March 2008 - Derik Whittaker - Devlicio.us

Using Linq to access the file system

Again, this post is another in the recent string of How-to's. But it is just so hard to resist. .Net 3.5 has so many cool features, it is just fun to explore them all. In today's post I thought it would be fun to use Linq to access the file system...

Published 03-30-2008 4:31 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Linq

Fun browser stats for Devlicio.us

Today I was looking through the Google Analytics for our site. What really interested me was the stats on the various browsers that are used to view our content. Broswer Visits %Visits Firefox 17,847 47.56% I.E. 17,617 46.95% Opera 1,071 2.85% Safari...

Published 03-29-2008 8:15 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Opinion

Sorting List's the .Net 3.5 Way

This post is another in the recent string of How-to's. But it is just so hard to resist. .Net 3.5 has so many cool features, it is just fun to explore them all. Ok, so here is the issue we are going to solve today. We have a list of entities and we...

Published 03-28-2008 9:09 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, .Net, Opinion, HowTo, Linq, Lambda

Simple way to Convert IEnumerable<Entity> to List<IEntity>

Today I ran into a case where I needed to convert a result set of IEnumerable<Entity> from a Linq2Sql command to a List<IEntity> in order to return the data back to the caller. We all know that giving the following code public...

Published 03-28-2008 12:04 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, .Net, Lambda

Welcome Sergio to Devlicio.us

All, I would like to be the first to welcome Sergio Pereira to the Devlicio.us family. I have known Sergio for some time now and I think he will have a lot of great things to say here. He is a fellow Alt.Net as well as being based out of the...

Published 03-27-2008 11:36 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Shout-Out

Linq2Sql issue with DateTime fields

***** Update ***** Thanks to the suggestion to Peter Ritchie, this issue is no more. Add the following to your Column() attribute and all is well with the world. UpdateCheck = UpdateCheck.WhenChanged ***** Back to the original post ***** Another day,...

Published 03-27-2008 9:52 AM by Derik Whittaker

Linq2Sql limitation with abstract base classes

Ok, I am only a few days into using Linq and I am already getting annoyed. I have a need to create an abstract base class that will have a few common properties (columns) that will be used by all my inherited classes. Here is what I WAS wanting to do...

Published 03-27-2008 7:36 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Rant, Linq

Green tests != proven code

Let me just say this slowly.... Simply because your tests 'pass' does not mean your code has been proven correct or that it works. I know from time to time the notion that 'because I test, my code is solid' floats around the blog-a-sphere...

Published 03-26-2008 12:49 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: TDD

Linq2Sql and AutoIncrement on TinyInt

Can someone help me with this? I was trying to insert a record into our DB where the data type was a TinyInt and received this error "The primary key column of type 'TinyInt' cannot be generated by the server. ". I did a bit of Googling...

Published 03-25-2008 3:15 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Linq

Putting username/password info in the URL Querystring

Today a friend forwarded me a URL for a software tool that his department just purchases. This URL contained the UserName/Password needed to access the download site of the software company (no, will not say which company). When you click...

Published 03-25-2008 12:55 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Opinion

App.Config issues when running NUnit via Resharper

***** Update ***** This issue is directly related to a #R 4 EAP issue. I was using build 755 and this was an issue. As of build 762, this is no longer an issue. ******************** Today I encountered some odd behavior when trying to run some tests against...

Published 03-25-2008 8:43 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, Agile, TDD

Automatic Properties, where have you been for the last 8 years????

With the recent release of .Net 3.5 one of the new features they added is Automatic Properties. Automatic Properties allow you to NOT need to create an instance variable for your properties (assuming you only need simply getter/setter functionality),...

Published 03-21-2008 8:28 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: .Net

Tests make a great To-Do List

How many times as developers have we made list of things we needed to work on. Most of the time they are 'tasks' in some sort of task management system. However, we do not have one of these such systems at work. So I decided...

Published 03-21-2008 7:28 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: TDD, Opinion

Is var the new Dim?

In C# .Net 3.5 they added the var keyword. The intent the var keyword is to allow the object type to be implicitly inferred from the expression used to initialize the variable. However, more often then not I hear people using it because it saves them...

Published 03-21-2008 10:19 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: .Net, Humor

They all have one thing in common.....

Test first Test during Test after Answer, Test. No matter what style of testing you believe in, they all share one common trait. They all test your code. So, what is the point of this post you may ask? Simple. To me, it does not matter how your tests...

Published 03-18-2008 6:07 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Agile, TDD, Opinion

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