Archive for the C# category

Building A Feed Reader #3: Downloading Feeds

Welcome back. After taking a look at understanding the problem, today O will discuss some of the issues to do with connectivity. But first:
Progress As Of Today
If I do say so myself, I have been VERY BUSY working on this. It is beginning to take shape and then some.
New Icons

Preliminary UI For blogs & smart […]

Profiling .NET Applications I

If you are a serious developer, you are certain to have either come across or used tools to profile your application. This will let you know a couple of things about your code:

How fast it (the program) executes
How fast each method executes
Bottlenecks within the code
Number of times loops execute
Memory usage
Number of objects created

These are pretty useful […]

Automatic Properties In C# 3

One of the neat things in the next C# is that finally the language supports automatically generated properties. Basically the compiler will create code for you that implements the plumbing of the getters and the setters, which is generally VERY BORING to type.
In short, you can do this in a class:
 

1: public […]

Project Source Code Removal

The other day I ran into a slight problem.
It began simply enough — I was to deploy a complex asp.net project to a client server without any source code. The intellectual property of the company I worked for had to be maintained.
Simple enough, I thought. Just create a deployment package and specify only the content […]