The doors at Øredev open up at 19:30 hrs on Wednesday (4th Nov) for a Community event! YES! Pass the word and sign up at your local community where you are a member! We want to open up for people who are community active but have not had the fortune to be able to attend Øredev 2009 to be admitted to meet and mingle with the speakers of our event. We want to show you what you are missing and we are damned committed to share knowledge with you weather you want it or not! ;~) The ticket...

Uninstalling and installing Beta 1 and Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 was a breeze. No fear of dragons here! I remember the times when installations of just about anything could suddenly crash or hang. That dreaded rollback of an installation where you had to helplessly watch when the installation pulled itself back out of your machine still gives me the creeps. Yesterday I uninstalled Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1… and it was a snap. SNAP! Just to be sure I rebooted my machine. Don’t think I really would have needed to. Then I installed Visual...

Why is social media such a time sucking monster? Why don’t all social media sites make it easy to get a blog badge for their service? Why is it so hard to share data and info between sites? Why do I always feel I am not updating my data and/or status frequently enough? Social media is this century’s heaven and hell! I have been wanting to update my blog for a while and this weekend I got started. Didn’t finish. I am a developer consultant with over a decade in the programming business. It...

Here are how Named Arguments in C# 4.0 works. This is a very nice feature that enables better code readability and also is a must combined with Optional Arguments. We have now dug ourselves out of the crazy “method overload overload”… If you catch what I mean? I posted about Optional Arguments here: Visual C# 4.0 Optional Arguments – FINALLY Here are my sample on Optional Arguments from the last post again: public Person(int shoesize = 8, string name = "Eve", Gender gender = Gender.Female) {   } The great thing about it...

There is a set of new language features in the upcoming C# 4.0 release. This is probably my favorite new feature. Not only does it warrant a post in it’s own right. It also gives me a chance to point out the Swedish Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 launch site and point to all the other great bloggers on that site. Most of them are personal friends of mine and all are worth reading. So… Optional Arguments in C# 4.0. First an anecdote. I was sitting in the audience of the PACKED and overflowed (and and...