Times have changed and Microsoft is not the same: Edge, the new Microsoft browser has been remodeled and now it’s using the Chromium engine, an open source browser engine developed by Google….
Category: Windows
Implementing the MVVM pattern in a WPF app with the MVVM Community toolkit
Introduction You have an old, legacy app (with no tests), and its age is starting to show – it’s using an old version of the .NET Framework, it’s difficult to maintain and…
Converting XML data to JSON
There are times when you need to convert data from one format to the other and you don’t have any tools to do it, or you must do it so many times…
Mocking non-virtual methods of a class with Microsoft Fakes
After I finished last article, I started to think that there should be another way to test the non-virtual methods of a class. And, as a matter of fact, there is another…
Discover what is consuming your disk with NTFS structures
Introduction Some time ago, I wrote this post with this accompanying source code. It showed the way to use NTFS file structures to enumerate files and show the files that take more…
Missed features in Windows 10 – Task View and Multiple Desktops
Sometimes, you, even being a power user of Windows, can miss some things that can make your life easier. You get used to a routine and then, new features come and unfortunately,…
Parsing the command line for your application with System.CommandLine
A very common issue when dealing with console applications is to parse the command line. I am a huge fan of command line applications, especially when I want to add an operation…
Learning and documenting .NET with dotnet try
Introduction Learning a new programming language is always hard. You have to read the documentation, stop, go to the IDE of your choice, start a new project, compile and run the program…
Analyzing your app with NDepend
One of the perks of being an MVP is to receive some tools for my own use, so I can evaluate them and if, I find them valuable, I can use them…
Data Breakpoints in VS 2019 and .Net Core 3.0
One thing that comes to me sometimes when I am debugging a program is to see a variable that has changed value, but I don’t know where and when it was changed….