To find out if a string contains a piece of substring, here are three simple ways of going about it in C#, just to name a few: String.Contains String.IndexOf where the return value is >= 0 Regex.IsMatch Out of curiosity I wanted to see if there was any no[...]

This morning I was wrestling with trying to make some Noda Time unit tests faster. For some reason, the continuous integration host we're using is really slow at loading resources under .NET 4. The unit tests which run in 10 seconds on my home laptop take[...]

(Note that this is deliberately not posted in the Noda Time blog. I reckon it's of wider interest from a design perspective, and I won't be posting any of the equivalent Noda Time code. I'll just say now that we don't have this sort of craziness in Noda T[...]

To some readers, the title of this post may induce nightmarish recollections of late-night debugging sessions. To others it may be simply the epitome of jargon. Just to break the jargon down a bit: Type initializer: the code executed to initialize the[...]

The first stable release of the Silverlight 5 Multi-Window Controls project is now available on CodePlex which brings external window support to the ChildWindow and ContextMenu. So what’s next if anything? I came across Tim Heur’s Silverlight Floatable[...]

A while I ago I blogged about what had changed under the hood of async between the CTP and the VS11 Preview. Well, now that the VS11 Beta is out, it's time to do it all again... Note that the code in this post is in the Eduasync codebase, under a differe[...]

Noda Time is nearing v1.0, which means I'm spending more time writing documentation than code. It also means reviewing the APIs we've got with a critical eye - whether that's removing extraneous members, adding useful ones, or moving things around. (In pa[...]

Note: don’t forget to check out the Benchmarks page to see the latest round up of binary and JSON serializers.   Since my last round of benchmarks on binary serializers, there’s a new player in town – MessageShark, which at the time of this writing does n[...]