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	22 Articles found and displayed in this view. Reengineering .NET: Injecting Quality, Testability, and Architecture into Existing Systems - Chapter 3: Unit Testing Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, November 19, 2012 Quick ID: 1211073 This excerpt is from Reengineering .NET: Injecting Quality, Testability, and Architecture into Existing Systems, by Bradley Irby, Published Oct 24, 2012 by Addison-Wesley Professional. Part of the Microsoft Windows Development Series series. Copyright 2013, ISBN-10: 0-321-82145-9. To Purchase this book go to: http://www.informit.com/store/reengineering-.net-injecting-quality-testability-and-9780321821454 . Tasks and Parallelism: The New Wave of Multithreading Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2012 Nov/Dec Release Date: Thursday, October 04, 2012 Quick ID: 1211071 Since the beginning of .NET, developers have been able to take advantage of multithreading when developing applications. In fact we’ve been given more than one programming model to accommodate just about any requirement that might come across. There’s the Thread class, the Thread Pool, the Async Pattern, and the Background Worker. Well, as if that isn’t enough, we now have a couple of more patterns that bring with them another genre - parallel programming. Inside Visual Studio LightSwitch Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2011 Mar/Apr Release Date: Friday, February 11, 2011 Quick ID: 1103051 Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch uses a model-centric architecture for defining, building, and executing a 3-tier LightSwitch application. Chapter 2: Creating Versatile Types Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Sunday, March 21, 2010 Quick ID: 100083 Whenever you create your own classes, you need to consider the circumstances under which they could be used. For example, will two instances of your Item struct ever be compared for equality? Will your Person class need to be serializable, or sortable? How Many Threads Do You Need? Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Publisher's Point Release Date: Monday, May 29, 2006 Quick ID: 060033 Markus Egger discusses the need to create multi-threaded applications. LINQx Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2005 - Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, October 28, 2005 Quick ID: 0511121 Microsoft demonstrated a new technology at PDC called LINQ (Language Integrated Query). The following note from Alan Griver, a member of the LINQ team at Microsoft, offers some details related to the LINQ project. In future issues of CoDe Magazine we will have more details on LINQ.Microsoft demonstrated a new technology at PDC called LINQ (Language Integrated Query). The following note from Alan Griver, a member of the LINQ team at Microsoft, offers some details related to the LINQ project. In future issues of CoDe Magazine we will have more details on LINQ. What's New in .NET 2.0 for Assemblies and Versioning? Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2005 - Jul/Aug Release Date: Monday, June 20, 2005 Quick ID: 0507041 The third release of the .NET Framework (version 2.0) introduces many changes and innovations not just in the application frameworks, but also in the essential mechanics of assemblies themselves.Microsoft strived to improve on a few limitations of the original assemblies model, as well as provide new features and capabilities in assemblies and in the tools used to build and manage them, predominantly Visual Studio 2005. These include application assembly reference, reference aliasing, friend assembly, better strong name protection, specific versioning, and targeting specific CPU architectures, and more. This article describes each such new feature, and when applicable, recommends best practices and guidelines. Pest Control Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Publisher's Point Release Date: Monday, February 07, 2005 Quick ID: 050033 Brian Kernighan [1] once said, "Debugging is twice as hard as writing code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." This quote gets a little giggle out of most developers, but on the serious side, there is a lot of truth in it. Writing code that does cool or useful things certainly is much easier than writing code that does cool or useful things reliably. The Importance of the Managed Platform Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Publisher's Point Release Date: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 Quick ID: 040073 .Net is a maturing platform. The first .NET alphas and betas went to a selected group of people years and years ago. At this point, we are approaching the third major installment of Visual Studio .NET (now called "Visual Studio 2005"). Surely at this point, nobody has to explain what .NET and the Managed Platform is. Or do we? Managing Processes in .NET Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2004 - March/April Release Date: Friday, February 20, 2004 Quick ID: 0403051 The Process class allows you to gain full control over system processes.You can start and stop processes and retrieve information about running processes such as the list of loaded modules and the characteristics of the memory occupied. The class also features handy methods to know whether a process is responding or has just exited and with which return code. Programmers also have full control over the style of the window the process runs in. After an overview of the capabilities of the Process class, this article demonstrates how to hide running console processes, monitor their execution, and capture any output. I'll use this strategy to create a sample Compression class to use with WinZip and gzip (popular tools for compressing data). An Introduction to Visual Studio .NET Whidbey Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2004 - January/February Release Date: Monday, January 05, 2004 Quick ID: 0303022 When I was asked to write a few pages on what's coming in the next version