Another Use for C# Using

dotnet.dzone.com — If you are a C# developer you're familiar with the using directive. It appears at the top of every one of your class files informing the compiler what namespaces should be looked at while compiling this code page so that you don't have to fully qualify every object. (This isn't the interesting bit) read more...

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Will code generation reduce the quality of my code?

garryshutler.blogspot.com — Resharper and Code Rush are undeniably great tools, but can they reduce the quality of your code? read more...

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Implementing Generic Caching

objectreference.net — I develop for a large, high-availability website, with hundreds of thousands of daily users. As such, we need to cache a lot of data in our web-server memory (which is cheap) to save numerous hits to our main database cluster (which is very expensive). I would imagine the desire to improve performance by saving on database hits is common across many web applications – and caching frequently used data is often seen as one of the best ways to solve this problem. read more...

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Are .NET Developers the American Tourists of the Software Industry?

submitted by rimsystems 6 months, 26 days ago

caffeinatedcoder.com — "I believe that the prevailing stereotype about .NET developers is that we wouldn’t know a software best practice or sound computer science principle if it recursively bit us in the arse." read more...

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LINQ Gymnastics: Creating A Predictive Query With LINQ

published 7 months, 9 days ago, submitted by adminjew 7 months, 9 days ago

blog.wekeroad.com — The Code I wrote about this before, but the best way to approach a difficult query is to cut it up into pieces. It really helps in this case, since what we’re doing is statistical and therefore may seem simple, but isn’t really. So let’s break it out: * We need to know all the Orders that our Product was part of * We need all of the Products that were part of those Orders, omitting the one we just bought * We need to roll these up by the SUM of the quantity of the products bought, and order them in descending order * We need to take the top 5 of this SUM, and query the Products table for the related Products read more...

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Bruce Schneier Facts

weblogs.sqlteam.com — If you're a fan of security you have to be familiar with Bruce Schneier and his excellent blog. What I didn't know is that he also has a collection of facts like Chuck Norris! Just how cool is that??? read more...

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Put Down the XmlNode and Step Away From the StringBuilder

vonsharp.net — Demonstrates the easiest way of generating and parsing Xml available in the .net framework. No more XmlNodes and no more CleanStringForXml custom utility functions. read more...

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Stories, requirements, and language

submitted by bennage 8 months ago

lostechies.com — How does the development team and the customer come to a common understanding about what needs to get done? Simple things like word choices can become barriers. read more...

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