Tag Archives: C#

Future Values With Castle’s DynamicProxy

Posted on May 29, 2007 by Thom

.NET has lots of support for asynchronous processing, which ASP.NET packages up very nicely in PageAsyncTasks. And yet I almost always find an excuse not to use them – they’re hard to test, it’s not instantly obvious what the logic … Continue reading →

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Perfidy: Performance Testing In NUnit

Posted on September 17, 2006 by Thom

Unsatisfied with calling QueryPerformanceCounter and being done with it, I spent today coming up with a fluent interface for performance testing in NUnit: using (At.Most(5).Seconds) { // Stuff that should take under 5 seconds } using (At.Most(1).Minute.GiveOrTake(10).Seconds) { // Stuff … Continue reading →

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NHibernate-friendly Types

Posted on September 11, 2006 by Thom

It’s probably a combination of laziness and plain bad form to try and map too many BCL types to your database, but if you’re interested, I’ve gone through a few important assemblies and compiled a list of classes that: Are … Continue reading →

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Safety! Implicit Operator!

Posted on August 16, 2006 by Thom

Despite all the effort involved, operator overloading in C# is a nice syntactic hug you should always try and give your code. While that usually just gets you a bunch of boring comparison operators which you are forbidden to use … Continue reading →

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Tragic 8-Ball

Posted on July 19, 2006 by Thom

I get two 15-minute breaks and a lunch hour every day. While lunch is sacred, I decided recently that I could put the 2 * 15 minutes to better use than catching up on feeds and playing chess. And thus … Continue reading →

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