Articles on Microsoft Code Contracts

List of  articles of a series concerning Microsoft Code Contracts. Articles without a link will be published as they become available.

• Part 01 – Introduction
• Part 02 – Preconditions
• Part 03 – Postconditions
• Part 04 – Object Invariants
• Part 05 – Abstract Types and Interfaces
• Part 06 – Runtime Support

• Part 07 – Contract Reference Assemblies
• Part 08 – An Interview with the Microsoft Code Contracts Team

• Part 09 – Refactoring a Legacy Code Base
• Part 10 – Writing a Custom Contract Runtime Class
• Part 11 – Documenting Code Contracts
• Part 12 – Command Line Tools
• Part 13 – Contracts in Continuous Integration
• Part 14 – A Chat with Microsoft’s Code Contracts Team

Scott Hanselman’s Greatest Hits in 2009

Scott Hanselman‘s Greatest Hits in 2009 (also in  2008):

General Geekery

• Painful Reminder: Focus on Core Competencies (and Back Stuff Up)
• 10 Awesome Things I Remember About Computers
• FizzBin – The Technical Support Secret Handshake
• Paving my machine for a fresh 2009 – First-Pass Must-Haves
• Low Bandwidth View and other Hidden (and Future) Features of MSDN
• Less Virtual, More Machine – Windows 7 and the magic of Boot to VHD
• Switching my Windows 7 Boot Disk from D to C with BCDBoot rather than BCDEdit
• Running a Subversion Server off your Windows Home Server
• Virtual Camaraderie – A Persistent Video “Portal” for the Remote Worker
• Upgrading my Lenovo W500 to a OCZ Vertex 250GB SATA II Solid State Disk (SSD)
• Step-By-Step: Turning a Windows 7 DVD or ISO into a Bootable VHD Virtual Machine
• Step-By-Step: How To “Upgrade” from Windows XP to Windows 7
• Scott Hanselman’s 2009 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
• Herding Cats: Organize your Desktop Icons with Stardock Fences for Windows
• Get those pixels working for you

Blogging

• Don’t Give Bile a Permalink – Finding Balance within The No Asshole Rule
• These are the little bugs that lead to madness

Twitter

• How To Twitter – First Steps and a Twitter Glossary
• When Word of Mouth Got a Permalink – Companies, Customers and Twitter
• Twitter: Let the Information Wash Over You

Podcasts

• Week Three in South Africa – Scott talks to his Wife, Ntombenhle and Hanselminutes Podcast 153 – Scott’s Wife Mo interviews Scott Hanselman
• Hanselminutes Podcast 145 – SOLID Principles with Uncle Bob – Robert C. Martin
• Hanselminutes Podcast 161 – BBSs and Wildcat! from Mustang Software
• Hanselminutes Podcast 166 – Windows Presentation Foundation explained by Ian Griffiths – I still get mail on this podcasts saying it was the best episode we’ve ever done. The credit for this goes squarely to Ian.
• “Hanselminutes on 9” – I did lots of fun videos for Channel 9 this year and I was very proud of these.

Programming

• Hanselminutes Podcast 145 – SOLID Principles with Uncle Bob – Robert C. Martin (ya, twice. It’s a good show)
• Real World Apps in Days not Weeks
• Back to Basics: 32-bit and 64-bit confusion around x86 and x64 and the .NET Framework and CLR
• Mix: Getting my head around Oslo, M and MGrammar
• The Weekly Source Code 39 – Commodore 64 Emulator in Silverlight 3
• The Weekly Source Code 40 – TweetSharp and Introducing Tweet Sandwich
• Breaking All The Rules with WCF
• Top 10 Tips Working Developers Should Know about Windows 7
• The Weekly Source Code 45 – Kicking Butt on Windows 7 *and* Windows XP
• Programming for Absolute Beginners
• Light it Up: List of Applications that use new Windows 7 Features

