Patrick Smacchia [MVP C#]

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• Towards Bug-Free Code

  The only way to have bug-free code is to mathematically prove the code. Very few programs in the world are mathematically proved. Some industry can afford the price of a mathematical proof, especially when bugs would turn into human death, such as embedded... Posted Mar 30 2008, 09:02 PM by Patrick Smacchia with | with 22 comment(s) Filed under: Featured

• Layering, the Level metric and the Discourse of Method

  When we are discussing the architecture of a code base, we often qualify a piece of code with terms such as high level and low level . This is common vocabulary and we all intuitively know what does it means. A piece of code A (whether it is a method... Posted Feb 10 2008, 04:58 PM by Patrick Smacchia with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Featured

• Avoid API breaking changes

  If you are developing a framework, the last thing you want to happen when releasing a new version of your product is to break the code of your clients because of an API change. For example, you want to make sure that all public methods you had in previous... Posted Jan 20 2008, 12:11 PM by Patrick Smacchia with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: Featured

• Deconstructing Software

  In my previous post Keep your code structure clean I explained how to build Code Query Language (CQL) constraints that can help avoiding design erosion by preventing mistakes. This is the preventive approach, but what if you have to improve an already... Posted Dec 02 2007, 07:12 PM by Patrick Smacchia with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Featured

• A free library to handle common and complex path operations

  I just release the library NDepend.Helpers.FilePathDirectory on CodePlex. NDepend.Helpers.FilePathDirectory is the library used by the tool NDepend to handle common path operations. Benefits of the NDepend.Helpers.FilePathDirectory over the .NET Framework... Posted Oct 18 2007, 02:55 PM by Patrick Smacchia with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: Featured

• UI matters (Revisited): Menus and ToolBars vs. Office 2007 Ribbons

  My post about our current work in enhancing the VisualNDepend UI with Ribbon Office 2007 style got a lot of feedbacks. Thanks to everybody who participate in the debate and especially to: Wesner Moise who took the time to clearly expose its motivation... Posted Aug 29 2007, 06:26 PM by Patrick Smacchia with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: Featured

• Review: WPF Unleashed By Adam Nathan

  I recently had the chance to read WPF Unleashed by Adam Nathan on the beautiful beaches of the Corsica island . Reading good technical books in a pleasant place is my preferred way to learn about new stuff: I can’t imagine a better book to learn WPF for... Posted Aug 21 2007, 07:16 PM by Patrick Smacchia with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Featured

• New .NET 3.5 core stuff

  While installing VisualStudio 2008 Beta2 I was surprised that the NET framework 2.0 installation got automatically updated. My good old copies of mscorlib.dll v2.0.50727.42 and friends got updated to v2.0.50727.1378 . I expected to saw a new C:\WINDOWS... Posted Aug 08 2007, 08:06 PM by Patrick Smacchia with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: Featured