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Fluent NHibernate and those sweet LINQ repositories

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:16:02 GMT

Hidden gems in this cool open source library.

Hammett is joining the MEF team at Microsoft

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:01:03 GMT

Hamilton Verissimo, aka Hammett is joining MS as PM inside the MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) team, but will keep on working on Castle.

Why Agile Doesn't Really Work

Wed, 28 May 2008 04:29:51 GMT

This is a very interesting perspective on Agile that many of us have to deal with every day. I think this is very close to many people's reality.

S#arp Architecture: ASP.NET MVC with NHibernate and Spring

Tue, 27 May 2008 07:16:04 GMT

Architectural foundation for rapidly building maintainable web applications leveraging the ASP.NET MVC framework with NHibernate 1.2 and Spring.NET 1.1.1.

The Easy Way to TDD

Thu, 15 May 2008 17:46:03 GMT

Learn how easy TDD can be...

How to create a virtual machine from a physical one

Mon, 12 May 2008 21:31:02 GMT

P2V options - converting a physical machine to a virtual machine

The Linq SelectMany Operator

Mon, 12 May 2008 16:16:02 GMT

A quick look at the SelectMany operator, what it does, and how you use it.

Side Effecting Functions are Code Smells

Thu, 01 May 2008 13:26:39 GMT

When you think of the word side effect in most languages, you tend to think of any unintended consequence. Instead, what we mean by it is having any effect on the system from an outside force.

Using NAnt with Visual Studio

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:31:03 GMT

Get your NAnt build running from VS.Net with full intelli-sense, and build errors reported to the error list window.

Config File Options for Multiple Devs

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:47:16 GMT

A post covering several options to deal with application config files when multiple developers are working on same project.

Using Spring.NET and NHibernate with ASP.NET MVC

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:31:02 GMT

getting NHibernate lazy loading to work in symbiosis with Spring.NET dependency injection for controllers

4 Key Differences Between Implicit and Explicit Interface Implementation

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:16:02 GMT

Whenever we need to implement an interface in C#, two options pops up (click Ctrl+'.'). Implicit vs explicit interface implementation, what shall be selected? before making a decision, lets understand what is the difference between those two.

NHibernate FAQ Blog

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:46:02 GMT

NHibernate FAQ in form of blog, just launched.

So, how expensive is it to let Castle Windsor / Spring.NET make my obj

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:46:07 GMT

I was getting increasingly curious about the overhead of using a Dependency Injection-container to provide me with instances of my objects. With overhead I mean if and how much longer it takes for the DI container to provide me with the desired instance.

Handy list of all JavaScript KeyCodes

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:46:05 GMT

Very often when programming in ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX we have to write JavaScript code. When writing JavaScript that interacts with user we have to deal with keyboard events. Here is the list of (almost) all JavaScript KeyCodes we could find:

The static Keyword

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:31:05 GMT

We all use the static keyword, but do we really know what the possibilities are?

Client Side Templating with jQuery

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:16:03 GMT

When building AJAX applications there's often the requirement to choose between client and server side rendering. Server side ASP.NET controls provide rich templating, but updating those controls on the client can be difficult. Or is it? Here's one approach using jQuery and HTML templates in markup script to dynamically create complex layout on the client without writing reams of script code.

Webforms is dead. Long live MVC!

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:46:02 GMT

WebForms are now legacy. Enjoy your MVC koolaid!

jQuery for ASP.NET MVC preview 2

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:46:04 GMT

Updated jQueryMvc project so that it works with ASP.NET MVC preview 2.

LINQifying - getting rid of CollectionBase?

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:58:42 GMT

If you're sitting on some old types that implement CollectionBase you might find that they don't directly work with LINQ. Here's how you can make these types work with LINQ.

if ... else if ... else if ... else ... : an alternative

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:16:02 GMT

Did you know there's an alternative way of writing "if .. else if .. else if .. etc.." in C#? You probably do, but if you don't, read on...

Advanced mocking: auto-interaction testing

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:31:03 GMT

Great article on using mocks with legacy code. Use custom inherited mocks with flags, or use a framework like Rhino Mocks.

ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 is out

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:31:04 GMT

Title says it all ;)

Does order matter in a JOIN clause?

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:31:02 GMT

Does the order of tables referenced in a JOIN clause affect query performance. In this post, Joe addresses this question by examining the query execution plans created for sample queries.

CSS and JS compression through ASP.NET handlers

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:20:42 GMT

In this article, I will discuss a technique for distributing compressed website assets (CSS and javascript files) using ASP.NET. Compressing these files reduces bandwidth usage, which means decreased costs on server traffic. (Take 10,000 viewers/users and up, and the savings become significant.)