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10 things you must do to make your desktop database apps better

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:12:28 GMT

Each of these items could be a blog post unto themselves, but I am going to try really hard to not be too verbose and just cover the core of the concept and why you need to do it. Everyone knows that any app driven by data is much more than just the app. In most cases the app without a database doesn't even function, or fails to function properly. If a database is an integral part of your application, then shouldn't you be doing all you can to ensure it stays healthy and prepare for the worst case events of corruption or dead drives?

JavaScript WYSIWYG Editor - TinyEditor

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:05:15 GMT

TinyEditor is a simple JavaScript WYSIWYG editor that is both lightweight (8KB) and standalone. It can easily be customized to integrate with any website through CSS and the multitude of parameters.

Creating a monster: The DataTable meets dynamic

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:40:12 GMT

In this article I combine the good old DataTable with the new fancy dynamic types found in .Net 4. The result is a terrible monster, but a fun one!

jqGrid and XSS Security

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:07:45 GMT

How to protect your site against XSS attacks when using the jqGrid jQuery plug-in.

What's so good about OpenRasta?

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:21:47 GMT

I've been proclaiming the greatness of OpenRasta to anyone unfortunate to start talking to me about web development recently. I thought it was about time that I recorded the reasons I love it so much somewhere everyone can see. OpenRasta is by no means a finished product but it has principles at its core that I value greatly and give it massive potential.

RhinoMocks Stub not retaining property values

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:16:44 GMT

I was still fixing the tests that had failed after upgrading to Castle.Windsor 2.1 and RhinoMocks 3.6 when I stumble on this one. Basically I had a unit test that passed before I upgraded and as soon as I switched to using the most recent versions of both libraries the test failed.The issue manifested on a stub for an Interface...

BadImageFormatException when debugging interface mocked with RhinoMock

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:14:07 GMT

Recently I updated the project I am working on to Castle.Windsor version 2.1. Since we are using an abstraction over the container (for resolving purposes only), we had to adapt it to conform with the new restrictions for Resolving dependencies...

What Writers Can Teach Programmers

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:11:52 GMT

A couple of helpful self-motivation tips from the world of writers, which apply equally well to programming.

Why breakpoints do not get hit when targeting x86 on Windows 7 x64?

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:08:37 GMT

I am currently working on a fully managed WPF application, that references a certified C# DLL that was purposely compiled targeting x86 platform (part of the certification process I think). Since I recently got an upgrade on my development machine, and I wanted to take full advantage of my 8GB of RAM I ended up installing Windows 7 x64.

Regular expressions in MS SQL Server 2005/2008.

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:23:40 GMT

ou can use all .Net Framework Regular Expressions via MS Server CLR Integration. Microsoft recommends to use CLR Integration in scenarios where CLR-based programming can complement the expressive power of the T-SQL query language

Solution for Master Page Image Display Problem in Asp.net

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:15:39 GMT

A simple solution to problem is to define relative path for images inside master page.

Send Email from Gmail in .net

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:13:19 GMT

Send Email from Gmail

Visual Studio 2010 RC is available

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:36:14 GMT

VS2010 RC is out now and available for MSDN users since now. Other guys have to wait until tomorrow when VS2010 RC is made publically available. Reading first news I discovered that most important thing is hardly improved performance of VS2010 RC IDE. All your feedback is welcome to VS2010 RC Connect site.

Multi-tenancy and ASP.NET MVC - Views with a ViewEngine

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:17:29 GMT

Carrying on the series by talking about View Engines and how to use one to allow modules to provide their own views

LoadTest: MethodAccessException WebTest.set_Outcome

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:35:11 GMT

Are you getting this error: MethodAccessException Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.WebTesting.WebTest.set_Outcome? Find the remedy!

Top 5 Common programming mistakes .NET developers must avoid !!

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:18:31 GMT

Top 5 Common programming mistakes .NET developers must avoid !! Must read for all .net programmers

does MEF apply the SOA paradigm?

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:06:53 GMT

in this post I'm going to argue that the Manage Extensibility Framework (MEF), is actually applying to the 4 tenet of Service Orientation Architecture (SOA), therefore MEF is actually, in-process implementation of the SOA paradigm.

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 RC Now Available

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:55:20 GMT

Today, we are making available the Release Candidate (RC) for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 to all MSDN subscribers. The RC will be made available to the world on Wednesday, February 10th. The RC includes a go-live license for people who want to deploy in their production environment.

.NET CF Performance Best Practices

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:22:57 GMT

The impact of performance is much more readily apparent in .NET Compact Framework applications. The mobile devices commonly have a CPU that is 10 times slower than your desktop CPU, and possibly up to 100 times less RAM than a desktop or server. In Agile or XP development, the mantra is often to ignore performance considerations until necessary - I don't think you can apply that to .NET CF...

CSS Tidy Up - Tidy up all your css online or offline

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:39:16 GMT

This app does extractly what it named. You throw in a mess up, non-formatted CSS, choose a format you want and click "Do the magic" button. It will return you a proccessed CSS in your selected format. Fast and Simple. The utility right now support 4 different CSS formats. You could do it online or download the windows app for this. It's also include the source code for the solution (Core, Win App, Web App) in C# WPF an ASP.net.

Mapping Relationships using Fluent nHibernate

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:29:36 GMT

In my last post I went over the basics of mapping properties on a POCO object to fields on a database table. If you haven't already check it out here. In this post I'm going to focus on mapping relationships, that is, what if we wanted our objects to contain concrete references to the objects with which they have relationships, rather than just foreign key properties.

IL perversions: throwing and catching strings

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:42:36 GMT

Inspired by Mohamed Mahmoud's blog posting How to: Create Interfaces with Static Methods via IL? I wrote another sick example on IL (Intermediate Language) to show you how different is the world behind compilers. Tonight I have enough of exceptions, I want to throw some strings! Let's do it!

The Basics of Mapping Objects to a Database using Fluent nHibernate

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:11:17 GMT

In this post I'll be taking a look at how we can set up mappings between regular .Net objects and database tables using Fluent nHibernate.

WPF "Tip of the Day" window

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:06:08 GMT

An easy to use "Tip of the Day" window for WPF with an internal tips editor.

ASP.NET Regenerate .designer.cs

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:53:08 GMT

Your ASPX or ASCX .designer.cs file stopped being generated by Visual Studio and you don't know why? Here is a little trick for you.