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Nice…Hopefully if you're reading this you've noticed that I've started a series of Tips recently. The Tips will mostly apply to Entity Framework.
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Might need this…As of right now Enums are not in EF4. Now we will be listening to your feedback about Beta1, and making some adjustments, so you never know, but at the moment it doesn’t look like they will be supported.
Yesterday though I came up with a workaround that, while a bit of work, is pretty interesting.
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Possibly useful…Using cleartext username/password is usually not recommended. However it is sometimes required (like with F5's BIG-IP). WCF does not natively allow us to use such scenario. For this reason I have written ClearUsernameBinding – a WCF binding that enables to send cleartext username/password over HTTP.
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One more thing to read periodically…I still feel C++ offers some things that can't be beaten. It's not my intention to start a flame war here, please, if you have strong opinions about not liking C++ don't vent them here. I'm interested in hearing from C++ gurus about why they stick with it.
I'm particularly interested in aspects of C++ that are little known, or underutilised.
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Still more…I have an interest in msbuild this week. I'm cleaning up a lot of extremely complex build scripts. Digging in surprises me with how much it can do – msbuild is sort of a hidden feature of .NET programming in itself.
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Another one to visit often…There are always features that would be useful in fringe scenarios, but for that very reason most people don't know them. I am asking for features that are not typically taught by the text books.
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Excellent; return oftenb…We, C# developers, all know the basics of C#. I mean declarations, conditionals, loops, operators, etc.
Some of us even mastered the stuff like Generics, anonymous types, lambdas, linq, …
But what are the most hidden features or tricks of C# that even C# fans, addicts, experts barely know?
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Nice…The DebuggerDisplay attribute has a single argument, which is a string to be displayed in the value column for instances of the type. This string can contain braces ({ and }). Text within a pair of braces will be evaluated as a field, property or method.
