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Is Inshoring a relevant strategy for Michigan’s Software Industry?

Dianne Marsh and I have been sharing time writing a monthly column for the Ann Arbor Business Review magazine.  This last month, I wrote about the trend for ‘inshoring’: Outsourcing software development from either coast to the midwest regions. Read...

Posted 16 December 2008 09:52 PM by wwagner | 2 comment(s)

Filed under: Me, articles, local interest

Learning new languages with VSM

This month’s VSM has a pair of articles by me and Kathleen Dollard that were great fun to write, and I believe they’ll be useful to a wide audience. My regular C# corner column discusses what every VB Developer should know about C#. Kathleen’s column...

Posted 01 December 2008 11:31 AM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: C#, articles, .NET General, C# General, DevCenterPosts

Q & A on a recent VSM Article

One of my last Visual Studio Magazine article discussed object validation and object invariants. I received a great email discussing questions about how to handle UI validation in this world. My recommendation in the article was that classes should be...

Posted 22 July 2008 02:13 PM by wwagner | 1 comment(s)

Filed under: C#, articles, C# General

New Visual Studio Magazine online site (includes all my recent articles)

It took a while, but the new Visual Studio Magazine online site ( www.visualstudiomagazine.com ) is now live. All my columns for the C# Corner are found here: http://visualstudiomagazine.com/columns/columnist.aspx?columnistsid=54

Posted 13 November 2007 10:16 PM by wwagner | 2 comment(s)

Filed under: C#, articles, Links

Another new community author for the C# Developer Center

Charlie Calvert has added another new author to the C# Develper Center . Thomas Lebrun has added an article about extension methods. He gives a good solid overview of what extension metods are, how to use them, how to define them, and how to prevent collisions...

Posted 25 October 2007 10:50 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: LINQ, C#, articles, C# General

Reader Questions on Threads

I received a couple reader questions from my last Visual Studio Magazine article (link here ). I thought they would be of general interest, so I'll answer them here: 1- you write: "The new object is created, and initialized before it is assigned...

Posted 03 September 2007 05:09 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: C#, articles

New article on MSDN Online

Creating mixins with interfaces + extension methods My latest C# article has been posted on MSDN Online: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vcsharp/default.aspx . This article discusses how you can use extension methods to provide implementation reuse for...

Posted 11 July 2007 04:15 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: articles

New Visual Studio Magazine column is live

This one is about Exception handling and writing robust exception code Just a quick post: My latest column on C# Exception handling practices is online. Here's the summary:' Thrown exceptions break the normal flow of execution in a program to...

Posted 26 June 2007 02:37 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: articles

New C# Corner article is live

ftponline: Building adapters for reuse My May column for Visual Studio Magazine is live . Here's the intro: You can save space and even time by compressing your persistent data store. The interesting trick is to provide this functionality by adapting...

Posted 27 May 2007 11:31 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: articles

Article Link: Moving Beyond Generics

I am writing for Visual Studio Magazine again The first installment of my C# Corner column is live on the Visual Studio Magazine site: Generics: Move Beyond Collections Generics can solve many more problems than collections. Use generics to write code...

Posted 03 May 2007 07:39 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: articles

Another short post on the C# Dev Center

Var, local type inference, and why it's not weak typing I've got another post on the C# Developer center. This one explains var, and the difference between type inference and weak typing. It's posted here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us...

Posted 13 March 2007 07:18 AM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: articles

Changes in the C# Developer Center

Mark Michaelis and I are sharing space Mark Michaelis and I are going to be alternating space on the front page of the C# Developer Center. His first post is on the changes to the Exception handling mechanism for C# 2.0. My first article takes you on...

Posted 17 January 2007 08:49 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: articles

Custom Iterators article on MSDN

Based on my AADND talk in December My article on Custom Iterators is available as a download at MSDN. This is based on the talk I gave for the Ann Arbor .NET Developers Group in December. It's currently available as a Word document download. Custom...

Posted 15 January 2007 05:23 AM by wwagner | with no comments

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My LINQ article is online at FTP

An overview of the LINQ featureset Fawcette has just published a set of articles on SQL Server 2005. In addition to my article on LINQ, local tech good guy Jason Follas has an article on SQL CLR. My article on LINQ See how the LINQ syntax, specifically...

Posted 04 May 2006 07:08 PM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: articles

My .NET DJ article is online

Generics and patterns One of my concerns with most of the articles on generics is that we seem to concentrate on collections, collections, and more collections. But, generics are good for other items as well. So, I wrote the following article discussing...

Posted 25 April 2006 04:53 AM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: articles