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Silverlight Session Scheduler at CodePlex

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:03:53 GMT

Small article about a Silverlight conference session scheduler that includes a link to the full source at CodePlax. Demonstrates User Controls, global variables and other Silverlight 2 techs.

Programming Challenge #1: HTML Calendar

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:32:35 GMT

Surprised by the amount of code for such a seemingly simple task, I figured it'd be interesting to solicit solutions to outputting a calendar in HTML.

Tool Theory

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:04:26 GMT

Good article on what a tool is and good tool design

The most important quality of a developer: Self-criticism

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:16:02 GMT

I think an awful lot of creation is made out of, also, the self-criticism of a developer, and very often I think probably what makes one seem better than another his that his critical sense is more acute. It may not be that he is more gifted in any way but just that he has a better critical sense.

Improving .Net Performance With Ngen: The Native Image Generator

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:01:02 GMT

An overview Microsoft's complimentary .NET tool called NGen (Native Image Generator) and how it's used in 1.1 and 2.0

Expression Trees: Why LINQ to SQL is Better than NHibernate

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:31:02 GMT

The article claims that LINQ to SQL is inherently better than NHibernate because LINQ takes advantage of a new C# language feature called expression trees.

C# DateTime.MinValue is not the same as SqlDateTime.MinValue

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:01:02 GMT

Working with non-nullable types in C# can be a bit of a pain. For instance when I have a date as a string and need to parse it into a DateTime what should the value be if the parse fails? I can't use null because DateTime is not a nullable type.

Automatic Properties

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:19:21 GMT

Automatic Property feature of .NET 3.5