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Finding duplicate code in C#, VB.Net, ASPX, Ruby, Python, Java, C, C++

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:09:06 GMT

Whether you realize it or not, you need a tool that finds duplicate source code in your applications. In fact, if you've never used one before, you probably don't realize just how much you need an automated solution to this problem. For all practical purposes, it's nearly impossible to manually locate the types of duplicate code that such a tool can easily bring to the surface. Even if you think you're intimately aware of an application's code base, every line of code you write contains the potential to awaken the duplicate code dragon.

An introduction to Code Contracts in .NET 4.0

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:01:15 GMT

NET 4.0 sees the introduction of Code Contracts. Code Contracts allow the developer to specify rules and "assumptions on your code in the form of pre-conditions, post-conditions and object invariants" (in the words of DevLabs).

7 Minutes from Install to your working EntitySpaces Architecture

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:00:52 GMT

7 Minutes from Install to your working EntitySpaces Architecture, no kidding, no modeling, no XML files, no BS

Using delegates to eliminate duplicate code

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:43:03 GMT

Here's a simple technique you can use to easily eliminate duplicate code. Try not to let the word "delegates" scare you away from learning the technique and I'll try to refrain from using the word "delegate" as much as possible. I'll start small and then work my way towards a more complex example that really demonstrates its power.

Introducing Code Rocket

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:54:52 GMT

This article introduces you to Code Rocket's main features. Code Rocket is a pseudocode and flowchart design and visualization tool for Visual Studio (and Eclipse). It gives you on demand access to the pseudocode and flowchart views of your methods and always keeps the design in sync with the code. The content was the basis of a presentation given at TechMeetup Aberdeen. You can download the slides and sample code for the example.

Code Contracts Primer - Part 2: Handling Legacy Code

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:00:33 GMT

So the one of the first questions that many people ask when talking about using the Code Contracts library is 'what do I do about my legacy code?'. Asking this is a very valid question. If your team has already subscribed to the design-by-contract or fail-fast concepts then maybe you have already added in your own checks. If this is the case the contracts team has thought of you and has already provided a simple answer.

Template based code generation with T4 from custom applications.

Fri, 15 May 2009 04:00:58 GMT

Generate source code from custom applications by using the Text Template Transformation Toolkit of VS 2008.

100% Unit Testable Linq To Sql Repository - Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:31:47 GMT

In this post, I will show you how you can architect your Linq To Sql repository which will have 100% code coverage. I will use our favorite Northwind database along with my ongoing UnityCommonServiceLocatorMVC project. First, lets add a Linq To Sql diagram in our project and drag n drop the Category and Product table that will look something like foll...

Code Snippet: Filtering a list using Lambda without a loop

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:42:39 GMT

Quick code snippet to remove some loops inside your code and increase visibility inside your methods.

Have you ever wanted to monitor a website for changes?

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:53:07 GMT

Here is a free and handy tool to have around for anyone that has ever wanted to monitor when a web site has changed. This is a very small install and a very small task to alert you when your favorite page has a new update. RadPop also hides so that it is nearly unnoticeable. The program nicely alerts you to when changes occur with a MSN style popup. You can configure it to continually watch for changes to your favorite pages by dragging it to your startup folder.

'Linq to Gac' : Use Linq to Power Query your Gac via C# to Fusion

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 06:59:03 GMT

This post gets the GAC via Linq to bend your way. How? A Fusion Wrapper to IEnumerable over your Gac. No nasty PInvokes to deal with. It's all clean C# which is here to use. We owe a debt to the Mono project for this as well as a very smart Microsoft staff member to be give credit when we can find the page again. Be careful however...Our last post cranked through your registry. This post gets you the GAC. Here is what is done with a holistic post later: * All files we can find (if you specify them) * The Gac (all of it and even the other two 'sub-gacs' if you want * Environmental Stuff (Path variable, etc. but we actually parse them and produce another tree and it fits our code) * A lot more (think all things inside you box) You can even join all this data if you can find the right keys. We joined our registry to our file system 'where the registry key value as a path' (where is was a valid path) didn't exist. Earth-shattering? No. Faster then any virus checker we've tried? ABSOLUTELY. Relevant to virus checkers? No not really actually..

How to Search And Replace values in SQL across All Tables

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:15:50 GMT

My website got hacked. I got several html code injections inside the database. Here is how i fixed the issue very quickly.

Showcase of C# VS2008 Snippets

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:10:19 GMT

Why write snippets when you can generate them using C#? The advantage seems obvious: greater adaptability and a functionality similar to parameter passing - but with snippets. This project is precisely this - an attempt to have snippets with arity, permitting developers to, e.g., quickly generate fully-specified data structures of the size they choose, or to make plumbing code for executing precisely N processes in parallel. The possibilities are endless!

Detailed code metrics with NDepend

Fri, 30 May 2008 14:01:12 GMT

A while ago, I blogged about code performance analysis in Visual Studio 2008. Using profiling and hot path tracking, I measured code performance and was able to react to that. Last week, Patrick Smacchia contacted me asking if I wanted to test his project NDepend. He promised me NDepend would provide more insight in my applications. Let's test that!

ASP.NET MVC Source Code Now Available

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 06:31:03 GMT

Last month I blogged about our ASP.NET MVC Roadmap. Two weeks ago we shipped the ASP.NET Preview 2 Release. Phil Haack from the ASP.NET team published a good blog post about the release here. Scott Hanselman has created a bunch of great ASP.NET MVC tutorial videos that you can watch to learn more about it here....

The One Single Tip to Comment Your Code

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:01:02 GMT

You've heard about 13 tips to comment your code, but what about the One Single Tip?

Restoring VS2005's 'prop' snippet in VS2008

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:37:10 GMT

Automatic properties are nice, but sometimes they just won't do. Visual C# 2005 included a 'prop' code snippet for a full property with backing filed but 2008 changed the snippet to generate an automatic property. Here's how to restore the 2005 snippet.

Part Cover a code coverage tool that works with Static methods

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:17:45 GMT

I just found this great free tool, open source, that produces xml, that has a command line interface and a nice GUI. Simple to install and start usint (less that five minutes). Why you should considered it and how it compares with Ncover.

How to create Visual studio code snippets easily

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:14:44 GMT

a nice tool that help you create VIsual Studio code snippets

Reading other people's .NET code

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:01:02 GMT

Places to find great examples of .NET code

.NET Coding Guidelines - Commenting

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:16:02 GMT

Nice rant about developers who don't comment their code, I can sympathize.

Top 10+ source code search engines

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:01:02 GMT

Programmers are coding and coding in somewhere for some purpose. I wonder how many lines of code is written in a minute on the world :) I guess thousands of lines. But most them are coding the same snippets of code again and again. I always used "Koders" not to reinvent america, means not to rewrite the codes someone else have already solved. There are plenty of code search engines out there to serve us (programmers) with the millions of lines of codes to fasten our job. So you can use the following code search engines for this purpose

Automated code formatting tools

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:14:35 GMT

Some tools I like to use for creating and maintaining consist code structure and layout.

Regionerate Public Beta

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 05:46:01 GMT

Regionerate is an open-source automatic layout enforcement tool for C#. I have just released its Public Beta. Enter the site for a quick screencast that explains all about it.

Optimized access to Bitmaps

Wed, 23 May 2007 14:46:01 GMT

How to read and elaborate sequence of bitmaps without using .NET functions, saving tons of processor cycles.