Some interesting articles..

I’d like to keep links to some of interesting articles for future reference…

• Command Line Parsing on Windows with Mono.Options
• Windows 7 Ribbon for WinForms
• Execution plan operations – joins
• Automatic Null Checks

A set of articles on Ruby

Following are a set of articles on Ruby:

• Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C#: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7
• Getting IronRuby Up and Running
• Running Applications in IronRuby
• Using IronRuby To Implement Dynamic Business Rules
• Improve your C# with IronRuby
• IronRuby Tip: Using Generic CLR Methods from IronRuby
• Tip: How To Use Generic .Net Classes in IronRuby
• IronRuby script engine in C#
• IronRuby Quick Start

The C# Design Patterns Series

Here is a set of articles on C# design patterns series from GeekDaily:

• Part 1 – An Overview
• Part 2 – The Decorator Pattern
• Part 3 – The Abstract Factory Pattern
• Part 4 – The Observer Pattern
• Part 5 – The Facade Pattern
• Part 6 – The Visitor Pattern

Log4Net Tutorials

Here are a set of article on Log4Net:

• Log4Net Tutorial pt 1: Getting Started
• Log4Net Tutorial pt 2: Basic XML Configuration
• Log4Net Tutorial pt 3: Appenders
• Log4Net Tutorial pt 4: Layouts and Patterns
• Log4Net Tutorial pt 5: Using Logger Objects
• Log4Net Tutorial pt 6: Log Event Context
• Log4Net Tutorial pt 7: Filters
• Log4Net Tutorial pt 8: Lossy Logging
• Log4Net Recommended Practices pt 1: Your Code
• Extension Methods for Deferred Log4Net Message Formatting
• Using log4net

Some related posts:

• BizTalk 2006: Log4Net stops logging ?
• Setup a Log4Net Logger in your ASP.Net Web application
• Why Log4Net?

Visual Studio – Debugging

Visual Studio – Debugging

1. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend- Intro – Lesson 1
2. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 2 – Breakpoints in SubExpressions
3. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 3 – BreakPoint HitCount
4. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 4 – Debugging Threads
5. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 5 – Using TracePoints
6. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 6 – Watch and Immediate Windows – Advanced Techniques
7. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 7 – Advanced Techniques – Using Object ID
8. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 8 – The Garbage Collector – GC
9. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 9 – The Set Next Statement
10. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 10 – Debugging Threads
11. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 11 – SQL Server Stored Procedures
12. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 12 – Debugging Javascript In Web Pages
13. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 13 – Debugging VBScript

Other Visual Studio related articles:

• Exporting Visual Studio Solutions with SolutionFactory

Speedy C# Series

A set of speedy C# articles:

• Part 1: Optimizing Long if-else or switch Branches
• Part 2: Optimizing Memory Allocations – Pooling and Reusing Objects
• Part 3: Understanding Memory References, Pinned Objects, and Pointers
• Part 4: Using – and Understanding – CLR Profiler
• Part 5: Using Threads with Waits, or Don’t Kill your CPU

A set of C# delegates articles:

• Callback and Multicast delegates
• Events
• One more Event
• Asynchronous Callback – Way 1 – BeginInvoke > EndInvoke
• Asynchronous Callback – Way 2 – BeginInvoke >AsyncWaitHandle.WaitOne(x) > EndInvoke >AsynWaitHandle.Close()
• Asynchronous Callback – Way 3 – BeginInvoke > Poll for result’s IsCompleted > EndInvoke
• Explaining Delegates in C# – Part 7 (Asynchronous Callback – Way 4)
• Video – Getting Started with LINQ in .NET 3.5
• Basics of LINQ and Lambda Expressions
• 101 LINQ Samples
• Hooked on LINQ – Developers’ Wiki
• An Extensive Examination of LINQ: Lambda Expressions and Anonymous Types
• Delegates and Events in C#
• New Language Feature: Lambda Expressions
• Anonymous Methods (C# Programming Guide)

Related articles:

• Using LINQ to query things other than a DB