In an ideal world one would write unit-tests before writing any new code following the tenants of TDD. In reality it is quite common to have to rely on a legacy library to do some heavy lifting. Pex is a great new tool available from Microsoft Research that can be used to generate unit-tests automatically.… [Read more…]
October 24, 2008
There should be a compiler supported way in C# to declare a property with custom getter/setter logic without having to explicitly declare a backing field. In the absence of such a feature, if you want to have custom getter/setter logic you have to ditch automatic properties, declare a backing field explicitly and then there’s nothing stopping a… [Read more…]
April 28, 2008
There is some misinformation you’re likely to stumble upon via Google when searching for “C# compiler /optimize+”. Interestingly, the following snippet can be seen on various forums. The following is a response from a developer on the C# compiler team: We get rid of unused locals (i.e., locals that are never read, even if assigned).… [Read more…]
April 10, 2008
Problem: I had used .NET Mass Downloader tool to download .NET 2.0 Framework sourcecode some time ago. While reading Timer.cs (System.Windows.Forms.Timer) and a couple of other classes I noticed something interesting. Does the following piece of code look odd to you? Notice the empty “try” block and all processing being done in the “finally” block.… [Read more…]
December 2, 2008
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