Supporting async LInQ evaluation on IQueryable mocks
IQueryable<T> is a tricky interface. Some people argue that it is actually a bad abstraction, because it is impossible to implement it. This post is not about trying to prove or disprove…
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Implementing the IFormatter interface
One of the courses I teach is the standard Microsoft 70-483 exam preparation course. For some reason, the exam still has questions about how the BinaryFormatter and SoapFormatter components work (I'm not even going to…
New extension in the marketplace: Linq standard query operators practice project template
As a teacher, I'm constantly faced with a frustrating challenge: eliminating boilerplate code from demos. If students have to type a lot of boilerplate code before starting a demo together or an exercise, valuable time…
Deserialize into interface
Not long ago I was teaching a Programming in C# exam prep course. One of the modules involved serialization and a student asked me a question that was quite intriguing: Given the serialized form of…
Visual Studio item template for WCF Data Services
If you are only interested in downloading the packages, go to the marketplace. But if you want to know how it was made, read on ;) Back in the day we used WCF when it came…