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Google Considered C# as the Native Language for Android

Timm — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:24:57 +0000

Wow, I nearly fell out of my chair when I read this little gem on TechCrunch: Android chief Andy Rubin wrote in a 2005 email, “If Sun doesn’t want to work with us, we have two options: 1) Abandon our work and adopt MSFT CLR VM and C# language – or – 2) Do Java [...]

C# Custom Enumerators Made Simple with the Yield Keyword

Timm — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:24:55 +0000

An enumerator enables you to iterate over a collection in a foreach loop. You can use foreach to iterate over all C# collection classes, because all C# collection classes inherit from the IEnumerable interface (regular or generic). IEnumerable contains the GetEnumerator method, which returns an enumerator. Occasionally you may find a need to create a [...]

.NET Isn’t Dead

Timm — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:34:22 +0000

I jump into the controversy about the future of the .NET Framework and HTML5+JavaScript. Read “.NET Isn’t Dead” on DevTopics.com >>

Apparently C# Doesn’t Suck

Timm — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:20:13 +0000

YourLanguageSucks is a wiki on theory.org that lists reasons why the most popular programming languages suck. There are long lists of reasons why Java, JavaScript, C++ and PHP suck. But the list for C# is very short: Supports ‘goto’. Two distinct sets of collections: non-generic and generic. Stack and Queue have the same name in [...]

Microsoft.CSharp.targets was not found

Timm — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:48:27 +0000

If you receive the following Visual Studio compiler error: Error MSB4019: The imported project "C:Microsoft.CSharp.targets" was not found. Confirm that the path in the <Import> declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk. Open the current Visual Studio project file (with the .csproj extension) in Notepad. Find this line: <Import Project="$(MSBuildToolsPath)Microsoft.CSharp.targets" /> And [...]

Ultimate List of Freely Available .NET Libraries

Timm — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:41:15 +0000

Qink has assembled a comprehensive list of freely-available libraries for the Microsoft .NET platform. Free .NET Libraries

Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1

Timm — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:47:55 +0000

Microsoft has released Service Pack 1 for its Visual Studio 2010 flagship integrated development environment (IDE). Visual Studio SP1 provides many new features, performance improvements, and bug fixes including: Stand-alone Help Viewer 1.1 Silverlight 4 support Basic Unit Testing support for .NET 3.5 .NET Framework 4 improvements Performance Wizard for Silverlight Visual Basic Runtime embedding [...]

C# Internal Interface

Timm — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 17:15:15 +0000

When building a C# interface, you may find a need for both public and internal methods, such as: public class MyClass : IMyInterface { public void MyPublicMethod() { } internal void MyInternalMethod() { } } public interface IMyInterface { public void MyPublicMethod(); internal void MyInternalMethod(); } (For simplicity in this example, [...]

Where is PaddingF? And Other Padding Oddities

Timm — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:41:19 +0000

There is No PaddingF There is Point and PointF, Size and SizeF, Rectangle and RectangleF, Padding and… wait, there is no PaddingF! System.Drawing vs. System.Windows.Forms The 2-D drawing functions in the System.Drawing namespace accept both integer and floating point measurements. That’s why the main 2-D drawing structures have both int and float versions such as [...]

Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools Update

Timm — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:24:48 +0000

Microsoft has updated the free Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2010. These are add-ins that provide very useful additional functionality for Visual Studio. New in this release: No More Extension Resets – This version of the Productivity Power Tools will be the last which resets the extensions. Find – Quick find & incremental search [...]