Weekend Reading

Steve McConnel: Classic mistakes:

http://www.stevemcconnell.com/rdenum.htm

Few Short Methods Per Class:

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?FewShortMethodsPerClass

The Big Ball of Mud and Other Architectural Disasters:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001003.html

How to Design Exception Hierarchies:

http://blogs.msdn.com/kcwalina/archive/2007/01/30/ExceptionHierarchies.aspx

Design Principles and Design Patterns:

http://www.objectmentor.com/resources/articles/Principles_and_Patterns.pdf

What Makes a System Hard to Work With?

http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller/archive/2009/03/12/what-makes-a-system-hard-to-work-with.aspx

Big Ball of Mud (classic)

http://www.laputan.org/mud/mud.html#BigBallOfMud

How to create a custom url protocol

 HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/
   your-protocol-name/
     (Default)    "URL:your-protocol-name Protocol"
     URL Protocol ""
     shell/
       open/
         command/
           (Default) PathToExecutable

Useful links:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa767914.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa767743(VS.85).aspx

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/389204/how-do-i-create-my-own-url-protocol-e-g-so

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/IP/DataProtocol.aspx

Custom file types: How to assiciate files with apps in Windows

Wouldn't it be nice to have your own file type for your enterprise application? E.g a custom xml file with metadata for your documents. This CodeProject article shows how it works:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/System_File_Association.aspx

InfoQ: AOP - Myths and truths

Video showing pragmatic usage of Aspect Oriented Programming in real-life projects.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/AOP-Myths-and-Realities

Presentation by Ramnivas Laddad

AOP: INotifyPropertyChanged

Better binding with PostSharp and INotifyPropertyChanged

http://richardsbraindump.blogspot.com/2009/02/aspect-oriented-programming.html

SyntaxHighligter: Nice code formatting on your blog/site

http://alexgorbatchev.com/wiki/SyntaxHighlighter

Demos: http://alexgorbatchev.com/wiki/SyntaxHighlighter:Demo

How to check if the current user is administrator

bool isAdmin = new WindowsPrincipal(WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent()).IsInRole(WindowsBuiltInRole.Administrator);

Frameworks and DDD: Keeping the Model Clean

How to avoid pitfalls and preserve a clean domain model while using frameworks. 

Tim McCarthy is is the author of .NET Domain-Driven Design with C#: Problem-Design-Solution

View presentation at InfoQ

REGSVR32 VS REGASM

REGSVR32 : This is used for registering a COM based DLL:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490985.aspx

REGASM: This is used to register a .NET Assembly for COM Interop:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/tzat5yw6(vs.71).aspx