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  • The Code Coverage Mirage

    In an online Q&A webcast with Scott Hanselman today the topic of Code Coverage was raised. One audience member asked what the optimal level of Code Coverage is. The answer is that there isn’t an optimal level because Code Coverage can be a misleading statistic. Take for example the following method...
    Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 04-15-2010

  • Serialization Generics

    I really dislike writing the same code over and over again. For my current project, this involves serialization and I ended up creating the following generic class to handle Xml serialization and thought it might be useful to someone else. using System.Xml.Serialization; public class SerializationHelper...
    Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 12-07-2009

  • Shotokan Development

    Note: There is still so much more I want to say on this topic, but that will have to wait for another post as I further distill my thoughts. At the end of my three week stint in Redmond, WA in October and November I was thrilled to be able to support Sara Ford as she tested for her second dan (second...
    Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 11-28-2009

  • Exceptional Exceptions

    There are many, many exceptions in the .NET framework. The base type of all exceptions is the System.Exception class. There are a couple rules you want to follow when throwing exceptions. First, avoid throwing the System.Exception or System.SystemException base types. When you go to catch an exception...
    Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 06-20-2007

  • Frameworks

    A couple weeks ago I bought Pro WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 3.0, as an eBook of course. I'm in chapter two, and something the author said made me stop and think. "The term framework implies order, structure, and control. It represents much more than just a collection of classes. It provides...
    Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 06-14-2007

  • You have a couple options…

    I have been spending a bit of time on the Microsoft Managed newsgroups answering various questions about .NET, ASP.NET, VB.NET etc. I find myself quite often replying that the user has several options. This is one of the areas that separates the coders from the developers (definitely give this article...
    Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 06-05-2007

  • Development Environment

    I do all of my development on my laptop. I call it my "mobile development server". Scott Swanson published his Screen Resolution Survey results a couple weeks ago, and I thought I'd get around to chiming in with my thoughts. My laptop is running an Intel® Pentium 4 Mobile 3.06 GHz hyper-threaded processor...
    Posted to .NETicated (Weblog) by Steve on 04-26-2007
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