Tayseer On Programming

If List<> inherits IList<>, and MyIdentity inherits IIdentity, then why the heck the C# compiler cannot cast from List<MyIdentity> to IList<IIdentity>??????It is the same, the compiler is not smart enough to know this.So to satisfy Read More

There are some talks lately about the next version of C#, and what is should add. People has gone too far asking for new features, most notably the dynamic lookup static void Main(string[] args){    dynamic    {        Read More

Everyone uses youtube to see his favorite videos. Most of the time, you need to subscribe to a certain user’s feed using RSS. Unfortunately, the ‘Subscribe’ buttons subscribes using their own notification system, and you have to be a member to Read More

Here at Silverkey, we use LLBLGen Pro as our ORM. One of the nicest features of it is prefetching related entities, so if you have a "CompanyEntity", you can tell it to fetch all related "Employee Entity". This makes our jobs easier, except when it doesn't!!!Today Read More

Dear PythoneersSilverkey is going to hold its second demo day on 7/7/2007 in Cairo, Egypt. You can see the demo day agenda here. We are going to make a discussion about static vs. dynamic languages, using C# and Python as examples. I'm going to represent Read More

Removed all the good parts of C++: No exception handling. No STL.Stupid alternatives: They removed exception handling, but they added another feature called Leaving. It is basically like exception handling, but it doesn't unwind the stack!! To get Read More