Using the out method parameter to have a call return multiple values

This amazing small tool allows to query SQLSERVER or MYSQL databases using LINQ or simple SQL, doesn't require installation, and works like a charm, really useful if you're trying to learn LINQ. It's just 4MB

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 loc...

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, no kidding, no modeling, no XML files, no BS

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 t...

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. ...

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 ...

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

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...

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

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 al...

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 t...

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