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SubSonic Scaling

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:31:11 GMT

Rob runs some tests with millions of records to see how SubSonic holds up with respect to speed and memory use.

Handling "GO" Separators in SQL Scripts - the easy way

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:46:02 GMT

use SMO to run SQL scripts on .NET

Subtext 2.0 "Poseidon" Released!

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:46:02 GMT

Subtext 2.0 is hot off the CI Server and the new bits are packed with a metric crap-load of bug fixes, new features, and patches.

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack Preparation Tool

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:29:31 GMT

If you've installed SP1 Beta, run this tool before installing SP1. The SP1 beta manual uninstall process is tedious and error prone, this does it automatically.

Getting Started with Inno Setup

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:24:29 GMT

Very nice overviewo of Inno Setup

StackOverflow.com - First Impressions

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:24:47 GMT

A good, balanced review of StackOverflow, a new developer community site that Jeff Atwood's been working on.

Why I'm Unimpressed With Rawness Of Skillz

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:46:02 GMT

Since forever, geeks who take themselves seriously have loved to brag such things as, "I use Notepad to edit web pages". Carrying this over to actual programming, "I never click into the designer when editing my ASPX", or "I never design a database using designer tools, I always design it all using raw T-SQL," or "I always update my SVN from the command line". (Someone in a local tech user group bears the post signature, "Real men use Notepad.") Puhleeze. I'm not impressed, and frankly I think anyone who brags like this should get a swift kick in the pants.

Visual Studio Theme Generator

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:16:02 GMT

A fun little ASP.NET MVC Application I wrote to generate Visual Studio themes based off of 3 given colors. I have always felt that selecting every color to make a decent theme is way too repetitive. This web application automatically chooses complements / contrasts based off your initial color selections (and uses jQuery to let you preview your theme before creating). Check it out and let me know what you think.

Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:16:02 GMT

Customers and partners worldwide confirm mission-critical applications, enterprise-class data warehousing support.

ASP.NET Themes Don't Like IE8's X-UA-Compatible header; Neither Do I

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:31:02 GMT

"I ran into an interesting issue a few months ago with IE8 support on sites which use ASP.NET Themes. I'll talk about the issue and how to fix it. More important, though, I'll talk about how this small example fits into the whole IE8 / X-UA-Compatible thing, and why I think the way that turned out was bad for everyone."

MVC Storefront Part 17: Checkout With Jeff Atwood

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:01:04 GMT

Checkout With Jeff Atwood

Introduction to LinqPad - Intermediate Usage

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:01:02 GMT

Short screencasts that reviews LinqPad. This is an introduction to LinqPad (Intermediate Usage). This episode we will look at how to execute native .Net code.

Project anti-pattern: Many projects in a Visual Studio Solution File

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:46:06 GMT

I've been hearing from several colleagues about how their Visual Studio solution files have many (i.e. more than 10, and usually more than 30 -- in one case, more than 100!). So far, none of them have been able to give me any good explanation for why this is and most of them hate it but they can't change it because their architect/lead/whatever won't let them. I'm hoping that by getting the discussion going on this in the greater community, we can try to discourage everyone from having lots of projects in a solution.

Herding Code Podcast: Episode 9 with Rob Conery

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:31:13 GMT

The Herding Code crew (K. Scott Allen, Kevin Dente, Scott "LazyCoder" Koon, and Jon Galloway) catch up with Rob Conery on SubSonic 2.1, Where SubSonic fits in the Microsoft data access tools explosion, Why LINQ to SubSonic is so durn tricky, MVC Storefront - has it made Rob a TDD believer, and What else is Rob up to at Microsoft.

Episode 6: Talking Domain-Driven Design with David Laribee - Part 1

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:31:06 GMT

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 sat down with the hosts Keith and Woody to discuss this growing design practice and also discuss how it could be used with the .NET platform.

Microsoft cracking down on community extensions

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:01:02 GMT

Microsoft released a tool called Microsoft Source Analyzer, or StyleCop. It analyzes source code for standards violations. It's a 1.0 release, so it doesn't do some things ... like have a published API for custom rules or MSBuild integration. So the community dug in and figured out how to do these things and now MS is firing off license-violation emails. Don't they get it? The community wants to use the product, but it's too limited ... these extensions help make it better.

Episode 6: Silverlight - Fad or Fab?

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:11:44 GMT

Our fifth podcast deals with the sustainability of Silverlight. Is it the next ActiveX control, the next big framework, or something in between?

Using Classes To Fight CSS Class Explosion

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:16:04 GMT

You might think that really stylable HTML needs classes all over the place. That's not true, thanks to descendant selectors, which let you target elements inside a parent element.

Custom Templates with SubSonic

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:00:47 GMT

A quick walkthrough on using SubSonic's custom templates for code generation - for instance, a data transfer object.

Silverlight 2 (beta 2) and Firefox 3... so happy together...

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:16:03 GMT

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 now works in Firefox 3. Here's some background on the Bugzilla thread detailing the epic struggle.

Try-catching in a single line of code

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:01:07 GMT

Just another silly extension method hack :)

TechEd 2008 Keynote Summary

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:36:36 GMT

Here's a quick recap of the highlights from Bill Gates' TechEd 2008 Keynote

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 To be released this week!

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:46:10 GMT

Finally!!! This should include a go-live license, increased support for WCF bindings (other than basic), control gallery updates, performance/bug fixes. Beta 2 is probably going to be a "feature complete" or close to the 2.0 release this summer. So, this is an exciting time to be a RIA developer :)

Technology Round Table Podcast - "Hello World" Edition

Thu, 22 May 2008 06:37:57 GMT

Looking for feedback for our new podcast.

Using Vista Previous Versions to Restore Files You Thought You'd Lost

Wed, 21 May 2008 22:55:43 GMT

Vista's Previous Versions feature comes in handy when you've lost or overwritten a file that's not under source control.