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Write C# Code in your NAnt Build File | From C Sharp to C Sharp

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:54:17 GMT

An example of a C# method inside your NAnt build file.

OWASP AppSec NYC 2008 | From C Sharp to C Sharp

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:57:55 GMT

Who's going to OWASP AppSec NYC 2008?

Why I'm Unimpressed With Rawness Of Skillz

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:46:02 GMT

Since forever, geeks who take themselves seriously have loved to brag such things as, "I use Notepad to edit web pages". Carrying this over to actual programming, "I never click into the designer when editing my ASPX", or "I never design a database using designer tools, I always design it all using raw T-SQL," or "I always update my SVN from the command line". (Someone in a local tech user group bears the post signature, "Real men use Notepad.") Puhleeze. I'm not impressed, and frankly I think anyone who brags like this should get a swift kick in the pants.

Nant, MSBuild, and .NET 3.5 Oh My!

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:31:34 GMT

NAnt + MSbuild + .NET 3.5 can be hairy!

Exception handling best practices in ASP.NET web applications

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:31:08 GMT

Exception handling plays an important part of application management and user experience. If implemented correctly it can make maintenance easier and bring the user experience to a higher level. If not, it can be a disaster. The goal of this article is to provide an overview of what exception handling is from the user perspective and the perspective of people who maintain the application, and to show the best practices of how to implement useful error handling in ASP.NET web applications.

CruiseControl.Net Tutorial - Part 1

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:01:02 GMT

The first part of a tutorial about setting up and configuring CruiseControl.NET.

Use Visual Studio's Post-Build Events to Automate Testing part 2

Wed, 21 May 2008 01:25:32 GMT

Following up on an earlier post, this code snippet and explanation now incorporates coverage and fxcop into your build process.

Get ReSharper 4.0 from their Nightly Builds Page

Mon, 19 May 2008 11:06:08 GMT

Download ReSharper 4.0 from their nightly builds page or suffer the wrath of wasted time and broken digits.

A Programming Job Interview Challenge #4

Mon, 19 May 2008 14:46:02 GMT

This is the fourth post in the series of programming job interview challenge. Today, I will provide the answer to job interview challenge #3, talk about readers answers (all of the comments are now approved) and give you a new challenge. So, lets get into business:

7 tricks to simplify your programs with LINQ

Mon, 19 May 2008 09:31:03 GMT

Ever since I learned about LINQ, I keep discovering new ways to use it to improve my code. Every trick makes my code a little bit faster to write, and a little bit easier to read. This posting summarizes some of the tricks that I came across. I will show you how to use LINQ to: initialize an array, iterate over multiple arrays in a single loop, generate a random sequence, ...

How to Convert List(T1) to List(T2)

Thu, 15 May 2008 13:16:08 GMT

Did you ever need to convert List(T1) to List(T2)? One example might be when implementing an interface. you might need to expose a collection of other interfaces (or maybe the same interface), But you usually hold the concrete type implementing the interface in the collection.

Software Developers Never Change

Wed, 14 May 2008 15:31:24 GMT

So if you are to take anything away from this rant, take this, do what you love, and become the best at it. And if what you love isn't your 9-5 job, deeply understand this and get out of the way of people who's 9-5 job is what they love.

Use Visual Studio's Post-Build Events to Automate Unit Testing Running

Fri, 16 May 2008 01:16:02 GMT

Use Visual Studio's post-build events to make unit testing automation awesome!

You too can be a metrosexual developer: an interview with Justice Gray

Mon, 05 May 2008 21:31:02 GMT

Justice Gray is an Edmonton-based leading .Net developer, .Net convention speaker, influential opinion maker, paradigm-challenger and lady killer. From the outset he has championed the suave, charismatic, virile and pithy route as a fast track the top of the industry, and has largely pulled it off. Read on to learn his tricks of the trade.

From Developer to Technical Manager

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:16:03 GMT

Organizations with an outdated organizational structure have got to wake up and change before it's too late. They will either lose or ruin their people. Either way, the company loses because people are the company.

Clean Up ASP.NETs Head Tag With ControlAdapters

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:46:07 GMT

Ok, if you're anything like me you absolutely gag when you see the rendered content of the ASP.NET head tag.

Grouping Linq Aggregates in C#

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:46:03 GMT

A quick primer on Linq Grouping and Aggregates within Groups.

How DotNetKicks posts are being ripped off for other sites!

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:01:02 GMT

How posts from DotNetKicks are being copy-and-pasted wholesale into other sites. Is your hard work blogging just being stolen for other companies traffic?

AlligatorTags.com - The PopURLs.com for ASP.net

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:46:03 GMT

Aggregating the latest ASP.net news, tips and tricks from across the web in one place, refreshed daily.

SQLite on .NET - Get up and running in 3 minutes.

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:16:02 GMT

The quick and dirty guide to setting up SQLite with .Net in 3 minutes. Small, fast, and ass-kicking like a transactional Jackie Chan. Good background information and tutorial to get you from download to querying in no time flat.

Happy 2nd Birthday DotNetKicks

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:46:02 GMT

DotNetKicks.com is 2 year old today. A big thanks to everyone who has contributed to the community.

Log4Net Config to Make Your Loggin' Rockin' | From C Sharp to C Sharp

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:01:02 GMT

Hot config for your Log4Net needs.

Remote Computer Whacked? Launchy to the Rescue!

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 02:07:29 GMT

Use launchy on a seemingly unresponsive remote computer.

Ajax and json for ASP.NET MVC with jQuery

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:31:02 GMT

an example project that uses the jQuery library to create an ajax enabled ASP.NET MVC website. Generally what this project does: * Load views through ajax (with back-button support) * Do ajax-style form-posts and retrieve only the messages, errors and updated content * Do json form-posts and retrieve the errors and messages as a json object

15 -hot- tools that made me a coding Paris Hilton.

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:31:03 GMT

Look good while doing things the easy way. 15 tools I use every day that make me a "hot" coder. You sling code every day. So do I. You sit down at your box, throw on those noise canceling headphones, fire up some mp3s, and get jiggy wit' it. That's hot. But could it be hotter?