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NHibernate 2.1.0 : Executable queries

Thu, 07 May 2009 23:07:58 GMT

NHibernate's news about executable HQL.

Pimping your Win7 Taskbar - Extending the Win7 Taskbar with Managed Co

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:01:04 GMT

While the project is still in alpha, but with all the coolness (and hype) around the new Win7 Taskbar, when Hüseyin tweeted me a link to this I thought it was pretty cool. I think the Progress Bars in the new Taskbar is going to be one of those "what did we ever do without this" features of Win7. A small thing, but all big things are really just lots and lots of small things. The new Win7 Taskbar is pretty neat, as is its programmability, but without a Managed wrappers (COM? cough. we're about to enter the 10's. cough ;) the bar is pretty high for most of us. Projects like this one will come in very handy in the coming years.

Whitehouse.gov: an ASP.NET site

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:46:03 GMT

This article looks into the JavaScript libraries, HTTP headers, platform and more of the new Whitehouse website. It includes statistics and some suggestions.

NHibernate.Linq Alpha Released

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:16:08 GMT

NHibernate.Linq is a Linq provider for NHibernate 2.0.1 GA. It processes Linq expressions using NHibernate's Criteria API. This release is meant as a stopgap release pending an implementation not reliant on the Criteria API. Most queries are supported with the exception of the following: - Group Joins - Subqueries in select clause

Compressing JS files as part of your build process

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:16:02 GMT

Ideally, we want to develop using readable JavaScript files (even 3rd party files) and deploy compressed/obfuscated code. Our solution has simply been to apply a post-build task to our project. Here's what we did

Shouldn't Obsolete Libraries/Classes in .Net be removed?

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 07:45:52 GMT

Obsolete libraries: remove them from .Net framework or keep then in for backwards compatibility.

ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate shipping in January

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:01:02 GMT

ScottGu talks about the upcoming Release Candidate of ASP.NET MVC V1 and the features it brings to the table

NHibernate rescued my model!

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:28:35 GMT

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

Suspicious DNK Accounts

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:31:29 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 19:01:03 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.

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:12:45 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

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:31:09 GMT

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

jQuery UI v1.5 Released

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:46:02 GMT

Focus on Consistent API and Effects

Web standards VS add-in beta version out

Sat, 03 May 2008 04:46:03 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

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:46:03 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 14:40:29 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 20:31:02 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 19:46:03 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 22:46:07 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 08:31:02 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 09:16:01 GMT

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

PostSharp - A Post-Compiler for .NET

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 18:16:02 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 20:31:03 GMT

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

SubSonic - Collections

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:01:02 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 13:01:01 GMT

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