7 Signs You Are Addicted to CodeRush and Refactor!

Published 15 years ago

I am a big fan of CodeRush and Refactor! from DevExpress and have been one for quite some time. In my office we jokingly refer to CodeRush and Refactor as the "arrow guy" as my colleagues initially just saw a bunch of arrows pointing to code in my code editor when I gave a first demo of the product. But, obviously, the products do a lot more. They really make me more productive in writing .NET code. But better yet, they help me write good, optimized and organized code. Features like renaming code elements, renaming files to match the type they contain, optimizing namespaces, extracting methods and the many new refactorings that come with the new "Code Issues" feature are huge time savers. Recently I installed the latest version that comes with DXperience 9.1.3. This release includes many cool new refactorings and new features in Code Issues that help you optimize your code with a single click. I can really recommend downloading a trial version and see for yourself if you haven't already done so.

But lately I am wondering if I am not just a fan, but addicted to the products instead. I witnessed the following signs of addiction while working with computer programs in general:

Book Review: Professional IIS 7 by Ken Schaefer and others

Published 15 years ago

People often ask me how I like Vista and whether I think it’s better than Windows XP or not. My standard reply is that I would have switched to Windows Vista for IIS 7 alone (I also do like many other Vista features, and thus prefer Vista over XP but that’s beside the point here). In my opinion, IIS 7 is in many respects a lot better than its predecessor IIS 6 which runs on Windows XP and Server 2003. Besides the many new features that IIS 7 brings, it has one big advantage over the version running on Windows XP: it allows you to create multiple web sites that can run at the same time. No more messing around with tools like IIS Admin Pro although it was extremely useful in working around the limitations of IIS on Windows XP.

But with a new release of a complex piece of software as IIS is also comes the need for more knowledge and background information of the product. This is where the Wrox book Professional IIS 7 written by Kevin Schaefer et al proved to be very useful.

So who gets the credits for the idea of the Validation framework?

Published 15 years ago

In my article series on N-Layer design I credited AzamSharp for his article on creating a domain object validation framework. AzamSharp didn't cite any other resources so it looks as all the ideas presented in the article are his.

Announcing the launch of DotNetAttributes.Com!

Published 15 years ago

I am proud to announce the launch of my new web site: www.DotNetAttributes.com - the definitive source for attributes in .NET.

Book Review: ASP.NET 3.5 Social Networking by Andrew Siemer

Published 15 years ago

A while ago I was approached by Packt Publishing to see if I was interested in reviewing a copy of one of their books. The topic of the book they had in mind (ASP.NET 3.5 Social Networking) is closely related to my own work so I said yes.

VB.NET Version of the Contact Manager Application Now Available

Published 15 years ago

It's finally here: the VB.NET version of the demo application from my article series on N-Layer Design using ASP.NET 3.5.

What's wrong with this picture?

Published 15 years ago

Update 02/13/2009: Somebody with influence is reading this blog too, as the article has now been removed. Excellent!

While checking the referrers of my web site today, I ran into this URL:

http://www.cnblogs.com/shanyou/articles/542218.html

First Part of new Article Series on N-Layer Design in ASP.NET 3.5 Published!

Published 16 years ago

I am glad to announce the immediate availability of the first part of a brand new article series on N-Layered Design in ASP.NET 3.5!

I have received an MVP Award!!

Published 16 years ago

I was really pleased when I received the following e-mail today:

Wanted: Input for the Next Version of my N-Layer Architecture Articles!

Published 16 years ago

It's been more than one and a half year since I released the first version of my articles on N-Layer Design. Since then, the three articles combined have been read well over 200,000 times. Besides generating a lot of page views, the articles also attracted a lot of comments from you, my readers, with great feedback and requests.