http://www.mufaka.com/site1/ C# and .NET News and Info http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Argotic Syndication Framework 2008.0.2.0, http://www.codeplex.com/Argotic Answers to the most common questions about the new C# feature, from Microsoft’s tech writer Alexandra Rusina http://www.mufaka.com/site1/articles/1815/covariance-and-contravariance-faq Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:08:00 GMT There's a lot of reasons that Visual Studio hangs . It was hanging for me the other day when I tried to open, and I had a clean checkout. One solution that solved my current problem (thanks to a co-worker): Close VS, delete the *.suo file, and try... http://www.mufaka.com/site1/articles/1814/visual-studio-2008-hanging Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:25:00 GMT You can learn a lot by reading other people's source code. That's the idea behind this series, " The Weekly Source Code ." You can certainly become a better programmer by writing code but I think good writers become better by reading as much as th... http://www.mufaka.com/site1/articles/1813/the-weekly-source-code-51-asynchronous-database-access-and-linq-to-sql-fun Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:45:00 GMT I've blogged before about the MPI Cluster Debugger in VS2010 that facilitates launching the application on the cluster and attaching the debugger (btw, a shorter version of the screencast I link to there, is here ). There have been requests for th... http://www.mufaka.com/site1/articles/1812/slides-and-code-for-mpi-cluster-debugger Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:09:00 GMT Check out this article I wrote for Coding4Fun: http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/archive/2010/03/01/9971021.aspx Hope you like it! http://www.mufaka.com/site1/articles/1811/livegeometry--coding4fun Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:59:00 GMT Today I want your insights, opinions and advice. In any large organization over time people are going to move around within that organization, or leave it for various reasons, and therefore sometimes you need to bring in fresh new people to fill t... http://www.mufaka.com/site1/articles/1810/attracting-talent Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:22:00 GMT One of the comments I got on my last post on view/view model hookup options was the following: I've been a mvvm fan but actually when I see all the hoops to jump through I wonder at times how effective this is So I wanted to take a moment to list ... http://www.mufaka.com/site1/articles/1809/the-case-for-viewmodel Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:15:00 GMT You usually write unit test and integration test code separately using different technologies. For example, for unit test, you use some mocking framework like Moq to do the mocking. For integration test, you do not use any mocking, just some test ... http://www.mufaka.com/site1/articles/1808/do-unit-test-and-integration-test-from-same-test-code-using-conditional-co Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:00:00 GMT If your computer is running hot or battery running out quickly then it is most likely due to some application or process consuming high CPU or memory. If you keep running applications for a long time, for example, Outlook, then it continues to gro... http://www.mufaka.com/site1/articles/1807/is-your-computer-running-slow-battery-running-out-quickly Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:29:00 GMT [In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] Patrick recently posted about something he found odd when installing the VS 2010 RC – which was that code intellisense ... http://www.mufaka.com/site1/articles/1806/no-intellisense-with-vs-2010-rc-and-how-to-fix-it Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:04:00 GMT