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…
Read only, frozen, and immutable collections
The topics of immutability and functional programming has fascinated me lately. Mostly because of my work on the Visual Studio Common Project System (CPS) which is a large, highly multi-threaded…
C# await for MSBuild
The async CTP that adds the C# await keyword doesn’t include an awaitable MSBuild. It’s easy to add yourself. Just copy and paste the the BuildSubmissionAwaitExtensions class from the code…
C# await for WaitHandle
The async CTP that adds the C# await keyword doesn’t include an awaitable WaitHandle. It’s easy to add yourself. Just copy and paste the following code somewhere in your project…
.NET Obfuscator Product Review
CliSecure .NET Obfuscator Product Review Forward .NET assemblies are (in general) remarkably easy to decompile and obtain reasonably intelligible source code. A .NET obfuscator can be run as a post-build…