Scott Hanselman

In my new ongoing quest to read source code to be a better developer, I now present the fourth in an infinite number of a weekly series called "The Weekly Source Code." Here's some source I'm reading this week that I enjoyed.

• PoshConsole - This is a PowerShell console replacement written in WPF (.NET 3.0) with C#. Best feature? PowerShell "QuakeMode", totally. This source was fun to read.
• Koolwired.IMAP - The beginnings of an IMAP implementation. Not sure why I like reading Mail Protocol implementations, but I also love...
• Lesnikowski Mail.dll - This is the POP mail library that DasBlog uses, although he's updated it considerably and now charges a bit. The OLD OLD source is in DasBlog still and worth reading.
• C#.NET del.icio.us API - I use the http://del.icio.us social bookmarking service and this is a C# API for that service. Simple, but fairly clean. I don't usually take the time to abstract thing this much, I'm a bit (a lot) more sloppy, and I'm always impressed when folks take the time.
• WPF Contrib -The start of a WPF Controls project...this first release includes lots of Helpers and Utilities, as well as some panels that you wish you had in WPF.
• Wintellect Power Collections - An oldie but a real goodie, the Power Collections formerly hosted on Wintellect have moved over to CodePlex for future development. Some of the collections included are the Deque, MultiDictionary, Bag, OrderedBag, OrderedDictionary, Set, OrderedSet, and OrderedMultiDictionary. It'll be interesting if the community takes up the codebase and moves it forward. This code is a gold mine. It's well organized, clean, well-documented and has a fine set of Unit Tests. I should write code this clean.
• NLinq - I don't have to agree with the concept to think the source is cool. Inspired by this blog post, these guys are kind of reimplementing LINQ for .NET 1.1 and 2.0 by putting the LINQ expressions in a string, like this. Very clever as they are tunneling LINQ expressions through their stuff as a 3rd class API. But what price their immortal souls? ;)

 query = new NLinqQuery(
                @"  from m in methods
                    where !m.IsStatic
                    orderby m.Name
                    group m by m.Name into g
                    select new { MethodName = g.Key, Overloads = g.Count() }");

Feel free to send me links to cool source that you find hasn't been given a good read.

About Scott

Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. I am a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.

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