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DevMaven Ads on the Web Log

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:55:06 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#

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:50:30 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 13:10:14 GMT

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

Tuples in F#

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:51:22 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)

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:45:46 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

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:16:03 GMT

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

Developer Acronyms for 2007

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:27:28 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

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:46:25 GMT

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

Scott Guthrie Stories

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:31:02 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 12:25:44 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 09:49:54 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)

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:16:02 GMT

Binding UI using the ASP:LinqDataSource Control

Become a Better Developer... in 6 months

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:01:03 GMT

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

SQL SERVER - Count Duplicate Records - Rows

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:16:02 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 05:46:01 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 08:46:02 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 09:43:49 GMT

Very funny blog post from Steve Smith

Regex Cheat Sheet

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 02:01:01 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.

Why XML SUCKS

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:01:02 GMT

As many of my colleagues know, I am not a really big fan of XML. I think it's bloated. I think it's not needed. I don't think it accomplishes much if anything that couldn't be done before just by sending text delimited in a different way. I'm not sure why if I want to tell someone a yes or a no answer on something being found, I have to wrap it in 1000 characters of SOAP data when i could just send a 0 a 1 or nothing and accomplish the same thing. Or why if I want a list of data, I have to wrap it up and package it as XML when I could just send the list as regular delimited text instead of delimited by 20% text bloat of so-called self description. Anyway, that's the short version of why I think XML sucks. Here are some other people that think it sucks and some much more in depth articles about it. =)

Does 10 Times More Developer Productivity Warrant Ten Times More Pay?

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:31:01 GMT

Becoming a better developer... learn more to earn more.

Vote for Full Intellisense Support of Javascript

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:31:01 GMT

Before Visual Studio 2008 they really should complete full support for Javascript since it will be the last major release we see for at least a 18 months. Vote for full Javascript support.