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This Week on Channel 9: Revolution 9 - The Future of Channel 9

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:36:34 GMT

On a very special episode of This Week on Channel 9, Dan is joined by Jeff, Duncan, and Nishant to talk about the recent survey results, and the Revolution 9 project.

Treating Warnings as Errors in Visual Studio

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:00:00 GMT

The compiler used by Visual Studio can produce errors when code cannot be built and warnings when it completes compilation successfully but there are areas of concern. To avoid warnings being missed or ignored, there is an option to treat them as errors.

Using Extension Methods with Enumerations

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:45:01 GMT

Extension methods were introduced in .NET 3.5 to allow classes to be apparently extended without modifying the class' code or using inheritance. Extension methods can also be used to add extra behaviour to enumerations.

Dew Drop - June 25, 2009

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:29:35 GMT

Today's fresh links for .NET developers, courtesy of The Morning Dew.

Testing E-Mail Functionality

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:30:00 GMT

If you are looking for a very robust testing utility for e-mailing applications, you need to get Neptune. This is a quick introduction to how Neptune works. Every software developer who has ever written software that sends e-mail of any kind will appreciate the features this little testing utility.

Exploring how to use Expressions w/ Spark

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:15:00 GMT

Exploring how to use Expressions w/ Spark. We are going to take a look at the various different ways you can use Looping Expressions with the Spark View engine.

Codestock is this weekend in Knoxville, TN

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:48:35 GMT

Codestock is this weekend in Knoxville. You can check out the agenda page here and see that there are some great, very smart people speaking there. With seven tracks over two days, plus open spaces, there's something for everyone at this great event. I was honored to speak at the first Codestock event last year, and I'm thrilled to be back!

Fluent NHibernate And You

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:29:30 GMT

a breif intro into FLuent NHibernate with code snippets.

PLINQO 3.0 - Even Better

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:15:00 GMT

A review of PLINQO 3.0 from CodeSmith including an overview of new features since version 2.0. "In case you're not familiar with PLINQO, this set of code-generation templates are designed to enhance the LINQ-to-SQL development experience. They're not only a time-saver like most code generation templates, but they allow you to overcome many of the limitations of raw LINQ-to-SQL."

Design for Developers part 4 - Using Layers and Exporting to XAML

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:50:17 GMT

Part 4 of an ongoing series about Expression Design. This article discusses layers in Expression Design and demonstrates exporting design elements to XAML and consuming them in Blend.

Global error handling in WCF

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:36:27 GMT

Dave shows us how to easily add global error handling to WCF external methods without having to expand the responsiblity of each and every exernal method.

Thread.Sleep is a sign of a poorly designed program.

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:15:02 GMT

Other than for debug code, Peter details why Thread.Sleep isn't for production code.

Application-wide action filters in ASP.NET MVC

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:30:02 GMT

Ever had a team of developers using your ASP.NET MVC framework? Chances are you have implemented some action filters (i.e. for logging) which should be applied on all controllers in the application. Two ways to do this: kindly ask your developers to add a [Logging] attribute to the controllers they write, or kindly ask to inherit from SomeCustomControllerWithActionsInPlace. If you have been in this situation, monday mornings, afternoons, tuesdays and other weekdays are in fact days where some developers will forget to do one of the above. This means no logging! Or any other action filters that are executed due to a developer that has not been fed with enough coffee. Wouldn't it be nice to have a central repository where you can register application-wide action filters? That's exactly what we are going to do in this blog post.

Model design - refactoring domain models using LightSpeed

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:15:00 GMT

If you've used Visual Studio for any length of time, you undoubtedly make heavy use of refactoring. Even the simple refactoring of renaming a class or method and having Visual Studio automatically update all references is a huge time-saver. Until now model design with designers have not provided good refactoring support. This post details how the LightSpeed model designer now supports partial class, solution wide rename and convert to manual implementation refactorings. Provide feedback on domain model refactorings you would like to see.

Making a Sharp Dressed Web Form - Thin ASP.NET 8

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:06:11 GMT

The past few months I have been trying to learn more about user experience and design patterns. This has led me to learn more about how to use the tools available to me to provide better user experiences, namely CSS and JQuery. I have been writing quite a bit about JQuery stuff lately, so today I am going to shift gears a little and talk about leveraging some CSS layout goodness to lay out a web form.

KiGG View Detailed Story

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:05:46 GMT

I recently deployed a KiGG site, but I wanted it to act more like DZone than DotNetShoutOut. On DotNetShoutOut, if you click the link from any of non-detailed page views, it takes you to the site. DZone will take you to the detailed view of the story, and if you click the link from there it will take you story's site.

Delayed execution vs ToList() in LINQ Database Queries

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:02 GMT

Should you use ToList() in your repository methods, or should you pass the iterator back to the UI to delay the execution of the query? Read on to find out why it's a bad idea to delay execution in this case.

Velocity Administration Console

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:07:38 GMT

Lately I've been working on a small administration console project for Microsoft project code named Velocity. If you don't know, Velocity's administration is being done with PowerShell. I decided to build a console that will do the same thing but in Windows Forms.

Connected Show - Episode #8: Ted Neward on Apache Stonehenge

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:45:04 GMT

In this episode we start by talking to Microsoft Regional Director Andrew Brust on Microsoft's move to kill the Oracle Data Provider and how the world is not coming to an end. Then, Peter and Dmitry talk again about Peter's trip to JavaOne including HTML 5 vs. RIA applications (like Silverlight). Finally, we jump into Peter's JavaOne interview with Ted Neward on Project Stonehenge and interoperability between Java and .NET. At JavaOne, Sun officially announced they were joining the Apache Stonehenge project. Ted gives us the low down on this open source reference application to demonstrate interoperability patterns & practices.

Community Convergence L

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:53:26 GMT

Welcome to the 50th issue of Community Convergence. Now that Visual Studio 2010 Beta is out, I think it might be helpful to draw attention to features from the C# team that appear in that release. The C# team defines the core syntax found in C# 4.0, and the IDE features that make it easy for developers to access those features. In this post, I'll focus on language features, in upcoming post, I'll focus on IDE features.

Ajax survey 2009: jQuery and MS Ajax are almost tied

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:45:00 GMT

Simone posts the results of the survey about ajax adoption among .NET developers. jQuery gained 58% since 2007 and now is almost tied to the MS Ajax stack (Control toolkit and ajax core)

Visual Studio 2010: Brief view at debug history

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:15:00 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 introduces also some new debugging features. One of them is debug history. Debug history enables you to track all the points on track of control flow and it also monitors activities that you cannot see otherwise. It makes debugging of hard to find problems much easier, I think. Of course, there are many other new and cool debugging features available.

Exploring how to use Expressions w/ Spark

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:30:00 GMT

Taking a look at the various different ways you can use Expressions with the Spark View engine. We are going to review simply scenarios such as math based expressions and move up to looking at nested if-then-else statements.

http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/06/17/sql-server-list-schema-name-an

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:00:00 GMT

Just a day ago, I was looking for script which generates all the tables in database along with its schema name. I tried to Search@SQLAuthority.com but got too many results. For the same reason, I am going to write down today's quick and small blog post and I will remember that I had written I wrote it after my 1000th article.

Visual Studio 2010: Web application packaging and publishing

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 has very powerful web application packaging and deployment system. When deploying your web application you create the deployment package and then publish it to web server. After configuring it is one-click action to get current version of application up to target server. Let's see how it works.