NDepend – A Developer’s Best Friend

Creating a Mess Recently I began work on an XMPP Component Framework in C#, initially trying to reuse code from a previous version. I’m trying to do it right this time, conforming to the official specifications. This has led to a lot of rework as the previous version was essentially based upon code I’d written […]

Recent C# Language Changes

A couple of years ago I began an XMPP Component Framework in C#, but after a few days I had to put it on hold. One thing led to another, and it’s been on hold ever since. I’m finally returning to it. C#, however, has had some significant improvements since then, I want to start again […]

Xamarin.Android on Ubuntu 18.04

Update: Xamarin on Linux was too much of a moving target. These instructions are obsolete. Thanks to the awesome guys at JetBrains and their Project Rider IDE, it’s now possible (unofficially) to develop Xamarin.Android apps on Linux. This is a basic project created with Project Rider and running on the emulator: Once I had a […]

A Nice Use of C# Dynamic

Dynamic capabilities were added to C# 4.0. These capabilities provide the ability to intercept method and property invocations. In certain situations, this is extremely useful, as seen in SignalR. I’m currently working on an XMPP library which parses a received XMPP Stanza into a class named BvElement. Abstracting from BvElement are classes such as IQ, […]