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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 11:21 PM

Why Too Many Overloads Can Be a Bad Thing

At work we're using code generation to create our data access layer. So for the users table we have a UsersDalBase with many overloads of methods such as Add(User) and Add(IList<User>). Thing is, many time we need to override the default behavior of a method. For instance we might want to change Add(User) to notify the user by mail, write something to a log, use caching, etc. We do that in a UsersDal class that inherits from UsersDalBase. But hmm, that other overload that accepts a list...
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Friday, January 11, 2008 3:14 PM

Don't Seal That Door

I've been going over this week's updates, and ran across this post in CodeBetter , that talks about why classes should be sealed by default, only to be unsealed by the 'unsealed' keyword. I couldn't disagree more. I think that you need a hell of a good reason to seal a class, so claiming that most classes should be sealed is a bit seems outrageous to me. I believe it's absurd to prevent extensibility for your classes, and if classes are sealed by default, the result will be...
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Saturday, September 01, 2007 4:24 PM

Upgrading to .NET 2.0? PowerCollections to your Aid.

The .NET 2.0 framework has been here a while, but if you're like my team, you're still using a lot of code that you wrote back at the .NET 1.1 days. It's likely that many of these methods are using non-generic collections. This poses an annoying issue. Check out this method: public IList GetAllUsers(IList userCodes) { IList list = new ArrayList(); // Add the users here... // ... return list; } On the one hand, you don't want to touch the older code. It is working, it doesn't have unit-tests, and...
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Friday, May 11, 2007 5:37 AM

Anonymous Delegates or DisposableActions?

One of the most useful features of .NET 2.0 is anonymous delegates. They allow you to create "wrappers" for code which run before and after the code, handle exceptions in it, and decide whether to run it or not. Consider the following method: public static void WrapCall(Callback callback) { try { callback(); } catch (Exception x) { ExceptionManager.Publish(x); throw ; } } Which will be called like this: WrapCall( delegate () { DataAccess.UpdateSomething(); EmailSender.SendSomething(); }); This ensures...
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007 6:49 PM

If we didn't have loops

I've stumbled upon this article which explains how to implement delegates in Java. The issue of implementing things we have taken for granted reminded me of a course I took a few years ago, in a language called Scheme, which is a variant of Lisp. Scheme is a functional language, and has a very recursive nature. It has no loops. As exercises at this course, we had to implement things such as While and For loops and add them to the Scheme interpreter. This made me think of how I would implement loops...
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Friday, February 02, 2007 4:46 PM

Using AOP and PostSharp to Enhance Your Code: Part B

At the last part we talked a little about post compiling, AOP and how we can use the PostSharp tool to make our code look a lot better. At this part I want to get a little more deep inside the mechanism behind this cool feature, and I'll do this by first showing another example. The Logging Attribute Let's say you want to create an attribute that enables you to log a method, including when you entered the method, the arguments it received and it's processing time. Sounds useful, no? Let's see how...
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Monday, January 29, 2007 5:39 PM

Using AOP and PostSharp to Enhance Your Code: Part A

Click here for Part B I've been looking at ways to improve the quality of my team's code by removing "unrelated" code from within methods. By that I mean things like opening transactions, caching and exception handling. For instance, code like that might be quite common: public object GetSomething() { try { object o = HttpContext.Current.Cache[ " MySomething " ]; if (o == null ) return o; using (TransactionScope scope = new TransactionScope()) { o = DataAccess.ActuallyGetSomething(); scope.Complete...
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