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A New Look for Visual Studio 2010!

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:46:02 GMT

At the PDC and TechEd EMEA last year we described our new editor support built on the WPF technology in .NET Framework 4.0. Today I'm happy to reveal the new UI for Visual Studio, also built on WPF:

Interest in ASP.NET MVC is Rising

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:46:09 GMT

Simone Chiaretta extracts some Google Trends stats to show the rising interest in ASP.NET MVC in the past few months.

How I'm learning F# - Writing the First Program

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:46:16 GMT

The second post of a series on how I'm learning the F# language. In this post, I write the proverbial Hello, World! application and discuss a few core F# features.

8 ways to be a better programmer in 6 minutes.

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:31:06 GMT

It's always nice to read a post where you already follow some of the suggestions but find the odd useful nugget, I dislike seeing literals in my source code and the hint about making them stand out with nasty color coding is something I'll be giving a go!

9 Examples of creating a fast and responsive UI with multi-threading

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:46:04 GMT

9 C# examples of creating a fast and responsive UI with multi-threading, very clear and streamlined examples to get up and running quickly.

Don't wait for C# 5, use Nemerle Now !!!

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:01:02 GMT

Nemerle is a fantastic .net language with meta programming capabilities!

Install SQL Server (Express) with your Application

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:31:03 GMT

A bootstrap to allow the deployment of SQL Server Express along with your Application

C# 4.0 Development Enhancements I Like To See!

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:09:47 GMT

Thoughts around having some features in C# 4.0

WPF Themes Released

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:16:05 GMT

A collection of 8 free themes to be used in WPF!

A case study of bad API design: ASP.Net MVC Routing

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:10:14 GMT

I am doing a spike in ASP.Net MVC now (and I'll talk about this at length at another time). I hit the wall when I wanted to do something that is trivially simple in MonoRail, limit a routing parameter to be a valid integer.

C# Tip: Use StringBuilder

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:38:13 GMT

It's easy to overlook some of the built in functionality in the .Net framework. In this entry I cover the use of StringBuilder instead of appending to existing string variables.

The Dummy Provider: Testing membership and roles

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:19:19 GMT

Asp.net has a wonderful system built in for handling user accounts and roles. The administration interface is encapsulated in a separate web site that can be accessed from within Visual Studio but it is difficult to integrate into the site. This often leads to building a new user administration area in each site. The problem I have with this is going into the data store and deleting the incomplete test data and not having "known good" data for testing.

Custom Error Handling in ASP.Net

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:55:20 GMT

Custom Error Handling in ASP.Net, User friendly Error Handling in ASP.net

Using Active Directory to authenticate users to your ASP.NET Web Site

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:16:02 GMT

ASP.NET membership provides the ability to authenticate users to your web application using forms based authentication against a database of users or directory services. This article explains the steps required to provide authentication against Active Directory, either for new sites with no authentication, or for existing sites using database authentication.

C# Tip: Don't Concatenate, Use String.Format

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:51:37 GMT

Using String.Format is much better for code readability over using concatenation.

Where is the magic point of a Monad?

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:49:24 GMT

A Monad Pattern is easy to understand but how this little tool can be so flexible and useful? Where is the magic point of a Monad?

Zip Compressing ASP.NET Session and Cache State

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:31:15 GMT

Scott Hanselman discusses a recent podcast with the team from StackOverflow where it was mentioned that they compress the Cache or Session data in ASP.NET, enabling them to store about 5-10x more data.

Insidious Dependencies

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:46:02 GMT

Many dependencies in code are obvious, such as relying on a particular framework or database implementation. Others can easily be overlooked. This article exposes some of the more insidious dependencies that commonly exist within applications which may be overlooked as such.

Essential Visual Studio Tips & Tricks that Every Developer Should Know

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:01:02 GMT

In this blog entry, Stephen Walther lists the essential tips and tricks that every developer who uses Visual Studio 2008 should know. The list is kept brief. The list focuses on only those tips and tricks that can be used on a daily basis. Almost all of these tips and tricks are just as useful regardless of whether you are building an ASP.NET Web Forms or ASP.NET MVC application.

Fast and Clean ToString()

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:31:57 GMT

For sure you have overridden ToString for your classes and the null values and other unexpected things broke your code in ToString which you have implemented just for testing or tracing and nothing more...

Neptune (personal SMTP testing server)

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:46:13 GMT

Neptune is a SMTP Development Server targeted for use in automated testing. It's a SMTP server that does not relay the message and allows you to query for messages and their content.

ASP.NET MVC Pro's and Con's

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:16:06 GMT

Some of the main pro's and con's of the new style for building web applications (ASP.NET MVC).

The Future of Programming Languages

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:31:16 GMT

In this article I'm going to focus on Dynamic Typing and Metaprogramming in particular. It's interesting to consider what the impact on the maintainability of our code from their increased prominence might be.

Form Validation Simplified w/ Asp.Net MVC

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:16:11 GMT

A short screencast on how to simplify form validation w/ Asp.Net MVC

Partial Output Caching in ASP.NET MVC

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:16:06 GMT

Unfortunately, the [OutputCache] filter that ships with ASP.NET MVC is merely a thin wrapper around ASP.NET output caching. The MVC team have explained that they're aware of the issues, but it's very difficult to make ASP.NET output caching fit into MVC's design, and they are focusing on other things first. We can quite easily create a new caching filter that captures actions' output and uses ASP.NET's data caching facility to store it for next time. This filter will fit properly into the MVC pipeline, not strangely bypassing authorization or other earlier filters (it will run at the right time in whatever ordered set of filters you've using).