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Generics without Collections, Part I

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 14:31:01 GMT

Using generics for things other than creating collections. Advanced Generics use.

An Article- Many-to-Many Relationships in O/R Mapping

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:50:43 GMT

If you are developing an object oriented .NET application that has to talk to a database, you'll inevitably map objects to a relational model. And, most likely you'll face situations where many-to-many relationships exist in your database. This article describes how you can handle many-to-many relationships in O/R mapping. Most .NET applications are object oriented and at the same time they have to deal with relational databases. This creates a difficulty for the developers because they have to figure out how to map their objects to the tables in the database. Sometime, there is a one to one mapping between an object and a table and at other times, one object may consist of data from multiple tables or subset of data from one table. The most important thing one can achieve in O/R Mapping is to capture the logical data model design in the object model of the application. This makes it really easy to design, develop, and later maintain this object model. We'll try to follow this rule when mapping many-to-many relationships to objects. Please read the complete article at http://www.alachisoft.com/rp.php?dest=/articles/m-n_relationships.html

Code Collapse VS Add-in

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:16:02 GMT

Introduces a new, free, VS add-in to collapse anything...

0.999. != 3/3 != 1?

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:01:01 GMT

Interesting story about why 0.999... equals 1. Not really .net related though...

ASP.NET Quick Tips

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:31:01 GMT

Scott Watermasysk posted a blog today in an attempt to get a great listing of ASP.NET quick tips.

RegEx: Using Variables in Regular Expressions

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:01:01 GMT

Why not use regular expressions to grab data from strings being passed in and then do something with that data?

Basic Application Architecture Patterns

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:31:01 GMT

These are some of the basic application architectures. Included are the Table Module, Transaction Script, and Domain Model. Included are descriptions and example diagrams for each.

Using Anonymous Methods For Control.Invoke/Control.BeginInvoke

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:01:01 GMT

Brief overview of using anonymous methods for Control.Invoke and Control.BeginInvoke scenarios using the built in MethodInvoker delegate provided by the BCL.

The design-time experience for the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:01:01 GMT

Some things that need to be said about the design-time experience of the Control Toolkit

WPF/E Pad (Plus Some Other Apps)

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:01:01 GMT

Mike Harsh's blog published some cool WPF/E applications . One of which is the WPF/E Pad which is a WPF/E based XAML editor with split view where the XAML on the bottom view is rendered on the top view....

Great WPF Applications

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:31:01 GMT

Tim Sneath is doing a series about great WPF applications. Check out his blog ......

Google Interview Questions

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:16:01 GMT

A couple of Google interview questions. How well would you do?

Is ASP.NET too easy?

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:16:01 GMT

How does the easy approach of ASP.NET affect you as a developer?

Snippets Collection

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:16:01 GMT

Big collection of snippets for Visual Studio

Nice Movie viewer xbap

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:01:01 GMT

Nice Movie viewer xbap

Using Automatic Memoization

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:46:01 GMT

Continuing my series on functional programming ideas, this article looks at the functional programming technique of "automatic memoization" and shows how it can be used to great effect in C# 2.0.

Ten SQL Server Functions That You Hardly Use But Should edit / delete

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:01:01 GMT

10 SQL functions that are hardly used but should be used by everyone

Simple RSS reader class in C#

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:01:01 GMT

A basic caching RSS reading class for C#. Updates asynchronously.

The WPF Challenge

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:31:01 GMT

Josh Smith announces a WPF challenge

Track down managed memory leaks

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:16:01 GMT

7 steps to help you find GC leak

First Look at Orcas - Nice cool feature

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 01:01:01 GMT

Build your app to target a framework version.

Interesting Orcas & LINQ Links

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:31:01 GMT

Here are a few good links to Orcas material (some old and some new). There is a lot of good and bad material out there with LINQ. These are some of the better ones that I have found. Feel free to comment about any other good LINQ / Data Access related links.

What's In A Closure

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:16:01 GMT

Closures are an important concept to understand as they underpin many functional programming techniques. This article peeks under the hood to see how closures are implemented in C# and discusses some ways in which they are extremely useful for producing robust code.

Writing T-SQL Video Series

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:31:01 GMT

Learn how to properly write T-SQL in this video series that takes you from the ground-up.

How to remove recent projects from Visual Studio Start Page

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:46:01 GMT

This is not a new trick but just in case you are looking for it.