One of the benefits of JavaScript (and therefore TypeScript) is being able to do whatever you want with objects. This can be dangerous, of course, because of type promiscuity – which is one thing that TypeScript addresses. via GIPHY Object.keys Sometimes it is still useful to just loop through each property on an object in … [Read more…]
Recently I had a situation where I had a class and interface to make a generic service which would do something based on whatever type is provided. (Obviously, it was not so contrived…) These would then get injected to other classes to be used as necessary: Which works fine… as long as you remember to … [Read more…]
Imagine that you have a NuGet package containing a bunch of static strings. These fields are intended to be used instead of magic strings, making it so anything that takes a dependency on this NuGet package will all be on the same page about these unique keys. Now suppose that these keys also represent the … [Read more…]
Are you tired of feeling like your code is meaningless? Sick of people not referring to your code as “black magic,” or struggling to gain recognition from your boss for writing sufficiently obfuscated code?If you’ve answered “yes” to any of the above, Reflection might be for you! via GIPHY Reflection I’ve talked about reflection a … [Read more…]
Recently I was trying to write a unit test testing to see if one object was equal to another. The objects themselves were simple, just a collection of built-in types, so it should be easy to test. .Equals However, since I didn’t implement .Equals, C# doesn’t natively know how to check if the objects are … [Read more…]
If you find yourself writing a lot of the same code (or copy/pasting it) for similar constructs, you should probably consider using generics. It allows you to write a base class full of functionality that is basically the same across all of different classes, but in a way that doesn’t tie you to a specific … [Read more…]
In this post I talked about building out a configuration service that could be split into various areas of concerns so that each piece can be injected where it makes sense (without all of the noise of the rest of the configuration). Previously, the registration looked like this: Reflection With reflection, we can loop through … [Read more…]
Reflection is kind of like black magic, and whenever I use it I feel like some kind of wizard. The ability to look into objects and even invoke private methods is pretty darn powerful. It’s not all that magical, of course, since it is built into the framework… however, you should still be careful because … [Read more…]