of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (code named Whidbey), the biggest issue I had was how to limit this article to a few pages.I opted to list a few categories and drill down into each. I'm not going to cover everything, just some key items in each area. Please note that not all of these changes are implemented in the PDC build that attendees are receiving, and that some of these features are still in the planning stages. That said, here are the categories that I'd like to discuss: Touring Base Class Library Enhancements Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2004 - January/February Release Date: Monday, January 05, 2004 Quick ID: 0303042 As the core API set underpinning managed application development in .NET, the Base Class Libraries, receive several long-awaited and notable additions in the Whidbey release.The Base Class Libraries (BCL) provide a standardized set of managed APIs to accomplish all of the common and most widely executed application tasks. BCL enhancements surface in as performance-based improvements, class-oriented feature additions, and the introduction of previously missing functionality through entirely new classes. Defining and Using Custom Attribute Classes in C# Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2003 - July/August Release Date: Sunday, June 15, 2003 Quick ID: 0307041 The complex, component-style development that businesses expect out of modern software developers requires greater design flexibility than the design methodologies of the past. Microsoft's .NET Framework makes extensive use of attributes to provide added functionality through what is known as "declarative" programming. Attributes enhance flexibility in software systems because they promote loose coupling of functionality. Because you can create your own custom attribute classes and then act upon them, you can leverage the loose coupling power of attributes for your own purposes. Auto-Deploying Windows Forms .NET Applications: The Revenge of the Fat Client Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2003 - July/August Release Date: Sunday, June 15, 2003 Quick ID: 0307061 .NET provides new tools to make deployment of fat client .NET applications easier.This article describes the basics of .NET Auto-Deployment technology and the security mechanism that prevents users from inadvertently running code distributed by hackers and virus writers. Working with Extender Classes Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2003 - Jan/Feb Release Date: Sunday, December 15, 2002 Quick ID: 0301041 Extender classes do just that; they allow you to extend the functionality of a .NET control class. The Error Provider and Tooltip classes are two examples of extender classes in the .NET Framework. The Tooltip class represents a significant departure from how tooltips were implemented in earlier versions of Visual Studio. The Error Provider class provides a new way to inform users about invalid input. Although each class serves a different purpose, their implementation is quite similar. This article introduces these two classes and gives a brief, yet comprehensive primer on how to use them Reflection Part 2: Emit Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2003 - Jan/Feb Release Date: Sunday, December 15, 2002 Quick ID: 0301051 In our previous article, Reflection Part 1: Discovery and Execution, we introduced the System.Reflection namespace and its classes which allow developers to view assembly metadata, query for and discover types, and invoke code?all at run-time. In this article we will examine reflection emit?the ability to dynamically generate code at run-time. Threading Support in the .NET Framework Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2002 - Nov/Dec Release Date: Friday, November 01, 2002 Quick ID: 0211141 This article explains in depth how to implement multi-threading in your .NET applications. Dynamically Executing Code in .NET Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2002 - Nov/Dec Release Date: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 Quick ID: 0211081 This article demonstrates the techniques for compiling dynamic code in your .NET applications. Stateful Network-Deployable .NET Components Use Isolated Storage Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2002 - Nov/Dec Release Date: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 Quick ID: 0211111 Sometimes an application needs to keep its data in its own secure "sandbox". This article demonstrates creating these isolated applications in .NET. Microsoft Exception Management Application Blocks Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2002 - Nov/Dec Release Date: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 Quick ID: 0211131 A new feature of .NET is its ability to handle exceptions. This article demonstrates implementing Microsoft's Exception Management Application Blocks. Reflection Part 1: Discovery and Execution Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2002 - Nov/Dec Release Date: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 Quick ID: 0211161 One feature of the .NET environment is the ability to read meta-data from classes and namespaces created in .NET. This article demonstrates accessing this data. End DLL Hell with .NET Version Control and Code Sharing Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2002 - July/Aug Release Date: Saturday, June 15, 2002 Quick ID: 0207071 Component-oriented programming must allow for clients and components to evolve separately.Component developers should be able to deploy new versions (or just defect fixes) of existing components without affecting existing client applications. Client developers should be able to deploy new versions of the client application and expect it to work with older component versions. As a component technology, .NET must enforce version control, allowing for separate evolution paths and for side-by-side deployment of different versions of the same component. .NET should also detect incompatibility as soon as possible and alert the client.