Blog posts on .NET Software Development, C#, and Debugging on Michael's Coding Spot

Let’s consider a simple programming challenge: Summing all elements in a large array.

In Part 1 we talked about what are Job Queues in C#, when they should be used and how to implement them.

Some of the biggest performance problems in almost any .NET application boil down to string operations.

One of the most powerful tools in programming is the Job Queue.

With a rough estimate of over 3 million .NET developers, creating development tools for them is a huge market.

One of the most useful tools in .NET troubleshooting is Dump Files.

LINQ is awesome, right?

Welcome to the 3rd and final part of the Deadlocks-in-Depth series.

In software, one developer can make a big difference.

In the previous post , we saw some the basics of .NET deadlocks.

For me, multi-threading programming is one of the most fun things I do as a developer.

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We’ve all been Junior developers at some point.

Anyone who worked on a big enterprise project knows memory leaks are like rats in a big hotel.

Event registrations in C# (and .NET in general) are the most common cause of memory leaks.

In Part 1 and Part 2 we saw how C# formed and evolved along the years, from its inception in 2000 up to C# 6.0 release in 2015.

Desktop application development dominated the software world for many years.

I’m sure every software engineer with a long career had this dilemma: Should I join a startup or a big corporation?

While trying to explain to a friend what I actually do all day, I came up with this summary of our conversation: This of course not counting coffee, lunch, and snack breaks.

Office politics always sounds kind of negative, right?

One of the most important things in a good project is naming.

If you’re working on a MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) application, you’re probably familiar with its ups and down.

I recently had to create a Roslyn Analyzer that envelopes code in a try/catch statement.

In part 1 , we saw how C# has evolved from its inception in 2000 to the C# 3.0 release in 2008.

Around the year 2000, Microsoft developed the C# language (led by Anders Hejlsberg ).

Did you hear about stackshare ?

I recently encountered an interesting challenge: How to display a .NET object’s properties in an expandable tree view?

Tutorial Table of Contents: Part 1: Introduction to VS extensibility Part 2: Add Menu Item Part 3: Add command to context menu and get selected code Part 4: Show a popup Window Part 5: Highlight code in Editor Part 6: Follow a span of code with TrackingSp…

Some problems in programming seem to stay and bother us forever.

Fixing bugs is a huge part of a developer’s job, but not many think or read about the actual process of solving a bug.

Tutorial Table of Contents: Part 1: Introduction to VS extensibility Part 2: Add Menu Item Part 3: Add command to context menu and get selected code Part 4: Show a popup Window Part 5: Highlight code in Editor Part 6: Follow a span of code with TrackingSp…

Tutorial Table of Contents: Part 1: Introduction to VS extensibility Part 2: Add Menu Item Part 3: Add command to context menu and get selected code Part 4: Show a popup Window Part 5: Highlight code in Editor Part 7: Insert buttons between text characters

I think I spend more time debugging code than writing code, designing software architecture, trying to reproduce bugs and even going to meetings!

Tutorial Table of Contents: Part 1: Introduction to VS extensibility Part 2: Add Menu Item Part 3: Add command to context menu and get selected code Part 4: Show a popup Window part 6: Follow a span of code with TrackingSpan Part 7: Insert buttons between…

Tutorial Table of Contents: Part 1: Introduction to VS extensibility Part 2: Add Menu Item Part 3: Add command to context menu and get selected code Part 5: Highlight code in Editor part 6: Follow a span of code with TrackingSpan Part 7: Insert buttons be…

In part 2 of the tutorial we created a simple VS extension with a single Menu item.

The previous blog post introduced the wonderful world of Visual Studio extensions.

Ever used Resharper , CodeMaid , WebEssentials , OzCode or CodeRush ?

In software we have to learn new technologies all the time.

In my previous company, we experienced a reoccurring nightmare.

In WPF we define a UI resource system (mostly in XAML resource dictionaries) which includes colors, templates, icons, styles and so on.

How the annual review scores are formed in the eyes of managers always fascinated me.

WPF is very dynamic and allows us to use resources in many different ways.

Did you ever feel like Visual Studio is rebuilding projects every single time, even when there were no changes to the code?

After working for the last three years with TFS’s classic source control TFVC, I recently moved to a new company and with that, to Git.

After a relatively short time looking for a job, I joined my a new company: CodeValue .

When starting with WPF, I had a hard time realizing when to use converters and just how powerful they can be.

In my last post .

Have you ever encountered an over designer?

Recently I was dealing with a couple of bugs in C# regarding timeout behavior.