Excel html table hack I’ve used the classic web hack where you send an html file with excel mime type (and file ending) containing a table. I’ve had trouble with excel being more particular about allowing this hack nowadays. Another problematic aspect is if a user sends you such a file without re-saving it. Since we have open xml based formats for spreadsheets, there is no need for this hack. CSV I’ve used diffent csv-like formats. These have the con of being dependant on the language settings (one parti[...]

The use of many assemblies has an appeal from an architectural standpoint. In order to separate dependencies you want different parts of your code to be able to load even though a certain version of visual studio sdk is not installed. To have a fixed api implemented by adapter assemblies for many different versions of a hard to install library dependency is a way to allow work on code without having to install every single version of the dependency. The problem is if you separate your code into many assem[...]

I’ve done some minor work using angularjs. Angular looks like a promising direction for certain type of applications. There is a lot of drama surrounding ng2. Some of is due to the fear that ng1 applications will become obsolete when ng2 comes around without a good migration path. Jon Skeet recently blogged: backwards compability is still hard. It will be interesting to see if the ng team manages to create a nice migration path from ng1 to ng2. Perhaps we will see ng1 having a continued existance due to t[...]

I’ve used travis to test c# projects for a few years now. It has been a bit of a pain to get it working (read custom ppa or setting language to objective c and downloading and installing package intended for xamarin studio). I feel that good things happen because people have more confidence in mono. How do you test your projects on travis? Read the travis documentation or look at how I have done it in for example with. I’m using ruby to build c# since it’s cross-platform. You can substitute rake for grun[...]

I like lint-tools. These kind of tools help by catching things that do not work well with the language. When you write C you can really benefit from lint, since the language has some quirks. When writing javascript you can be aided by jshint. I talked to a coworker at tretton37 about StyleCop. I get the feeling that there could probably be some better way of solving what is essentially a presentation issue. Perhaps a StyleButler that presents the code according to your StyleCop settings in the editor? Thi[...]