Christopher Bennage

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• 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#

• VS2008 Demo Challenge

  Last week or so, I stumbled on to the site for the Visual Studio 2008 Demo Challenge . The gist of the contest is to make a video explaining why VS 2008 is great, and then win stuff. Your video is played backed in a Silverlight app that your host at silverlight... Posted Feb 12 2008, 10:27 AM by Christopher Bennage with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Silverlight, humor, Musings, Visual Studio, Expression

• My Favorite Keyboard Shortcuts

  I'm such a wannabe ReSharper padawan . My motivation is good though: I want to be more productive. On a recent project, I was writing some code in front of a client employee, a novice developer himself, and he exclaimed "The code is just writing... Posted Oct 04 2007, 11:44 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: development tools, .Tips & Tricks, ReSharper, Visual Studio