C# on Nicolas Nowinski

Building a Simple Game or Why AI is the Future of Software Development

Sun, 02 Mar 2025 21:45:27 +0000

I’ve been using GitHub Copilot, Claude, and ChatGPT to help me code for a couple of years now. But AI has always been in the assistant role – I was the one in the driver’s seat, asking technical questions or letting GitHub Copilot generate sections of code based on what I was writing. It makes you a more productive developer because it’s faster than Googling, but at the end of the day, I was still the one fundamentally coding, just with better tooling.

YamlDotNet, Interfaces, Lists, and Classes

Sat, 28 Dec 2024 17:29:09 +0000

How to deserialize and serialize a polymorphic list of interface types using YamlDotNet in .NET, with a reusable mapper class to avoid hardcoding interface and class names.

Dynamics CRM: Extensions to Improve IOrganizationService

Tue, 26 May 2015 22:42:41 +0000

I’ve become a big fan of extension methods over the years to make my development work in Dynamics CRM, easier to implement and easier to read (i.e., easier to support.) Extension methods allow us to, exactly as the name implies, extended an existing class or interface with new methods - its a simpler version of implementing a derived class.

Anyone familiar with developing .NET code for Dynamics CRM will be familiar with the IOrganizationService interface and its varied implementations. While in most cases I’m a fan of implementing my own version of IOrganizationService, often for code-base simplicity I’ll rely on some extension methods for my code.