Once in a while I’m stumbling on switch statements during a Code Review session. Whenever this is happening my first reaction is to understand why did the developer use it. Since using switch statement sometime implies spaghetti code and also can get very crowded (in case statements of course) in this post I’m going to show an alternative method that I pr...

Every time I work with one of our .NET customers to help them with managing their application performance I come across the same problems as seen with other clients before: lots of ADO.NET queries, many hidden exceptions in core or 3rd party .NET libraries, slow 3rd party components, inefficient custom code, … This article discusses the top problems, how to avoid them and how to do application performance management across the application lifecycle

I'm just back from Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, where the star of the show was the latest update to the Silverlight browser plug-in that lets you run .NET applications cross-platform and within the browser. The pace of development is remarkable. It is only 9 months ago that we were first shown the beta of Silverlight 3, at the Mix conference in March. Silverlight 3 was fully released in July; and now we have version 4.0 beta, with release promised for the first half of 2010.

The task bar has some of the most visible improvements in Windows 7 - find out how to hugely increase the usability of your .NET applications by tapping into the taskbar functionality. Jump lists, thumbnail previews and thumbnail toolbars are all covered.

Microsoft .Net Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 screenshots

The last topic I want to cover about the Windows 7 taskbar is the Jumplist!!! To create a new JumpList, call CreateJumpList()

This little tidbit is sparked by a question asked on the forum earlier. It was then that I realized that there isnt much content there regarding playing with the EventLog in C# (it really isnt as had as one may thing, trust me:) ).First thing we need to look at a few items in the System.Diagnostics Namespace.

Welcome to my tutorial on working with Enumerations (enum) in C#. In this tutorial we will cover a few items involving enum's including understand anding what enum's are, learn how to create new enum's, and learn how to use the enum's we create and become familiar with some of the built in classes for using and parsing enum's in C#.

This edition of Discoveries This Week includes both the very best of what I saw at PDC 2009 and the most outstanding things I’ve glimpsed going on in the F# community. Please do enjoy.