kebabShopBlues

The C# code-base I work on has hundreds of places where I have felt a boolean expression could have been used to simplify the code substantially.

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A colleague recently mentioned to me that he thought that re-throwing an exception with ‘throw ex’ was a Bad Thing… and as I was not aware of this I did some comparisons of different options to at least try to understand what I was losing out on by using ‘throw ex’.

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Yes - this is a post about an error - one that I could find nothing on Google about. It’s a quick one, about the Gentle persistence framework for .Net programming.

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My previous post posed some C# questions based on some code with incomplete output. This post provides the answers… don’t cheat now…

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I’ve been thinking about writing a technical test for my employer, and thought that I would start by following-up on my last post, and create a basic test on types and how they are passed as parameters.

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I’ve been thinking about some basic ideas recently related to the design of a Object Layer for the C#/.Net project that I’m working on. Actually, it’s not a proper OL really, more of a set of enhancements to the Data Access Layer generated with MyGeneration for the Gentle framework. Of course, this is all rather old-hat for anyone who’s utilised Datasets in .Net 2 or later, but there you go.

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I’ve been thinking a lot about coding style recently. I must admit that I have probably always tended to code in a way that would be considered to be verbose by many programmers. Although I learnt to program by myself, I benefited from an extensive professional programming course in PL/I (which doesn’t date me too much, but it does date the machines I was working with!)

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Just a quick note to say that I have just written and released a tutorial on getting C# .Net v2 to work with an Oracle database. It has its own page which is here.