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ALM Practices Part 7: Refactoring

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What is it? A mindset and practice that requires you to continuously reevaluate a region of code each time you make a change. In essence, you need to look at the code related to your changes and reconsider whether the original solution is still the best solution accounting for the information you...

June 30, 2010

Coding Guidelines for C# 3.0 and C# 4.0 now available

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As promised earlier, you can now download the concept version of my new Coding Guidelines for C# 3.0 and C# 4.0 from a dedicated CodePlex site at www.csharpcodinguidelines.com. The list of changes is quite big, and includes new guidelines covering object-oriented design, design principles, C# 4.0...

June 28, 2010

Things to do to fill up my free time

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Now that my CQRS/Event Sourcing talk for DotNED is done, the pressure on the free hours between work and family has been reduced significantly. That doesn’t mean I’m going to sit back and relax. Oh no, I’m full of ideas. so let’s see some of my plans. I’m still going to continue developing The...

May 30, 2010

CQRS and Event Sourcing

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Yesterday evening I did a talk on building a .NET-based system using Command Query Responsibility Segregation and Event Sourcing. We had a lot of awesome discussions on its applicability, and as usual, I ran out of time again. I could have easily spend a full day on this subject, but unfortunatel...

May 28, 2010

ALM Practices Part 6: Code Analysis & Guidelines

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What is it? Coding guidelines, or coding standards if you will, are documents consisting of rules and recommendations on the use of C# in enterprise systems. They deal with code layout, naming guidelines, the proper use of the .NET Framework, tips on writing useful comments and XML documentat...

April 20, 2010