A Developer's Experience

When I started developing my module, I had an interface IParamCountBasedAlgo declared as a nested type in a class AlgorithmOneExecutor , declared as follows:- namespace DataStructuresAndAlgo { partial class AlgorithmOneExecutor { private interface IParamCountBasedAlgo { void Validate(); void Execute(); } } } There were other concrete nested types inside AlgorithmOneExecutor that implemented IParamCountBasedAlgo . But later, other types nested in other than AlgorithmOneExecutor emerged that required to implement IParamCountBasedAlgo . So I moved IParamCountBasedAlgo from a nested type to a direct type under the namespace DataStructuresAndAlgo , as declared below:- namespace DataStructuresAndAlgo { private interface IParamCountBasedAlgo { void Validate(); void Execute(); } } And the compiler spat an error " Namespace elements cannot be explicitly declared as private, protected, or protected internal ". Then a simple resear...

I was writing a generic method with enum as the Constraint , and the compiler spat a few errors that did not directly convey me that enums cannot used as generic constraints. And I learnt the following from my investigation:- This is an excerpt from the C# Language Specification . Enums are value types and there is no way that you can specify the System.ValueType as a constraint, as per the specification. But if you wish to specify a non-reference type as a [primary] constraint, struct can be used. private void Method where T : struct That does not guarantee that our generic method will not accept other value types, besides enum, for which we do not support our functionality. During the course of investigation, I was extremely surprised to know that the numeric types like int, float etc in C# are struct. It is not far from the fact that they are value types, but it was interesting to know that they are declared as public struct Int32 : IComparable, IFormattable, IConvertible, IComp...

I did some cool stuff here with google. I wrote my first "Hello World" sort of google gadget. It claims no rewards but just was fun. Since I am a novice in html and javascript sort of things, this gadget is pretty simple. Use the following URLs http://vivekragunathan.googlepages.com/Pirate.XML http://VivekRagunathan.GooglePages.com/Clock.XML to enjoy the gadgets.

This was a pretty interesting discussion about method overloading in the managed world. As the discussion says that the overloading is a matter of taste. It seems that the method overloading in the managed world, indeed, is a matter of taste. Sad BUT True !!! But on the contrary, it must have been a [strict] rule. Overloading might be exhibited differently by each language in the unmanaged world. But as far as .NET goes, it must have been made a standard specification. Pardon me, if there is one. As it was pointed out in the discussion, how do we define the behaviour in the case where we derive classes across assemblies developed in another .NET language ? As far traditional C++ goes, the overloaded method resolution starts from the derived but does not have strict type checking eg. for numeric types]. And the point to note is that only the method in the derived class with the exact prototype as the base is considered the overload. Ofcourse, C++ is not as much type safe as C#. This is...

I could not stop writing this post after I read this article by Herb Sutter. The article is just a casual technical discussion but very encouraging that a person requires at the right time - the time when he is a student. Even after several years after my college, I have been trying to keep myself a student and I got a right encouragement to join the Concurrency revolution. Thanks to Herb Sutter. As Albert Einstein, Robert Goddard, and Wernher von Braun walked the trail of Galileo and Newton , I will to walk the trail of some of the contemporary people like Sutter, Stroustoup, Don Box, Richter and others.

I am very much fond of tools, updates and stuff. So I keep updating my softwares and hear/learn about new tools etc. I am excited about the new spaces - Live Spaces. Looks much better than before. I thought I would write something about the new spaces. Please 'spaces guys', make the arranging the boxes on the home page a bit easier and intelligent. That is a feature request. Otherwise the default skin/theme is cool and professional. Old themes are still old and not much appealing. Anyway, i write the post just to say i love it. And talking about tools and softwares, i heard this news about Microsoft acquiring the SysInternals tools. And probably, Microsoft might be shipping the tools like Debug View , Process Explorer , RegMon etc with the Windows SDK. Me not sure of that, better read what Tom Archer said.