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• Insert tracepoint in Visual Studio for Debug.WriteLine alternative

  For those who like me didn’t know about this hidden gem : You can now set Tracepoints instead of just Breakpoints in VS2008. Here’s the difference between the two as described on MSDN: “Breakpoints tell the debugger that an application Read More... Posted 23 June 2008 13:04 by merrick.chaffer | 1 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, C#, C# 2.0, Visual Studio, code, .NET 3.5

• Using linq in your C# code

  Just came across a nasty gotcha today, where by we were trying to use the new C# 3.5 syntax var x = from item in items select new Item { ItemName = item.Name }; and getting a compile error. Turns out this was due to the need to have the following using Read More... Posted 08 May 2008 15:21 by merrick.chaffer | 1 Comments Filed under: C#, C# 2.0, .NET 3.5, LINQ

• How to uninstall / install a guidance package using InstallUtil.exe

  C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\InstallUtil.exe /DesignMode /u /ShowCallStack /Configuration="C:\Data\Merrick\Projects\Data Access Guidance Package\Data Access Guidance Package\Data Access Guidance Package\bin\Debug\\Data Access Guidance Read More... Posted 02 May 2007 15:49 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, C#, .NET, .NET 2.0, C# 2.0, Visual Studio, .NET 3.0, Guidance Automation Extensions

• Ultimate one liner? ForEach and anonymous methods

  A colleague of mine recently asked for how to create a one liner to iterate over the items in a list. In C# 2.0 this is best done using the System.Action<T> delegate ForEach method, as it reduces the lines of code that you would normally write. Read More... Posted 04 December 2006 11:24 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: C#, .NET, .NET 2.0, C# 2.0

• 21st Century Windows API Viewer

  Check out the flex wiki site below. Has C# code examples for most if not all of the Windows API. Really useful for Windows programming. www.pinvoke.net Read More... Posted 04 October 2006 12:04 by merrick.chaffer | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows API, C#, .NET, .NET 2.0, C# 2.0