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Linq to MySQL, based on Matt Warren's provider

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:27:36 GMT

On each release Matt Warren's IQueryable provider is getting more and more interesting. On this post I'll show you how easy is to plug-in your custom QueryFormatter to start querying MySQL databases.

Load and Play Media Files at Runtime using Silverlight 2

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:16:02 GMT

Sometime back, I had written a similar article Load and Play a Video File at Runtime using Silverlight 2 Beta 2. The article made use of the OpenFileDialog class in Silverlight Beta2 to load files at runtime. There have been quite a few breaking changes from Beta 2 to the final release of Silverlight. One of these changes affects Silverlight 2 application using the OpenFileDialog. In this short article, we will study these changes and explore how to load and play media files at runtime using the OpenFileDialog control using the final release of Silverlight 2.

Developing with Source Code Control Best Practices Part 1

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:01:05 GMT

Peter details some first principles about SCC, and some very basic developing with SCC practices that every dev should follow.

Combining independent widgets on ASP.NET MVC pages

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:46:02 GMT

As great as ASP.NET MVC is, it doesn't have such an easy way to set up reusable controls or "widgets". Steven Sanderson explains a technique similar to MVC Contrib's "subcontrollers", but much simpler.

Anders Hejlsberg: The future of programming languages

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:31:02 GMT

In this video Anders Hejlsberg takes a look at the future of programming languages and sees the trends; declarative, dynamic and concurrent. As the chief designer of the C# programming language and a key participant in the development of the .NET Framework Anders Hejlsberg has a lot to say about this development - not just as a wish but also as something that can be realized.

ASP.NET MVC Beta1 in a few weeks and v1 by end of year

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:01:07 GMT

A tweet in the morning, straight from Remix08 UK, where ScottGu is doing a presentation on ASP.NET MVC: ScottGu says feature complete MVC beta "in a few weeks". final v1 by end of year

Implementing Exception Handling Application Block with Photon.NET

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:36:53 GMT

Let's implement lightweight EntLib Exception Handling with the Autofac IoC and Boo DSL

Drag and Drop controls at runtime using Silverlight 2

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:31:03 GMT

In this article, we will see how to add drag-drop functionality on controls kept in the Silverlight plug-in, at runtime. We will explore how to add the MouseMove, MouseDown and MouseUp events generically to all the controls. We will also see how to drag the Button control.

Stubborn Services II

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:24:50 GMT

How to debug the dreaded: "The service started and then stopped. Some services stop automatically if they have no work to do..."

Randomly reorder an ArrayList and update ComboBox contents at runtime

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:46:03 GMT

In this short article, we will take a look at how to randomly reorder an arraylist and update the contents of the ComboBox at runtime, each time the contents of the ArrayList changes. By default, If your control is bound to a data source that does not implement the IBindingList interface, such as an ArrayList then changes to the list will NOT reflect as changes in the combobox. We will see a workaround in this article to achieve the same.

Creating Silverlight 2 Application

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:28:47 GMT

This post explains starting Silverlight 2 development from developer prospective. Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser,cross-platform for delivering rich media experience and interactive applications for the web.

How to create fully encapsulated and simple Domain Models

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:27:19 GMT

Udi wrote about this topic, but I never really liked the solution. To me it seemed complex and over architected, even the solutions from the commenter's where surprisingly complex (No disrespect for Udi or any of the commenter's intended). My solution looks like this.

Deploy, test and pack your code - Part 2 Using MsBuild

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:52:27 GMT

In part one of this packing series I have shown, how you can automate your build process, test and optionally mock by using the popular .net deployment tool NAnt. If you don't know what I am talking about and just landed here by help of search engine. Let me put the link below again. http://weblogs.asp.net/mehfuzh/archive/2008/08/30/deploy-test-and-pack-your-code-part-1-using-nant.aspx In this post, I will do a replay to mostly what I have talked in my last post but with MsBuild.

Skin a WPF interface

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:13:22 GMT

An old post on how to skin a wpf interface.

PropertyGrid for WPF is almost ready

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:09:43 GMT

Actipro reviews a couple innovative new features for their upcoming PropertyGrid for WPF control, due in mid-September.

Why Shout? Can't We just Talk?

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:14:09 GMT

Jeff Atwood started a programming Q&A website called StackOverflow. Judging from the response of the blogs, he seems to fail terribly-- not because he fails to create a successful programming community, but because the answers he suggested for the technical hurdles he faced were simply wrong. Lots of pundits saw his blunder, pounced on it gleefully and came up with less-than-gracious remark. As if they themselves have never make mistakes before. Ah.

My Dev Kit -- Alvin Ashcraft

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:46:14 GMT

With a nod to John Lam and Shawn Wildermuth for the inspiration, here is a rundown of the things I use on a daily basis to develop software. This includes hardware, software and online resources.

RESET values of all controls on a Page using ASP.NET and JavaScript

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:16:11 GMT

In this article we will see how easy it is to use recursion and clear values of all controls on a page using ASP.NET and JavaScript

Optimised IP address to country code mapping

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:04:08 GMT

Investigates the most efficient way to look up country codes from an IP address. Are Patricia tries really the best way to do it...?

Parsing Strings in C#.Net

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:36:33 GMT

Parsing strings in any language can be a little bit difficult if you don't know the right way how to do that.

Asp.Net error handling by HttpModule

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:22:04 GMT

In any real-world application, unhalted exceptions are an unavoidable fact of life. Such exceptions should occur relatively infrequently, but when they do some kind of supporting infrastructure best be in place to capture the when and why of the exceptions. As a developer, you should have the ability to perform a postmortem analysis on what went wrong and learn from it. Paramount to such analysis is capturing and logging sufficient information at the point of failure. What this post covers is the thoughts and development of an Asp.Net HttpModule that captures and emails such unhalted exception information to a designated email address.

Using the ASP.NET MVC ModelBinder attribute

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:31:02 GMT

ASP.NET MVC action methods can be developed using regular method parameters. In earlier versions of the ASP.NET MVC framework, these parameters were all simple types like integers, strings, booleans, . When required, a method parameter can be a complex type like a Contact with Name, Email and Message properties. This blog post shows you how to use the ModelBinder attribute which allows ASP.NET MVC action methods to accept complex types.

Which is faster? Silverlight or Flash?

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:46:11 GMT

Benchmarks of RIA performances: Flash/Flex is faster when it comes to graphic rendering, but Silverlight is faster when it comes to pure computation speed.

Fluent NHibernate - Working with NHibernate without configuration file

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:46:10 GMT

"I believe that the most important reason why NHibernate is not more widely adopted by general DEV population is exactly the "Java XML configuration" PIA feeling you have while working with it. Great news for all of us from that group: NHibernate is possible to be used WITHOUT configuration files! "

JQuery IntelliSense in Visual Studio 2008.

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:42:33 GMT

JQuery IntelliSense in Visual Studio 2008