Exploring Code Contracts: Taking a look at Object Invariant Conditions

dimecasts.net — Taking a look at the new Code Contracts library which is out of MS Research and will be part of .Net 4.0/Vs2010. Contracts allow for many different ways to perform language agnostic code validation and in this episode we are going to focus on how to utilize the Object Invariant checking to maintain an objects state. read more...

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How we built TwitterMatic.net - Part 1: Introduction

blog.maartenballiauw.be — “Once upon a time, Microsoft started a Windows Azure developing contest named new CloudApp();. While it first was only available for US candidates, the contest was opened for international submissions too. Knight Maarten The Brave Coffeedrinker and his fellow knightsmen at RealDolmen decided to submit a small sample application that could be hosted in an unknown environment, known by the digital villagers as “the cloud”. The application was called TwitterMatic, named after the great god of social networking, Twitter. It would allow digital villagers to tell the latest stories, even when they were asleep or busy working.” read more...

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Maximum Number of Index per Table

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blog.sqlauthority.com — One of the questions was – What is the maximum number of Index per table? I received lots of answers to this question but only two answers are correct. Let us now take a look at them. read more...

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The Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever

jeffblankenburg.com — What happens when you get a few web developers who like puzzles together? Check out Jeff Blankenburg's post on the Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever, and rise to the challenge! read more...

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How To: Integrate a Prism v2 application with the Silverlight 3 Naviga

blogs.southworks.net — This articles provides an overview of the things that should be taken into account to use the Silverlight 3 Navigation Framework in a Prism v2 application, as well as the limitations / issues that you could come up with during the integration. read more...

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Live Smooth Streaming: Retrieving the configuration settings via code

blogs.southworks.net — In my previous post, I explained how the Microsoft.Web.Administration API of IIS7 helped us to manage the Live Smooth Streaming Publishing Points programmatically. In this post I’m going to show you how, using the same API, you can retrieve the Live Smooth Streaming configuration settings. read more...

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What is Unit Testing?

codethinked.com — good introductory article explaining what unit tests are (and are not) and why you should use them read more...

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Presentation at Microsoft Day @ Dhaka - Tanzim Saqib on .NET discovery

weblogs.asp.net — Presentation slide for the "Development in ASP.NET [WebForms, LINQ, Dynamic Data]" session on Microsoft Day @ Dhaka read more...

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