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Monthly Archives: March 2008
Parameterized State Transformer Monad in F#?
I have have been playing around with F# and I decided to create a state monad. This worked out really well since I was able to leverage the F# computation expressions. I then decided to try to extend this and … Continue reading
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What annoys me when writing generic functions in Visual Studio…
When writing a generic function I start from left to right (the same way I write most things except when I took Yiddish in college). For example, Lets say I am writing a simple generic method which return the first … Continue reading
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SQL CE 3.5 with LINQ to SQL Revisited
A few days ago I made a post about using SQL CE 3.5 with LINQ to SQL. I described a way to use connection pooling with SQL CE. A gracious blog reader (Mike Brown) pointed out a way I could … Continue reading
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The Snippet Designer is Released!!!!
Some History The Snippet Designer was started as an intern project of mine during the Summer of 2006. The idea was to make snippet files (which were introduced to Visual Studio in 2005) a first class entity. Following this idea … Continue reading
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SQL CE 3.5 with LINQ to SQL
Using LINQ to SQL with SQL CE 3.5 can be a bit of a challenge. First off, the LINQ to SQL Visual Studio designer doesn’t support SQL CE so you need to run sqlmetal from the command line to create … Continue reading
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CollectionView.DeferRefresh() : My new best friend
Well, maybe not best friend but its a nice function. When working with bound collections in WPF you often end up dealing with a CollectionView. This is the MSDN documentation description of a CollectionView : You can think of a … Continue reading
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I started playing with F#…
I decided to do some Project Euler problems using F#. So here is my first one, Problem # 31. Nothing in this solution really shows off anything special about F# but you have to start somewhere ;) 1: #light 2: … Continue reading
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Generic Insert and Update for LINQ To SQL
Quick code snippet time! The following are generic methods for inserting and updating a detached entity into a database using LINQ to SQL. 1: /// <summary> 2: /// Updates the database with item. 3: /// </summary> 4: /// <typeparam name=”T”>Type … Continue reading
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Worst Case Scenario for QuickSort
Take a look at the following code: 1: var sw = new Stopwatch(); 2: sw.Start(); 3: Enumerable.Range(0, 3).SelectMany((i) => Enumerable.Range(0, 50000)).OrderBy(i => i).ToList(); 4: Console.WriteLine(sw.ElapsedMilliseconds); 5: 6: sw.Reset(); 7: sw.Start(); 8: Enumerable.Range(0, 2).SelectMany((i) => Enumerable.Range(0, 50000)).OrderBy(i => i).ToList(); 9: Console.WriteLine(sw.ElapsedMilliseconds); … Continue reading
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The two most important WPF Tools
I have been working a lot with WPF and I found the following two FREE tools to be extremely helpful. The first is: XamlPadX – (http://blogs.msdn.com/llobo/archive/2007/12/19/xamlpadx-v3-0.aspx) This is an enhanced version of XamlPad which comes with the .NET SDK. This … Continue reading
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