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If you haven’t read the previous posts on the subject of fluent interfaces using C# – I suggest you do so now – I’ll wait… Introduction Extension Methods Method Chaining Great! now you’re all ready for the forth post on the subject of using Generics: Generics were added to version 2.0 of the C# language … Continue reading Fluent interfaces in C# – Generics
For those of you who just tuned in, this is a third post on the subject of fluent interfaces using C#. In case you haven’t read them before – here are my previous posts on the subject: IntroductionExtension Methods Right, now that we’re familiar with fluent interfaces it’s time to move to “Method Chaining”.Method chaining … Continue reading Fluent interfaces in C# – method chaining
FOr those of you who haven’t read the previous post. This post is the 2nd of many where I explain how to use C# and a bag of tricks to create fluent interfaces – easily. In the previous post I’ve talked about what fluent interfaces is all about and gave a brief introduction to the … Continue reading Fluent Interfaces in C# – Extension Methods
Not many developers are familiar with the concept of DSLs (Domain Specific Languages) even fewer use them in their day job. It seems that creating a new language is a hard job that should only be left for professors in the academia or certain employees that work in Microsoft, Sun or some other compiler vendor. … Continue reading Fluent Interfaces in C#–Introduction
I can’t believe they implemented this way – was the first thought on my mind…The method in question is part of the new(er) NUnit’s constraint based model specifically the one used to assert a property value.Before we dive deeper a few words on the constraint based model: constraint based model Most unit testing framework have … Continue reading Making string based method strongly typed
A couple of days ago I gave a talk at the local Software Craftsmanship group on the subject of Domain Specific Languages (DSL) and fluent interfaces. After the session I prepared an exercise for the audience:Create a fluent interface for an online shop that calculates discounts based on customer and purchase information. I gave a … Continue reading DSL presentation at the local Software Craftsmanship group
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