Archive for the ‘ .Net ’ Category

Lexical Closures in C# 3.0

What does this code print...How does this change if you tweak it like this...And most importantly, why[ READ MORE ]

C# 3.0, Parallel LINQ, And The Betfair API – An Introduction

My pal Jan has a habit of waxing lyrical about the wonders of Parallel LINQ (PLINQ) as soon as you make the mistake of mentioning multithreading within earshot. I’ve been playing around with .Net 3.5 recently, and I write a lot of async code day-to-day when struggling to keep desktop webservice clients responsive when making [ READ MORE ]

Reporting on NCover Exclusions

On a recent project, my team was set the task of achieving 100% unit test pass-rate and code coverage. If you’ve ever been in this position, you’ll know it’s a double-edged sword – whilst it’s great when the Powers That Be embrace quality instead of fixating, limpet-like, on the next deadline, it can be a [ READ MORE ]

Turbocharging .Net Webservice Clients

Since the first version of .Net and its associated toolset, Microsoft have sought to make it easy to write SOAP services and SOAP clients. And, generally, they have succeeded quite well. Whilst the open-source world has tended to prefer the simpler REST approach, MS (and Sun, and Apache) have done an admirable job of taking [ READ MORE ]