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Applying the Decorator Pattern to a DataGridView

Joe Kelly — Tue, 25 May 2010 23:24:57 +0000

In this article, I present a simple example of how you can apply the Decorator Pattern to a DataGridView to extend its behavior without using inheritance.

An Implementation of BitConverter.SingleToInt32Bits

Joe Kelly — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:41:11 +0000

Back in the day when I did more Java development, I used Apache’s Commons Lang regularly to do all kinds of things like string manipulations and implementing Object.equals() and Object.hashCode().

Not too long ago, I started working more with C# and the .NET Framework and I found myself wanting some of the functionality of Commons Lang for the .NET platform. The closest thing I could find was Artur Trosin’s port of the EqualsBuilder and HashCodeBuilder classes

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XtUnit Troubleshooting

Joe Kelly — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:00:38 +0000

I’m a big advocate of automated software testing with tools like the venerable JUnit for Java and the similar NUnit for the .NET languages such as C#.

Yesterday I was implementing some NUnit tests for a C# database access object (or DAO). If you have ever implemented such tests before you’ll probably agree with me that it’s important for your test data to be in a known and consistent state before every test run.

For example, let’s

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