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Removing Duplicate Code in Functions

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:43:16 GMT

This is a great article on a practical use of AOP and delegates. Man, this is just slick coding.

The C# 3.0 Compiler vs. .NET 2.0 Project

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:58:05 GMT

Think VS 2008 is REALLY C# 2.0 compatible? Think again.

Microsoft releases Unity, an IoC library

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:16:02 GMT

A nice wrapup of IoC

Web Development Toolbox

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:25:44 GMT

A list of tools for the web developer

ASP.Net MVC View Controls

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:58:44 GMT

A handy trick for declaring User Controls on a ViewPage in the MVC framework.

Fun with Generics - From Repository to DTO

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:46:02 GMT

Fantastic post using .Net to implement DDD to derive a Data Transfer Object Model.

Rhino Mocks With Code Coverage

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:30:01 GMT

When using Rhino Mocks with Code Coverage enabled, you must do something special to get past the errors VS2008 throws at you.

Windows Backup and Restore on Vista

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:25:33 GMT

This is interesteing as it was a restore on a Mac OS X running Vista under BootCamp

Free Copy of Visual Studio 2008 Pro

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:15:38 GMT

Get a free copy of VS2008 Pro in Boise, Idaho

Unit Testing Bliss in Visual Studio 2008

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:08:52 GMT

On TDD in Visual Studio 2008

NHibernate IQuery to ISQLQuery Black Magic

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:58:04 GMT

NHibernate IQuery to ISQLQuery Black Magic

Querying Sub-Types with Linq

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 08:01:33 GMT

Querying Sub-Types with Linq

C# 3.0 Primer: Anonymous Delegates

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 08:01:02 GMT

An exellent primer on anonymous delegates.

Unit Testing Irritants in Visual Studio 2008

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 07:55:26 GMT

Discusses the unit testing features of Visual Studio 2008 and provides some workarounds for a particularly irritating "feature".

Widgets of Wisdom III

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 04:15:27 GMT

A collection of software developmnet wisdom and axioms from the stream of consciousness notes of the ElegantCoder.

The Netflix Silverlight Experience

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 23:13:44 GMT

Netflix doesnt seem to be getting the best use out of Silverlight quite yet.

The Absent Product Owner anti-Pattern

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:55:02 GMT

What happens when development teams show up to find no one to create a backlog? This article explains the cause, effect, and cure for APOP.

3 Geeky Questions

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 04:58:38 GMT

Some software engineering type interview questions.

Lean Cooking for Agile Work Teams

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 04:52:58 GMT

Experience Agile and Lean through the eyes of the Iron Chef cooking show.

An Open Letter to Scott Guthrie

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:31:01 GMT

Speaking and working with developers who live daily with your tools, I find confusion and concern over your relationship to the open source community that has grown up around the .Net platform. While Sun, IBM, other platform providers, and ISVs clearly see the open source community as a complimentary codebase to their products, Microsoft tends to use the best and brightest work from the community space as a feature map for .Net.

Visual Studio Orcas is getting closer

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:05:19 GMT

A brief note on some of the new exciting features in Orcas.