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Type identity for data is important. How do we refactor collections in the face of Whidbey?

The reality of component design is in the contractual agreements between different components. .NET has certainly stepped in and created an excellent cross component scheme to allow just about any code to interoperate with any other piece of code. In...

Describing the limits of the generic Deck previously created for the Poker application.

Jason Olson has some comments about the Poker Deck I developed and I am starting to agree with some of them. Not that the integrated Hand is bad, but more that the integrated Hand is not tightly integrated enough to be sufficiently useful. So what am...

Visual C# Express 2005: Creating a Poker Application, Source Download

Answering a couple of user questions for persistence: How do you test during the development of an application like Poker? Well, I'd say that the design and whiteboard sketches that I'm going to have in my book really help limit the amount of testing...

Reality Check: Chunked operations take a lot of code and are hard to get right (a thread safe chunked file writer)

I've been spending a good portion of the day writing the necessary facilities for doing a multi-threaded chunked download off the web. I often run into situations where I want to grab a file, but I'm on Wi-Fi or the remote site is throttling the band...
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