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ADO .NET Entity Framework Vote of No Confidence

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:46:02 GMT

Over the past year, Microsoft and the Entity Framework team have received a tremendous amount of feedback from experts in entity-based applications and software architectures on the .NET platform. While Microsoft's announcement of its intention to provide framework support for entity architectures was received with enthusiasm, the Entity Framework itself has consistently proved to be cause for significant concern.

How to create a virtual machine from a physical one

Mon, 12 May 2008 21:31:02 GMT

P2V options - converting a physical machine to a virtual machine

Using a Windows Service just to run a scheduled process is Wrong!

Sat, 10 May 2008 17:46:02 GMT

A classic post by Jon Galloway: A Windows Service is the wrong solution to scheduling one-off custom processes. The right solution for scheduling simple processes is the Windows Task Scheduler.

Why is it so F#...ing Difficult to Buy Visual Studio!?

Tue, 13 May 2008 17:01:03 GMT

Have you tried upgrading Trial edition of Visual Studio or buying it through the official site while living outside of United States? I wasted half a day and failed.

See how simple is to create a great user interface for you app

Tue, 06 May 2008 17:46:04 GMT

See how simple is to create a great user interface for your WPF or Silverlight application. You can simply use almost any vector drawing application (Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Inkscape, Visio, Autocad, Excel, Word, etc.) and then with the ViewerSvg or Paste2Xaml convert the drawing into XAML. Or even simpler, you can use one of the thousands vector images that are already available on the internet - see links. There are also samples that demonstrates the power of vector images and how simple is to create a great effects with them.

Top 10 Best Practices for Production ASP.NET Applications

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:01:02 GMT

A list of some things to pay attention to when dealing with production ASP.NET applications.

10 ASP.NET Performance and Scalability Secrets

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:31:02 GMT

ASP.NET 2.0 has many secrets, when revealed, can give you big performance and scalability boost. For instance, there are secret bottlenecks in Membership and Profile provider which can be solved easily to make authentication and authorization faster. Furthermore, ASP.NET Http pipeline can be tweaked to avoid executing unnecessary code that gets hit on each and every request...

Are you making these 3 common ASP.NET AJAX mistakes?

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:31:02 GMT

An overview of the impact several ASP.NET page life cycle issues have on ASP.NET AJAX development, and how to avoid them.

Where are all the cool startups that run on ASP.NET?

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 01:16:02 GMT

"Sure there are Community Server, MySpace, DotNetKicks and DasBlog; there are all very fine products, but compare them to LAMP, Rails and Java lineup: Digg, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Flickr, Backpack and the Company, Delicious, all the Google Apps, Mint, Meebo, Twitter, Zillow and of course Infinite Cat Project. If you checkout the new startups on TechCrunch, it seems like every new startup is something Linux based and is not ASP.NET."

The problem isn't the poor database model; It's that external code is

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:01:02 GMT

Dealing with poorly designed databases is a simple and common fact of life for programmers. It happens, sometimes due to lack of experience or education, or sometimes because business requirements were never analyzed properly or they changed. It's hard to avoid poor database designs, but it takes only a simple concept to make fixing those designs much easier.

Free refactoring tool for ASP.Net and Visual Studio - Must See!

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:01:02 GMT

Developer Express released a free version of their refactoring tools for ASP.Net. There are also links to a funny screencast and to an article with many screenshots in the blog entry.

How to have Silverlight interact with the DOM

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:46:02 GMT

This article explains how you can have Silverlight interact with the DOM of the HTML document it is in.

C# Syntactic Macros

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 02:01:02 GMT

Code generation in Visual Studio that transforms C# in more C#! Currently there is just a macro to generate a basic class implementation from an interface. But the architecture will allow for a host of code transformations.

Open source .NET libraries you should be already using

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:46:03 GMT

As we know, there are many good, enterprise level, open source libraries, frameworks and projects implemented in Java. Most of them are being ported into different platforms like .NET and PHP, so developers are migrating to the these platforms with their familiar tools. For example, i have been using Ant, JUnit, Log4J, iText and many mores when i was developing in Java, but now i am still using Log4Net and Nunit in my current

The Least You Need to Know about C# 3.0 (Beta 2 Edition)

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:46:02 GMT

A lot of people (myself included) have written about LINQ in the next version of C#. LINQ is indeed an empowering technology. However, even without LINQ, C# 3.0 would be a compelling upgrade. Now that Beta2 is publicly available, here's my personal list of the most useful features in the next release.

Most Useful 20+ Visual Studio A

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:16:03 GMT

I have collected list of the Visual Studio Add-ins, most of which are open source or free. I hope this list will help you to code more faster and effective. If there is not your favorite add-in in the below list, do not hesitate to add it as a comment.

Principles of simplicity

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:01:03 GMT

Simplicity is about removing everything that can complicate the process of writing and maintaining software.

The real reason SELECT * queries are bad: index coverage

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:46:02 GMT

Are SELECT * queries bad? Sure, everyone know that. But, why?

Become a Better Developer in 6 months. How?

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:01:02 GMT

Yes, I was tagged too. however only one things i'm going to do is acctually technical

ASP.NET Orcas: Quiet Revolution

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:16:02 GMT

What's new in ASP.NET Orcas and Visual Studio 2008

SubSonic, ObjectDataSource, Paging, and you!

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:16:02 GMT

How to implement paging with the Controllers generated by SubSonic. Corrected URL

DotNetKicks.com: Tag RSS feeds

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:16:02 GMT

I have just upgraded DotNetKicks.com to Subversion revision 125. The big addition is RSS feeds for tags.

Confirm GridView Deletes with the ModalPopupExtender

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:01:02 GMT

I was looking for good examples of how the ModalPopupExtender control could be used as a confirmation dialog. I was especially curious in seeing implementations where the popup is used to confirm deletes performed on rows of a GridView. I couldn't find any good samples so I figured I would take a shot at it ...

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

Dynamic type conversion in the nullable world

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:31:02 GMT

We all know the Convert.ChangeType() for changing a value from one (unknown) type to another (unknown) type at runtime, but this method doesn't handle nullables and enums very well. What may seem a simple task isn't that simple after all. You have to differentiate nullables, value types and enums.