One thing I love about using C# is reflection, it adds another paradigm to the toolkit. Recently, I revisited my old friend Activator.CreateInstance which is perfect for scenarios where you want to use generic code to create and initialize specific types of objects. Basic Example Some time ago, I wrote a simple application which plugs […]
Doxygen is a cross platform open source code documentation tool which I’ve used for both Visual C++ and C# .NET projects. It produces awesome documentation and is very easy to use. Configuration is straight forward using DoxyWizard. Doxygen can be configured to use Graphviz to produce call and dependency graphs. After installing Graphiz you’ll need […]
Macros, like the goto statement, have become somewhat frowned upon nowadays, but (IMO) I think that’s a little excessive. Macros, used judiciously, can be beneficial. For example, you may want code to execute in debug but not release, you can define the symbol accordingly and avoid hundreds of #ifdef’s throughout your codebase. Arguably, you could […]
Creating a Mess Recently I began work on an XMPP Component Framework in C#, initially trying to reuse code from a previous version. I’m trying to do it right this time, conforming to the official specifications. This has led to a lot of rework as the previous version was essentially based upon code I’d written […]
A couple of years ago I began an XMPP Component Framework in C#, but after a few days I had to put it on hold. One thing led to another, and it’s been on hold ever since. I’m finally returning to it. C#, however, has had some significant improvements since then, I want to start again […]
Thanks to the awesome guys at JetBrains and their Project Rider IDE, it’s now possible (unofficially) to develop Xamarin.Android apps on Linux. This is a basic project created with Project Rider and running on the emulator: Once I had a basic application up and running, I tried an application I’ve had in the store for […]
Dynamic capabilities were added to C# 4.0. These capabilities provide the ability to intercept method and property invocations. In certain situations, this is extremely useful, as seen in SignalR. I’m currently working on an XMPP library which parses a received XMPP Stanza into a class named BvElement. Abstracting from BvElement are classes such as IQ, […]
At Beyond Velocity we rely on XMPP for push notifications in many of our applications. XMPP is a messaging standard that uses extensible XML stanzas to communicate over a TCP/IP connection. There are a number of solid, secure, high performance, open-source XMPP servers available, such as OpenFire and EJabberd. To communicate with a server, you […]
