Programming

When you start learning to program, you rarely think about how you will be able to work on a project at the same time with other people. By the time your side projects take on larger dimensions or you work in a team, you will be confronted with the topic of version control. Version control is basically the management of source code, so that several developers can work on the same files at the same time. The sense of a system for monitoring changes can be easily understood by an example: ...

In todays post I want to show you how to use attributes in C#. I have to apologize in advance, though, as I’m going to focus only to a limited extent on why they make sense and what you can use them for, that’s a topic for one of the following articles. Nevertheless, I would like to give you a basic understanding so that you can incorporate this concept into your own applications. ...

It is finally time to announce my latest side project. ClubGrid was originally designed to make it easier for my coach to manage our baseball games. However, the result can be used for clubs of any kind and I hope that I can also help others with my software. The problem we had was the organization of games and events. Some players posted their acceptance or rejection via Whatsapp, others via Facebook, some via email and others personally. This made it quite complicated for us to keep track of who is present where and when. ...

There’s a very large number of articles about the repository pattern out there. Nevertheless, most of them overlap in the description and cause confusion among developers. For this reason I decided to write my own article to document my opinion. In this article I will first clarify the what and why of the repository pattern. Afterwards I will explain how the pattern can look like in C#. In his book, Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, Martin Fowler describes the Repository Pattern as a “Mediate between the domain and data mapping layers, acting like an in-memory collection of domain objects”. ...

Delegates and Events are powerful tools in C#, but they can definitely be confusing in the beginning. Todays article covers the basics of this topic and helps you to get comfortable implementing this approach in your own applications. Delegates I think, the main problem is that delegates are often explained unnecessarily complicated. For this reason, I want to give you an easily understandable introduction. Let’s look at a basic delegate declaration: ...