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Something you probably don't know about enums in C#

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:31:02 GMT

Do you think the use of an enum in your code is limiting the possible values that can be used? Think again. Maybe we need to learn to be more careful about checking our enums for valid values.

C#.Next, What do you expect?

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:04:50 GMT

I have been searching for any clue about the next version of C# and what the features to be included, and I finally found something on Charlie Calvert's blog.

Using WebHttpBinding & JSON Support in WCF

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 07:11:09 GMT

Create a simple chat application From the page: "One of the most ineteresting and useful features is the JSON support and how easy you can enable the JSON support for your current WCF services by changing the configurations"

LINQ let Keyword (How did I miss that)

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:01:04 GMT

This is strange, because I've been working with LINQ for almost 2 years since (March 2006 CTP), and I've never noticed the new keyword "let" which is used inside LINQ queries to create temporarily variables.

Microsoft Parallel Extensions (PFX) or PLINQ is now a CTP

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:54:01 GMT

At last now we can play around with PLINQ :)

PLINQ = Parallel FX = PFX = The new Concurrent World

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 20:01:02 GMT

?Microsoft is developing a number of technologies to simplify the expression of parallelism in code. An example of this work is Parallel Extensions for the .NET Framework (PFX), a managed programming model for data parallelism, task parallelism, scheduling, and coordination on parallel hardware.

BlogEngine.NET needs translators

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:31:03 GMT

We are just about to ship the next release, but we need help translating a resource file (.resx). If you can, please help out. You will be credited with name and URL on the official BlogEngine.NET website.

SOA via WCF - Part 2-

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:11:46 GMT

This is the second part of my presentation in SilverKey Demo Day 2 (SKDD 2) last July, for the first part, Check Here, you will also find the presentation slides & samples

One Shell Command to delete all svn hidden folders

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 03:31:02 GMT

If you are using Subversion source control, you will be familiar with the .svn folders that SVN adds to any folder under the source control, these folders are used to keep track of the current state of the folder, but sometimes, I want to copy my code and get rid of these folders, and instead of doing this manually which becomes a headache if you have a very deep hierarchy of folders, this is a Shell Script comes to the rescue

Don't rely on obfuscation

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:31:02 GMT

A white paper demonstrating the weaknesses of managed code obfuscation known protection techniques

SOA via WCF - Part 1

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:01:43 GMT

# Part 1- Service Oriented Architecture * Background * Motivations * What is a service ? * Message Exchange Patterns (MEP's) * Industry Standards * Web Standards

C# 3.0 Sets support, a first look

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 02:01:01 GMT

I heard that .net 3.5 will have support for Set operations on lists like Union, Intersect so I gave it a try and it turned out to be cool check this out

Javascript tricks for ASP.net developers

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 06:31:02 GMT

This is a post I wanted to write really long time ago, but I never had enough time to sit and write. The following listing will be my agenda for this post 1. Why Javascript for ASP.net developers is different ? 2. Javascript tricks for ASP.net developers * Reading ASP.net controls values from Javascript * Passing values calculated by Javascript to the server side. * Passoing values from ASP.net to Javascript 3. Javascript development tools

SQL Server code name "Katami"

Sun, 27 May 2007 14:36:22 GMT

SQL Server code name "Katmai" is a complete enterprise-class offering that builds upon the success of SQL Server 2005 and delivers increased functionality to a comprehensive range of applications from the desktop to the data center. SQL Server code name "Katmai," the next release of Microsoft SQL Server, provides a comprehensive data platform that is secure, reliable, manageable and scalable for your mission critical applications, while enabling developers to create new applications that can store and consume any type of data on any device, and enabling all your users to make informed decisions with relevant insights.

Microsoft and Facebook Launch a Partnership

Sun, 27 May 2007 14:18:07 GMT

Microsoft and Facebook partner to provide a great development experience for the Facebook Platform using Microsoft Popfly and Visual Studio Express. "Facebook Platform empowers developers to utilize the social graph -- the network of connections through which people communicate and share information -- like never before. And, by building tools that ordinary people can use to develop experiences on top of the social graph, Microsoft helps people define their experience on Facebook."

Astoria Data Services, Pure Data Service for the Web

Fri, 25 May 2007 11:46:01 GMT

?Meet Pablo Castro one of the folks behind Astoria. Astoria exposes "data services" that enable applications to access and manipulate data over regular HTTP connections, using URIs to identify pieces of information within the data service, and simple payload formats such as XML and JSON to represent the data exchanged between the client and the server. Click here for the Video on Channel9 You can also see Pablo's presentation about Astoria in MIX-07

.net Framework 3.5 is not just about LINQ

Wed, 09 May 2007 15:41:22 GMT

.net framework 3.5 is the next version of .net framework which is going to be shipped with Microsoft Visual Studio codename "ORCAS", which you can find a Beta 1 of it on msdn, and also a beta 1 of .net framework 3.5 Most people thinks that this version is all about LINQ integration, which is not the complete story, may be LINQ is the one of the important new API's that ships with 3.5, but not the only thing.

One year of technical blogging

Mon, 07 May 2007 07:16:01 GMT

Yeah, it had been one year since I've started this blog, It was a great chance to publish some of my daily work challenges and also personal code challenges. after 1 year I had 56,000 unique visitors from all over the world, and 141 blog entries,I hope most of are useful and easy to understand. These are list of the most visited articles I wrote in the last year

LINQ To Flickr

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 04:16:02 GMT

I had some free time at last, so I implemented a LINQ extension to Flickr, so you can query for photos by tags, creation date, user id or title, the implementation was really easy because I didn't have to use the Flickr API's directly as I found a good open source library for this called FlickrNet which I used as my infrastructure. So this is a sample of a query

Just Released! Enterprise Library 3.0 - April 2007

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 06:31:01 GMT

If you've been keeping up with the Community Technology Preview releases, there shouldn't be anything too surprising in the final release, although the overall quality should be much higher. All of the major new features have already been described on this blog or in other places, but here is a quick summary of the most significant changes:

Command Pattern in C# 2.0 = Generics + delegates

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 04:16:02 GMT

How to implement Command Design pattern in C# 2.0 in a way that is more suitable with C# 2.0

Observer Pattern in C# = Events & delegates

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 06:01:02 GMT

One of the most interesting patterns in Design Patterns is the Observer pattern which is listed under Behavioral Patterns, it is really important how to make other classes which are interested in the state of another object get notified when the state changed.

ORCAS March CTP Db Providers Problem

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:47:36 GMT

I had a weird problem today in my working machine, I have .net 3.0, VS 2005, Sql Server 2005 Client tools, and I decided to give VS Orcas a try, so Meligy downloaded the bits from microsoft (VS Orcas March CTP), and I install it, and two days later I found out that Sql Server gives me this exception when I try to access database object (table, view, diagram ... etc)

VS Orcas March CTP on Vista - Don't even think about it :(

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:46:02 GMT

If you tried to install Visual Studio Codename Orcas on Windows Vista, you must have had an error during this. The error might not be clear at all, or in some times indicate that it's because it cannot find an error log file (which is should be creating itself). The last word on Vista support and VS Orcas March CTP.

Generating Dynamic OpenXML (docx) files

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:01:02 GMT

Recently, I needed to integrate one of my applications to MS Office Word 2007 by generating dynamic *.docx reports. Actually, I didn't wanted to just find the steps to do it. I wanted to make a reusable library so that, I can use it independently in any project in the future.