I was working on some Stream extensions today and added a method which will read all of the data from a stream in to a byte array. Some of the classes which derive from Stream provide a similar method (MemoryStream, for example, provides a... Read more

I am a big fan of using XML comments in code and actually have a few Visual Studio macros which allow me to “inherit” the documentation from an overridden member. Every once in a while, I end up pulling in a comment with a filterpriority XML tag. This tag is... Read more

It’s been a while since I last talked about StyleCop. I’ve been using it a lot recently on an internal project of mine and have come to really like the idea behind the tool. After using it extensively over the last few days, however, I think there are a... Read more

Last month I talked about Code Contracts, which are one of the new features in .NET 4.0. Earlier today I was digging around in .NET Reflector looking for something totally unrelated when I came across the Microsoft.Contracts namespace in System.Core. Looking at the... Read more

Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Beta is now available for public download on MSDN and TechNet. This is a combined update for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1. This will be the first service pack for Windows Server 2008 since... Read more