Pierre-Emmanuel Dautreppe

Recently, one of my colleague wanted to call an auto-implemented property setter in a class' constructor.
I do not think this is a good idea as we don't know how the class may evolve in the future.
In this post, I will show some of possible evolutions that make me think that we should not use auto-implemented properties in a class' constructor, but rather use a classical property and thus the member variable. [Plus]

In a previous post, I have spoken about my experience at the CITCON and my discovery of Open Space Discussions. I have found this concept very interesting and I have decided to use this concept for our architecture meetings. This concept will evolve about during our meetings.

This time, we'll meet on Monday December 17th at the Kaii Theater in Brussels to speak about nTiers development. This discussion will be led by Didier Pieroux, Dario Garcia Coder, Ronan Guillamet and myself.

Find here more information about this meeting and the different subjects we'll discuss ! [Plus]

You all know the "new" keyword that allows us to hide a method that has not been defined for overriding.
Of course "hiding" and "overriding" is different and the result will be different between calling a method "hidden" or overriden, depending of the static and dynamic type of the object on which we call the method.

In this post, I will quickly recall these differences thru examples.

Anyway, what happens with this keyword when you work with generic types ?
Well this is not so evident and you need to know exactly what is generated by the .NET framework when working with generics.
Once again, I will emphasize on this difference thru example using generics. [Plus]

.NET has introduced since its very first version the concept of enumerations. It's of course quite nice and allow us to replace magic numbers in the code by self documented structure.

But their use is far over too common, without thinking before to the consequences of such a choice.
Find here some of my thoughts of dos and donts about enumerations. [Plus]

A provocative title for .NET or Java developpers !
I will here speak about the use made by the IDE Visual Studio of the ToString method and how to achieve the same result without a ToString method.
Discover the DebuggerDisplayAttribute, and start using the ToString method to convert your object into a string reprensentation but no more for debugging purposes ! [Plus]