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NHibernate rescued my model!

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:28:35 GMT

Using fluent-nhibernate mappings against a simple model and other basic NHibernate information.

Suspicious DNK Accounts

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:31:29 GMT

Conclusion There is an incentive for publishers that use DNK to setup phony accounts that will help get stories from certain domains on the front page. So guess what happens ... it would appear that a certain number of people are doing this.

Ideavine - An open source hosting project

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:01:03 GMT

Nate Kotahri and James Alveri has launched a new open source hosting service for .NET. it's currently hosting only two projects, Subtext a famous open source blogging engine and NInject, a dependency injection framework.

Create your own code-signing certificate.

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:12:45 GMT

Easy-to-follow guide to create your own certificate for codesigning using openssl. Stop using 1-year free certificates, and be your own certificate-authority.

Aggiorno, the Italian colleague you've always wanted

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:31:09 GMT

Review of the new Aggiorno plugin for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008

jQuery UI v1.5 Released

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:46:02 GMT

Focus on Consistent API and Effects

Web standards VS add-in beta version out

Fri, 02 May 2008 20:46:03 GMT

Aggiorno is an add-in for Visual Studio that can swallow horrible non-validating markup and help you make an ASP.NET site web standards compliant in a couple of minutes. Beta 1 has just been released, so you might want to give it a try and send some suggestions to the development team.

NHibernate 2.0 Supa' Layer

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:46:03 GMT

Essentially I wanted a way to make queries work better within the context of a Domain Driven Design approach. I'm a big believer in Persistence Ignorance, so this means that I had to find a way to represent queries in a provider independent way. LINQ does this for me, mostly, but I still need a 'syntactically pleasing' way to get the LINQ provider to the query at runtime. Well, it turns out that doing this is pretty easy.

Windows Hosting rates are killing developers and Students... Is Micros

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:40:29 GMT

I was shocked to get an email today morning from my close buddy, now can be called as a free lancer. He informed me that he had said a life long "goodbye" to Microsoft platform for ever, since he was constantly losing more money on hosting charges and some times even had to pay from his own pocket to survive. He informed me that he shall be working with Open Source Languages now onwards, and he did not regret a bit to leave Microsoft career for ever. He was keen to survive today, rather than be remembered as an .Net developer tomorrow. He used to be a C# Genius, and have been working on big projects.

Over 250 High Quality Royalty Free icons set

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:31:02 GMT

Free Icon Download Offers High Quality Royalty Free icons for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Visual Studio 2008 RTM available for download

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:46:03 GMT

MSDN subscribers can now download final RTM version of Visual Studio 2008.

Microsoft: Should we allow .NET EXEs to run off a network shares?

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 15:46:07 GMT

By default .NET applications (EXEs) that are launched from a remote file system (eg \\server\bin\SomeApp.exe), will not be considered trusted and typically will fail (unless specifically designed to run with low trust). This is in direct contrast with unmanaged applications which always give full trust to launched programs, regardless of location. The .NET runtime team is considering changing this behavior so that managed applications act just like unmanaged one in this respect. We believe that it will not decrease security, but there is risk and effort required for any change and would like feedback on its likely usefulness to customers.

10 awesome Windows Live Writer plugins for developer

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 00:31:02 GMT

I've made this list of 10 plugins for Windows Live Writer. Some of these plugins will help beatify your published code, while others will help you create code archives or retrieve a link from MSDN.

Integrating jQuery with ASP.NET

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:16:01 GMT

An altenative AJAX solution to use jQuery instead of ASP.NET AJAX.

PostSharp - A Post-Compiler for .NET

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:16:02 GMT

PostSharp is a platform that allows you to transform or analyze your .NET assemblies after compilation. It reads binary assemblies into memory, execute a suite of plug-ins and write back the modified code. Geat tool for Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP).

Brute Force? I Guess I'll Just Use SubSonic Then...

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:31:03 GMT

Hand written sql versus SubSonic? SubSonic wins hands down...

SubSonic - Collections

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:01:02 GMT

I will detail the coolness of SubSonic's generated collections. Very cool things... your should definatly use them!

1 Surefire Way to Get Smart with DotNetKicks

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:01:01 GMT

Open source projects are a great way to improve your skill set on other's hard work.

10 Hot ASP.NET Tips and Tricks - 9/17/2007

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:46:02 GMT

10 Hot ASP.NET Tips and Tricks for the week of 9/17/2007. Features page scraping, calculating baseball stats with LINQ, event-driven .NET, membership and roles frameworks, validation using AJAX control toolkit, enumerated types, and an introduction to Silverlight programming with C#.

JQuery tree control with ASP.NET

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:01:02 GMT

Describes how to use an unobtrousive JQuery based treeview from an ASP.NET application. VS2005 solution with all code available for download

Subsonic SonicCast 8 - Many to Many Relationships

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:31:05 GMT

All about how to use Subsonic with Many to Many Relationships with Scaffold and ManyManyList

3 Simple Rules for Solution Management

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:01:02 GMT

Having a properly structured project-or more properly, solution-is absolutely vital to ensuring a development initiative's success. In a pinch, a developer needs to be able to pull the solution from source control, force a restore of the database and any other external dependencies, make minor and appropriate configuration changes and have a building, functional solution. There are alot of nuances to making this work in practice, but the essence of keeping things managable can be expressed in three rather simple, yet meaty, rules.

Three Easy Refactorings to Improve the Readability of Your Code

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:01:02 GMT

Here are three simple and quick ways to instantly improve the readability and overall quality of your code.

LightSpeed 1.0 Released!

Sun, 05 Aug 2007 18:31:02 GMT

LightSpeed is a new domain modeling framework that really empowers developers to work more efficiently. No code generation is needed, no mapping files - it all just works. Supports heaps of database engines, takes care of sql generation and a lot more. The focus of LightSpeed is to help developers work faster and more effectively.

Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection with Castle Windsor II

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:16:02 GMT

Second article of a 4 parts series about IoC and DI with Castle Windsor Container. This article continues the discussion initiated in the previous one and tackles compulsory and optional dependencies, component injection and collections. Any feedback, questions, ratings are welcome and will be answered as soon as possible on the article page.