Glenn Block

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• Elegant Code Cast on ALT.NET and Microsoft

  Last week, David Start of Elegant Code and I got a chance to chat on ALT.NET, Open Source at Microsoft, and MEF. David was a great host who I am sure loved  responded as he through some curve balls at me. Actually it was a provocative discussion... Posted Oct 20 2008, 10:52 AM by Glenn Block with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: ALT.NET, MEF, misc, patterns and practices

• Finding the right level of coupling

  http://www.flickr.com/photos/tammys_world/1785770650/ This is a follow up from my previous post on Composite extensions for Win Forms. Early on as we started the development of Prism, we had a few decisions to make around our coupling to WPF. We knew... Posted Oct 19 2008, 11:51 PM by Glenn Block with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Composite Application Guidance, Composite Application Library, Composite WPF, misc, patterns, prism

• The ALT.NET Criterion

  Recently I was on a mail thread where the following question was raised. "What are the kinds of things that concern folks from the ALT.NET community?" Over the past year I've been pretty involved with ALT.NET and have been part of countless... Posted Sep 11 2008, 12:11 PM by Glenn Block with | with 29 comment(s) Filed under: misc

• ForEach, a simple but very useful extension method

  This evening I was writing some code (Yay!) for an Xml based MEF catalog I am prototyping. I came across the need to invoke a set of methods on an IEnumerable<T> that was returned from a LINQ to XML query. Unfortunately no such animal exists on... Posted Aug 19 2008, 12:46 AM by Glenn Block with | with 26 comment(s) Filed under: LINQ, misc

• PrismShouldNotReferenceUnity

  Clarification: We are not against using Unity, the Prism RI uses Unity, and we've been very happy with it's implementation. We are after all one of Unity's first internal customers. On the other hand, we want to make it easier for customers... Posted May 04 2008, 09:40 PM by Glenn Block with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: Featured, misc, prism

• XML and Fluent Interfaces

  I have posted several times in the past on Fluent Interfaces. I think about Fluent Interfaces much in the same way I think about recursive functions, that is they are not for everything, but when you find the situation that warrants them then they are... Posted Feb 26 2008, 07:41 AM by Glenn Block with | with 19 comment(s) Filed under: fluent interface, misc, coding, Featured