I have been seeing a lot of calls for speakers to submit their abstracts to various conferences lately. This got me wondering what it takes to get a session proposal accepted.

In this article, you'll learn how to use Quartz.NET to create a robust and easy to manage background worker that sends you an email once a day. We'll cover several topics including: How to use GitHub for Windows How to set up a Quartz scheduled job How to pass parameters to our job How to use Mailg...

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In the previous tutorial, I introduced the async and await keywords and described how they make asynchronous programming almost as simple as synchronous programming. In this tutorial we'll build on this knowledge and discuss some more advanced aspects of asynchronous programming in C#.

I’m starting a new codeplex project to build a fluent library for design patterns. For example let’s take those examples.

Judging the maintainability of an application's source code objectively during code reviews can be difficult. To help, some Visual Studio editions can calculate code metrics, such as cyclomatic complexity, depth of inheritance and lines of code.

In statistics, the variance and standard deviation for a set of data indicate how spread out the individual values are. Small values indicate that the elements of a set are close to the average value, whereas larger values suggest a greater spread.

Run multiple tasks in a single WindowsService, and let the base library do all of the work setup and tear down for you. The WindowsServiceTasks NuGet package is simple, flexible, and extremely light weight.

I've been doing some work lately which involves sequentially reading large files (> 2 to 5GB). This entails that it's not an option to read the whole structure in memory; it's more reliable to process the file in chunks. I occasionally come across legacy that solves exactly this problem, but in a pr...

LINQ adds enormous power to the .NET Framework through both the libraries it contains and the language additions that power it. It can help you write powerful code faster and that is less error prone, and yet some people still seem to eschew it for various reasons.

.NET developer? Looking to go to a software conference in 2013? Here's a big list of the software conferences this year, along with dates, locations, and descriptions.

I have had the pleasure to program in a variety of programming languages throughout the years including the trifecta of C++, Java, and C#. It's often interesting how these three languages are so similar and yet have such key differences as well. Each of them has features that I miss when I work with...

C# enables programmers to declare conversions on classes so they can be converted to and/or from other types.

How do you test windows services? You could install your service into windows and then attach your debugger to it's process, but that is a lot of work. Why not just run your service as a console application? Then you can test it by just pressing play in Visual Studio!