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Re: [My vote of 2] Finalize everything is often a poor choice when using databases [^]

by John Brett at 8-Sep-15 4:07

at Article "article "MONADs in C#""

[My vote of 2] Finalize everything is often a poor choice when using databases [^]

by John Brett at 6-Sep-15 21:01 Score: 5.00 (1 vote).

at Article "article "MONADs in C#""

Formatting fixed-width numbers [^]

by John Brett at 3-Sep-15 0:50

at Article "tip/trick "Executing AS400 Commands Programmatically using WPF and C#""

I prefer solution #2 [^]

by John Brett at 2-Sep-15 21:16

at Article "article "Error Handling in SOLID C# .NET – The Operation Result Approach""

What's the purpose of the test CanPrintOddEven? [^]

by John Brett at 21-Aug-15 6:14 Score: 5.00 (1 vote).

at Article "technical blog "Writing simple Odd even Kata in C#""

Microsoft are emphasising the wrong thing [^]

by John Brett at 20-Aug-15 4:27 Score: 5.00 (3 votes).

at Article "article "Evaluation of .NET Testing""

Why special-case the parameter conversion? [^]

by John Brett at 9-Aug-15 20:40 Score: 5.00 (1 vote).

at Article "tip/trick "String Format ValueConverter""

Nice visualisation of sorting in action [^]

by John Brett at 7-Aug-15 4:51

at Article "article "Covering a BackgroundWorker by an Own Class to Lighten the Creation of a Multithread Application""

Requirements drive implementation [^]

by John Brett at 7-Aug-15 4:45

at Article "tip/trick "Letting the Data Lead the Code""

Re: Hmmm.... [^]

by John Brett at 29-Jul-15 3:53 Score: 5.00 (1 vote).

at Article "article "SData: An Elegant Data Interchange Solution""

Strings aren't expensive [^]

by John Brett at 19-Jul-15 21:11

at Article "technical blog "Boxing and the Unified Type System""

Re: Why delegates? [^]

by John Brett at 19-Jul-15 20:48

at Article "tip/trick "Passing delegates with any signature to a method""

Why the invoker class? [^]

by John Brett at 16-Jul-15 2:39 Score: 5.00 (2 votes).

at Article "article "Passing delegates with different signatures to a method""

Tests could be done better [^]

by John Brett at 30-Jun-15 2:14

at Article "tip/trick "Title Case in VB.net or C#""

ExpectedException [^]

by John Brett at 12-May-15 2:00

at Article "technical blog "Unit Testing Data Validation with MVC""

Maths and invariants [^]

by John Brett at 28-Apr-15 7:06

at Article "technical blog "Speeding up my unit tests""

Use of interfaces [^]

by John Brett at 26-Apr-15 22:32 Score: 3.00 (2 votes).

at Article "article "Logging with Microsoft.NET""

Great demonstration of building up expressions [^]

by John Brett at 20-Apr-15 2:58

at Article "article "Combining Expressions to Dynamically Append Criteria in LINQ where Clause""

Re: Complex solution to a problem that shouldn't exist [^]

by John Brett at 24-Mar-15 1:50

at Article "tip/trick "Safelly calling virtuall members from constructors...""

Complex solution to a problem that shouldn't exist [^]

by John Brett at 24-Mar-15 0:22 Score: 5.00 (1 vote).

at Article "tip/trick "Safelly calling virtuall members from constructors...""

Re: [My vote of 2] Some design issues [^]

by John Brett at 15-Mar-15 21:58

at Article "tip/trick "Simple Numbers only Textbox in C#""

Great article, aside from the error handling [^]

by John Brett at 5-Mar-15 21:53

at Article "article "Queueing Windows Services work items using MSMQ, and live progress using WCF Net Named Pipe""

How secure is this? [^]

by John Brett at 1-Mar-15 22:14 Score: 5.00 (1 vote).

at Article "article "M2 a proprietary encryption algorithm""

[My vote of 2] Some design issues [^]

by John Brett at 24-Feb-15 2:06

at Article "tip/trick "Simple Numbers only Textbox in C#""

