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What annoys me when writing generic functions in Visual Studio...
14 October 08 10:38 AM | MattManela | 6 Comments   
When writing a generic function I start from left to right (the same way I write most things except when I took Yiddish in college).  For example, Lets say I am writing a simple generic method which return the first element of a generic list. I want Read More...
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The Snippet Designer is Released!!!!
21 September 08 10:06 PM | MattManela | 4 Comments   
Some History The Snippet Designer was started as an intern project of mine during the Summer of 2006. The idea was to make snippet files (which were introduced to Visual Studio in 2005) a first class entity. Following this idea I created a Visual Studio Read More...
Visualizing LINQ
28 February 08 10:52 PM | MattManela | 1 Comments   
I ran across an awesome code sample written by Jon Skeet . He realized that many people may have difficulty understanding how the lazy evaluation in LINQ (and programming with iterator combinators in general) works. His program/code sample is able make Read More...
Foray into LINQ
02 December 07 09:12 PM | MattManela | 3 Comments   
With the release of .NET 3.5 I started playing around with one of the cool new technologies called LINQ. LINQ brings SQL like querying syntax for performing operations on data sources like collections into , files or databases into .NET. The LINQ website Read More...
Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 WOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
19 November 07 08:45 PM | MattManela | 1 Comments   
I am sure they will be many blogs and articles that will mention the awesome fact that Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 have been released. I am also sure most of these posts will go talk about some of the many cool new features in both. Read More...
Powerful Visual Studio Add-In
03 November 07 06:23 PM | MattManela | 1 Comments   
Visual Studio doesn't seem to get much credit for the power of its extensibility model. When most people think about a IDE with powerful plug-ins they think of Eclipse, which granted, has some incredible plug-ins. However, Visual Studio's add-in model Read More...
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