March 2009 - Gary Depue's VSTA Blog

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Plain speak on VSTA add-in versioning and compatibility

Recent discussions have helped me clarify this confusing topic of versioning and compatibility. Maybe this will help you too. VSTA add-ins assemblies are created by building a VSTA add-in project. Add-in assemblies and add-in projects are seperate, but...

Published Fri, Mar 20 2009 11:47 AM by Gary

Filed under: versioning, compatibility
Nullable<T> types: Reflection doesn't determine a Nullable type, overloadng is cool solution, but using inferred types is better!

To get the type of a variable, we can usually use instance.GetType(); But for Nullable<T> types, GetType reflection returns the returns the underlying type . That is: int i = 0; isInteger = i.GetType().Equals( typeof ( int )); //isInteger == true...

Published Thu, Mar 05 2009 11:45 AM by Gary