I’ve discovered recently myself that there’s not a lot of online content available. Check out the Workflow Foundation 4 Resources and Community site on MSDN for some good articles and labs. Also, download the WF4 Samples. I’ve learned a lot from poking through these samples and trying things out locally. As for the WHY of … Read more
Here’s how it would work with async: try { await FooAsync(); await BarAsync(); await FubarAsync(); Console.WriteLine(“All done”); } catch(Exception e) // For illustration purposes only. Catch specific exceptions! { Console.WriteLine(e); } This would work on .NET 4.0 if you installed the (prerelease) Microsoft.Bcl.Async package. Since you’re stuck on VS2010, you can use a variant of … Read more
The purpose of the Lazy feature in .NET 4.0 is to replace a pattern many developers used previously with properties. The “old” way would be something like private MyClass _myProperty; public MyClass MyProperty { get { if (_myProperty == null) { _myProperty = new MyClass(); } return _myProperty; } } This way, _myProperty only gets … Read more
Here are some you can use. Depending on the price you want to pay. I have godd experiences with GoDaddy and DiscoutASP (both offers what you need, depending on what you want to pay). But there are so many hosters. Its not only the features and price that counts, it is also the location of … Read more
To summarise what was discussed in the comments: Hashing is designed to provide a value that doesn’t change for a given object, no matter what happens to it – hence it’s best to depend only on readonly fields in your GetHashCode method. Firstly, I would suggest making the name and lname field readonly, because they … Read more
Ok I found a solution that works. You need to do two things: First add FrameworkPathOverride as a commandline parameter and point it to the references assemblies directory. Something like msbuild -p:FrameworkPathOverride=”C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.0″ The second thing you need to do is find a full version of the reference assemblies directory. Since the copy installed … Read more
Based on your input I have done the following code: public class FileUnblocker { [DllImport(“kernel32”, CharSet = CharSet.Unicode, SetLastError = true)] [return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Bool)] private static extern bool DeleteFile(string name); public bool Unblock(string fileName) { return DeleteFile(fileName + “:Zone.Identifier”); } } Thanks to Stuart Dunkeld, Alex K(+1) and Sven to show me the direction. UPDATE I … Read more
Imagine you have a method like this: bool ContainsAnX(string s) { return s.Contains(“X”); } Now, this method will always fail if you pass null to it, so you want to ensure this never happens. This is what Contract.Requires is for. It sets a precondition for the method, which must be true in order for the … Read more
You can use an extension method: public static class Extensions { public static string NullIfWhiteSpace(this string value) { if (String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(value)) { return null; } return value; } } Which you could use like that: var mySqlValue = tbCustomerId.Text.NullIfWhiteSpace(); I don’t really know what you imagine by something better than Extension methods. How do you define … Read more
Well, this works: class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { var task = Task.Factory.StartNew(() => { Thread.CurrentThread.Name = “foo”; Thread.Sleep(10000); // Use Debug + Break to see it }); task.Wait(); } } There’s a problem however, the threadpool thread gets recycled and won’t change its name. This can be confusing, you’ll see it running … Read more