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Brainstorming an undo-redo mechanism at work today and here are a couple of thoughts:… You can read the copy of the original post, or if that goes down too, you can try the Wayback Machine’s copy of it.

The code below compiles (sorry about that again) and is actually the code problem I originally wanted to post.

Yosi has announced that the presentations from the Microsoft Developers’ Academy 2007 event are online….

The following code illustrates a great use for anonymous methods….

Today I discovered that the Windows Forms Designer in Visual Studio 2005 doesn’t know how to handle generics.

I asked this one during the last blogger dinner, so here it is for everyone else (and those who couldn’t hear me there):… You can read the copy of the original post, or if that goes down too, you can try the Wayback Machine’s copy of it.

This Sunday I started working for the Sela Group’s Software Labs, as a consultant (among other titles)….

“What would you have done if you weren’t a computer programmer?”

This is the last of the series, since Security wasn’t covered in full….

Physical Memory (RAM) is small, fast and volatile (pull the plug and nothing’s left).

Preface: I have absolutely no pretence to teach anyone about synchronization with this part, since this is over a year’s worth of material I had previously learned at grade 13 (Technician’s Degree), so if you want to learn from this, you’ll have to read a…

Processes need to be managed, so that they will know when to run and when not to run, so here enter the Scheduling Algorithms.

As some of you might know, I’m currently studying for my B.Sc. in Computer Science.

Since I’ve started working with CodePlex, Team System failed to even remember my username whenever I started Visual Studio.

After a few hours of working with Office 2007’s Outlook, PowerPoint and Word (I have yet to find a reason to open Excel), I have come to a very disturbing realization about the new Ribbon interface….

It is said that a framework is not a framework until a developer uses it….

I just popped in from my unannounced hiatus to share a link to ProgrammingBooks.org which is a list of the best development books as ranked by programmers.

Miguel de Icaza has announced the Mono Migration Analyzer – a tool that helps migrating .NET apps to Mono so they could finally become cross-platform.

Mads Torgersen wrote last month in his weblog about how collections are identified by C# 3.0’s new feature – Collection Initializers.

The latest update (1.8) of my article Commonly Used .NET Coding Patterns in CodeDom is now out….

Duck Typing is a very nice mechanism and Guenter Prossliner’s article does it justice by introducing it to .NET with NDuck….

I haven’t talked about my new weblog over at Microsoft Israel’s Blogs yet, but there couldn’t be a better time, since I’ve just written a post about the Third Israeli Blogger Dinner there!

Because CodeDom is so verbose and uses a massive grid of objects to represent code structures, it also has many small reusable objects, such as CodeTypeReference objects.

Now that I have the time for it, I’m going through a lot of material I’ve been collecting in my To Read folder over the past year or so.

Remember the game Connect the Dots we used to play as kids?

My new Linq Extensions project for the Linq May CTP is now up on CodePlex and I’ve released beta 1 (numbered 0.1)….

While watching the MSDN Nugget on Application Settings in Visual Studio 2005, I found a couple of things I found weird about the default application settings provider, LocalFileSettingsProvider:… You can read the copy of the original post, or if that goes…

Ever since Kathy Kam announced on her weblog that a new type named TimeZone2 will be introduced into the Orcas release of .NET, the community has been in an uproar, claiming the new name is horrible and that we’re going back to the days of Win32 and COM w…

Andrew Stopford has an interesting couple of posts on the CLR’s support for generic type variance[1] in version 2.0, and the lack of which in C# 2.0.

Today, after 5.5 years, I was released from the Israeli Defence Forces, where I served as a developer.

It’s been a while, but the latest update (1.7) of my article Commonly Used .NET Coding Patterns in CodeDom is now out….

Research has shown that the language spoken around babies at a very early age is in most occasions the language they will prefer over any other language they hear or speak for the rest of their lives.

Gamasutra has just pre-announced that Microsoft will be releasing the first beta of XNA Game Studio Express at the end of August for ‘free’ (wait for it…), which will be an extention of C# Express and will allow anyone to write games and applications (nah,

Luke just dropped his yearly update to SharpReader today….

I really think Krzysztof and friends should post some guidelines in the spirit of The Framework Design Guidelines (read: The Book You Must Read) for lambda expressions, anonymous methods and methods, so there won’t be any mixup as to what should be used.

After reading Bill Wagner’s excellent introduction to Linq, I really liked what I saw and decided that I wanted to create an extension method as an exercise.

This March my workplace issued employees a Motorola i760 cell phone, which apart from being pretty sluggish, doesn’t work the same way as my personal phone, a Nokia 3100 – the menus aren’t the same, shortcuts are different, and so on.

myObject.ITakeACharReturningDelegate(delegate(int i, string s) { return s[i]; });… You can read the copy of the original post, or if that goes down too, you can try the Wayback Machine’s copy of it.

After reading James Nies’s great piece, Fast Dynamic Property Access with C#, which gives a great performance alternative for repetative reflection tasks, I started reading the comments and found two forks from it, one for more than just properties by Seth

I believe I am not the only person in the world who likes to work only… You can read the copy of the original post, or if that goes down too, you can try the Wayback Machine’s copy of it.

The Telligent guys came through and upgraded weblogs.asp.net to Community Server 2, as a first step in their quest to shoot some adrenaline up the community’s veins….

The latest update (1.6) of my article Commonly Used .NET Coding Patterns in CodeDom is now out….

Version Tolerant Serialization is a very nice addition to the serialization framework.

Oren raised a suggestion for a new C# feature (a new trend?

While working on the next version of the my Commonly Used .NET Coding Patterns in CodeDom article, I’ve come up with a nice idea for the next version of C# (or any other language for that matter)….

Looking for a way of extending the Visual Studio 2005 Class Designer, I found, after half an hour of googling, this post on the MSDN forums, which linked to the workspace of the PowerToys for the Visual Studio 2005 Class Designer and Distributed System De…

Ayende has just posted about the new community coming up….

A feature I find lacking in all versions of Visual Studio is the fact that there’s no copy/paste support for references.

Whenever I have to write a large project using CodeDom (and this doesn’t happen as often as you’d think), I almost always find something lacking.

I’ve been looking into a way of having an operation time out using .net 1.1.