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Silverlight Game Programming Tutorial - Getting Started

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:23:40 GMT

A Silverlight development tutorial that shows you how to create your own 2D web based games. This series attempts to recreate a game originally developed with Flash, and can be used to highlight the differences between the two platforms.

Integrating NUnit test results in Team Build 2008

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:24:48 GMT

When using Team Foundation Server 2008 and Team Build, chances are you are developing unit tests in Microsoft's test framework which is integrated with Visual Studio 2008. This integration offers valuable data hen a build has been finished on the build server: test run results are published in the Team Foundation Server 2008 data warehouse and can be used to create detailed metrics on how your development team is performing and what the quality of the product being developed is. Not all software development teams are using Microsoft's test framework. Perhaps your team is using Team Foundation Server 2008 and creates (unit) tests using NUnit. By default, NUnit tests are not executed by the Team Build server nor are they published in the Team Foundation Server 2008 data warehouse. The following guide enables you to leverage the features Team Foundation Server 2008 has to offer regarding metrics, by customizing the build process with the necessary steps to publish test results.

Set-Content -Encoding parameter matters, if the content says so...

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:08:31 GMT

I use a simple PowerShell script to replace some of the URLs in my blog post's html source before I publish them to www.tellingmachine.com. In my case the posts are stored as XML files. Usually I use Windows Live Writer to write my posts. I publish the documents for test purposes frequently during the authoring to the VisualStudio 2008 development web server that runs locally on my machine. Once the post is ready to put online, I take the XML file, run the PowerShell script against it and then copy it to my production server. Occasionally the XML files refuse to open in Internet Explorer after I ran the script. It took me few minutes to figure out why. Here is the story!

Embedding an IronRuby console in your applications

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:57:59 GMT

How to make use of IronRuby today. Along the same lines as parts of John Lam's IronRuby PDC talk. How to use IronRuby in your applications as an interactive console.

Building a Silverlight Line-Of-Business Application - Part 3

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:16:03 GMT

The third part of the great article Chris Anderson wrote about developing a framework for a Line-Of-Business application in Silverlight.

Silverlight Zoom Control

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:55:27 GMT

Silverlight Zoom control is developed in Silverlight 2.0. You can use this control for Zoom-in and Zoom-out on any Silverlight controls like Image, Grid and Canvas etc.

ASP.NET AJAX 4.0: Observing updates to POJOs

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:38:46 GMT

First of all, if you haven't already done so, download the ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 Preview 3 now and try it out! And after you're done with that, come back here, or there , or there , or there , and let us know what

jQuery Intellisense Updates from Microsoft

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:46:21 GMT

With Microsoft's recent releases of the jQuery Intellisense file plus the hotfix released this week using jQuery in Visual Studio has become a lot easier and more convenient. Here is a little more detail on what you need and how it works.

SubSonic 3.0 Preview 1: Linq Has Landed

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:16:16 GMT

Rob Conery explains some features of SunSonic 3.0 Preview 1

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.

Donut Caching in ASP.Net MVC - Revisited by Phil Haack

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:01:04 GMT

In this article Phil makes an improvement to the Maarten Balliauw's MVC OutputCache substitution ActionFilter Attribute

Boy Scout Check-ins

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 23:16:02 GMT

How to leave your code campground cleaner than you found it.

ASP.NET MVC Application Building: Family Video Website #3 - Play Video

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:57:43 GMT

In this series of blog entries, I build an entire ASP.NET MVC application from start to finish. In this entry, I integrate the Silverlight Media Player into the Family Videos MVC application so I can play videos.

Customization of PowerShell hash table merges

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:17:35 GMT

PowerShell provides the += operator to add one hash table to another hash table. By default this operation will result in an error, if both hash tables have at least one key that is common in both collections. In some cases you may want to have a more granular control. For example, you don't want to get an error, if not only the key, but also the value is common in both collections.

Extracting errors and warnings from a log file using PowerShell

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:01:53 GMT

This blog post shows a simple Powershell command that searches a log file for errors and warnings and adds the matched lines to either to the errors.txt file or to the warnings.txt files. It takes advantage of the most powerful operator in Powershell, which is the switch operator. In my example here I exported the log file from the Wonderware SMC logger.

Is Managed Code Slower Than Unmanaged Code?

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:46:02 GMT

Ask anyone the question above and they will say that managed is slower than unmanaged code. Are they right? No they are not. The problem is that when most people think of .NET they think of other frameworks with a runtime, like Java or Visual Basic; or they may even think about interpreters. They do not think about applications, or what they do; they do not think about limiting factors like network or disk access; in short, they do not think.

Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# Part 2

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:01:02 GMT

Part 2 in a multi-part series on learning Ruby using IronRuby and C#. C# is used to give you a basis for which to interpret the Ruby and migrate your skills.

New C# and .NET oriented search engine

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:46:02 GMT

A new search engine is available. Created with the Google Custom Search you can: - Search in MSDN forums - Search in Microsoft newsgroup - Search in .NET related sites (including dotnetkicks.com) - Search in everywhere with the standard Google search - Find any .NET tools or components

Continuous scrolling pattern using JavaScript and ASP.NET

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:46:12 GMT

Continuous scrolling is very interesting pattern. If I would have to describe it in short I would say that new items are being loaded while you scroll down the content. It is a completely opposite pattern to a pagination. In this article, you will learn about this pattern and see how it can be implemented using JavaScript and ASP.NET.

Renaming a series of indexed files with Powershell

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:42:45 GMT

I love Powershell. I am only halfway through Bruce's book, but I am getting already a glimpse of its potential. I like especially the dynamic aspect of it. Creating and extending types on the fly is something that is quite exciting. Next I am looking to find a solution for my open issues with sorting hash tables. I think building a custom PSObject type with an integer NoteProperty and a NoteProperty that holds a FileInfo object might get me a few steps closer to solving the sorting challenge.

SubSonic: New Code Samples And A SubStage Walkthrough

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:01:11 GMT

Rob talks about 3 new pages on their project site that are just the start of a barrage of "how-to" information.

Jump between braces in Visual Studio.

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:01:09 GMT

Move fast between open and close braces. No more scrolling to find beginning of that illusive if statement.

Newspaper - a free theme for BlogEngine.NET

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:01:03 GMT

Newspaper is a free, lightweight, high-contrast, black&white theme for BlogEngine.NET. The name "Newspaper" comes from the fact that theme looks like real newspapers. You can see how does it looks like and download a free copy.

Debugging 101 - Measure, do your homework and think out of the box

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:10:45 GMT

Being confronted with an occasional bug in a complex system can be quite overwhelming. There are three disciplines that help you to stay strong: 1) Read and learn about your platform and how to debug it. 2) Use tools to quickly get the low hanging fruit. This might be enough in most of the cases to identify the bug. 3) Think out of the box and try to be creative. Build a model, play with it, break it and fix it. In the worst case, you won't have found the cause of the bug, but you learned at least something new about your software.

Blog Engine.NET1.4 Released

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:01:03 GMT

Blog Engine.net 1.4 has been released. more...