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Free, Open Source UML Tools
Actually, seemed to serve my needs of producing a quick UML architecture diagram. It is free and offers an option to export the diagram as a ping image. This post…
Floats and Doubles can lose you money…use Decimals or a custom Money class instead
Ariane 5 Rocket Launcher Crash In 1996, the European Space Agency lost a valuable shuttle just 37 seconds into the launch sequence. After a deep dive into the root cause…
Moving from Oracle to SQL Server – Data Types To Worry About
As you start planning the migration of the schema objects, one immediate concern will be the data type mismatches between SQLServer and Oracle. Here are some helpful links in determining…
Diffs and Merges–Better Tools for TFS
One of the most frequent tasks that developers face is ‘comparing’ (diff between) two versions of a source ; Another related task is that of merging two (or more versions of)…
LINQ versus looping–Performance
Looping and Iterating is bad for performance right? So – a loop like the one below should be bad. for (int i = 0; i <= iterations; i++) { foreach…
VS 2010–View Call Hierarchy
Have you ever wanted to find all implementations of a particular interface method? Or all the overrides of an abstract method? In the past, this meant downloading a plugin such…
Use Funcs only if you want results back
If you are trying to encapsulate a method that returns a value, Funcs are ideal. However, what if your method returns void? Func will not work (Funcs were designed to…
Inserting copyright notice into your source files
UPDATE : The ‘Macros’ is no longer found under the ‘Tools’ menu in VS2012. You can download this extension for VS 2012 that provides macros capability – though I found…
Visual Studio Plugins that you (read ‘I’) didn’t know existed…
Of these, the only one I had been using was
Architecture for multiple services differentiated by Feature and by Platform
Say you have a set of services that your application (the server side) exposes. These could be categorized by feature: Account Service – contains methods for Creation, Deletion, Updating of…