MVC vs. MVP: A Hillbilly's Journey

published 2 months, 7 days ago, submitted by adminjew 2 months, 9 days ago

codebetter.com — Yes, I know you've read this before so stop rolling your eyes and skip it if you're not interested. I'm not coming at this from the perspective of an expert imparting knowledge but as a hillbilly who has ignored the question too long. And now that I have to dive into it for the book, all the vagueness that I've been able to shunt aside to a little corner of my brain has surfaced like a long-lost brother beggin' for college money. read more...

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Path to .NET 3.5 Developer Certification

published 2 months, 9 days ago, submitted by mjpalad 2 months, 14 days ago

thearchitect.co.uk — If you are trying to figure out the new certification exams for Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) or Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist (MCTS) for .NET Framework 3.5 / Visual Studio 2008 then you may be interested in a diagram that I put together to helped me to visualize the path through the required certification exams. read more...

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IPhone UI with Silverlight 2 beta 2

dotnetslackers.com — It’s been quite a while since Microsoft has introduced the Beta 2 release of Silverlight. There are plenty of Silverlight enthusiasts who are passionate about this cross-platform browser application programming. They’ve already given us some useful and eye catching applications. Some applications have given us the feel that this is the future of web programming. I’m a great follower of WPF. In fact I’ve always been and will be. Silverlight has many things in common with WPF but also many different things missing, being a subset of WPF. For the last couple of days I was thinking about creating some eye-catching, innovative user interface but something common, something people have already seen. The idea was converting an existing user interface which was written using another platform, and of course using WPF. read more...

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Loading Images Asynchronously Inside an ASP.NET GridView

published 2 months, 22 days ago, submitted by vivekamar 2 months, 23 days ago

dotnetcurry.com — Retrieving and displaying images in a GridView is a time consuming task. If done synchronously, this task can at times test the user’s patience. One way to provide a good user experience is to load the images asynchronously. So when the GridView loads, we initially display a default image for the user to view, while the actual images are being loaded from the database. In this article, we will see how to do so. read more...

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Episode 7: Talking Domain-Driven Design with David Laribee – Part 2

deepfriedbytes.com — Domain-driven design (DDD) is an approach to the design of software, based on two premises. For most software projects, the primary focus should be on the domain and domain logic (as opposed to being the particular technology used to implement the system) and complex domain designs should be based on a model. David Laribee wraps up his discussion with hosts Keith and Woody about the growing design practice and how it can be used with the .NET platform. read more...

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SQL Server Programming Hacks

forum.lessthandot.com — This is a collection of SQL hacks, right now there are 8 sections and between 70 and 80 hacks. read more...

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Silverlight Tips, Tricks, Tutorials and Links Page

iftekharahmedamit.blogspot.com — Silverlight Tips, Tricks, Tutorials and Links Page Hope these Tips, Tricks, Tutorials and Links will help your SILVERLIGHT development. - Iftekhar Ahmed Amit read more...

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The future of .NET, Visual Studio and more

published 5 months, 25 days ago, submitted by Jemm 5 months, 25 days ago

blog.jemm.net — The career pages of Microsoft give hints what the future holds for us developers. This post picks out the interesting little details about future versions of Visual Studio, .NET Framework, SharePoint, SQL Server etc and analyzes a bit what they could mean. read more...

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