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What Gives? Microsofts Code Generation Tool

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:31:12 GMT

In a world of Microsoft and third party applications, out comes t4. t4 is a code generation tool that can compete with CodeSmith, but its FREE and built right into Visual Studio. It has been years since the first edition with very little publication of the actual application. t4 is a free code generation engine from Microsoft that underpins the Domain Specific Languages and Software Factory toolkits.

C# 4.0 New Features Part 1.1 - dynamic keyword second look

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:16:11 GMT

A second look at the dynamic keyword and an update on the performance statistics that we looked at in Part 1.

Data Manipulations with Entity Framework

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:46:57 GMT

When learning a new ORM one of the most important and interesting thing is to get to know how you can manipulate data with that tool.Thus, this particular thing is explained in this tutorial.

Introduction to NHibernate: What does NHibernate bring to the table

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:01:02 GMT

A short screencast introduction to NHibernate: In this episode we will talk about what does NHibernate bring to the table

Separate Assemblies != Loose Coupling

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:16:07 GMT

read and learn

Getting Intrigued by Entity Framework

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:16:21 GMT

A demonstration of an advantage of Entity Framework over LINQ to SQL

Request for Help: Need better guidance for beginners

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:01:02 GMT

A call to harms for helping beginners. This time from a pro that realizes the need.

Development Tools I Use & Recommend

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:16:03 GMT

Eventually I will get to some technical code Posts. But for now, I'm a bit delayed with some other things at work lately. I will be blogging about Code Generation, OOP, and other topics very soon though. In the meantime, I wanted to share a list of tools I regularly use now or have used in the past as a C# / ASP.NET Engineer listed below:

Scott Hanselman: The Rise of F#

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 08:01:02 GMT

ScottHa gives a good initial push to F# :)

JQuery, the very very basics - Lesson 3

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:46:11 GMT

Snail on with my learning and writing about the very very basic lessons on JQuery. In "modern" (DOM) web programming, web pages are made up of a hierarchy of elements. Manipulation of elements goes far beyond styling and positioning, it involves almost everything, adding / deleting content, appending and removing children elements, attaching itself to a new parent, cloning ... Everything is possible. The question is : How?

Using the ASP.NET Repeater Control to Group Data and Add Totals

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 08:46:11 GMT

Spice Up Your Ad Reports - Using the ASP.NET Repeater Control to Group Data and Add Totals The Repeater control is truly amazing. Being template driven, it gives you a lot of flexibility to manipulate and render the final output. In this article, we will exploit this flexibility of the ASP.NET Repeater and build a sample to demonstrate how to use the templates to group and display data. We will also use a little code to 'total'/sum up our data and display it on the fly.

Simple Thoughts on Code Quality

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:31:14 GMT

For the software, itself, it is easier to discuss its quality by measuring its performance, memory usage, number of the bugs etc. But what if we talk about the code file, how can we write code that we are proud of.

.NET Coding Standard & Code Review Points

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:46:02 GMT

Points that I am going to discuss are not an expert advice, however, based on my knowledge & experience. If any one has any comment or suggestions, I will be glad to hear.

More Efficient SyntaxHighlighter

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:31:02 GMT

No more preloading SyntaxHighlighter when you don't need the scripts. I used the power of jQuery to dynamically load only the necessary brush scripts.

Migrating to jQuery

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:46:20 GMT

This post outlines some of the steps I went through to convert an existing, small web application from traditional JavaScript to jQuery.

Not doing TDD is worst than doing it wrong in the beggining.

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:16:02 GMT

Check this out, and make a learn from it.

Silverlight Multi File Uploader

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:31:12 GMT

Free multi-file uploader for your website, made with Silverlight. It allows you to upload multiple files at the same time. The files are uploaded to a WCF webservice where they can be processed. A nice feature is that you can see the upload progress of all your files. The control also has some handy configuration options, you can set the number of simultaneous uploads, the maximum file size etc.

EventArgs.Empty - Do You Use It?

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:31:08 GMT

Anyway, we can define EventArgs as a private member and use it instead of allocating an EventArgs object every time the event is raised. Fortunately, there is no need for that, C# introduce us the EventArgs.Empty...

So, What is Duck Typing?

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:16:09 GMT

"I'm going to lay out what I think Duck Typing is, and let you poke holes in it, and tell me where I'm wrong. "

SQL SERVER - 2008 - Interview Questions and Answers - Download PDF

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:16:04 GMT

Interview is very important event for any person. A good interview leads to good career if candidate is willing to learn. I always enjoy interview questions and answers series. This is my very humble attempt to write SQL Server 2008 interview questions and answers. SQL Server is very large subject and not everything is usually asked in interview. In interview what matters the most is conceptual knowledge and learning attitude. I have listed all the series in this post so that it can be easily downloaded and used. All the questions are collected and listed in one PDF which is here to download. If you have any question or if you want to add to any of the question please send me mail or write a comment. Bookmark this first ever set of interview questions and answers.

Searching for files using LINQ

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:16:05 GMT

An LINQ example

ASP.NET Designer Control Problem in VS 2008 SP1

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:24:08 GMT

I'm having a pretty nasty problem with the VS 2008 Designer in SP1. Apparently from time to time the Web designer decides it doesn't like to assign simple property values for controls anymore and starts displaying errors for individual controls on the form.

C# vs Ruby

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:31:15 GMT

Interesting observation

Entity Framework and MySQL

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:09:31 GMT

MySQL are going to support Entity Framework, they are going to tell how to use EF with MySQL in their webinar.

5 Useful Tips for ASP.Net Application

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:16:02 GMT

There are so many tasks or operations that are repeatedly used in ASP.Net applications. This article will list some of the useful tasks that we can use in our asp.net application extensively.