Working with WCF: Part One: Introduction and Your First Service (jamescbender.com)

published 2 days, 7 hours ago, submitted by JamesCBender(480) 8 days, 11 hours ago

I’ve been playing with WCF since .NET 3 came out. Sometimes I have to be reminded that not everybody is as familiar with all it’s “cob-webby corners” as I am. And that’s OK. Often (too often) I encounter someone who has NEVER used WCF and doesn’t even know where to begin.That’s not so OK. read more...

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Setting Up Fluent NHibernate for your project (www.dimecasts.net)

published 3 days, 3 hours ago, submitted by dwhittaker(12.2k) 3 days, 4 hours ago

Taking a look at how to use setup and configure Fluent NHibernate for usage. We will focus on how to setup your database settings as well as how to get your Fluent NHibernate mappings registered into the system. read more...

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5 Tips to get the most out of your coding time (hatim.indexdev.net)

published 3 days, 5 hours ago, submitted by Hatimr(1324) 3 days, 6 hours ago

I remember seeing an add from Microsoft I believe for hiring programmers and the jist of it was “We give you an office with a door”. Why you might wonder? read more...

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LightSpeed + LINQPad - perfect partners (www.mindscape.co.nz)

published 4 days, 1 hour ago, submitted by turtlespin(604) 12 days, 22 hours ago

Today Mindscape released a LINQPad driver for LightSpeed 3.0. This extends LINQPad and allows developers to run LINQ Queries against LightSpeed models which, in turn, allows querying against SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Amazon's SimpleDB, MySQL, SQLite, VistaDB and DB2! read more...

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Return Multiple Objects Using ASP.NET MVC'S JsonResult Class (www.dotnetcurry.com)

published 4 days, 9 hours ago, submitted by malcolms(813) 10 days, 12 hours ago

The following article demonstrates how to return multiple objects in ASP.NET MVC using the JsonResult class. read more...

3 comments | category: MVC | Views: 236

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Rollback TRUNCATE Command in Transaction (blog.sqlauthority.com)

published 4 days, 13 hours ago, submitted by pinaldave(6704) 10 days, 4 hours ago

Interesting Conversation on the subject. Take your side and learn along! read more...

2 comments | category: Database | Views: 204

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ASMX ScriptService mistake: Installation and configuration (encosia.com)

published 5 days, 4 hours ago, submitted by gt1329a(7590) 5 days, 16 hours ago

Continuing my series of posts about ASMX services and JSON, this post will cover two common mistakes that plague the process of getting a project’s first ASMX ScriptService working: Installing System.Web.Extensions into the GAC and configuring your web.config. read more...

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Behavior Driven Development (BDD) with SpecFlow and ASP.NET MVC (blog.stevensanderson.com)

published 6 days, 7 hours ago, submitted by desmond(1920) 11 days, 13 hours ago

How does BDD compare with TDD, and how can you use BDD-style tools such as Cucumber and SpecFlow with ASP.NET MVC? Steve Sanderson considers the options, and provides an example of combining ASP.NET MVC 2, SpecFlow, and WatiN. read more...

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Data and Page Compressions – Data Storage and IO Improvement (blog.sqlauthority.com)

published 6 days, 10 hours ago, submitted by pinaldave(6704) 11 days, 16 hours ago

The performance of SQL Server is primarily decided by the disk I/O efficiency. Improving I/O definitely improves the performance. SQL Server 2008 introduced Data and Backup compression features to improve the disk I/O. Here, I will explain Data compression. A detail analysis of the performance along with working script. read more...

2 comments | category: Database | Views: 165

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HanselMinutes: Women in Technology in the Muslim World - with Aby And (www.hanselminutes.com)

published 6 days, 16 hours ago, submitted by mosessaur(5154) 9 days, 15 hours ago

Scott's in Egypt today and he had the opportunity to sit down with Lamees and Abeer, two successful women in IT. Lamees is a programmer transitioning to Systems Analysis, and Abeer is a veteran Senior Systems Analyst and Agile Project Manager at Dashsoft. Nearly 50% of the people at Cairo Code Camp are women. What is Egypt doing right to encourage so many women to choose technology as their career? read more...

2 comments | category: Community | Views: 109

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Poll: IoC containers for .NET (www.sturmnet.org)

published 8 days, 10 hours ago, submitted by olivers(90) 10 days, 3 hours ago

Trying to find out which IoC containers people use on .NET, or even if they use any. Put your vote in and kick it! read more...

2 comments | category: Patterns | Views: 664

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How can you implement the Silverlight 3 Out Of Browser feature? (www.dotnetfunda.com)

published 9 days, 7 hours ago, submitted by dotnetfunda(1978) 11 days, 5 hours ago

Silverlight 3 came up with Out Of Browser support. Using that feature one can install the application just like a standalone windows application. Hence no need to open the browser to run the Silverlight application. Today for the first time I gone thru the APIs & created a sample application. Here I will discuss about the same to give you a demonstration. read more...

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MEF will not get easier, it’s cool as ICE (blog.maartenballiauw.be)

published 9 days, 9 hours ago, submitted by maartenba(5660) 10 days, 11 hours ago

Over the past few weeks, several people asked me to show them how to use MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework), some of them seemed to have some difficulties with the concept of MEF. I tried explaining that it will not get easier than it is currently, hence the title of this blog post. MEF is based on 3 keywords: export, import, compose. Since these 3 words all start with a letter that can be combined to a word, and MEF is cool, here’s a hint on how to remember it: MEF is cool as ICE! read more...

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DiffPlex - a .NET Diff Generator (diffplex.codeplex.com)

published 9 days, 15 hours ago, submitted by jemts(480) 12 days, 23 hours ago

DiffPlex is a combination of a .NET Diffing Library with both a Silverlight and HTML diff viewer. It is released open source on CodePlex under the MS-PL license. read more...

1 comment | category: Open Source | Views: 425

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Disable All or Selective Controls on a Page using jQuery (www.devcurry.com)

published 10 days, 7 hours ago, submitted by mopen(1380) 11 days, 10 hours ago

Disabling controls on a Page using jQuery is a cakewalk, thanks to the wonderful Selector API. Here’s an example. read more...

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ASMX and JSON – Common mistakes and misconceptions (encosia.com)

published 11 days, 5 hours ago, submitted by gt1329a(7590) 11 days, 7 hours ago

The first in a series of posts dealing with common misconceptions and mistakes when it comes to using ASMX services as a backend for AJAX. read more...

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