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Top 10 Common Mistakes in .NET Development

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:29:50 GMT

In this article I'll list some Common Mistakes that .NET Developers might make .

Understanding WCF Services in Silverlight 2

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:07:59 GMT

This article covers in detail how to interact with WCF services in Silverlight 2 without reverting to magic as well as how to utilize the async pattern, setup external-website service access, utilize WCF configuration, create strongly-typed WCF clients, access JSON services, use thread wait to ease the need for async chains, and also how NetFXHarmonics DevServer can aide your WCF and general web development.

Austin Tech Book Club starting this week.

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:23:33 GMT

The Austin Tech Book Club will be discussing the book Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#. We will be meeting every other Thursday at 11:30, starting November 20.

Test Driven Development & Visual Studio 2010

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:05:16 GMT

Up to now, Visual Studio did a great job helping us develop applications and tests based on existing classes and methods, but when you don't have your API ready, the IDE will fight you. TDD is out there for some time now and is popular, however the IDE gives all those developers who use TDD hard time. Visual Studio 2010 IDE has some improvements to allow test first style.

Chris Hoff's Favorite Links for 2008

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:36:41 GMT

A great collection of forward-looking tech articles/blogs.

Windows Live Writer Makes Blogging Less of a Hassle

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:27:57 GMT

The blog CMS we use is great in a lot of ways but it's built in editor is really, really bad. Initially, I had used Microsoft Word to fill the gap, with disastrous results. Since then I have moved to using our blog software's horribly antiquated text editing system but that has limited my formatting options quite considerably. Now, after a recommendation from a friend, I am giving Windows Live Writer a shot. This blog post is a recursive review of my experience writing this blog post in Windows Live Writer.

Tips & Tricks when working with jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:01:02 GMT

Tips & Tricks when working with jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX: I posted about how to build and extender control using ASP.NET AJAX with jQuery. During my work I fall into few issues that I resolved and wished to share them with you

How to build your own Digg Client in SIlverlight 2

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:59:04 GMT

Silverlight 2 is a impressive RIA creator. Learn how to make a application using the API from a popular social bookmarking site.

Gzip vs Deflate: Which is the faster HTTP compression method?

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:11:12 GMT

Gzip and Deflate are two popular HTTP compression methods. I ran a test in C# to figure out which one is faster and by how much. Read this article to see which won the speed test and how to implement Gzip and Deflate HTTP compression on your ASP.NET website.

Performance with ASP.NET AJAX - Part 1 - The Updatepanel

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:25:14 GMT

Hi there, I've recently been struggling with performance issues while implementing an ASP.NET Repeater control with a large resultset (more than 1000 records binded to it) and especially this in combination with ASP.NET AJAX. I was heavilly suffering from performance issues, a lot of times my browser really frozes during asynchronous postbacks. Add to that a serious performance requirement that data should load within 1,5 seconds I soon figured out that a solution with and UpdatePanel, an ASP.NET Repeater server Control wasn't going to do it for me. After reading Dave Ward's post on 'Use jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX to build a client side Repeater' I decided to rewrite my code to built a client-side repeater. During the development time that went into it, I'd tried multiple ways to achieve my goal, namely: Good Performance! After my thorough investigation I thought it was my obligation to write some post about it and show you the different performances that I discovered. so I decided I was going to write a couple of articles on it. In this first article I will show you the following: Performance with ASP.NET AJAX & Repeater Server Control - Part 1 - The Updatepanel These are the following articles that I will soon be writing about. * Performance with ASP.NET AJAX & Client Repeater Control - Part 2 - Using StringBuilder * Performance with ASP.NET AJAX & Client Repeater Control - Part 3 - DOM Create element * Performance with ASP.NET AJAX & Client Repeater Control - Part 4 - String Concatenation But first this article! These are the things I have done (which can be seen when you download the source files below): 1. Setting up a page with a generate data button to retrieve a set of 3000 person records 2. Setting up a local webservice that will get the data (could have been a PageMethod). 3. Adding an updatepanel to the page, in which the repeater was wrapped 4. Adding progress indication during the asynchronous loading operation. 5. Using client side script to show the loading time in milliseconds.

