I'm a Brisbane-based software developer, and founder of Octopus Deploy, a DevOps software company. This is my personal blog where I write about my journey with Octopus and software development.
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.Enterprise applications typically deal with many categories of strings. Human names, reference codes, SKU identifiers, email addresses -
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.Sheldon is a WPF command line control, and code to integrate it with IronPython. It's designed
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.I am a big fan of Rhino.Mocks [http://www.ayende.com/projects/rhino-mocks.aspx], and like all
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.Can you spot the danger in the following code? public void HandleAdd(IEnumerable<T> addedItems) { lock
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.A number of people have asked whether it is possible to implement INotifyPropertyChanged [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.Abusing language features * Strongly-typed property names for INotifyPropertyChanged [https://paulstovell.com/strong-property-names] * Enforced/strongly-typed strings [https://paulstovell.com/
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.When you use the Outlook 2007 search, Vista's start search, or the Search bar in Explorer,
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.One difference between XAML in a C# project and VB.NET projects is in specifying the x:Class
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.One of the upcoming additions in .NET 3.5 SP1 is a StringFormat parameter you can pass along
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.In 2001, Microsoft published a paper called Inductive User Interface Guidelines [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms997506.
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.Windows Presentation Foundation is the next generation framework for building desktop Windows applications. I have been working with
This is an old post and doesn't necessarily reflect my current thinking on a topic, and some links or images may not work. The text is preserved here for posterity.(This page deals with editing a single object - for collections, see IEditableObject Adapter for Collections [https://paulstovell.