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ALT.NET Podcast 11: jQuery in ASP.NET

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:16:03 GMT

In this episode Chris Brandsma, Rick Strahl, Dave Ward, Bertrand Le Roy, Scott Koon, and Steven Harman discuss Microsoft's jQuery in ASP.NET announcement.

Three Simple Rhino Mocks Rules

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:46:13 GMT

Jimmy Bogard shows how he uses the new Rhino Mocks syntax, and three short rules for using it.

LINQ'ing the Future of Development with Jim Wooley

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:31:02 GMT

The latest version of the .Net Framework includes a technology called LINQ. Developers are digging their teeth into it and Deep Fried Bytes is here to help with them work out the KINQs in LINQ. Keith and Woody sit down with Jim Wooley and discuss the truths, gotchas and a few rusty washers about LINQ.

Introduction to NHibernate: Setting up your Mappings

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:31:02 GMT

A short screencast performing an Introduction to NHibernate: Setting up your Mappings

Introduction to NHibernate: What does NHibernate bring to the table

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:01:02 GMT

A short screencast introduction to NHibernate: In this episode we will talk about what does NHibernate bring to the table

Separate Assemblies != Loose Coupling

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:16:07 GMT

read and learn

Generic C# WinForms

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:39:59 GMT

An article discussing how to make a WinForm in C# display any user control through a generic class.

jQuery and Microsoft

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:01:02 GMT

ScottGu announce that Microsoft will be shipping jQuery with Visual Studio going forward. We will distribute the jQuery JavaScript library as-is, and will not be forking or changing the source from the main jQuery branch. The files will continue to use and ship under the existing jQuery MIT license.

jQuery, Microsoft, and Nokia

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:16:03 GMT

news today: Both Microsoft and Nokia are taking the major step of adopting jQuery as part of their official application development platform. Not only will they be using it for their corporate development but they will be providing it as a core piece of their platform for developers to build with.

Request for Help: Need better guidance for beginners

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:01:02 GMT

A call to harms for helping beginners. This time from a pro that realizes the need.

101 Free Silverlight Controls

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:31:10 GMT

Awesome collection of FREE silverlight controls.

Are .net interfaces required

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:06:47 GMT

A discussing on the nature of Interfaces in a .Net TDD world.

ALT.NET podcast OOP in Ruby (IronRuby + C Sharp)

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:32:17 GMT

A discussion with Scott Belware about the power of IronRuby and what it brings to the .Net world.

Alt.NET Podcast Episode 9: The State of IronRuby

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:31:13 GMT

Learn about Ruby, why you should check it out, and what the status is on the IronRuby project,

NHibernate 2.0 is out

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:46:02 GMT

Directly from the blog of Ayende, NHibernate 2.0 is out!!

Lutz Roeder's Weblog: The Future of .NET Reflector

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:16:02 GMT

After more than eight years of working on .NET Reflector, I have decided it is time to move on and explore some new opportunities. I have reached an agreement to have Red Gate Software continue the development of .NET Reflector. Red Gate has a lot of experience creating tools for both .NET and SQL Server. They have the resources necessary to work on new features, and Reflector fits nicely with other .NET tools the company offers. Red Gate will continue to provide the free community version and is looking for your feedback and ideas for future versions.

Lutz Reflector now owned by Red Gate

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:01:05 GMT

Lutz Reflector, the free .NET disassembler every developer developer should have, has been purchased by Red Gate software. Red Gate has stated they will continue to provide the tool for free.

SubSonic Scaling

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:31:11 GMT

Rob runs some tests with millions of records to see how SubSonic holds up with respect to speed and memory use.

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:16:07 GMT

It's finally here! I haven't seen an official announcement yet, but I did a search for "Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1" on Microsoft's Download Center and found the following downloads added today: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (exe) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fbee1648-7106-44a7-9649-6d9f6d58056e&DisplayLang=en Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (iso) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=27673c47-b3b5-4c67-bd99-84e525b5ce61&DisplayLang=en

Are You A Good Developer?

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:16:02 GMT

'Good' means having qualities that are desirable and distinguishing. From a developer's perspective, these qualities are both technical as well as non-technical. Here are some qualities that a developer should possess if he/she aims at becoming a 'good' developer.

Summer of NHibernate:Session 06 Advanced Querying of Child Collections

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:51:25 GMT

Steve goes through some advanced querying and usage of child collections in NHibernate. This is part 6 of the Summer Of NHibernate series found at summerofnhibernate.com/

ALT.NET Podcast 8 - EF Vote of No Confidence (part 2 of Episode 7)

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:31:06 GMT

In this episode Jeremy Miller and Ward Bell (from IdeaBlade) discuss the Vote of No Confidence on Microsoft's Entity Framework and what it means for the Alt.NET and .NET communities

NHibernate: Testing The Performance Urban Legend

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:01:10 GMT

I wanted to challenge the dogmatic urban legend passed down from .NET developer to .NET developer since the classic ASP days. That dogma simply states you should always access your database via stored procedure for "performance reasons". Inline SQL is BAAAAAAD. So I fired up Visual Studio, created a class and started writing tests.

The Future of ASP.NET AJAX

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:46:16 GMT

My analysis of the ASP.NET Team's tentative road map for ASP.NET AJAX v.Next and beyond, followed by a few additional recommendations.

Meet the C# 4.0 team

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:16:05 GMT

... and some dude from the VB team. Anders and the guys in room 2543, building 41 (where C# was born) talk about the new features that will be in the next version of C#. I so wanted to blogspam this one. Enjoy your direct link.