Author Archives: simon

Many moons ago (at least 18 months ago), I had a stored procedure that let me search for text in DML in the databases. Yeah, so I could search for “Order” and it would find all mentions in SPs, functiosn … Continue reading →

Today, I had a problem of how to construct an object passing a specific date into the constructor. Normally, this is not an issue encountered frequently as only “services” are passed via constructor injection. This time however, I needed to … Continue reading →

Here is a quick sample showing how it is possible to create a flexible resizeable layout in WPF with a GridSplitter. Here we see how you can change the size of panes in a vertical and horizontal direction. And the … Continue reading →

For some reason, I have ignored the NUnit syntax around Assert.That up to now. I thought it was one of these experiments around a fluent interface which didn’t offer any advantages over the existing API. I wanted to write a … Continue reading →

I am making a concerted effort to really *learn* javascript at the moment. There are a load of great resources out there. Here is the beginnings of a list: Douglas Crockford’s Home Page JavaScript Garden – advanced topics Learn JavaScript … Continue reading →

Everyone probably knows this already, but it’s probably easy to miss as *stuff now just works*. Contravariance, or covariance is now improved to make working with generics that little bit simpler. The following code now compiles fine in .net 4, … Continue reading →

So, I’ve set up my console how Scott Hanselman recommended. This is how I managed to get Cygwin to work correctly as a shell. You just need to set your shell to: %cygwin-path%\bin\bash.exe –login -i

Ok, again – this isn’t really ground breaking or anything, but if you have a load of dependencies that you need to copy at build time to your bin folder, this is a nice script that goes into the pre-build … Continue reading →

Sometimes, in .net it can get a bit confusing about which interface you need to implement for to get object equality to work correctly. When using the Distinct extension method in Linq, IEqualityComparer<T> is very useful var items = new … Continue reading →

A little bit of unix command knowledge can often save a stack of time even on a windows box. This little snippet was really useful when I was trying to find out which file a function was declared in: find … Continue reading →