Top stories published by theburningmonk.com in May of 2010

As good and innovative as WCF is, it also introduced a lot of new complexities and whilst it is easy to get something up and running quickly it takes much more understanding to make your service perform as well as it could.

Yan Cui in theburningmonk.com

May 3, 2010

Using enum types as bit flags in C#

Usually an enum type is used to define a set of constants such as colours, etc. but you can also use it to define bit flags and stored any combination of the defined values.

Yan Cui in theburningmonk.com

May 17, 2010

.Net Tips — Using custom ServiceThrottlingAttribute to specify WCF service throttling behaviour

If you have created a WCF service in the past then I assume you’re aware that WCF is very heavily configuration-driven and that you can specify the service behaviour…

Yan Cui in theburningmonk.com

May 18, 2010

Threading — thread-safe size capped queue

Here is a queue class based on the implementation Marc Gravell provided in this StackOverflow question:

[code lang=”csharp”]
/// <summary>
/// A thread-safe fixed sized queue implementation
/// See…

Yan Cui in theburningmonk.com

May 31, 2010

Casting boxed value types in C#

I came across these two posts on Eric Lippert’s blog yesterday which I found very interesting:

Representation and Identity

Cast operators do not obey the distributive law

Yan Cui in theburningmonk.com

May 18, 2010

HornGet — a place to get your OpenSource fix

Whilst listening to the latest .Net Rocks! podcast, I stumbled across HornGet, which is a site that provides pre-compiled binaries for well known open source projects such as NHibernate, RhinoMocks, etc.

Yan Cui in theburningmonk.com

May 12, 2010

Castle Windsor Tips — specifying IEnumerable in config file

One of the more obscure things I have had to do inside a Castle config is to specify an IEnumerable<T> instance which required taking the technique I showed in this post a little further:

Yan Cui in theburningmonk.com

Apr 30, 2010

.Net Tips — using InternalsVisibleTo attribute to help testing non-public methods

Oh, the Pain!

For a long time, unit testing non-public methods in C# has been a pain in the back side. In order to test a non-public method (most likely…

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