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Adventures in C#
Ron Jeffries |
Chet and I are working with .NET and C#, to learn it, with a book or three in mind. Here, in order, are the current articles.
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XML Notepad Stories
Ron Jeffries
07/10/2002
- Chet and I are working with .NET and C#, to learn it, with a book or three in mind. An early application is the "XML Notepad". Here's the initial vision and some stories.
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A Pressing Matter
Ron Jeffries
07/11/2002
- Today Chet and I spent a couple of hours working on the XML notepad GUI. We learned a lot, some of it useful.
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Extracting the Model
Ron Jeffries
07/12/2002
- Our XMLNotepad spike worked well enough to make us think we should start putting it in the right shape. That didn't turn out quite like we expected ...
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Expressing Ideas, Part I
Ron Jeffries
07/21/2002
- Just for something to do, I decided to clean up some code. Here's what happened -- not all of it good!
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We Need Some Tests Here!
Ron Jeffries
07/26/2002
- OK, since I was flying blind on that last article, and just by luck (or amazing skill) got away with it, Chet and I decided to write some tests and then do a bit more refactoring of the code to express its ideas.
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Expressing Ideas, Part II
Ron Jeffries
07/27/2002
- After we got our tests in place, Chet and I went back to work improving the code to be more expressive. Here's what happened:
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Expressing Ideas, Part III
Ron Jeffries
07/28/2002
- After dinner, I decided to take a chance and do a little more refactoring without a partner. It went pretty well!
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The First Customer Test
Ron Jeffries
08/19/2002
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- XP teams very often don't have customer (acceptance) tests, or leave them until "later". The result is a less confident customer, and problems when you least need them. Here's our first customer test. See? That wasn't hard.
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A Better Code Manager
Ron Jeffries
08/21/2002
- Chet and Ron reflect, then figure out a better way to roll back than typing Control-Z over and over.
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The InputCommand Object
Ron Jeffries
08/23/2002
- We thought the code was telling us that it wanted another object. So we gave it another object. Was the code then happier? Were we? Read and find out ...
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