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10 Ways To Programaticly Shoot Yourself In The Foot - Part B

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:46:13 GMT

This is part B of the 10 Ways To Programaticly Shoot Yourself In The Foot article. In this article I will talk about another 5 issues that even the best developers have to be aware of. In other words, I will try to prevent you from programaticly shooting yourself in the foot.

Windows Azure Table Storage

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:16:38 GMT

Windows Azure provides simple data storage services like blobs, tables and queues to store your data in the cloud. They are called as Storage Account Using Table Storage is one of the simplest way to start exploring the Windows Azure Storage. The tables are accessed using a Uri which is: http://{application...

C# 4.0 Dynamic Lookup - Are You Kidding Me?

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:46:02 GMT

One of the core features introduced in C# 4.0 is called Dynamic Lookup which allows a unified approach to invoking things dynamically. When you have an object of type dynamic you can do whatever you like with it, those operations are resolved only at runtime. I DON'T LIKE IT, ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

Software Tools You Should Be Using and Blogs You Should Be Reading

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:01:02 GMT

Advice on how to become a great developer and not just a monkey programmer.

Naming Collisions And The Using Directive

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:31:06 GMT

Are you familiar with the following C# compilation error: "CS0104: ClassA is an ambiguous reference between Namespace1.ClassA and Namespace2.ClassA"? Most software developer would solve that error by...

Functional C# - Implementing Async Computations in C#

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:13:52 GMT

As I covered earlier in my post Functional .NET - LINQ or Language Integrated Monads, I talked about using asynchronous computation expressions (monads) from C# 3.0. Brian McNamara, of the F# team, posted back in May about using them from C#. But since then, things have changed slightly. Before, I showed a basic example of how to utilize the F# libraries from C#, but let's go deep under the covers to see how this actually works.

Object Oriented Programming With JavaScript

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:01:03 GMT

In this article we are going to take an introductory look at how OO JavaScript works. I am going to assume you are familiar with Object Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts such as encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism.

Measure String Size In Pixels (C#)

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:16:03 GMT

Sometimes we need to know the width of a given string in pixels, do you know how to compute it? Before writing some long code, please notice that the .NET framework class library provides such a method...

XAML Power Toys and Mole

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:23:58 GMT

A couple of very good tools to speedup form creation and help debugging

Pair Programming and Cross-training

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:21:57 GMT

One of pair programming's many benefits is that it helps cross-train the development team.

How To Use The SVN Client and Start Working With Your SubVersion Versi

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:31:03 GMT

how to use the Tortoise SVN client and work with your svn version control server

Measuring Programmers By Extra Hours

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:01:04 GMT

I am writing this article as a sequel to the Measuring Programming Progress By Lines Of Code article. Let me please talk about another common metric - measuring the amount of extra hours a software developer has done.

Add Configuration Files To Your Visual Studio Project

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:27:14 GMT

Wouldn't it be nice if for each project, our resources and configuration files could be seen form visual studio? We would never need to find them using the windows explorer anymore and we will always have them right there even when coming back to a code which was written 2-3 years ago.

Free Visual Studio File Explorer Add-in

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:31:03 GMT

The Visual Studio File Explorer Add-in (sexy name we know, but hey, it's self documenting) is a free Tool Window add-in for VS 2008 that provides a Windows Explorer style file system view. It's particularly useful for performing routine file system tasks without the need to "context switch" away from Visual Studio, which can be time-consuming over the course of days and weeks. It is shell-enabled so extensions like TortoiseSVN work too.

A Programming Job Interview Challenge - The End

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:27:34 GMT

I think that this is the end of our series. I have no questions left in the bank. if you have any ideas for new questions and you want them to be published here at www.Dev102.com, don't hesitate to contact us.

How To Access A WPF Control Which Is Located In A DataTemplate

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:16:04 GMT

Ever tryed to programatically change something in a WPF control that is in a DataTemplate? not so easy, here is how to do it

GiftListr Beta - ASP.NET MVC Facebook Application - Mike Bosch's Blog

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:01:10 GMT

GiftListr is the only truly universal gift registry allowing you to add products from ANY website without limitations. Just browse stores the way you usually do when you shop online. Once you find the item you want, simply copy-and-paste the url into the GiftListr application. GiftListr will then download all the product information and product images available. You can add notes to each item and share you gift list with friends.

How To Create a WPF Template For a Generic Class

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:16:03 GMT

Have you ever tried to create a DataTemplate for a Generic Class? Here is how you do it.

Are you Throwing Exceptions correctly?

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:01:02 GMT

Discuss practices to throw exceptions to intact the exception stack trace

Validating culture name using LINQ

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:34:08 GMT

Using LINQ for culture name validation.

Add jQuery Intellisense To Your Visual Studio

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:31:02 GMT

Enrich your working environment with free great jQuery intelisense addin

A Programming Job Interview Challenge #13 - Brackets

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:01:07 GMT

Your input is a string which is composed from bracket characters. The allowed characters are:'(', ')', '['. ']', '{', '}', '<' and '>'. Your mission is to determine whether the brackets structure is legal or not.

WPF Binding Converter Best Practices

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:46:02 GMT

As you all remember in my article about Custom WPF Context Menu I mentioned that my WPF Binding Converter was a singleton, and I promised to tell you why, so here comes the 3 ways I know of using WPF Binding Converters. We will start from the worst (in my opinion) and move on the the best.

Getting started with custom SharePoint Event Receivers

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:16:03 GMT

In this post I describe how to create a custom SharePoint Event Receiver using the Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint Services.

Coding Conventions - Prefix For Class Members

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:46:02 GMT

Yes, I will use m_ prefix for class members. I DO NOT NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS. Shut up. Actually, I don't mind which prefix shall be used but in order to make member variables distinct from local variables, we have to give it some prefix. This is a part of a coding convention for C++ adopted by Microsoft called Hungarian notation. Some of you may say that it may be a bit disturbing using C++ naming conventions in C# code, but...