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Chris Eargle

is a Microsoft C# MVP with over a decade of experience designing and developing enterprise applications, and he runs the local .NET User Group: the Columbia Enterprise Developers Guild. He is a frequent guest of conferences and community events promoting best practices and new technologies. Chris is a native Carolinian; his family settled the Dutch Form region of South Carolina in 1752. He currently resides in Columbia with his wife, Binyue, his dog, Laika, and his three cats: Meeko, Tigger, and Sookie. Amazingly, they all get along... except for Meeko, who is by no means meek.

  • Productivity

    Create Projects with JustDecompile

    The most requested feature on UserVoice for JustDecompile was the ability to create a Visual Studio project from an assembly, and the latest version gives you that capability. This is useful for exporting lost projects or obtaining multiple classes without the need to copy and paste code. Let’s take a look at how it works. Open JustDecompile. Select the assembly you’re interested in. You can use the Create Project feature in one of two ways: the button on the menu bar or by right-clicking an assembly.   You will then need to select a folder in which to save the project. A dialog will appear and...
    by Chris Eargle
    August 08, 2011
  • Productivity

    Constructors Made Easy with JustCode

    Constructors are a necessary element of class design that typically involves repetitive work. Language teams try to reduce verbosity by moving patterns into language features. Where this terseness doesn’t exist, tools such as Telerik JustCode can alleviate some of the work to make a smooth coding experience. Today, I will introduce a few features that make creating constructors easier. Blank Slate Let’s start with a simple Employee entity class.   public class Employee { public int Id { get; set; } public string FirstName { get; set; } public string LastName { get; set; } ...
    by Chris Eargle
    August 02, 2011
  • Productivity

    The commercial launch of JustTrace brings new .NET profiler to the developer's toolset

    It’s only been a few months since we announced the Beta launch of Telerik’s .NET memory and performance profiler, yet JustTrace has gone a long way. Back then we shared with you our core vision for the product – we were not interested in launching just another .NET profiler, but a tool that will help developers build more performance and resource efficient applications and thus increase the business value of their products.  Some of our core objectives include: A profiler that is a stand-alone solution yet a natural fit for Visual Studio Three distinct profilers – Memory, Performance and Tracing – that give...
    by Chris Eargle
    July 15, 2011
  • Release

    Introducing the new and improved JustCode

    Telerik’s second major release for 2011 brings a bunch of exciting new functionalities, improvements to existing features, and many performance optimizations for JustCode, Telerik’s unobtrusive Visual Studio plug-in.   Some of the highlights include new additions and improvements to JustCode’s Code Navigation and Search features, new and improved Formatter (wrapping, new line and space formatters), several new Quick Fixes/Quick Hints, as well as new Refactorings, Code Generation features and Code Cleaning Steps, among others.   Let’s have a look at some of these highlights.   JustCode’s innovative Code Navigation and Search has traditionally been a very strong asset of the product that we continuously get praise for. This...
    by Chris Eargle
    July 15, 2011
  • Release

    New JustTrace Beta Version Available

    The JustTrace team has been busy working on some great improvements to Telerik’s memory and performance profiler! The new Beta ships two brand new features:  ‘Profiling Windows Services’ and ‘Compare Performance Snapshots’. Currently, JustTrace is able to profile only Windows Services on Windows Vista and later versions. Future plans include support for Windows XP and Windows 2003. The new ‘Profiling Windows Services’ capability’ entails a new, easy to use dialog, which enables you to see the list of all services and their status. And just above it you can find three buttons that allow you to start, stop and restart the selected service....
    by Chris Eargle
    June 28, 2011
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