Articles by Simon P Stevens (Articles: 2, Tip/Tricks: 3)

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C#	How to Safely Trigger Events the Easy Way 27 Feb 2010 Updated: 3 Mar 2010 Rating: 4.84/5 Votes: 37 Popularity: 7.41 Licence: CPOL Views: 139,640 Bookmarked: 79 Downloaded: 613 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A guide to the methods of triggering .NET events in a thread-safe way.
	Building and Maintaining Multiple Application Editions using Conditional Compilation 16 Mar 2009 Updated: 18 Mar 2009 Rating: 4.73/5 Votes: 19 Popularity: 6.04 Licence: CPOL Views: 61,860 Bookmarked: 51 Downloaded: 283 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Techniques for maintaining multiple editions of a software application, and a detailed look at conditional compilation.

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	Running a .bat file as administrator - Correcting current directory [Tip/Trick] 20 Oct 2010 Updated: 20 Oct 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 41 Popularity: 8.06 Licence: CPOL Views: 141,649 Bookmarked: 22 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to set the current directory correctly when running batch scripts as administrator
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Threads	Safe Trigger Extensions [Tip/Trick] 2 Mar 2010 Updated: 4 Mar 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,241 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This code provides SafeTrigger extension methods as a way of triggering events in a thread safe way.For details on usage, a discussion of reasons and alternatives, and a full solution download see my article on safely triggering events[^]Multiple overloads are provided for convenience to...
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C#	Remove unused "using" [Tip/Trick] 11 Feb 2010 Updated: 11 Feb 2010 Rating: 4.73/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.85 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,020 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The PowerCommands[^] addin for visual studio also includes an option to "remove and sort usings" for all files in a whole project (or solution). It can come in handy when you don't want to go through and do each file manually.

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Simon P Stevens

Software Developer

United Kingdom

I discovered programming aged 11 with my school's BBC micro, and a book titled "Write your own space action games". (Their ideas of "space action" games were very different to mine. My ideas didn't include a bunch of * signs controlled via a text based menu)

I got hooked on VB for a while (mainly because I discovered I could replace the * signs with .bmp files) until someone pointed out the wonderful world of objects and Java. I also went thought a c++ phase.

I've now been a professional developer for 5 years.

My current language of choice is C#. I spend my free time playing with XNA and microcontrollers.