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LINQ & Lambda, Part 4: Lucene.Net

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:46:10 GMT

This post demonstrates how to easily build a Lucene.Net search index from your LINQ to SQL data context and search for items within it using the LINQ to Lucene library.

Launch Firefox Instead Of Internet Explorer When Debugging

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:46:02 GMT

This article tells you how to launch Firefox instead of Intenet Explorer when running an ASP.NET web application in debug mode. This is something I needed to troubleshoot a project that presented a problem only in Firefox.

Introduction to LinqPad

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:31:12 GMT

Short screencasts that will on the Introduction to LinqPad In this episode we will learn how to use the LinqPad expression evaluator.

Exploring ShadeTree Features, Part 1: Static Reflection with Reflectio

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:31:08 GMT

Some beautiful code.

This page goes in a loop

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:11:14 GMT

looop

LINQ & Lambda, Part 3: Html Agility Pack to "LINQ to XML" Converter

Mon, 26 May 2008 06:09:13 GMT

In this part of the LINQ & Lambda series a pseudo LINQ to HTML parser is created with the HTML Agility Pack and extension method magic.

LINQ & Lambda

Sun, 04 May 2008 08:39:28 GMT

An innocent, unbeknownst programmer is possessed by the demons of C# 3. How is this young coder going to deal with his exposure to some dark and evil forces?

Dependency Injection in WCF Services Part 2

Sun, 04 May 2008 19:16:02 GMT

In this second post of this series, Javi explains with an example how to apply Dependency Injection pattern in a WCF service using Castle and its WCF facility.

Dependency Injection in WCF Services

Mon, 05 May 2008 13:16:02 GMT

Javi explains the problems you may run into when applying Dependency Injection in your distributed service layer and some of the available solutions to get them around, mainly focusing WCF services.

Code Based Repeater for ASP.NET MVC

Sun, 04 May 2008 23:01:02 GMT

A foreach loop doesn't help you handle alternating items, for example. My response to this story is, "The foreach loop is not our repeater control. Our repeater control is an iterating extension method with lambdas!". Because who doesn't love lambdas?

4 ASP.NET AJAX JavaScript UI methods you should learn

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:46:04 GMT

A closer look at some of the ASP.NET AJAX client side framework's less utilized UI functionality. Examples include CSS manipulation, measuring the size of a rendered element, and finding/changing the location of an element.

Completely free PDF .NET library written in C#

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:16:02 GMT

Want to add PDF support to your .NET project. Try this. Open Source library to create/edit PDF files. With unrestricted license to change, sell, sublicense.

Extending the string object in c#

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:31:04 GMT

Four methods to extend your string, ToCamel(), Capitalize(), CapitalizeAll() and ToPascal().

A command line interface base class

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:16:02 GMT

A simple base class so you don't have to write any more command line processing loops.

A more useful UrlBuilder class

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:01:02 GMT

A useful class for building URLs in the pre-MVC days. It derives from System.Net.UriBuilder and makes adding query string parameters a breeze.

DataContractJsonSerializer in .NET 3.5

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:20:36 GMT

.NET 3.5 now includes a JSON serializer in DataContractJsonSerializer. This useful little component makes it pretty painless to create JSON from objects and back.

Pex: Unit Test Generation

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 14:47:13 GMT

Pex (Program EXploration) is an intelligent assistant to the programmer. By automatically generating unit tests, it helps to find bugs early. In addition, it suggests to the programmer how to fix the bugs.

How To: Validation Using ASP.NET MVC

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:31:02 GMT

Validation using ASP.NET MVC.

Rob Conery » ASP.NET MVC: Using RESTful Architecture

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 03:01:02 GMT

Rob writes about how RESTful architectures changes the way you design and build applications using ASP.NET MVC.

Making IIS 6.0 Play With UrlRewriting

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:06:51 GMT

Getting IIS to play with your url rewriting scheme can be a bit of a trick. Read more for a few solutions to the problem.