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Visual Studio Gallery launches

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:01:02 GMT

To add another resource to enhance your development experience, today we're launching the Visual Studio Gallery. This site provides a catalog that showcases free and commercial products that complement or extend Visual Studio.

Creating a Simple Site Wide User Notification Pattern

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:46:02 GMT

When creating websites, it seems that one problem I always run into is how to gracefully notify the user of errors or display messages to them. In most of my sites I use master pages, so I thought it would be pretty sweet to integrate a messaging pattern into my master pages.

Immediate Window - A forgotten tool

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:16:02 GMT

A little bit about the Immediate Window tool available in Visual Studio.

Quick and Dirty Memory Utility Methods

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:46:03 GMT

Ever curious how much memory that suspect object is hogging on the heap? Find out quickly and easily with a few lines of code.

LINQ.Flickr 1.2

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:46:02 GMT

Last week, I have released LINQ.Flickr 1.2 , this new release comes with some bugs fixes requested by community. The best of them was not to be able to search only by user and with specific photo size. The bug started after converting it to use LinqExtender instead of its own query logic. So, now here it is...

Silverlight 2.0 (beta 1) Controls Screenshot

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:31:05 GMT

SilverlightShow has a nice post up detailing the controls that will be available in the Silverlight 2.0 beta 1 release. The news was originally posted on Shawn Burke's blog, but it appears that the he was forced to take down the screen shot. Thanks to SilverlightShow that graphic is still visible and is also now posted on my blog. Exciting stuff!

Common console commands for the typical ASP.NET developer

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:46:03 GMT

Common commands to manage your ASP.NET websites.

Quick And Simple DependencyInjection With StructureMap

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:16:02 GMT

A very quick guide to IoC using StructureMap.

Creating IN queries with Linq

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:31:02 GMT

Rob Conery presents the ins-and-outs of the 'in' query in Linq To Sql.

Writing Maintainable Code Considered Harmful

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:31:02 GMT

Reasons on why developers should not write maintainable code

Learning a new programming language

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:01:02 GMT

Some things I've found useful when learning a new programming language.

What I Learned About MVC On Day One

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:46:02 GMT

I am really blown back about how fast and easy MVC is to develop with. I know the guys at Microsoft do a good job with their .NET coding, but I am really impressed by the forethought they put in to MVC. It builds on top of the standard ASP.NET package, but does it in such a way that makes it lean on top of the already feature-rich (read bloated) ASP.NET Page object. It really doesn't feel like I have all that baggage anymore.

Building a LinkedIn Style Address Book with the ListView and LinqDataS

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:16:02 GMT

Another great article from Matt Berseth about building a LinkedIn style address book

.NET 3.5 Brings Major (Undocumented) Changes to ThreadPool

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:31:03 GMT

Interesting information about the new behavior of the thread pool in .NET 3.5.

Try/Catch Blocks Can Hurt Performance Significantly

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:01:02 GMT

Over at Programmers Heaven.com, there's an interesting article on the potential performance impact of try/catch blocks. The article concluded that the average cost of a try/catch block is essentially nothing (sorry there's no author information on the post), and that .NET/C# programmers should not think twice about using try/catch blocks. The author is right that a try/catch block has essentially zero cost. However, like most coding performance issues, exceptions and try/catch blocks do not have performance implications until they occur in some type of loop.

Google Lets You "Chatback" With Your Visitors

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:16:03 GMT

I love Google Talk. I love it because of its light foot print both on my hard drive and when running in memory. I love the integration with all my Google services. And I love the flexibility that it provides. However the Google Talk team just gave me another reason to love Google Talk. It now allows me to have direct conversations with my visitors with a simple click of the mouse on the chat bubble you see to your left.

How SQL Server short-circuits WHERE condition evaluation

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:01:02 GMT

As a developer you must be aware that SQL Server does not do short-circuiting like it is done in other programming languages and there's nothing you can do to force it to.

Custom Entity Classes Using LINQ to SQL Part 1 - DataObjects

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:01:02 GMT

Want to use LINQ without using th LINQ to SQL Classes file? Maybe even add it into an existing object model you already have set up?