When it comes to formatting dates and time strings [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8kb3ddd4(v=vs.110).aspx], people seem to forget (I don't blame them) and mixes up stuff like M vs m; which one is months and which one is minutes? And how many characters was it to get abbreviation instea…
Daniel Wertheim
Time to share something neath, and that is the possibility of using bitwise combinations of System.UriComponents (MSDN-docs [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7767559y(v=vs.110).aspx]) with System.Uri.GetComponents (MSDN-docs [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.uri.getcomponents(v…
Daniel Wertheim
I have a small piece of code that tests if a variable implements IConvertible by using x is IConvertible. I have three different projects running the same code. One for .Net4.0, one for .Net4.5 (both working fine) and one for WinRT/NetFX/Metro which of course doesn’t work. Inspecting e.g Int32 in t…
Daniel Wertheim
Recently I started a new open source project called MyCouch [http://github.com/danielwertheim/mycouch]. It’s a simple async CouchDB client for .Net. It’s based on top of the async HttpClient found in .Net 4.5, but thanks to Microsoft’s portable class libraries (PCL) found on NuGet, there’s now also…
Daniel Wertheim
So far I’m a Windows guy and I mainly spend my time within .Net. Historically I’ve been using Ruby, Rake and Albacore to manage my simple builds, like: building, copying, running tests, zipping and creating NuGet packages. No more! That era has come to an end. Meet Phantom – a mature and extendable…
Daniel Wertheim