You might be familiar with the System.Convert class, which has a number of methods for converting from/to different types. For example: short s = Convert.ToInt16(int.MaxValue); We live in a world o

In TFS 2005 and 2008 there is no easy way of rolling back a changeset. Sure, you can do a "get specific version" of each file from before the "bad" checkin occurred, and then check the older version b

This week we had a situation where we needed to remove a work item from the TFS database completely. You can delete a work item in Team Explorer however this just marks the row in the database as dele

I've recently been reading this book by Jon Skeet about C# 2 and 3, and it got me all inspired to write about generics. Jon's great; he's extremely active in the C# and Java community, and recently re

The common question is: what the hell is contravariance and covariance? Ok so you are familiar with casting right? In C# we can do this: public class Animal { }public class Monkey : Animal { }...Anim