Christopher Bennage

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• Building a WPF Application: Part 1

  I actually meant to say in my last post that I had investigated the API options for FriendFeed and they have a C# wrapper already available here . It's packaged up in a single download with its Python and PHP counterparts. Unfortunately, it has compilation... Posted Jul 22 2008, 07:51 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: WPF, Software Architecture, TDD, .NET, C#, ChumChase

• Building a WPF Application: Part 0

  In a rather indirect way, I was inspired by a commenter on one of Scott Hanselman's posts to begin a series that walks through building a WPF application from start to finish. We did this for four different applications in our book , but those where... Posted Jul 20 2008, 11:18 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: WPF, Software Architecture, TDD, .NET, ChumChase

• 42m is not a constant

  Here's a little CLR tidbit I picked up today while writing a [RowTest] with MbUnit. If you want to specify a decimal value in C#, you add the suffix m or M . You can read all about it here . This means you might have something in your code like this... Posted Oct 30 2007, 03:18 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Tips & Tricks

• My new little friend, Enum<T>

  I hate ugly code like this: MyEnum enumValue = (MyEnum) Enum.Parse(typeof (MyEnum), stringValue); Too many casts for my taste. Here's my answer (and yes it's so simple that I am embarrassed to post it, but just in case you haven't thought... Posted Sep 13 2007, 10:51 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with 26 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Tips & Tricks

• Tallahassee Code Camp

  Registration is now open for the 3rd annual Tallahassee Code Camp. It will be held on September 22nd, at Florida State University kicking off at 8AM. I'm very excited as this will be my first time presenting at a Code Camp. I'm going to do an... Posted Aug 29 2007, 04:27 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with no comments Filed under: fun, .NET

• .NET Classes You Should Know

  Phil Haack made an excellent post that I just have to propagate. It's his list of overlooked utility classes in the BCL . I like to think that I know my way around the framework, but, alas, I was not familiar with a one of these: System.IO.Path System... Posted Jun 15 2007, 07:51 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with no comments Filed under: .NET