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Creating reflection with Silverlight 2.0 beta

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:16:02 GMT

I was searching for some WPF videos, after googling I found a site named contentpresenter . I found couple of interesting video there on WPF. After releasing of Silverlight 2.0 beta , my intention is implementing those WPF stuff in Silverlight as much as possible cause they're quite similar now. Let's start how I did this

.NET Framework Programming Model for Add-Ins

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:16:02 GMT

It seems that there is still lot to learn about .NET Framework. I've found today (thanks to Daniel Moth) that is one more interesting feature was added in .NET Framework - Programming Model for Add-Ins. Basically, it allows you to build application that can be extended by add-ins.

What the hell is a deadlock: The Parable of The Bathroom

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:31:02 GMT

An easy way how you can understand how locking can easily become a nightmare... Deadlock the curse you want to avoid :)

Simplified Asp.net MVC Controller Testing with Moq

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:01:08 GMT

Want to learn how to better unit test your controllers in Asp.net MVC? In this example I go through the process of testing a controller action in asp.net MVC using Moq (but it could be easily translated into another mocking framework).

Going Mouseless - Implementing Keyboard Shortcuts in ASP.NET 2.0

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:46:03 GMT

Keyboard shortcuts improve productivity by accomplishing tasks more quickly and without much effort. In applications, where the user has to select from a variety of actions to perform, keyboard shortcuts can save on time and effort. If you have used the new YahooMail or Gmail, you will be quiet familiar with these shortcuts. Let us see how to implement these shortcuts and use it in our ASP.NET applications.

ASP.NET MVC In-Depth: The Life of an ASP.NET MVC Request - Stephen Wal

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:46:02 GMT

Lifecycle of request in ASP.NET MVC application.

How To: Prevent running ASP / ASP.NET code in specific folder

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:31:02 GMT

! A nice tip.

How I lost my WinDbg virginity

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:31:03 GMT

Using WinDbg to find ASP.NET memory leaks.

JScript Debugger in Internet Explorer 8

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:01:02 GMT

As Shreesh mentioned in his blog, Internet Explorer 8 has a built-in JScript debugger. . .

stylizedweb.com - Most used CSS tricks

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:01:02 GMT

Earlier before I have written an article about current best CSS hacks which you can see here And now here's the list of today's most used CSS tricks - tips. I have added image examples for most of them because of critics on CSS hacks article. If you think I have missed any please let me know.

Firefox 3.0 XmlHttpRequest Default Content-Type change

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:01:03 GMT

I ran into a small problem with some of my AJAX code that's checking content-type on inbound requests from the client - it looks like FireFox 3.0 is now including the charset on the content type from the client on POST operations which if not explicitly checked for can break existing code expecting only to see a content type. Small issue, but easy to miss especially in framework code like mine that frankly should have been prepared for this...

Software Startup Lessons (Part 1): The Basics

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:31:02 GMT

A few simple software startup lessons.

if ... else if ... else if ... else ... : an alternative

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:16:02 GMT

Did you know there's an alternative way of writing "if .. else if .. else if .. etc.." in C#? You probably do, but if you don't, read on...

WPF Snippets

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:16:02 GMT

Links to 2 must have snippets if you develop WPF or Silverlight products!!!

Hidden Gem: Singleton Factory in C#

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 04:01:04 GMT

Simple and generic implementation of singleton factory in C#.

.NET runs on Linux, Mac OSX and FreeBSD ?

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:31:04 GMT

Good news. GNU adds support for .net apps in OpenSource world.

New drop of ASP.NET MVC Framework now available

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:16:03 GMT

Jeff Palermo announces the new release of the ASP.NET MVC Framework

Silverlight 2 Beta 1 - Development with the .NET Framework

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:46:02 GMT

MSDN...Hot off the press!

Review: Blendables Layout Mix

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:31:02 GMT

A review of the newly released Blendables Layout Mix which is a collection of very usefull WPF Layout Panels!!!

jQuery for ASP.NET Mvc - part 2

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:46:02 GMT

All new and improved version of the jquery and asp.net mvc sample..

ParallelMap function using ParallelFX

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:01:02 GMT

Reimplementing the ParallelMap function from a previous post, but this time using ParallelFX

.NET Graphical Resources

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:01:02 GMT

So you just got done prototyping that new Winform or WPF application and the interface is a bit lacking. You are a programmer, not an artist after all. Well, never fear, free icons are here (wow that really rhymed). All kidding aside, most of us are not good at drawing images and icons, so we need some resources for these items.

Compatibility and IE8

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:16:03 GMT

Chris Wilson explains how IE8 will handle standards and backwards compatibility.

A good list of opensource apps

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:46:30 GMT

I agree with the list totally

New* .NET 3.5 Feature: AddIn Framework ( Part 1 of 3 )

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:16:02 GMT

Introduction to the addin framework in .NET 3.5