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NUnitit: Visual Studio Addin to support NUnit and some customizations

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:45:30 GMT

Customizations to NUnitit addin to run tests on the selected project and to run a single selected test from Visual Studio IDE.

WPF: a generic 'server-side' pagination data provider

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:53:32 GMT

A very simple solution to build a generic 'server-side' pagination data provider that you can use in WPF.

Unity: WCF service resolution container extension

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:13:53 GMT

how to create a WCF service resolution container extension

Redmine: a trick to import data from Mantis

Fri, 29 May 2009 15:43:53 GMT

Redmine: a simple procedure to import data from Mantis

Castle Windsor WCF Services Resolution Facility

Fri, 22 May 2009 00:03:35 GMT

How to write a Castle Windsor facility that allows you to create WCF Services proxies based on Services INterfaces registered in the IoC container.

NHibernate: persist a generic serializable object to an XML field

Mon, 18 May 2009 22:00:29 GMT

How to persist serializable classes to SqlServer XML fields using NHibernate

SL/WPF UIElement: how to find and ancestor of type <T> procedurally

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:29:40 GMT

UIElement: how to find and ancestor of type <T> procedurally

ASP.NET Routing and DataBinding

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:19:15 GMT

How to retrieve paramers for DataBinding when using ASP.NET Routing

13 ASP.NET MVC extensibility points you have to know

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:46:06 GMT

One of the main design principles ASP.NET MVC has been designed with is extensibility. Everything (or most of) in the processing pipeline is replaceable so, if you don't like the conventions (or lack of them) that ASP.NET MVC uses, you can create your own services to support your conventions and inject them into the main pipeline. This post shows 13 extensibility points that every ASP.NET MVC developer should know, starting from the beginning of the pipeline and going forward till the rendering of the view.

NHibernate: how to give a name to your Primary Key using SchemaExport

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:12:36 GMT

NHibernate: how to give a name to your Primary Key using SchemaExport (in SQL Server/ SQL Express)

C#/VB interop and reference problems in Visual Studio 2003 (BC30007)

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:10:33 GMT

how to solve the BC30007 issue when you have references at mixed C# and VB projects inside a solution

Managing tree with entity framework

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:45:20 GMT

With a couple of triggers you can manage trees structure with entity framework with little problems.

Windows SharePoint Services - Developing and (Remotely) Debugging a We

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:17:26 GMT

Third part of this SharePoint first approach user guide, this time we see how to develop a Web Part and how to use remote debugging to debug it.

SharePoint Services - Setting up a Website with Forms Authentication

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:49:20 GMT

How to create a website in SharePoint and enable Forms Authentication

Windows SharePoint Services - first setup

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:12:09 GMT

A simple guide on how to setup Windows SharePoint Services for the first time

An extension method to load entities by key in Entity Framework

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:31:51 GMT

Are you tired to having an object key like "ALFKI" and need to do a query to entity framework just to retrieve the object corresponding to that key? You can easily build an extension method that will do everything to you.

How to use the Class Diagram designer in a Silverlight Project

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:46:39 GMT

A simple procedure that describes how to use the Class Diagram designer in a Silverlight Project

Sixth in a series of post about doing AOP and IoC with unity

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:43:46 GMT

If you like enterprise library or if you are forced to use microsoft code in your projects, you can use unity to do IoC or AOP. In this little series of posts I explain the basic of unity configuration and usage.

Install SQL Server (Express) with your Application

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:31:03 GMT

A bootstrap to allow the deployment of SQL Server Express along with your Application

Resharper and the OutOfMemoryException problem

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:00:43 GMT

A fix to the OutOfMemoryException problem when using Resharper

Structura a Silverlight/WPF Line of Business Application Framework

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:59:50 GMT

Here's the first deploy of Structura, this project is related to our User Group DotNetMarche and will be part of a set of application frameworks and open source solutions we develop as community projects. Structura will be in our mind an application framework for building modular and pluggable line of business application in both Silverlight and WPF. It Uses IoC containers for pluggability and MVP, MVVM patterns for User Interfaces.

A randomizer addin for nunit

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:09:20 GMT

With nunit addins you can write a simple randomizer that executes the test in random order.

Serialization Exception: PropertyChangedEventManager is not serializab

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:41:12 GMT

How to solver the SerializationException called when you are trying to serialize and de-serialize and object that is involved in a binding.

create a report in excel 2007 with open xml sdk 1.0

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:08:53 GMT

With few lines of code you can create cool report in excel 2007 thanks to linq to xml and open xml sdk.

Wrap IList<T> and use it for effective binding in Silverlight and WPF

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:12:44 GMT

If you use some ORM tool like NHibernate and your business entities or DTOs have to support collections of other elements, you are forced to use the interface notation IList<T> or ICollection<T> to hold a reference to the real collection implementation..here is how you can wrap them to take full advantage of the binding mechanism in WPF and Silverlight.