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Advanced MSBuild: Ignoring Bitness when building Plugins

By sven.huebner.it October 21, 2022Build, Uncategorized

When developing plugins for an application that is shipped as both 32 and 64 bit, it may be possible to publish a single artifact working with both by building as AnyCpu, ignoring the MSB3270 warning.

Advanced MSBuild: Introduction

By sven.huebner.it October 15, 2022Build

Knowing MSBuild can help you remove code duplication, enforce consistency in a large repo and improve developer experience.

The pain of using Excel files for user input

By sven.huebner.it October 8, 2022Uncategorized

In 2022, reading Excel files in C# is still a pain and can require intricate knowledge of XLSX, even when using a library like NPOI.

Just for fun: changing runtime behavior with unreachable code

By sven.huebner.it October 1, 2022Uncategorized

Unreachable code can still change compiler behavior and thus runtime method behavior. An example with `yield`.

Be more productive with more keystrokes: use named Regex capture groups

By sven.huebner.it September 24, 2022General Development, Uncategorized

Use named capture groups when parsing with regular expressions to make the Regex self-contained and the matching code more readable.

Nuget Packaging Series 2: Beware of DLL version conflicts

By sven.huebner.it July 10, 2022Build

Putting assemblies with different TFMs in the same nuget package can lead to runtime assembly loading errors because of transitive assembly reference version conflicts.