Get rid of your .designer.cs code-behind for .resx
Committing generated files into source control is a shame. Besides bloating your source control database, it creates more opportunity for merge conflicts. And if the computer generated the file in…
Ban use of System.Console from .NET libraries
Shared libraries should not use System.Console. Besides an assumption that they are running in a process with an attached console, which may not be correct, the library really has no…
Embedded resources in C# projects that retain slashes
.NET assemblies may contain embedded streams of arbitrary data. In an msbuild project this is done by adding an EmbeddedResource item to your project with the path to a file…
How to get OS architecture in Windows PowerShell
In PowerShell if you need to determine the process or OS architecture, you should theoretically be able to leverage the .NET APIs to find it out. And in fact this…
Are warning-free builds really a good thing?
I’m a big fan of pipelines that fail for warnings as well as errors. Such a policy keeps repos clean, current, less buggy, and even more agile. This works best…
Library.Template: A git repo template for .NET development
It is amazing what the .NET SDK can enable you to build with so little code. But very soon you need to add a cloud build pipeline for CI builds…
Update on the secure messaging IronPigeon protocol and the Dart application
In my last post I mentioned I was focusing my attention on the IronPigeon protocol. Since then, the IronPigeon project has matured and added support for both iOS and Android…
GC pressure series: hidden boxing
Last time we talked about GC pressure from enumerating collections using their interfaces rather than their concrete types. It turns out that the garbage produced by using the interfaces is…
GC pressure series: Introduction and enumerators
As you may already know, I’m a Microsoft developer who works on Visual Studio. Improved performance and responsiveness is a major goal for the 2012 release. As much of the…
A brief survey of the various .NET unit test frameworks
In summary, someone please fix NUnit to support async task methods. MSTest Pros: Best IDE experience for VS2010 and earlier (VS 2012 supports MSTest and other frameworks equally). Cons: It…