration testing) is something every developer knows they should do, but quite often it can fall
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7 dangerous mistakes in C#/.NET that are easy to make
C# is a great language, and the .NET Framework is pretty damn good too. C#’s strong typing reduces the amount
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Demystifying Async/Await
Introduction Back in 2012, Microsoft released C# 5 with a handful of new features, one being ‘async/await’. At the company
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Multithreading made easy – Parallel ForEach
Introduction This week, I was presented with an interesting problem. I had a WPF application which allowed users to scan
Continue readingDealing with issues reported by users
If you’re a student learning C#, this isn’t going to be very relevant to you. If you’ve landed a job
Continue readingCollection of small but useful extensions methods #1
I’ve done a few posts on some useful extension methods before, but there’s also a bunch of smaller extension methods
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It’s a feature #1: The sad trombone
Back 5 years ago, our company had just secured a bespoke software deal that would see us develop a WPF
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How I stopped hating programming and learnt to love it
So as an aside from my usual C#/.NET posts, I thought I’d write up about what got passionate about programming
Continue readingValidating string lengths in LINQ to SQL, or how to fix ‘String or binary data would be truncated’
Problem While this error isn’t strictly a C# (the error is actually generated by SQL Server), it’s quite likely that
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