Doesn't actually illustrate or discuss the strategy part of the pattern [^]

by John Brett at 12-Feb-15 23:58

at Article "tip/trick "Strategy Design Pattern (C#)""

Re: Wow [^]

by John Brett at 12-Feb-15 21:02

at Article "article "Converting Text Numbers to Numeric Values""

Excellent article - would like to see some performance statistics [^]

by John Brett at 12-Feb-15 0:46

at Article "article "Skip Lists Demystified""

Rendering the query string [^]

by John Brett at 12-Feb-15 0:09

at Article "article "QueryBuilder: A Simple Way to Read and Write Query Strings""

Great solution for integration testing [^]

by John Brett at 2-Feb-15 5:50

at Article "article "Unit testing in C# using xUnit, Entity Framework, Effort and ASP.NET Boilerplate.""

Re: Upper-cased scale prefixes? [^]

by John Brett at 26-Jan-15 5:33

at Article "tip/trick "International System of Units Notation""

Upper-cased scale prefixes? [^]

by John Brett at 26-Jan-15 5:24

at Article "tip/trick "International System of Units Notation""

Agreed [^]

by John Brett at 17-Dec-14 2:34

at Article "technical blog "Use of Brackets""

Re: throwing exceptions - expose beauty or hide ugliness? [^]

by John Brett at 9-Dec-14 2:00 Score: 5.00 (1 vote).

at Article "article "Implement ORM using C#""

I like the basis for the challenge, but not the solution [^]

by John Brett at 30-Oct-14 2:53 Score: 5.00 (1 vote).

at Article "article "Is it Really Better to 'Return an Empty List Instead of null'? - Part 2""

Solutions, without much background explanation [^]

by John Brett at 21-Oct-14 1:20

at Article "technical blog "99 Problems and a Bit Ain’t One""

[My vote of 1] Not really appropriate on CodeProject [^]

by John Brett at 13-Oct-14 3:15

at Article "technical blog "Windows: Copy only files recursively from a folder containing sub folders""

[My vote of 1] A great many poor practices [^]

by John Brett at 30-Sep-14 1:25 Score: 5.00 (1 vote).

at Article "tip/trick "Merge Two Class Data in C#""

One observation about your Proxy class [^]

by John Brett at 25-Sep-14 2:59

at Article "technical blog "Proxy Design Pattern""

Some additional drawbacks of the ServiceLocator pattern [^]

by John Brett at 18-Sep-14 7:11 Score: 5.00 (1 vote).

at Article "tip/trick "Service Locator Pattern""

Re: [My vote of 2] Logic flaws [^]

by John Brett at 17-Sep-14 4:50

at Article "tip/trick "Calling a console application from the web on button click event""

Re: My vot eof 4 [^]

by John Brett at 12-Sep-14 2:58

at Article "technical blog "Properties in C#""

Re: My vote of 1 [^]

by John Brett at 9-Sep-14 3:35 Score: 5.00 (2 votes).

at Article "technical blog "Repository pattern, done right""

How safe do you think this is? [^]

by John Brett at 2-Sep-14 3:49

at Article "tip/trick "Work around for consistent stack corruption resulting from the same thread""

How random are the results? [^]

by John Brett at 17-Aug-14 20:31 Score: 5.00 (1 vote).

at Article "tip/trick "Non-Deterministic Random Number Generation""

Excellent [^]

by John Brett at 13-Aug-14 0:36

at Article "technical blog "Something Like This""

Don't test the textual name of a class [^]

by John Brett at 11-Aug-14 5:38 Score: 5.00 (1 vote).

at Article "article "Background Cycle Timing""

The trade-off between strongly typed and weakly typed languages [^]

by John Brett at 3-Aug-14 22:34

at Article "article "Data Structures in Object Oriented Programming""

This is the path to C++ [^]

by John Brett at 25-Jul-14 2:31

at Article "tip/trick "Function Pointer in C Struct""

My vote of 5 [^]

by John Brett at 24-Jul-14 20:26

at Article "Article "Delivering Software to a Global Audience""

Re: Let the Database do the Work [^]

by John Brett at 17-Jul-14 4:49 Score: 5.00 (1 vote).

at Article "tip/trick "A Pagination Solution using IEnumerable""