New Modules for IIS7

submitted by jonas 4 days, 8 hours ago

hanselman.com — Scott Hanselman describes three new preview releases the IIS7 team put out this week. read more...

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When to test for exceptions

justanothersoftwareengineer.blogspot.com — When to use TDD for exception handling read more...

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volatile and MemoryBarrier()...

submitted by crpietschmann 3 days, 5 hours ago

blogs.msdn.com — That part I knew… what we news to me is there is a better way to do volatile, and that is with an explicitly memory barrier before accessing the data member.. We have a an API for that: System.Threading.Thread.MemoryBarrier(). This is more efficient than using volatile because a volatile field requires all accesses to be barriers and this effects some performance optimizations. read more...

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ASP.NET MVC Tip #20 – How to Unit Test Data Access

weblogs.asp.net — In this tip, Stephen Walther demonstrates how you can write unit tests for MVC controller actions that access a database. He shows you how to create a base unit test class that you can use to unit test your LINQ to SQL controller action code. read more...

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Egoless Programming - Developing Without the Attitude

submitted by jamesewelch 3 days, 22 hours ago

mikebernat.com — One of the most common threads that all programmers share is that of an ego. Some are much worse than others and some have found a way to control or manipulate their ego into a great benefit. Beyond skill-sets and other programming-specific talents I believe the greatest room for personal improvement in programmers as a whole is that of the ego. read more...

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Foundations of Programming - Learning Application

codebetter.com — If you're anything like me, you probably learn a lot better by going through code rather than reading books. I'm happy to release the Foundations of Programming Learning Application - it's a complete solution meant to show what was covered in the Foundations series. read more...

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Virtual Files using HttpContext.RewritePath()

blog.dmbcllc.com — One of the cool new tricks we are able to perform in ASP.NET that we were not able to use in ASP is the ability to have ASP.NET redirect file requests in the same way that mod_rewrite does under the Apache webserver. read more...

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Continuous scrolling pattern using JavaScript and ASP.NET

submitted by janko 1 day, 22 hours ago

jankoatwarpspeed.com — Continuous scrolling is very interesting pattern. If I would have to describe it in short I would say that new items are being loaded while you scroll down the content. It is a completely opposite pattern to a pagination. In this article, you will learn about this pattern and see how it can be implemented using JavaScript and ASP.NET. read more...

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