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Dependency Injection still has some good years left

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:16:02 GMT

According to Jeremy D. Miller Dependency Injection has it's drawbacks but it will still be used for some reasons. He then mentiones the times when he found DI necessary.

Use caution with Strongly Typed Resources

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:46:02 GMT

Some words of caution/warning for using Strongly Typed Resources generated by VS2005+

Embedding the Binsor Config File Directly in Your Assembly

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:21:08 GMT

Here's how to embed the Boo config file directly into your assembly when using Binsor to get a super clean deployment!

DesignByContract with Fluent Interfaces

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:16:04 GMT

I was reading through some blog posts and through a recent post, stumbled across this one from Bill McCafferty and took a look at the DesignByContract CodeProject article. This is just a simple utility class to pass in assertions and get an exception to be thrown with a message if the contract has been violated.

OSI Approves Microsoft License Submissions

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:16:02 GMT

The Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) and the Microsoft Reciprocal License (Ms-RL).

Set Operations with C# Generics

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:46:02 GMT

C# Generics are powerful, but there are not many generic classes beyond List and Dictionary. Especially for Set Operations Generics are missing. That's whay I created a small class for Set Operations called Set that contains the basic Set Operations, like Union, Intersect and Difference.

ASP.NET MVC Framework - ScottGu's Blog

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:16:02 GMT

ASP.NET MVC Framework described by ScottGu.

Watin Testing Pattern

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:31:02 GMT

Really nice approach for writing integration tests with WatiN.

ScottGu MVC Presentation and ScottHa Screencast from ALT.NET

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:31:09 GMT

Scott Hanselman talks about the conference and links to Silverlight videos of his presentation and Scott G's presentation on the new Model View Controller.

Subversion via IIS

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:46:03 GMT

I have been working a few days on a solution to give access to an SVN repostory through IIS. I came up with a proxy handler between a working Apache environment and IIS. It works on http and https.

Implementing a jQuery-Calendar ASP.NET Control

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:46:02 GMT

I've posted a wrapper ASP.NET around the jQuery-calendar control from Marc Garbanski. This small client side calendar control is compact, looks nice and is very easy to use and I've added an ASP.NET wrapper around it so it can more easily be more easily used with ASP.NET applications by dragging and dropping onto a form and supporting postbacks of the SelectedDate.

Ten CSS tricks you may not know | evolt.org

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:16:03 GMT

Much better! Just a couple of words of warning: This CSS shorthand version will only work if you're specifying both the font-size and the font-family. Also, if you don't specify the font-weight, font-style, or font-varient then these values will automatically default to a

43 Exceptionally Useful AJAX Applications

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:46:03 GMT

Usability on websites is exploding right now. AJAX has enabled web developers everywhere to add functionality to their sites like never before. They've gathered 43 extremely useful AJAX applications for use on any website.

Sam Gentile: Goodbye CodeBetter and ALT.NET

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:31:02 GMT

Sam Gentile decides to distance himself from CodeBetter and ALT.NET due to perceived an Anti-MS bias there.

Convert street address to longitude and latitude via web service

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:46:04 GMT

Demonstrates how to convert a street address to a geographic position in longitude and latitude coordinates by using a free REST web service provided by GeoCoder.us. Web service only works for addresses within the United States due to the source (US census) data.

Explaining MbUnit GUI tree.

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:46:02 GMT

Learn how set values in MbUnit tree.

NSpec merges with NBehave!

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:01:02 GMT

I am pleased to announce that Tim Haughton has agreed to join his NSpec project with NBehave! So what does this mean for you the developers? Well it means that you have one OSS project team supporting multiple BDD frameworks for the .Net framework! Think of it more as a centralized project for the many facets of BDD in the .Net community.

JSONP for cross-site Callbacks

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:01:04 GMT

Rick Strahl on JSONP

10 Usability Nightmares You Should Be Aware Of

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:31:02 GMT

Usability mistakes that you will want to avoid.

Code Runner .NET

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:22:27 GMT

Code Runner .NET is a set of utilities for running C# source files directly on the command line as if they were script, while still being able to utilize the full power of the Visual Studio programming environment for editing and debugging.

Anonymous Types and Query Expressions

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:16:02 GMT

This introductory level post covers a new LINQ feature in C# 3.0 called anonymous types. I'll focus on explaining when you might want to use an anonymous type, and when it might be more useful to use a specific type instead of an anonymous type.

C# From a Java Developer's Perspective (and vice versa)

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:01:02 GMT

Dare Obasanjo presents a comprehensive and up to date overview of similarities and differences between the language features and libraries of the C# and Java programming languages. It is based on his personal experience using both languages.

Ajax Futures and JavaScript as a Universal Runtime

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:46:02 GMT

Joel Spolsky alludes to compiling down to native code where native code is JavaScript + a DOM. Script# gives to this today - C# compiled down to JavaScript + an HTML DOM or a Silverlight DOM.

Free ebook : Threading in C#

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:16:01 GMT

It has been updated since the last time it was posted here. Available in HTML and PDF.

The Power of the Predicate<T>

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 07:16:02 GMT

The very flexible generic collection List<T> contains several methods that take a predicate as it's parameter. Coupled with Anonymous Methods this provides powerfully concise code for filtering, searching and sorting your collections.