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Small but useful refactoring for working with nullable types

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:37:38 GMT

nullable types open a nice posibility, however writing the code to verify if there is a value, then using the value is repetitive and long, here's a solution

Differences in .NET 2.0 and .NET 2.0SP1

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 05:30:29 GMT

List of changes for .NET 2.0 SP1. The .NET 2.0 SP 1 will be released at the same time as .NET 3.5. Also includes FxCop rule to get a warning if you are using something that has changed. If you have 2.0 SP1 with these new 2.0 methods and deploy to an older system that has only .NET 2.0 RTM (not Service Pack'ed), then you might get a MethodMissingException because that older system might not have the new method or property.

Cross apply in SQL Server 2000

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:30:10 GMT

It is possible to emulate the SQL Server 2005 CROSS APPLY operator in SQL Server 2000.

ASP.NET - Server.Transfer v/s Server.Execute

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:01:01 GMT

Difference between Server.Transfer and Server.Execute.

ASP.NET MVC Framework - ScottGu's Blog

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:16:02 GMT

ASP.NET MVC Framework described by ScottGu.

SharpCacheSessionManager

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:16:02 GMT

The SharpCacheSessionManager is a HttpHandler that allows to display the entries stored in the Cache, Session and Application object. You can view the data stored inside the objects and you can also remove the objects from the corresponding storage.

PLINQ = Parallel FX = PFX = The new Concurrent World

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 20:01:02 GMT

?Microsoft is developing a number of technologies to simplify the expression of parallelism in code. An example of this work is Parallel Extensions for the .NET Framework (PFX), a managed programming model for data parallelism, task parallelism, scheduling, and coordination on parallel hardware.

Writing custom LINQ provider

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 05:01:02 GMT

In this post, I will show how to create a sample LINQ provider.Creating LINQ provider can be far more complex, but here I will demonstrate the very basic one to start...

What Subversion 1.5 has in store for you?

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:01:02 GMT

It's been long time and we keep hearing a lot about Subversion 1.5. I am a bit curious and tempted to see what actually it has to offer us.

CSS Control Adapters Cause Double PostBack in IE

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:16:01 GMT

Recently I've been trying to use CSS Adapters along with the Membership/Roles/Provider controls and I've come across an issue where the Adapters cause the page to PostBack twice when using IE. WTF?

Code reuse, next level

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 06:01:02 GMT

A common mistake that developers have been making over the years is to place conditional statements that always evaluate to the same result (until a property changes) inside a loop, here's an alternative to solve this problem

How to: Instantiate a class with a private constructor

Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:06:00 GMT

Following up the post about "how to instantiate (another's class) private methods", here we see how easy is to instantiate a class, regardless of the visibility of it's constructors

A better string control in ASP.NET

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 08:01:02 GMT

The other day, I found the LiteralControl while browsing through the MSDN docs and that my friends are a real treat. It lives in the System.Web.UI namespace and it adds great value.

Escape characters to use reserved words as variable names in .NET

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 06:01:19 GMT

one of the biggest advantages of .NET is that it is language agnostic, but what happens when you are using code written in another language, and they used a variable name that is a reserved word in your language?

How to: Execute (another's class) private methods

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:01:04 GMT

Do you need to get access to a method that has been marked as private? here's how you can

quest for a better CAPTCHA

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:31:02 GMT

Current CAPTCHA implementations suffer mainly from the problem of being unreadable, here's an idea

Simple Generic Factory in C#

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:34:02 GMT

a very simple and elegant factory that can be reused with any products

Simple factory pattern using dictionaries of methods

Sat, 23 Sep 2006 10:25:00 GMT

a technique (using dictionaries) to simplify calling code when you have a pattern of 2..n values, where for each value you want to execute a different method of the same signature

Diccionaries of methods in C#

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:26:58 GMT

Follow up of the article "arrays of methods in C#", as noted by some of the commenters, it is possible to implement this technique using dictionaries

Benefits of Testability

Mon, 11 Sep 2006 02:01:02 GMT

Gives a list of 9 design characteristics that benefit from testability.

Top 10 .NET bloggers

Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:31:01 GMT

Nice compilation of some good .NET bloggers ...

simple factory pattern made simpler

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 20:48:30 GMT

arrays of methods allow for a simpler implementation of this pattern

Beta2 of the CSS Adapaters for ASP.nET 2.0 released

Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:01:02 GMT

Get the new CSS Adapaters -- they make it really easy to use CSS with ASP.NET 2.0 controls and add a lot of new functionality over the Beta 1 version

TDD Design Starter Kit

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 05:01:02 GMT

A Set of articles on where to do and what to consider when beginning est drivern development. Stay Agile.

Performance optimization of an if/else-statement

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 03:31:01 GMT

Have you ever considered how well a regular if/else-statement performs? I haven't, but wanted to test it.