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C# by Contract - Using Expression Trees

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:31:02 GMT

Using Lambda Expressions to get more bang for my buck! This Article is part of a series exploring the capabilities of .NET 3.5 and how new advances allow the development of a very powerful Design by Contract (or Contract First or Contract Driven Development) system in very few lines. DBC can help you write better code and although the examples in this post are in C#, they will work equally well in VB.NET.

Measure memory consumption of creating object in C#

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:16:02 GMT

Measure memory consumption of creating object or executing functions in C# A detailed look at benchmarking the memory footprint and the execution speed of functions.

Visual Studio 2008 New Multi-Threaded Debugging Feature

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:16:02 GMT

An overview of some of the new multi-threaded debugging features in VS2008.

Hello World of Rhino Mocks

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:01:07 GMT

A lot of tutorials on Rhino Mocks are long and complicated. This post gives you just enough basic code to start working with rhino mocks so you can see what is going on.

.NET Framework Library Source Code now available

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:46:02 GMT

Scott Guthrie announces that the .NET framework source code can now accessed in Visual Studio

SubSonic And MVC: Introducing Makai

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:16:02 GMT

Rob shows off upcoming features for SubSonic and MS MVC

Getting started with VisualSVN

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:31:02 GMT

VisualSVN is simply a front-end for the command line Subversion functions, just like TortoiseSVN. The difference between the two is that TortoiseSVN is a "add-in" for Windows and VisualSVN is an add-in for Visual Studio.

AjaxDataControls v1.0 Goes Live

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:31:06 GMT

The Final release of v1.0 of AjaxDataControls goes live.

AjaxDataControls GridView Drag and Drop

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:16:02 GMT

Shows how to add Drag and Drop and Persistence support in the GridView Control.

Borrowing Ideas From 3 Interesting Internal Classes in the .NET 3.5

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:31:03 GMT

Improve your code by borrowing ideas from System.Linq.Strings, System.Linq.Error, and Microsoft.Contracts.Contract.

Waterfall Doesn't Work

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:01:02 GMT

Waterfall Doesn't Work; All Non-Agile Projects Eventually Devolve into Necessary Sub-Standard Agile. The traditional life cycle approach effectively ignores these issues and developers have been forced to consider other methods to overcome these problems.

Windows Vista Hidden "Copy As Path" option

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:46:02 GMT

In Windows Vista, if you hold down the Shift key and right click on a file, a new option appears in the context menu: "Copy As Path". Why this option is so hidden, I don't know.

Tutorial Series - Creating a Game Engine in XNA

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:31:02 GMT

RoeCode over at Running on Empty has started a series of Articles that go through the process of creating a Game Engine using the XNA Framework. In this first article he starts of with the base classes to get the program running, this includes some helper classes that utilize the XNA Storage system for saving the game settings.

Large file uploads in ASP.NET

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:01:14 GMT

A review of some of the challenges and solutions to uploading large files in ASP.NET.

Completely free PDF .NET library written in C#

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:16:02 GMT

Want to add PDF support to your .NET project. Try this. Open Source library to create/edit PDF files. With unrestricted license to change, sell, sublicense.

Dynamic LINQ (Part 1: Using the LINQ Dynamic Query Library)

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:46:03 GMT

While writing type-safe queries is great for most scenarios, there are cases where you want the flexibility to dynamically construct queries on the fly. For example: you might want to provide business intelligence UI within your application that allows an end-user business analyst to use drop-downs to build and express their own custom queries/views on top of data.

10 reasons why I chose MySQL over MSSQL2005 Express

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:16:03 GMT

10 reasons why to choose MySQL as database engine for your websites instead of MSSQL 2005

Random thoughts after one week of Mac

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:16:02 GMT

All those thoughts led to a consideration: an OS as good as the applications that run on it. An the more the apps, the higher the probability that there is a great app for your needs. This is true for Windows, but a little bit less true for OS X: probably because there are less developers willing to develop on the Mac, and I guess it's because the horrible Objective-C needed to develop native Mac Apps.

The Myth of Stored Procedures Preference

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 12:46:03 GMT

When looking to the Stored Proscedures debate, there is always those three factors you should measure by.

Call for help with the Code Camp server written using ASP.NET MVC

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:16:03 GMT

Jeffrey Palermo has announced a call for participation in the open source "code camp" server project. If anybody has been involved with code camps before, they know there's limited resources out there for organizing one - this promises to be a great resource. But it'll only be as great as you want it to be! Contribute!

Microsoft Sync Framework Support in Visual Studio 2008

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:01:03 GMT

How to add synchronization framework to your app in several mouse clicks in Visual Studio 2008.

Messing around with various ORMs

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:01:02 GMT

Some good posts on using various ORM methods to implement a common requirement. Includes "How Tos" and conclusions on LINQ to SQL, NHibernate, SubSonic and ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 3.

Creating RESTful Web Services with Windows Communication Foundation

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 05:16:02 GMT

An article covering using "web programming" with WCF - including an example blog service implementation.

Stable SPAW Editor v.2 .NET Edition Released

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:16:05 GMT

.NET Edition of the one of the most popular Open Source web based WYSIWYG editor controls has been released. Industry unique multi-document tabbed WYSIWYG editor is finally available to .NET developers. Includes designer support for Visual Studio 2005.

8 Bold Predictions for Web 2.0 in 2008

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:01:03 GMT

The New Year is here and a number of the Web 2.0 blogs have looked at the highs and lows from 2007, but Aaron wants to focus on the tech frontier and what's coming down the pike for Web 2.0.