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So I discovered something interesting today when working with class libraries and references in .Net. It isn't necessarily a bug, but it is definitely not the behavior I would expect. Let me explain what I did, what I expected, and what actually happened. I was…

Dang it. But I want to. C'mon. Apparently System.Reflection has it's limits. Also, creating a default value of a string that isn't null is non-trivial.

I had a spirited discussion today about the use of the keyword this in C#. I love conversations like that. Great things come from debates over the inane and trivial in programming, I've discovered. Some of the most impressive growth I've experienced as a software…

There has always and invariably been a "pro" version of whatever software I have used. This version was always enhanced with additional features that a frequent user would really want. Finely tuned options, extended ranges, elimination of handicaps from the free version, and a miriad…

I live for nifty code snippets. They make life so much easier. I also like .NET's generics support. When I was recently writing a utility library for myself, I found myself wanting to convert command line arguments to a defined type. How would one go…