Faking extension methods
I just read a post from Daniel Cazzulino about mocking extension methods. He wants to mock an extension method so that it behaves as he defines in his test, instead of actually calling the...
Category: .NET Framework 3.5
ClickOnce deployment, signed manifests and automated builds and ResolveKeySource failing…
I love ClickOnce, automated builds and a lot more Microsoft stuff. Unfortunately not for everything there is a simple solution. I ran into a new problem today. I was playing around with certificates, signed...
Who is actually using LINQ or LINQ to SQL?
Microsoft UK sends out these MSDN Flash newsletters once in a while. Every one of them has this poll with some .NET related question and the results come in the next letter. I got...
Microsoft project “Velocity”
Thursday September the 4th I gave a presentation for DotNed about Velocity, the framework to enable distributed cache on the Windows platform. It was a fun evening for me with lots of great questions...
LINQ to SQL objects and doing in-memory queries over them
This is extremely easy and for most of you probably so obvious that you’ll start spamming me that this is time spend better on other things. But it has helped others and maybe it...
"How Do I?" Videos
When people want start learning about .NET in general or a specific subject like Silverlight or security, can be send to the “How Do I?” videos. I do this myself a lot of times,...
Getting data from Excel the fast way, using LINQ
David, Alex and me just needed to get a load of data from some Excel sheets and work with the data. What’s better than to load the data into a DataSet using OleDB and...
Read-only automatic property
I got a question during my latest presentation about automatic properties (full name is actually automatically implemented properties) with just a ‘getter’. I could not remember the syntax, thought it was something with the...
LINQ to SQL vs. DBA’s
Why is it that in Oracle world, it’s much more custom to have a database administrator (DBA) on your project than when you’re working with SQL-Server? I believe it brings great value to a...
Compiling a .NET 3.5 project and running on a .NET 2.0 machine
For those that are still curious after my previous post about using C# 3.0 features in .NET 2.0. You can compile any .NET Framework 3.5 project and run it in a .NET Framework 2.0...
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