While working on the dotNetTips Dev Cleaner utility, I wanted to make the deletion of files even faster. While writing this utility I found and worked on speed issues, almost all relating to updating the user interface. So to decouple the deleting from the UI I decided to add a new feature to the dotNetTips.Utility [...]
For the first time, I will be speaking at the Triangle .NET User Group in Morrisville, NC on October 27th at 6pm. If you live in the area, I hope to see you there. It's going to be a fun session. Rock Your Code Knowledge - The Game How well do you know coding practices [...]
For many years when speaking at conferences, I have shared my workflow on what I do before I submit code changes to source control. This article will explain it more in detail. I share this workflow because it makes sure that I rarely get bug tickets from quality assurance and hopefully it will for you [...]
Encapsulation is the first pillar of Object Oriented Programming (OOP), yet most code that I see does not implement encapsulation correctly or not all. Like I say in many of my conference sessions "If you do not implement encapsulation, you aren't doing OOP!" I also say "Bad data in, bad data out!". Several years ago, [...]
On October 7th and 8th of this year, I will be rocking the geeks at the Silicon Valley Code Camp again! This is my favorite Code Camp to go to each year. If you haven't been, you need to experience it at least once. I will be doing the session below. I hope to see [...]
When developing software, what does the company you work for usually say are the priorities? Well most will say speed to market for the lowest cost possible and meet the consumer needs. Most of this article will discuss the first two reason even though it also affects the last one too. So, my question to [...]
Here is an easy way to get the status of a Windows service. Public Function ServiceStatus(serviceName As String) As ServiceControllerStatus Dim service As ServiceController = LoadService(serviceName) If service IsNot Nothing Then Return service.Status Else Throw New InvalidOperationException("Service not found.") End If End Function Private Function LoadService(serviceName As String) As ServiceController Return ServiceController.GetServices().Where(Function(p) p.ServiceName = serviceName).FirstOrDefault() End Function Here are the values for service status: ContinuePending Paused PausePending Running StartPending Stopped StopPending This and lost more code can be found in the [...]
