The Future of Programming Languages(atalasoft.com)

submitted by ericdcoolest(1200) 3 years, 7 months ago

In this article I'm going to focus on Dynamic Typing and Metaprogramming in particular. It's interesting to consider what the impact on the maintainability of our code from their increased prominence might be. read more...

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Tidying Up Old Blog Entries (Cleaning up MS Office HTML tags)(atalasoft.com)

submitted by ericdcoolest(1200) 3 years, 7 months ago

Looking back it seems like complete lunacy. For a period of time my method of choice to create blog entries was to write them out in Word 2003 and then export html. The almost unreadable text has been haunting me for a long time and I've finally gone back and fixed them. Along the way I built a small utility for doing this and here it is read more...

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Start menu context annoyances(atalasoft.com)

submitted by ericdcoolest(1200) 3 years, 7 months ago

Dave discusses some options when it comes to a context menu add-on used for finding out what files have a lock on them by team members, etc. read more...

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Avoiding the Dangers of Ambiguously Defined Data-Types(atalasoft.com)

submitted by ericdcoolest(1200) 3 years, 7 months ago

When you are handed a string, integer, or any value type, can you know what it really represents? Can you define the range of appropriate behaviors for that data? Can you tell if it's formatted correctly? The problem is, in all of these cases, you can't... read more...

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Late Binding in C# using Dynamic Compilation(atalasoft.com)

submitted by eazyd(970) 3 years, 7 months ago

Steve goes through his approach to using reflection, making the code easier to read, making it easier to maintain, discusses the "middle-class multiple inheritance", and provides a zipped project of the AdapterCompiler. read more...

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F# at Code Camp 10 In Waltham, MA(atalasoft.com)

submitted by eazyd(970) 3 years, 8 months ago

Richard Minerich presented functional programming and concurrency in F# at Code Camp in Massachusetts read more...

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VSX Conference(atalasoft.com)

submitted by eazyd(970) 3 years, 8 months ago

Lou Franco's recollection of events at the VSX Conference last week. (Visual Studio eXtensibility) read more...

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Tidy Things Up(atalasoft.com)

submitted by eazyd(970) 3 years, 8 months ago

Ever wanted to have one assembly, but be able to manage your code in separate assemblies? read more...

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Some Managed/Unmanaged Exception Tricks(atalasoft.com)

submitted by eazyd(970) 3 years, 8 months ago

I just spent 5 days tracking down a Heisenbug. Historically, I've tracked down a lot of these but not because I create a lot of them, because I'm good at finding them. In this particular case, I had a set of unit tests that were failing on our build server but did not fail consistently on my machine. This is not a good sign to start with. read more...

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How much should I expect my end-user to know?(atalasoft.com)

submitted by Rickasaurus(1225) 3 years, 8 months ago

From a software support perspective, the question is, how much should I expect my end-user to know? If someone asks me a basic question about our product, then I answer it without hesitation. But what if someone asks me a basic programming question? For example, how to create a for-loop? read more...

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How to set up your own free VSLab-based Matlab/Mathematica replacement(atalasoft.com)

submitted by Rickasaurus(1225) 3 years, 8 months ago

VSLab has just been updated with full support for Visual Studio 2008 Shell and the F# CTP release. It has been a rough couple of weeks for the VSLab team as F# CTP changed a number of things and they have been working hard to put together a compatible release. In this article I talk about a bit about what exactly VSLab is and walk you through creating a free VSLab installation. read more...

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Visual Studio Shell 2008: Bringing More .NET Languages into the Fold(atalasoft.com)

submitted by Rickasaurus(1225) 3 years, 8 months ago

Visual Studio Shell was released in January of 2007 without much fanfare. Even though it's free to download, at the time it was not very useful for most developers as few packages had yet been written for it. Now eight months have gone by and quite a few projects are sporting free Visual Studio interfaces. In this article I discuss Visual Studio Shell itself as well as several of the languages which are currently developing shells. read more...

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What if it's not in Environment.SpecialFolder?(atalasoft.com)

submitted by Rickasaurus(1225) 3 years, 8 months ago

The correct way to find the location of system folders not listed in Environment.SpecialFolder. read more...

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Changing Your Garbage Collector Settings on the Fly(atalasoft.com)

submitted by Rickasaurus(1225) 3 years, 8 months ago

.NET 3.5 and 2.0 SP1 jointly included a new feature which lets you programmatically manipulate the way your garbage collector acts. This can be done through changing the value of a new property of the System.Runtime.GCSettings class named LatencyMode. In this article I will walk you through this new property and the different effects of each of it's possible settings. read more...

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More F# At Code Camp Hartford(atalasoft.com)

submitted by ericdcoolest(1200) 3 years, 9 months ago

Rick Minerich writes about CodeCamp in Hartford and his recent F# presentation with slides and code examples read more...

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Generic Fiddling(atalasoft.com)

submitted by ericdcoolest(1200) 3 years, 9 months ago

I spent an hour yesterday playing with generics to get my chops up a little better. After reading Krzystof Cwalina's post on the layout of the generic collections, I came up with this little gem: read more...

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