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Yet another Singleton Yada-Yada

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:01:04 GMT

Using a static-constructor in a singleton, affects it's laziness. Here's a generic singleton that is thread-safe using a static-constructor, and still lazy.

Have you ever wondered why CodePlex is so slow?

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:31:21 GMT

Taking a look at one feature on CodePlex that is much slower than it needs to be, due to indiscriminate use of UpdatePanels and bloated ViewState, and then comparing it to similar functionality on Stack Overflow to illustrate how much more efficiently the same feature can be implemented.

WPF ICollectionViewExplained

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:31:23 GMT

Tips and tricks on ICollectionView for WPF Apps and how it can be used in M-V-VM

WPF Model - View - View-Model Screencast

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:46:09 GMT

A really helpful screencast from Jason Dolinger showing how to use the M-V-VM pattern in a simple WPF application. He starts off with the code that a Windows Forms developer might use and refactors it to M-V-VM. Also includes a demonstration of how it is nicely unit testable utilising Moq and how to use the Unity IoC container. 1 hour 30 mins long.

Creating a culture of quality: Part 1

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 14:00:28 GMT

Starting our new series from tech start-ups, Bob from Huddle explains how they tackle the challenge of maintaining high quality code, when the last thing developers want to do is test.

CodeRush Xpress for Visual Studio announced

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:46:03 GMT

A free subset of CodeRush and Refactor! Pro is now available.

jQuery IntelliSense documentation file available

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:31:12 GMT

IntelliSense documentation files for jQuery just got published on jquery.com. This enables great IntelliSense at design-time for jQuery in Visual Studio 2008.

Find Your Books in Amazon.com with Silverlight

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:44:20 GMT

Silverlight applications make it easy to perform a lot of actions. One of its greatest capabilities is to work with Web Services. In this article I will demonstrate how you can search books in Amazon.com with Silverlight. I have created a simple application which allows you to navigate through the great catalog of books very easily. ...

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.

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.

Customising WCF Proxy Generation in Visual Studio 2008

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:19:30 GMT

Having trouble with VS 2008 WCF generating proxy objects just the way you want (need) them? Extend the default WCF proxy generator as explained by Pedram Rezaei with this easy to follow step by step guide. He shows you how to extend the WCF generation tool to suit your own needs. A great alternative to continually merging your custom changes to generated proxy objects everytime you need to update a service reference.

13 reasons for UML's descent into darkness

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:01:03 GMT

UML lost the programmers. There is no doubt about it. in my mind. And when a software design technology loses the programmers it fades away no matter what the academia thinks. This happened because UML was pushed in a direction that most code writers don't like: it started to look a lot like bureaucratic paper work.

Howto use jQuery with asp.net mvc preview 4's AjaxHelper

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:16:11 GMT

Working on jQuery4mvc preview 4, one of the first things I ofcourse wanted to do was to replace the ASP.NET Ajax library that's used by the AjaxHelper. Unfortunately the AjaxHelper itself is sealed, so atm we can't (easily) change how the AjaxHelper generates its links. So what I did is create a javascript library that uses the same methodnames as the MicrosoftMvcAjax version.

Silent/Unattended Install and Configuration of SharePoint

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:03:34 GMT

Silent/Unattended Install and Configuration of Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Server 3.0

Chris van de Steeg's blog - » jQuery for Asp.net MVC preview 3

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:31:10 GMT

So, quite some things have changed in preview 3, which made me decide to change a lot in the jQuery for Asp.net mvc (jqmvc) too. To start with most radical one: I ditched the ajax.master. This little 'framework' does not rely on a special masterpage in your website from now on. Since things have radically changed, I'll start all over again on how to use this project.

Silverlight Virtual Earth, Part 3 Project "Deep Earth" launches

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:52:08 GMT

Today we launched project "Deep Earth" on codeplex. This open source project will bring together skills from developers all over the world to continue this concept and ultimately create a useable Silverlight control. Seven people have joined the fun: Shaun Becker, Jonas Follesø, Bronwen Zande, Darko Radiceski, Nicolas Boonaert, Rob Farley and myself John O'Brien. What a great mix of people!

VS web app: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException

Wed, 28 May 2008 21:53:04 GMT

What to do if you open a solution in Visual Studio 2008 and you are greeted with a System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException

Should you fear the release of VS2008 and .Net 3.5 SP1 Beta?

Tue, 13 May 2008 13:08:23 GMT

Scott Hanselman's post about the release of VS2008 & .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta. His post does have value, not just a rehash of what everyone else has been blogging :)

The links from MIX08 already available: MVC 2 and Silverlight 2.0

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:46:02 GMT

Early access to downloads for ASP.NET MVC preview 2 and Silverlight 2.0 beta 1

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.

XmlDocument fluent interface

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:46:02 GMT

A simple fluent interface for creating XmlDocuments & strings.

jQuery for ASP.NET Mvc - part 2

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:46:02 GMT

All new and improved version of the jquery and asp.net mvc sample..

Does Your Code Pass "The Turkey Test?"

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:16:02 GMT

How careful are you about using the correct form of string and number formatting? How about your use of String.Compare and String.Equals?

Having a Wii bit of fun

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:31:02 GMT

A detailed step by step article on how to connect to a Wii controller and bind it to a WPF application

Create elegant code with Action delegate and List.ForEach method

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:46:02 GMT

Small example of how to use Action delegate to perform some action on all elements of a collection.