This morning I was getting ready to record a screencast about ReSharper 4 EAP. To make it easier for people to follow along, I launched Roy Osherove's excellent utility, Keyboard Jedi . Rather than the expected result, this friendly dialog box greeted me: Living La Vida x64 My main development machine...

During my geekSpeak screencast last week, one of the attendees asked: Any recommendations for refactoring existing code to insert interfaces? (e.g., what's the best dependency to break first, the database?) Excellent question! Most of us do not have the luxury of working on greenfield projects, but...

Today at lunch* I'll be joining Glen Gordon and Lynn Langit on geekSpeak to talk about Taming Your Software Dependencies. Specifically I'll be talking about moving from tightly-coupled to loosely-coupled architectures using dependency inversion, dependency injection, and inversion of control...

My latest article just hit the web in the March 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine. Loosen Up: Tame Your Software Dependencies for More Flexible Apps takes you on a journey from a highly-coupled architecture, which we're all familiar with, to gradually more loosely-coupled ones. First stop is the problems...

As promised, Microsoft has made the source for the .NET Framework available for debugging purposes. You'll need to be running Visual Studio 2008 and install this QFE (aka patch). Full instructions for how to enable .NET Framework source debugging can be found on Shawn Burke's blog here . You...

Previously I discussed some issues with modopt . Well there are more. In total I have logged three issues (could be many more as nearly every language I have looked at has the same problems). I figured I would put up some links and describe each issue here. C# specification does not define modopt varying...