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Free ASP.NET MVC "NerdDinner" Tutorial Now in HTML

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:08:33 GMT

ScottGu has split the Nerd Dinner tutorial walks throughs into 12 html segments, increasing the sizes of the screens shots and using a nice syntax highlighter.

Where Are The Developer Machines?

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:31:04 GMT

Steve Smith posts about PCs for software developers, and how computer companies aren't targeting this section of the market. If a computer manufacturer made development machines, how should these computers be configured?

ASP.NET Control Panel

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:46:50 GMT

Steve smith suggests creating a Control Panel project, which joins together some common plugins for ASP.NET sites. The control panel would join tracing, error logging, cache management, and any other plugins into one plugin which is individually configurable for applications.

Fiddler for Firefox

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:25:43 GMT

Steve Smith's description how to configure Firefox and Fiddler to work together.

Graffiti Extension For DotNetKicks

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:31:13 GMT

Add an extension to Graffiti CMS to automatically link to DotNetKicks with each new post.

Avoiding Dependencies

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:46:03 GMT

As a rule, code should not directly depend on external resources such as System.Net.Mail's email sending capabilities. Having code that directly calls out to System.Net.Mail is difficult to unit test as well as difficult to walk through in a test or stage environment without having actual emails sent. Two design patterns can be used to reduce this dependency: Facade and Strategy. The Strategy pattern offers a host of benefits above and beyond what the facade layer provides, as this articles demonstrates with code examples.

Codebehind Files in ASP.NET MVC Are Evil

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:46:05 GMT

Having Codebehind files for Views in ASP.NET MVC tempts developers to use web forms style programming in MVC applications. Removing them from the default application templates and new File->ASP.NET MVC View templates will help developers fall into a "pit of success" by eliminating the temptation to put code into codebehind files that should really go into Controllers.

DevMaven Ads on the Web Log

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:55:06 GMT

This blog post discusses advertising on blogs. In it, Rick Strahl discusses how and why he used to advertise and why he switched to using DevMaven Ads exclusively.

What to Know About Value Types and Reference Types in C#

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:50:30 GMT

Value types and reference types are important concepts in C#. In this article, Brendan describes these concepts in an easy way. This beginners' tutorial is written to help people unfamiliar with these concepts to gain a basic understanding of them.

Cache Access Pattern Revised

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:10:14 GMT

Some updates to the Cache Access Pattern using new features of the .NET framework, such as System.Func.

Tuples in F#

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:51:22 GMT

Dustin explains why he likes F# in a whole series of posts. This one talks about tuples in F#.

LINQ to SQL (Part 6 - Retrieving Data Using Stored Procedures)

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 04:45:46 GMT

Scott Guthrie's great blog post explaining how to retrieve data from stored procedures using LINQ. It shows both C# and VB for this. Great pictures and examples.

Scott Guthrie: Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Released

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:16:03 GMT

Scott's announcement on the release of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5.

Developer Acronyms for 2007

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:27:28 GMT

A list of the current .NET developer acronyms for 2007. Contains the acronym as well as links to information about the acronym.

.NET Framework 3.5 Is Shared Source

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:46:25 GMT

Microsoft's .NET Framework 3.5 is going to be released open source.

Scott Guthrie Stories

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:31:02 GMT

Index to articles on CSharp and Web development by Scott Guthrie

Gotcha Don't use xhtmlconformance mode "legacy" with asp.net ajax

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:25:44 GMT

A quick post on one of the gotchas you can run into adding AJAX to an existing ASP.net application.

Accessing a MasterPage ScriptManager from a Content Page

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:49:54 GMT

A blog post explaining how to Access a Script Manager on a MasterPage from within a Content Page.

LINQ to SQL (Part 5 - Binding UI using the ASP:LinqDataSource Control)

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:16:02 GMT

Binding UI using the ASP:LinqDataSource Control

Become a Better Developer... in 6 months

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:01:03 GMT

What my steps will be for the next 6 months to become a better programmer

SQL SERVER - Count Duplicate Records - Rows

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:16:02 GMT

In this article we will see how to find count of all the duplicate records in the table. Following query demonstrates usage of GROUP BY, HAVING, ORDER BY in one query and returns the results with duplicate column and its count in descending order.

What's wrong with this code? #1 - Discussion

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:46:01 GMT

Discussion over the thread-safe singleton snippet presented in "What's wrong with this code? #1"

Karma Points System for DotNetKicks?

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:46:02 GMT

Please let us know your thoughts on the proposed addition of a 'Karma Points' feature to DNK

Wait for ASP.NET AJAX Book Finally Over

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:43:49 GMT

Very funny blog post from Steve Smith

Regex Cheat Sheet

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:01:01 GMT

Great Regular Expression Cheat sheet and a bit of description of how to use it well for those who know little about regular expressions.