ASP.NET AJAX maintain panel scrolling position

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:48:04 GMT

After sometime in developing my Support Chat, I can get the panel scrolling to maintain it scroll position. Doing some Google don't help much, only finding more complex solutions. A lot of people went with javascript, or something other. Then in the shower, I finally got, I can put the UpdatePanel inside the Panel, and then do the Aync post back. So I tried out my idea, and here the test code

How to Call Controllers in External Assemblies in ASP.NET MVC

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 03:16:05 GMT

In this post Simone shows you how to call ASP.NET MVC controllers that are embedded in external assemblies.

DatePicker & Calendar released for WPF

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:01:12 GMT

The WPF Toolkit has been updated and now also ship the DatePicker & Calendar controls

For vs Foreach Performance (in .NET)

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:11:18 GMT

Timing the difference between a "for" loop and a more "modern" version using "foreach" and Enumerable.Range.

ASP.NET Performance: Fast AJAX, Faster AJAX

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:51:29 GMT

Utilize ASP.NET AJAX hidden gems to improve AJAX performance by directly calling web services.

Silverlight Toolkit Overview and Examples

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:46:03 GMT

If you've used ASP.NET AJAX then you've likely used controls from toolkits such as the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit in your applications. Microsoft has also released a Silverlight Toolkit with new controls and functionality that can be used in Silverlight 2 applications.

Pavel Nikolov's blog: Visual Studio 2010

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:31:06 GMT

My first look at Visual Studio 2010 codename "Rosario". I showed some screen shots and and some new features of the new visual studio.

Silverlight Toolkit Released on CodePlex!

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:46:07 GMT

The Silverlight Toolkit is a collection of Silverlight controls, components and utilities made available outside the normal Silverlight release cycle. It adds new functionality quickly for designers and developers, and provides the community an efficient way to help shape product development by contributing ideas and bug reports. This first release includes full source code, unit tests, samples and documentation for 12 new controls covering charting, styling, layout, and user input.

ASP.NET AJAX - Passing JSON object from client to server

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:58:17 GMT

How to pass data from client side to server side using JSON. ASP.net AJAX has nice features for bridging server side and client side.

Silver Pride CMS available soon. ASP.Net, JQuery, Silverlight driven

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:54:52 GMT

I'm now in the final development phase of the new content management system. The system makes heavy use of silverlight, jquery and ajax to give a user experience usually associated with client side applications.

CSS Design for the design-challenged programmer

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:59:30 GMT

Here is a great collection of tricks and advice for web programmers to make their web pages to be cleaner, more readable, and look more professional. Covers everything from a CSS reset through layout, font selection, colors and compatibility.

Do We Need Unit Testing?

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:37:34 GMT

A recent poll examined how organizations perform unit testing. Despite the fact that the number of TDD adopters has grown nicely since the previous similar survey, unit testing is still widely conducted in a informal manner, when it is not simply ignored by developers.

89 Ways for You to Become the Coolest Developer in the World

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:31:08 GMT

You can learn how to improve your programming skills, work better and enjoy it from this collection of advice from experienced developers.

.NET - Some Common Operations using LINQ To XML - Part I

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:46:02 GMT

Very good overview of how to query using LINQ to XML

patterns & practices: Application Architecture Guide - v2.0 (Beta 1)

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:42:45 GMT

"Welcome to the patterns & practices Application Architecture Guide - v2.0 project site! provides design-level guidance for the architecture and design of applications built on the .NET Framework. It focuses on the most common types of applications, partitioning application functionality into layers, components, and services, and walks through their key design characteristics.This guide is a collaborative effort between patterns & practices, product teams, and industry experts."