db4o Driver for LINQPad
Way back in my posts about db4o I complained about the missing tool support. I also demonstrated how to use LINQPad for ad hoc queries. However wouldn’t it be cooler…
Read moreFun with NDepend, Part II: Creating Dependency Violation Warnings
Last time I gave a short overview over the features of NDepend. We know that NDepend can show a detailed dependency analysis your projects. This time I show you how…
Read moreFun with NDepend, Part I: Overview
Let’s have fun with another tool in the .NET-universe: NDepend. NDepend is a high-level code / IL analysis tool. In this post I give a short overview. In future posts…
Read moreSingle App-Instance in .NET
Sometime it makes sense to enforce that only one instance of your application is running, for example a media player application. There are different ways to archive that. I just…
Read moreComparing Language Workbenches
For the ‘Program Analysis and Transformation’ seminar I compared three language workbenches, namely Jetbrains Meta Programming System (MPS), Spoofax and Actifsource (Although Actifsoure is not a language workbench but rather…
Read moreNicer Collection Instantiation In Java
In my last post I showed that you can write a ‘cast’-method with all kind of strange properties. You probably think that this is very stupid thing to do. This…
Read moreMagic Cast Method in Java
Since Java introduced generics the type declarations got at lot longer. This is especially annoying when an API forces you to cast objects, like the reflection-API, the JDO-API , etc.…
Read moreC# 5.0 Async-Feature: Unit Testing Part III, Avoid Void.
Disclaimer: This post is based on the C# 5.0 CTP. Everything described here is subject to future changes. Last time I demonstrated that the synchronization context is also relevant for…
Read moreC# 5.0 Async-Feature: Unit Testing Part II, Synchronization-Context Again?
Disclaimer: This post is based on the C# 5.0 CTP. Everything described here is subject to future changes. Last time we explored some implications of the C# asynchronous operations for…
Read moreC# 5.0 Async-Feature: Unit Testing, Part I
Disclaimer: This post is based on the C# 5.0 CTP. Everything described here is subject to future changes. I’ve already discussed some implications of the async feature in my previous…
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