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Using Visual Studio Macros to Increase Productivity

Mon, 21 May 2007 09:31:01 GMT

If you've ever tried to find a particular file or project in a 36 project solution when many projects and folders are expanded, then you know how fustrating it can be. After putting up with it for over a year, I finally asked a co-worker of mine if he knew of a way to quickly jump to a particular project in Visual Studio. He reminded me that Visual Studio has excellent macro support.

Silverlight Programming and Managed JavaScript - video

Mon, 21 May 2007 10:16:01 GMT

This podcast video shows the basics of programming with Silverlight and an Intro to Managed JScript.

Recursive Queries in SQL Server 2005

Mon, 21 May 2007 08:46:02 GMT

Often times, during my career, I faced a situation where I had to recursively get data out of a table starting from a root. The classic example of such a situation is Employee-Manager relationship table...

SubSonic a day in the life of. (part 1)

Sun, 20 May 2007 00:31:01 GMT

Shows the SubSonic project in action. Solid stuff.

New "Orcas" Language Feature: Anonymous Types - ScottGu's Blog

Sun, 20 May 2007 23:46:01 GMT

Anonymous types are a convenient language feature of C# and VB that enable developers to concisely define inline CLR types within code, without having to explicitly define a formal class declaration of the type. Anonymous types are particularly useful when querying and transforming/projecting/shaping data with LINQ.

Creating Composite View Components In MonoRail / Refactoring Exercise

Thu, 17 May 2007 05:46:01 GMT

In a previous post, I showed some examples of how to create custom view components in MonoRail and touched on the ability to create composite view components. Since then I've refactored towards the use of interfaces which I think is a cleaner approach, so I thought I'd share.

Agile Leadership and Coaching (Development Manager's Need to grow up!)

Thu, 17 May 2007 03:31:01 GMT

With modern business needs changing at a rapid pace, software development must respond in tandem. Agile Development Methodologies promote responding to change, by balancing order and chaos. This is an art form more than it is a practice. All too often have I chatted with development managers who have attempted to enact agile, only to fail. Is it the methodologies fault or a fault in leadership and understanding?

Make Your Case Sensitive Searches 1000 Times Faster

Tue, 15 May 2007 23:46:01 GMT

Do you find that your case sensitive queries take forever? This little trick will speed up your query a thousand times

Tips for a successful team lead

Thu, 17 May 2007 04:16:01 GMT

partial list of those tips. Some of them can be seen in various "Agile" methodologies, but taken as simply tips, they can improve the quality of your project-life without needing to work with any specific methodology. Heck, just call it "Osherothology"

The right way to think about source control

Thu, 17 May 2007 02:01:01 GMT

Source code control is not just a fancy version of File -> Save...

Biggest difference between Temp tables and Table variables in Sql Serv

Wed, 16 May 2007 09:31:01 GMT

One of the most important differences between Temp tables and Table variables is how they behave in transactions. See how.

Part 1 - Leveraging Workflow Foundation - It is just an API

Mon, 14 May 2007 01:16:01 GMT

To help you limit the amount of rusty washers you will run into with Workflow Foundation, I wanted to share our team's experience in working through Workflow. In this multiple part series we'll look at some of the challenges the team faced and how we solved some of these. I say "some" of these because we took side steps around the rusty washers we found due to our short time frame. Hopefully this brain dump of information will save others time who are about to start using Workflow Foundation. I'll cover some of the in and outs where you will want to look into workflow and some of the pitfalls we had to work around (the rusty washers).

Javascript and ASP.NET

Mon, 14 May 2007 18:31:01 GMT

Some thoughts on script support in ASP.NET how it evolved.

SubSonic: Move to Subversion is now complete

Mon, 14 May 2007 02:46:01 GMT

SubSonic has now been successfully moved to Google Code, and thus Subversion source control.

NStub Beta Released

Thu, 17 May 2007 05:01:01 GMT

NStub is a test stub generator for unit tests. Just point it at any .NET assembly and it'll automatically generate a full project containing a one to one mapping of test methods for every method in the target assembly. This is great for fine grained unit testing where you're trying to test every method individually.

SubSonic Starter Site is Out!

Fri, 11 May 2007 05:01:01 GMT

Check out the new SubSonic starter site, complete with CMS, membership, and more.

SharpForge has flown the coup

Mon, 14 May 2007 02:01:01 GMT

The open source project SharpForge is now "self hosting".

How to Use the Singleton Pattern and the Garbage Collector to Manage a

Mon, 14 May 2007 03:31:01 GMT

Here's an easy to minimize the overhead of an expensive resource, such as an image or a network connection, using the singleton pattern and some simple hints to the garbage collector.

Leveraging 3rd party/OSS tools in a VSTS/TFS environment

Thu, 17 May 2007 07:16:01 GMT

In light of the recent TFS vs. OSS debates, I wanted to share how we are using both TFS and OSS tools to work with each other. Speaking as someone who has implemented (and extended!) TFS in a production environment since the early Beta 2 days and am currently using the VSTS/TFS stack, I can say that there is quite a bit of pain involved. But some of that can be alleviated by utilizing both commercial and OSS tools *with* TFS. Here are a few examples of how I (and some of our team) are "filling in the gaps" to make TFS and VSTS a little easier to work with.

FoldingCube3D modeled in WPF

Thu, 10 May 2007 13:16:01 GMT

Nice demo for animated cubes in WPF.

Some Katmai (SQL Server 2008?) News

Thu, 10 May 2007 07:16:02 GMT

Katmai (SQL Server 2008) News has been announced today

Learn C# 4.0

Mon, 14 May 2007 04:16:01 GMT

Want to get a head start on the rest of the .NET developers out there? Start learning how to use C# 4.0 today. How, you ask, can I learn to use C# 4.0 when 3.0 isn't even out yet?

Extension methods and Curried Delegates

Thu, 10 May 2007 08:01:01 GMT

Since Extension methods behave like instance method it makes sense that we should be able to create delegates that would accept the instance method signature, to this end we have included Adding an Extension Methods to delegate invocation List

Extension Methods in C#

Mon, 14 May 2007 05:01:02 GMT

Extension methods are a new feature for C# 3.0 and I had the opportunity to implement them in the Compiler. These methods can then be called with instance syntax on any object that is convertible(see convertability section for details) to the first param of the method.

Rasing events (from a mock) using Rhino Mocks

Mon, 14 May 2007 06:31:01 GMT

How to raise an event within a unit test using good old Rhino Mocks.