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A Small and Fast Domain Modeling Tool

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:46:03 GMT

Mindscape have released a major upgrade to their LightSpeed domain modelling / ORM tool. Version 2.0 includes a visual model designer integrated into Visual Studio, LINQ support, and the ability to access multiple databases concurrently.

HashSet to the Rescue

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:16:03 GMT

If you are using a generic List<T> to store unique object references in there is a better way. It's called the HashSet<T> and it is new in .Net 3.5 It's indexed and it's blazing fast.

Performance: IEnumerable<>.Sum

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:31:02 GMT

A article about the performance hit created by the IEnumerable<>.Sum extension method!!!

Why You SHOULD Have 100% Code Test Coverage

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:46:02 GMT

Shawn talks about why your goal should be 100% unit test coverage, despite what others may say.

Stop Polluting the UI Thread - Use a ThreadBarrier

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:01:10 GMT

A ThreadBarrier is a technique for simplifying the interaction between the UI and a worker thread. No longer do UI Controls need to check InvokeRequired and do the posting of events from a worker thread.

Behind the scenes of the C# yield keyword

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:16:10 GMT

Yield is not a CLR feature, it's just about the C# compiler. This post explains how this works.

Joins, Grouping, Aggregating w/ Linq2Sql

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:46:02 GMT

Short video showing how to use Linq2Sql to perform various tasks such as joins, grouping and aggregating w/ Linq2Sql

Where are the Visual Studio 2008 Keybinding Posters?

Sun, 25 May 2008 16:24:47 GMT

Download the posters in PDF format here: * Visual C# 2008 Keybinding Reference Poster * Visual Basic 2008 Keybinding Reference Poster * Visual C++ 2008 Keybinding Reference Poster * Download the C# Keybindings in a spreadsheet. Note that many of the keybindings stem from Visual Studio classes such Edit, Project, View, Window and Refactor. To see the complete list of methods for these classes, bring up the command window (Ctrl-W, A) and type File followed by a period. IntelliSense on all the methods for the File object will appear in the command window, just as if you were working with a C# class in the editor window. You can also see this classes in the find/command box on the toolbar (Ctrl + /). Inside the find/command box, type the the greater than symbol followed by the word Find and a period: >Find.

Display nicely formatted .NET source code on your blog

Tue, 13 May 2008 21:31:03 GMT

How to quickly display nicely formatted and colored source code on your blog using the CopySourceAsHtml VS plugin.

Slice - Collection Slicing Extension Method

Tue, 13 May 2008 08:46:02 GMT

A recreation of Python collection slicing in .NET using extension methods.

Use ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem With Anonymous Types

Mon, 12 May 2008 08:01:02 GMT

Use the power of anonymous types, anonymous delegates and type inference to make ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem type-safe and easier to read.

best programming jokes

Thu, 08 May 2008 17:46:05 GMT

a very big good collection of programming jokes, WOWwwwwwww

11 More Visual Studio Shortcuts You Should Know

Tue, 06 May 2008 13:16:02 GMT

Following our First Visual Studio Shortcuts post here is another batch of shortcuts.

Dependency Injection, Duck Typing, & More Coming to .Net (Natively)

Sun, 04 May 2008 11:46:02 GMT

Krzysztof Cwalina reveals details on .Net's upcoming Managed Extensibility Framework. "MEF is a set of features referred in the academic community and in the industry as a Naming and Activation Service (returns an object given a "name"), Dependency Injection (DI) framework, and a Structural Type System (duck typing)."

Microformat .NET

Fri, 02 May 2008 19:16:02 GMT

A generic microformat parser. I thought this could use some attention from the .NET community!

Implementing Generic Caching

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:46:02 GMT

I develop for a large, high-availability website, with hundreds of thousands of daily users. As such, we need to cache a lot of data in our web-server memory (which is cheap) to save numerous hits to our main database cluster (which is very expensive). I would imagine the desire to improve performance by saving on database hits is common across many web applications - and caching frequently used data is often seen as one of the best ways to solve this problem.

My "Better Know a Framework" Talk at IndyCodeCamp

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:16:02 GMT

Today at the IndyCodeCamp I gave a talk in much of the same spirit as the "Better Know a Framework" series on ".NET Rocks!" The talk had no slides, but featured me in the debugger highlighting a few of my favorite (but lesser known classes). This code is included. As part of my preparation, I researched every topic covered on each show and included a brief summary as part.

51+ Best of jQuery Tutorials and Examples

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:46:02 GMT

A good summary of jQuery resources

47 ASP.NET MVC Resources

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:01:02 GMT

Craig Shoemaker highlights some of the best ASP.NET MVC resources available.

How to Evangelize Unit Testing

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:46:02 GMT

My experience on how to get people to kick start on unit testing

A C# fluent repeater

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:01:03 GMT

A fully-featured fluent class used for repeating method calls, handle exceptions, callbacks and more... Just plug-and-play and start repeating stuff!

10 Visual Studio Shortcuts You Must Know

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:31:02 GMT

A great list of 10 Visual Studio Shortcuts any software developer must know and use.

.NET Obfuscators

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:46:13 GMT

Comprehensive list of all .NET obfuscators available today and online reviews.

How to use Aggregate functions with LINQ to SQL

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:01:02 GMT

LINQ to SQL maps the relational database into an object model, and when the program runs the queries in the object model are translated into SQL. SQL contains Aggregate functions like SUM, AVG, MIN, MAX and more. Lets see how this functionality can be implemented using LINQ

The insanely scalable ReaderWriterGate lock

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:46:02 GMT

Wintellect's Jeffrey Richter, the Win32 threading guru, has written a library containing a new kind of lock: the ReaderWriterGate. Unlike other locks, this lock is highly scalable and fast with very few thread context switches. Works well with ASP.NET web apps as well.