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51+ Best of jQuery Tutorials and Examples

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:46:02 GMT

A good summary of jQuery resources

Intellisense for jQuery in Visual Studio 2008

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 02:16:02 GMT

Intellisense does not work out of the box for Visual Studio 2008 but you can create a stub script that does work.

ASP.Net MVC Framework - Exception Handling

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:16:05 GMT

How to handle exceptions with ASP.NET MVC Framework

Free SQL Server tools that might make your life a little easier

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:16:03 GMT

Free MS and non MS tools for easoer work with SQL Server 2005 and 2000

In depth: The ASP.NET MVC Pipeline

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:46:02 GMT

Lots of technical details about the new ASP.NET MVC framework, with a comprehensive diagram of the whole pipeline. A great way to get to know the new framework.

Backup ALL your SQL Server 2005 databases using a script

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:16:03 GMT

I wanted to backup all my databases... I had loads, creating a step for each db was getting tedious, so I wrote this script.

Uninstalling Previous Versions of Visual Studio 2008

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:31:06 GMT

Here are the instructions to follow before you install Visual Studio 2008 RTM.

Anonymous Types in C# 3.0

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 15:46:02 GMT

One of the most convenient features of C# 3.0 is the ability to create new types 'on the fly' using Anonymous Types. Here's a detailed post that describes how these generated types work, behave and where their use can be very useful.

Frequently Asked Questions in .NET 2.0

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:16:02 GMT

The questions and answers discussed in this article are the common questions programmers encounter in interviews. Most of the questions are basic questions of .NET and some of them are from ASP.NET 2.0.

Layered Architecture, Dependency Injection, and Dependency Inversion

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:01:02 GMT

Building loosely coupled application architectures requires more than just separating your application into different layers. In this article, I'll take a project that was built using techniques that result in fragile, hard-to-test code and introduce some principles, techniques, and refactorings that will help you realize flexibility and testability in your applications.

World Of HTTP/1.1 Status Codes

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 08:01:04 GMT

Most developers are familiar with the HTTP 1.0 Status Codes, that have been recently popularized by the SEO guys. We have all heard that you should use 301 Moved Permanently instead of 302 Temporary Redirect. What many of the SEO guys won't tell you, because they don't know any better, is that they are using the RFC 1945 HTTP/1.0 Standard that was released in May 1996, that is right it is about 12 years old. The newest HTTP/1.1 Standard, RFC 2616, was released in June 1999, and made some pretty drastic changes the the 3xx Redirect Status Codes. The goal of this post is to inform and familiarize developers with the HTTP/1.1 Standard, specifically the 3xx Redirect Status Code changes. This can have drastic effect on how you handle requests on your website and optimize your site for search engines.

Profiling .NET Applications

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:31:02 GMT

A guide with screen shots illustrating how to identify and eliminate bottlenecks in a .NET application using a profiler

Using Bluetooth in .NET

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:16:02 GMT

A quick example of how to setup a OBEX listner using .NET and 32feet.net

Optimize Tortoise SVN Cache (TSVNCache.exe) Disk I/O

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:01:02 GMT

An excellent explanation of how to optimize the TortoiseSVN icon cache so it caches only your working directories and not the entire drive, allowing you to keep the icon overlays and decrease the amount of disk I/O.

Effective user interface testing

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:46:02 GMT

User interface tests are a bit tricky - it is easy to get carried away and waste quite a lot of time, without getting any real benefits. However, if planned properly, automated UI tests can have a great effect on the project. Here are a few tips on how to make the most of automated user-interface tests.

Free ebook : Threading in C#

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:16:01 GMT

It has been updated since the last time it was posted here. Available in HTML and PDF.

StringBuilder is not always faster

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 05:01:02 GMT

Here is something you may not know about string concatenation: StringBuilder is not always faster.

Pattern Focus: Mediator Pattern

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:31:01 GMT

The mediator pattern explained as a story with two prior attempts of solving a problem which emerged into the third, using the mediator pattern. Example in C#.

Easier Debugging with Attributes

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:01:02 GMT

Most people probably haven't realized that there are several attributes that you can add to your code to make debugging easier. Some prevent you from stepping into sections of code, others change the way variables are displayed in the watch window.

Ten SQL Server Functions That You Hardly Use But Should

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:31:02 GMT

Ten SQL Server Functions That You Hardly Use But Should

The most common software security mistakes

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:16:02 GMT

Through my humble experience with software development I've seen developers making fetal security mistakes without even feeling that they are doing something wrong. So I've decided to gather these common mistakes in a list so it would be easier to avoid. Through this article I will give examples regardless to the used technology but the concepts applies to all technologies. So here we go

ASP.NET Charting with NPlot

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:46:03 GMT

There are several commercial charting libraries available for ASP.NET. They are extensively advertised, and can certainly do the job. However, frugal developers like me may prefer freeware alternatives. In this article we will examine using NPlot to create charts in an ASP.NET application. NPlot is a free, .NET native charting engine that excels at scientific charting. Read on to learn more!

Dependency Injection from the Trenches

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:16:02 GMT

Example of how to incorporate dependency injection to make code that depends on external resources testable.

How to build a Fluent Interface in C#

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:46:02 GMT

Example code illustrating how to build a Fluent Interface in C#.

Writing a full JSON Serializer in 100 lines of C# code

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:16:02 GMT

After looking at the specs for JSON, I figured it couldn't be too hard to write a JSON serializer in C#. Not only was it not that hard, it was very short too: about 100 lines of code.