.NET and ASP.NET

• ASP Dynamic Data Preview – More ways to exploit ADO.NET Data Services for fun and profit
• Splitting DateTime – Unit Testing ASP.NET MVC Custom Model Binders
• ELMAH: Error Logging Modules and Handlers for ASP.NET (and MVC too!)
• C# 4 and the dynamic keyword – Whirlwind Tour around .NET 4 (and Visual Studio 2010) Beta 1
• ASP 4 – Whirlwind Tour around .NET 4 (and Visual Studio 2010) Beta 1
• MultiBrowser or CrossBrowser Testing and deconstructing Microsoft Expression Web SuperPreview

Gadgets and Product Reviews

• A year with an Amazon Kindle (and new Kindle Cases)
• Accidental Prescience and the Secrets of Project Natal
• It’s a Man-Bag – Muzetto Laptop Messenger Bag Review
• Review – Mophie Juice Pack (not the Juice Pack Air)
• Review: Mimo Monitors – iMo Pivot
• Review: Trying Clear from Clearwire – Mobile Broadband Service
• Review and Comparison: Microsoft LifeCam Cinema HD and VX-7000 with High Quality Video in Skype and Live Messenger
• Herding Cats: Organize your Desktop Icons with Stardock Fences for Windows
• Screenshots: Amazon Kindle 2 gets Better Battery Life and Native PDF Support
• Review: Zeo Personal Sleep Coach
• The (Near) Final Word on Multi-Monitor Taskbars for Windows 7 – Ultramon vs. DisplayFusion

Speaking and Presentations

• Mix 09 – First Half Rollup and Session Videos
• Mix: Mobile Web Sites with ASP.NET MVC and the Mobile Browser Definition File
• Social Networking for Developers – Conference Talk Video
• The HaaHa Show visits .NET Rocks
• Videos from the Norwegian Developer’s Conference
• Oredev Keynote – Information Overload and Managing the Flow: Effectiveness and Efficiency
• Oredev 2009 – LIVE (now recorded) Closing Panel Video

Personal Stuff and LifeHacks

• South Africa 2008: NewsFlash – Turns out eating less and moving more causes weight loss
• Technical Presentations: Be Prepared for Absolute Chaos
• Baby Sign Language 2.0 – Update at 14 months
• Paint Fence, Cut Wood, Pull Weed, Plant Tree – Finding Geek Balance Outside My Comfort Zone
• Building your own Arcade Cabinet for Geeks – Part 7 – Success and Conclusion
  1. 1. Cabinet and Power
     2. Monitor and Mounting
     3. Control Panel
     4. Sound and Lights
     5. Paint and Art
     6. Computer Hardware and Software
     7. Success and Conclusion
  • The Complete Series
• Best Practices for Individual Contribution
• Burnt Day – I need a Do-Over for Monday
• Square Foot Gardening for Programmers
• The Three Most Important Outlook Rules for Processing Mail

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
• Overview of C# 4.0
• How to Get a Stack Trace from C# without throwing Exception
• More On The Death of If-Else
• Pivoting DataTable Simplified
• Convert a List<> Into XML using LINQ
• Aspect Oriented Programming – your good friend
• DI Patterns: Constructor Injection
• Garbage Collection in .NET – How it really works
• Reflection on a method with an out parameter
• List of Top 50 free applications for Windows
• Top 12 Ruby on Rails Tutorials
• Moving your ASP.NET Application to Windows Azure
• Martin Fowler on Passive View
• 5 Very Useful C# Attributes
• Using AutoMapper’s Custom Formatters
• Guidelines for consistent exception handling
• 66+ Free Cheat Sheets

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
• Rolling with Ruby on Rails
• IronRuby .NET Integration
• 34 Ruby on Rails 3 resources to get you started
• Ruby on Rails Tutorial

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)

Some tutorials:

• LINQ to Objects Tutorial

Related articles:

• Using LINQ to query things other than a DB