Points aren’t hours, but they sorta represent hours. Or do they? 🤔 If you’re as perplexed as I used to be, here’s a few thoughts about points.

Someone at work asked about whether we’d be able to use VS 2022 to work on our main WinForms app. It works just fine in VS 2019, so it should work in VS 2022, right? Except it doesn’t. What we get is white screens of brokenness whenever we try to open a Form in the designer. But why?

A big challenge with any language is trying to group and organize things sensibly, and returning multiple values is no exception. Let’s check out Tuples and deconstruction, and see how they can help us out.

I was creating a document in Office365 the other day, and when I tried to paste with their custom right-click menu I got a popup telling me to download a browser addon. Well, that’s weird.

Sometimes the safer way to “update” old code is to leave it be and paint over it with a newer construct. Let’s see how to modernize a BackgroundWorker using Tasks and TaskCompletionSource.

I migrated my addons to MV3, and learned that version numbers increase, DRY is overrated, and 3 and 15 are probably important but I have no idea why. What I didn’t learn is how MV3 made my addon better.

Named arguments in C#.. they’ve been around a long time, but does anyone use them? Let’s check out another feature that helps tame wild code.

C# 7 introduced a new tool for the belt - local functions. Let’s take a look at what they are, how to use them, and why we might not want to.

Checking for nulls in C# is tedious, but C# 6 gave us the null-conditional operator. Let’s see what we can do with it!

The longer I write software, the more I come to appreciate clear code. String interpolation in C# is just one more way to help us do that.

The week of NASA launching Artemis I is a good time to check a few of the many APIs that make tons of raw space data accessible for anyone to use.

Thanks to CEFSharp, we can finally bring WinForms to the web! That didn’t sound right. Okay, let’s just look at hosting a site in IIS and showing it.

When our code isn’t clicking, negativity can quickly overshadow all the positive. That’s when we need to remember our victories!

WinForms and the web. Like oil and water, they don’t mix well. But with CEFSharp, they mix a LOT better. Let’s check it out.

Refactoring code is part of the dev life, and can even help keep the code healthy, but going too far can do more harm than good. Ever after a decade of writing code, I still have to remind myself from time to time!

Unit testing a WinForms app is an uphill battle in the best of times, before you add in classes like MessageBox. Let’s make the best of it.

There’s a lot of ways to make our code work for us. Let’s check out using the nameof operator to avoid magic strings.

One of the biggest struggles I have with programming is knowing when to ask for help. A little struggle is necessary for growth, but when am I just wasting time when I could be learning from others?

If you’re in a legacy codebase with a centralized “message box” form, why not add some features that make it work for you? 😏