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

• Using Lambdas to get at properties

  This is a somewhat made-up scenario based on a recent project. My client has not given me permission to discuss the specifics of the application (yet), so I apologize for keeping it vague. I hope you don't give up before the payoff. The Problem Imagine... Posted Jul 16 2008, 08:36 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: WPF, Featured, Tips & Tricks, C#, .NET 3.5, lambdas

• Identifying Control Templates Parts in WPF

  I'm currently writing the chapter about control templates in our WPF book , and I wanted to include a list of all of the named parts that are hidden away in the dark recesses of the various controls. Before I even started googling, I had an idea that... Posted Mar 09 2008, 09:28 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: WPF, Tips & Tricks, C#

• Discovering Empty Try/Catch Blocks

  I've been burned by a few bugs recently due to swallowed exceptions. In case you don't know, empty catch blocks will hurt you. Really, they will. I wanted a way to locate all of the empty blocks in our code base, I was playing around with NDepend... Posted Feb 21 2008, 12:03 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: Tips & Tricks, Visual Studio, C#