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Again about differences about Binary versus Xml Serialization

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:07:32 GMT

In this post Alk explain why XmlSerialization should not be used for objects storage purposes.

ASP.NET MVC Beta1 in a few weeks and v1 by end of year

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:01:07 GMT

A tweet in the morning, straight from Remix08 UK, where ScottGu is doing a presentation on ASP.NET MVC: ScottGu says feature complete MVC beta "in a few weeks". final v1 by end of year

Insert an image into a Docx document

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:53:25 GMT

In this post I show how to include an image into a word document using the openxml format.

Which is faster? Silverlight or Flash?

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:46:11 GMT

Benchmarks of RIA performances: Flash/Flex is faster when it comes to graphic rendering, but Silverlight is faster when it comes to pure computation speed.

ASP.NET MVC P5 released on Codeplex

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:16:12 GMT

Keeping on with the 6 weeks release plan, the ASP.NET MVC team quietly release P5 of ASP.NET MVC on Codeplex.

No GoLive required to use ASP.NET MVC in production

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:31:03 GMT

ASP.NET MVC EULA allows its usage in live operating environment, so it can be used in production

detect if a finally block is executed during exception handling

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:39:16 GMT

With disposable action pattern it can be useful to detect if code inside the dispose is called because we exit the using block with or without an exception.

Relation in a domain are really useful

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:01:43 GMT

This is a ruminatino on the usefulness of relation in a domain model, the key concept is, do not use relations as a meaning to minimize load instruction with lazy load, they are used to express business meaning, two objects are to be relate only if they are related in business.

Domain Model & Aggregates: when do master-detail associations happen?

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:10:06 GMT

In this post I point out on the complexity of handling master-detail association in a domain model, giving some advices on why and when they are useful or not.

TEst code is First Class Code

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:46:08 GMT

Some rumination on the importance to consider test code as production code.

The marvelous world of unit testing

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:46:09 GMT

Some rumination on the argument "Unit Testing"

Unleash the power of VisualStateManager with custom states

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:32:32 GMT

VisualStateManager is a powerful feature of Silverlight 2 Beta 2, thanks to Blend animation support. In this article I show how you can define your own custom states to leverage VSM for almost any particular needs.

TransactionScope timeout

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:05:51 GMT

Setting a timeout for long running tasks with transaction scope is not so straightforward as it seemed to be. Let's see why!

WPF: Reducing CPU consumption for animations « C# Disciples

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:46:02 GMT

Lately I've been working on a project at work and the application was performing pretty well. The CPU Usage was below 2% and I was quite happy with it. Then I decided to add a simple animation that continues executing forever. the results 15% CPU consumption . I was amazed at how much CPU was being wasted. Yet I am a stubborn guy and if I want an animation to execute forever, I will do it no matter what..

Get name of front document for an ACrobatPlugin

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:21:03 GMT

This is not really .net code, It was a long time I do not write C++ code, but acrobat sdk supports only C++, and the sdk is so damn hard...here is the code needed to know the name of the current document.

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Documentation Available

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:20:59 GMT

Still waiting for Silverlight 2 Beta 2, but the reference guide is available at least.

Test with multiple IE Rendering Engines

Thu, 29 May 2008 20:01:03 GMT

IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.

How to handle Themes in wpf

Thu, 22 May 2008 16:16:02 GMT

This article explain how to load a theme at runtime and apply it to wpf controls. This permits to personlize the interface even after the application is deployed.

Linq To Sql in real word Web applications

Wed, 21 May 2008 14:46:08 GMT

This post presents an implementation of a DataContext per Conversation pattern in ASP.NET and Linq To Sql.

ReSharper 4 approaching beta status

Tue, 20 May 2008 16:16:05 GMT

No official announcement yet, but the ReSharper 4.0 Nightly Build page is showing the first build marked as stable and with the status "Beta Candidate".

Web Request and caching

Fri, 16 May 2008 12:07:10 GMT

Tells how to cache a web page witha webrequest object

How to manage ASP.NET validation from Javascript with jQuery

Wed, 14 May 2008 08:01:02 GMT

This article outlines how to enable and disable ASP.NET client side validation from Javascript using jQuery

Introducing Waegis

Mon, 12 May 2008 20:46:04 GMT

A new spam blocking service just hit the .NET space: Waegis. It's a service similar to Akismet, but written entirely in .NET

Second Italian ALT.NET conference

Wed, 07 May 2008 15:31:03 GMT

After the "small success" of the first UGIALT.net mini conference in February, UGIALT.net is organizing another conference in June. As for the other conference there will not be a fixed agenda, but the event will be a day-long discussion on the topics decided by the participants, probably developing a small app to focus on the various stages of the development.

First Look At Silverlight 2

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:46:02 GMT

Scott Gu annouces Silverlight 2 and describes a sample application that should be of interest to anyone developing web applications to consume data from public APIs.