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Most Interesting .NET StackOverFlow Questions

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:46:02 GMT

Today a short list of My Personal Most Interesting .NET Questions to me asked on StackOverFlow I founded.

Jeff Richter Video on Asynchronous Programming and his Power Threading

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:27:37 GMT

I recently had the chance to sit down with Jeff Richter and discuss his Power Threading Library. This library provides a simple technique for handling asynchronous development. By making clever use of C# Iterators, Jeff is able to make asynchronous code looks as though it is synchronous code the executes in a linear fashion. This greatly simplifies the asynchronous programming model, making it easy for you to complete tasks that were formerly considered difficult.

Talking Software Performance with Rico Mariani

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:56:20 GMT

In this episode Keith and Woody sit down with Mr. Performance, Rico Mariani, the Chief Architect for Visual Studio at Microsoft. Rico has been at Microsoft for 20 years. Before taking on his role as Chief Architect, he spent 5 years working on performance in one capacity or another.

Testable Data Access With The Repository Pattern

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:59:03 GMT

A sample implementation of an in-memory repository for consistent data access during testing.

Anders Hejlsberg Video on C# Dynamic

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:46:02 GMT

In this Channel 9 video C# architect Anders Hejlsberg answers some commonly asked questions about the new Dynamic features that will be included in C# 4.0. Building on the talk that he gave at PDC, Anders chats with C# Community PM Charlie Calvert. They discuss questions that community members have asked and riff on themes of import to developers who have been following the latest news from the C# team.

How to design your data connectivity strategy

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:20:01 GMT

Pull an existing persistence tool off the shelf, make sure you understand it, and code, code, code! Persistence coding is a commodity in this day and age, so just use and existing tool and get on with your project. I'll repeat this little gem one last time, if you're writing ADO.Net code by hand, you're stealing from your employer or client.

Ian talks about L2S Being killed

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:16:13 GMT

great post from Ian on the choice of EF over L2S decision from Microsoft.

LINQ To SQL Gets Kicked to the Curb... Needs A Good Home!

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:16:02 GMT

Great post on why L2S needs to be supported by the community and why a L2S targeted at the community is a good idea.

LINQ Farm: Covariance and Contravariance in C# 4.0

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:31:02 GMT

This post is designed to help you begin to understand a new feature in the next version of Visual Studio that involves covariant and contravariant support for delegates and interfaces. Eric Lippert's series of posts on this subject are definitely the definitive reference at this time. I'm writing this overview of the subject simply as an appendix to his explanation, and as quick reference for folks who want to get up to speed on this technology.

jQuery and Microsoft

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:01:02 GMT

ScottGu announce that Microsoft will be shipping jQuery with Visual Studio going forward. We will distribute the jQuery JavaScript library as-is, and will not be forking or changing the source from the main jQuery branch. The files will continue to use and ship under the existing jQuery MIT license.

Top 10 Things That Annoy Programmers

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:46:03 GMT

Programmers all have their personal pet peeves. Whether it's scope creep, Hungarian notation, or smelly coworkers, there are certain nuisances that we must put up with in our line of work. The following is a list of the top 10 things that annoy programmers, compiled from the results of my recent question on StackOverflow along with some of my own experiences as a programmer:

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..