Inside The System.IO Namespace Part 3
October 26, 2010Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Flushing your Streams Flush is available in all Stream and Writer classes. Quite often it’s essential that you Flush…
Inside The System.IO Namespace Part 2
October 19, 2010Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 BufferedStream This is intended to improve performance of (file) read/write operations by storing the bytes in memory…
A Look At .NET ORMs - Part 2
September 09, 2010Persistor.NET Express www.persistor.net Persistor is a commercial ORM but features a community edition like many commercial software tools…
A Look At .NET ORMs - Part 3
September 09, 2010ODX www.codeplex.com/odx/ This project looks like a one-man ORM. It uses ActiveRecord’s attribute idea to mark classes as tables and…
Inside .NET Assemblies (part 2)
July 29, 2010View part 1 Basic resource embedding Embedding images, video, text files and so on into your .NET assembly is incredibly simple in Visual…
Inside .NET assemblies (part 1)
July 12, 2010View part 2 This post (in two parts) covers the following topics: Assemblies + Modules Appdomains and isolation (soon) Structure of a .NET…
.NET Formatting Strings Reference
February 17, 2010This post is aimed at being a reference and a code-by-example guide to format strings in C# (and .NET), plus delving a little deeper into…
Inside The System.IO Namespace Part 1
October 13, 2009Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Download the solution file for the examples below The System.IO namespace can appear (on the surface) to have a lot of…
A look at .NET Object Relational Mappers (ORM)s
September 09, 2009Contents db4o Linq to Entities/Entity framework SOODA Persistor .NET Express NPersist Subsonic ODX NHibernate / Active Record Coolstorage…
A Look At .NET ORMs - Part 1
September 09, 2009Back to contents I’m not going to waste the article waxing about how these make an ORM useful as there’s plenty of sites out there that…
.NET XML Comment Cheat Sheet
May 19, 2009Download .snippet file Update: Ghost doc (free addin for Visual Studio 2008) makes a lot of the snippets redundent. Some are still relevant…
C# and .NET type visibility
February 03, 2009Classes and Structs Classes and structs allow the following type visibility options in C#: public Viewable by all types in the current and…