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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.

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 1: Including other projects’ output assemblies

By sven.huebner.it May 1, 2021Uncategorized

How to include output assemblies from referenced projects in the same nuget package.

Nuget Packaging Series: Introduction

By sven.huebner.it May 1, 2021Uncategorized

Multifaceted requirements for a nuget package are introduced, leading to a series of posts solving each one.

Gotcha with XmlDocument.Validate and XDocument.Load

By sven.huebner.it May 1, 2021Uncategorized

TL;DR: XmlDocument.Validate is not a read-only operation. but changes the document tree. XDocument.Load(XmlReader) adds attributes, even if they are marked as unspecified.

About this Blog

By sven.huebner.it June 17, 2020Uncategorized

This blog is about collecting, persisting and showcasing my thoughts and potential solutions to software development topics for my own reference as well as a means for recruiters and potential…