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Tidy Up Your Xaml And Code Behind, Use UserControls Inside Templates

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:01:12 GMT

Use User controls inside templtes

A cool puzzle game for programmers, written in Silverlight

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:31:13 GMT

The goal of the game is to program a robot to pick up stars. The puzzles are submitted by other users, and ranked by difficulty based on votes.

Joining "IE6: Do NOT want!" campaign

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:01:16 GMT

IE6 users are still too many... it started with a tweet from a Norwegian web developer, and spread like fire across Europe. Joining the campaign is easy: just add a few lines of code to your site or blog. In this post is how to do it and a little more of background on how to do it.

SVN-Monitor is going Open-Source

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:31:04 GMT

You can start downloading the latest beta version and it's source-code (C#).

Testing ASP.NET MVC with QUnit - Part 1

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:01:02 GMT

Now that I've been experimenting with the ASP.NET MVC framework I've modified a good deal of my GUI work in such a way that it minimizes form-posts and makes use of the AJAX goodies packed into jQuery. Since a lot of my work has moved to the client following my adoption of this approach I needed to investigate new options for testing. This morning I had the luck to stumble across QUnit, a jQuery testing plugin that makes life pretty easy.

A better, easier way to make sure you've globalized everything

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:46:18 GMT

A better, easier way to make sure you've globalized everything in your application

Sad Way To Do Business

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:01:03 GMT

how to make a bad impression with poor support and bad atitude and throw away thousands potential customers.

Behaviour driven development on user interfaces with Automation peer

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:49:58 GMT

Example of the use of Automation peers to expose controls to a unit test, and excercising the UI through MbUnit and NBehave.

Don't use Delete Links because they create Security Holes

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:46:02 GMT

Reasons why you shouldn't use a Delete link in your web application

WPF Disciples

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:16:18 GMT

This post list all the WPF Disciples blogs and feeds for easy access. The webfeeds are also supplied as a OPML file for easy consumption into IE7 or outlook

Checklist for high quality websites

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:16:02 GMT

A checklist for things to do that will highten the quality of any website.

Saving the World via. TDD?

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:46:13 GMT

A quick snippet of code showing the gist of the Context/Specification pattern... and ensuring we won't need John Connor's help after all.

Size does matter

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:58:54 GMT

Crunching JS and CSS files to speed up download time for pages. Beat the bulge!

Alpha blending in XNA

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:43:00 GMT

A brief overview of how to enable alpha transparency in XNA, with a simple demo.

When Should I Write Tests?

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:46:03 GMT

The definitive answer to a question that comes up all the time...

AttachedCommandBehavior v2 aka ACB

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:10:15 GMT

Some new features added in the AttachedCommandBehavior version 2.... Read more about it ....

[PSA] Using the Code Behind in MVC causes blindness

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:31:02 GMT

Just a PSA on why NOT to use the Code Behinds in Asp.Net MVC framework

3 reasons why you should let Google host jQuery for you

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:16:16 GMT

Three reasons why you should use the Google AJAX Libraries CDN for your public facing sites that use jQuery (or several other AJAX libraries) and examples of how to do so.

Pimp My Debugger - DebuggerDisplay Attribute

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:46:10 GMT

The other day I was reading some friends code, and I saw that he used a DebuggerDisplay attribute. It allows you to create a custom view of your objects in the Visual studio debugger. This attribute is very straight forward, but very powerful in the amount of time it can save you when debugging your application. I'll show you a cookie cutter example, but you can use your imagination as to how to use this particular attribute.

Is this thing on?

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:05:57 GMT

If you ever worked on an application that requires Internet connectivity, you will have had to handle situations where the connection may be unavailable for certain periods of time. This post is about how to determine whether a connection is up or down, and notify the application when the state changes.

Visual Studio 2008 Tips & Tricks for Developers

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:16:18 GMT

This article shows most common tips and tricks every .net developer should know,these tricks will help you in increasing your productivity while developing.I will make it a point to regularly update this post feel free to add few more tips,give me a comment if i find your trick worthy i will include it on this post.

Free Entity Framework Learning Guide

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:01:02 GMT

Zeeshan Hirani presented this free EF guide too EF community. You can download this guide in PDF format.

Get SOLID: Single Responsibility Principle - Karl Seguin

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:31:02 GMT

SOLID is a popular acronym that refers to a set of 5 important class design principles. Today I want to talk about the first part of SOLID: Single Responsibility Principle (SRP).

AttachedCommandBehavior aka ACB

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:13:27 GMT

This is a solution to attach a command to any Event of any Control in WPF

Who Called Me?

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:16:08 GMT

Sometimes it is important to understand what method called other method. In ths post I will show you an easy way to do that.