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Setting up and running Subversion and Tortoise SVN

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:46:02 GMT

A quick walkthrough of setting up and configuring SubVersion with Tortoise SVN and getting started creating repositories, adding files and folders, creating local copies and working with SVN.

Why should we (not) use .NET for "real" web apps?

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 02:46:02 GMT

If you're building web apps on .NET, what leads you to assume that you should be building on .NET? . While this is a question a technologist might ask, it is a no-brainer for stake-holders.

Monorail Vs Rails Isn't a Meaningful Question

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 08:01:02 GMT

There are reasons for either of the three choices, but we technologists often fail to actually make a choice as much as we choose not to choose for not being even aware of our choices. How do you know that you're using the best, most productive tools?

Silverlight Panel

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 07:16:02 GMT

Concept for including Silverlight, but downgrade to normal content if the user doesn't have SilverLight

SharpForge 0.5.11 Beta Released

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:46:02 GMT

An msi installer, source and binary downloads are available. The release notes contain all of the work items resolved in this release.

DisableControlExtender

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 03:31:02 GMT

An AjaxControlToolkit extender control that is useful for disabling controls during partial postbacks ...

SQL SERVER - One Thing All DBA Must Know

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:21:17 GMT

FULLY BACKUP DATABASE. I posted this post with only line. However I received many comments and questions asking different questions related to it. I have compiled all of them and modified this post.

DotNetKicks Beta 1 Available For Download

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:46:02 GMT

I have just tagged and uploaded SVN revision 132 as DotNetKicks Beta 1. Enjoy!

Using LINQ to XML (and how to build a custom RSS Feed Reader with it)

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:01:02 GMT

Describes how to use LINQ to XML. Shows an example application (RSS Feed reader) built by using LINQ to XML.

Attempting to Demystify Behavior Driven Development

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:46:02 GMT

After receiving several emails and reading Roy Osherove's post on Behave#, I wanted to give more incite and answer some questions that were asked about Behave# and BDD in general.

Announcing MbUnitForms!

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:16:02 GMT

I've ported NUnitForms to run against the increasingly popular unit testing framework, MbUnit.

LINQ to SQL Pipeline

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 05:01:02 GMT

C# Principal Architect Matt Warren and Lead PM Luca Bolognese detail the pipeline that hastens your LINQ queries to execution. Matt did most of the design and implementation of this code. His explanations are vivid and useful. The drawings are well organized, well executed, and clearly explained. Matt and Luca have worked together for years, and they make an excellent team.

Reflection performance put in perspective

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 02:01:02 GMT

The web framework I built over the last few years, ProMesh.NET, relies on reflection for a lot of the features it offers. Often though, I am asked if the heave use of reflection doesn't have a significant impact on performance. My answer usually is: YES, but it doesn't matter. Now you probably think that I don't care about performance or that I've had too much too drink. None of the above. I'll explain:

The Null Object Pattern

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:16:02 GMT

An alternative way to alleviate yourself from checking for null each time you work with a potentially missing object.

Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection with Castle Windsor III

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 08:46:02 GMT

Third article of a 4 parts series about IoC and DI with Castle Windsor Container. This article tackles configuration properties, includes, type converters, decorators and configuration conditional statements. Any feedback, questions, ratings are welcome and will be answered as soon as possible.

Free refactoring tool for ASP.Net and Visual Studio - Must See!

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:01:02 GMT

Developer Express released a free version of their refactoring tools for ASP.Net. There are also links to a funny screencast and to an article with many screenshots in the blog entry.

soniccast 6 - Rob shows off Linq2Sql

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 07:16:02 GMT

really, Rob is showing off Linq2Sql

Extending the BlogEngine.net

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:01:02 GMT

I've been using the BlogEngine.net for some time and I just have to say it rocks. Since it uses a Event model, extending the engine is easy. So, here it is a extensions engine for the BlogEngine.net

Ping using XML-RPC in ASP.NET

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:46:02 GMT

Many blogs have the ability to ping different ping-services, such as Ping-o-Matic, Feedburner and Technorati, whenever some content is created or updated. But it is not only blogs who can benefit from pinging these services. Almost all websites that is updated regularly can use this technique.

HttpHandler for Images in ASP .NET 2.0

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 11:01:02 GMT

Http Handler: Http Handler is a class that is responsible for rendering a particular resource, or a particular type of resource. Http Handlers are somewhat similar to ISAPI Extensions. If implements, it behaves like a filter between Web Server and the Client. Whenever client makes a request to the server, it goes through the Filter and performs operations as per our requirement

Use List<T> generic class instead of Dataset

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:27:41 GMT

All ASP.NET Geeks are certainly well aware of Datasets. We have been using datasets since the evolution of .NET and getting benefits from its vast functionality. Though its basic architecture makes it extremely powerful yet it has performance impact. In ASP .NET 2.0, generics classes have been introduced. There are many generics collections in it which allow users to create strongly typed collections that provide better type safety and performance. At this point of time, I am trying to explain the replacement of datasets (not in all scenarios) with List<T> Collection

How to have Silverlight interact with the DOM

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:46:02 GMT

This article explains how you can have Silverlight interact with the DOM of the HTML document it is in.

VS 2008 JavaScript Intellisense for Silverlight

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 02:46:02 GMT

Justin-Josef Angel earlier today released an awesome Silverlight 1.0 JavaScript Intellisense CodePlex Project that helps dramatically with this. It includes some nice annotated JavaScript helper methods that provide the ability to work with any XAML element in Silverlight with full intellisense in VS 2008.

SQL Server 2008 Has Nanosecond Precision

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:16:02 GMT

SQL Server 2008 Has nanoseconds and microsecond Precision for time

Get baseUrl from Request object, not web.config

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 03:31:02 GMT

Better programming by getting the baseUrl programmatically rather than depend on a web.config key.