September 2010 Entries
Update: I have now placed the zip containing the source for the end result of part 1 and 2 of this service template here. I decided to write a pair of posts on making it easier to create Windows Services in C# (and in .NET in general). This is the first post that talks about how to make a Windows Service debuggable (the default visual studio template does not allow the service to be easily debugged), and then next week’s post will discuss making the Windows Service self-installing. Now, these posts ......
Thanks a lot, everyone, for all your comments and feedback on my Five Little Wonders Trilogy of posts. This week, it’s crunch time at my workplace so this post is going to be on the brief side. As I’ve been coding on my latest project, it struck me that there’s at least two things that object/collection initializers can do that you can’t easily do without them. Refresher on Initializers For those of you who don’t know or can’t remember, object initializers are when you assign members of a class or ......
This week is my final entry in my Little Wonders series (posts one and two are here and here). These are those little tips and tricks in .NET (and in particular C#) that may not seem like much, but can help make your code either more concise, maintainable, or performant. Thanks again for all your comments and suggestions on this series, it has been a lot of fun to write, and though I feel I could go on forever with lots more tips and tricks, this will be the last Little Wonders post for a while. ......
So last week I began my series with a post (here) on those little wonders in .NET/C# -- those small tips and tricks that make code either more concise, maintainable, or performant. This is the second of my three-part series, though there are so many things that make .NET (and in particular C#) a great development platform that I'm sure I could carry this blog on ad infinitum. Once again, many of these are ones you may already know, but hopefully some of you will find something new or be reminded ......