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Beginning Mocking With Moq 3 - Part 1

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:31:07 GMT

A intro to mocking using the newly release Moq 3 framework.

Who Knew Domain Validation Was So Hard?

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:01:05 GMT

Justin continues searching for the best place to put domain validation logic.

Add Twitter to your blog the right way with caching

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:16:03 GMT

Twitter offers a JavaScript API to add Twitter to your blog or other website. This post looks at the various approaches to using Twitter's JavaScript API and how to improve user experience by caching Twitter content client side.

Using Enums in List Controls

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:01:02 GMT

Convert data to and from enums.

jQuery Playground from Google

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:46:02 GMT

Awsome tool to test jquery online

What Part Of The Process Are Your Tools Optimized For?

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:16:02 GMT

I'm writing this post because I am getting tired and weary of people pointing to "drag and drop tools", "visual designers", and "wizards" as reasons to use a particular tool. Only in Microsoft-land are developers so enamored with "wizards" and "drag and drop" and I think this is because Microsoft is the proverbial "crack dealer" when it comes to providing these tools.

jQuery 1.3.1 Released

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:31:02 GMT

This is a fix to recently released jQuery 1.3

SQL SERVER - Rules for Optimizining Any Query - Best Practices

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:16:15 GMT

This subject is very deep subject but today we will see it very quickly and most important points. May be following up on few of the points of this point will help users to right away improve the performance of query. In this article I am not focusing on in depth analysis of database but simple tricks which DBA can apply to gain immediate performance gain.

Building a Nant Script -- Part 1: Setting up the script

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:01:03 GMT

Learn how to setup your build script with Nant. You will learn the basics of using Nant to compile your application in this episode, which will be built upon in future episodes to build a more complex script.

Visual Studio 2010 == Visual Studio 2008 + ReSharper

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:31:04 GMT

o you want the next gen of next-gen applications? Get the Visual Studio 2010 CTP! Which is - according to Microsoft itself - really just Visual Studio 2008 with ReSharper installed.

Object Oriented Design Principles

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:01:02 GMT

Quick summary of SOLID, DRY, YAGNI and other useful OO principles.

Making the Entity Framework Fit Your Domain - Part 2

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:46:03 GMT

In the first part I talked about getting up to the point where I realized that without going IPOCO I would not be able to use the Entity Framework with any sort of approximation of a real application domain. In this post we are going to go over the entity that I have created and talk about the issues that I had along the way.

Repository<T> good or bad?

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:01:06 GMT

Greg took a bite on current ALT .Net hot topic: Generic repositories

An Illustrated Guide to Git on Windows

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:16:03 GMT

"This document is designed to show that using git on Windows is not a difficult process. In this guide, I will create a repository, make several commits, create a branch, merge a branch, search the commit history, push to a remote server, and pull from a remote server. The majority of this will be done using GUI tools."

Windows Azure - Breaking It Down

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:46:22 GMT

Despite the title of this post, there will be no rapping or dancing of any sort going on here. Only talk of Windows Azure, which is quite possibly the most confusing product rollout that Microsoft has attempted since Vista...

How to Calculate Network Utilization in .NET

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:16:24 GMT

How to calculate utilization of a particular network interface in .NET using performance counters and a bit of math.

jQuery 1.3 Released

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:31:02 GMT

"The jQuery team is pleased to release the latest major release of the jQuery JavaScript library! A lot of coding, testing, and documenting has gone in to this release and we're really quite proud of it. "

Ora - Alternative to #region

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:31:11 GMT

An interesting Visual Studio add-in for those who looking beyond regions for access/grouping. It's kind of like the Class Diagram but on steroids * 10. And one of cooler things is that sample code is provided so you can add your own grouping. So you're not tied to how the author decided to group the methods. Oh yeah, it works for VB projects too.

Why ASP.NET Developers Should Care about Windows Azure

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:46:04 GMT

"Even though I sat in the audience at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference during the November keynote session when Azure was announced with great fanfare, I did not fully comprehend why Windows Azure should matter to me. Why, as an ASP.NET developer, should I care about Windows Azure?"

C# Trivia - What? No Overflow?

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:46:14 GMT

You may be thinking to yourself, "C# doesn't do overflow checking?" And the answer to your question is "not by default" when you are using non-constant expressions. Here's how to turn integer overflow checking on in C#.

Why you should not use the ADO.NET Entity Framework

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:01:12 GMT

Reasons to why the ADO.NET Entity Framework is not mature enough for real business application.

The Future of .NET Languages

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:01:02 GMT

Wondered why Microsoft always seems to release different language features for each language? Discover how .NET 4.0 will reduce the disparity between C# and VB.NET with some great new features for both languages, plus a new dynamic language runtime and new functional and parallel programming languages.

How-To Get Human Friendly File Size With C#

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:04:09 GMT

In this article I'll provide a simple way to Display Human Friendly File Size with C#.

Making the Entity Framework Fit Your Domain - Part 1

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:16:04 GMT

Need to use the Entity Framework but don't know how to fit it into your domain? Come check out this series on CodeThinked.com where you will learn how to keep your domain entities fairly clean while using the Entity Framework.

The Fat Controller

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:18:19 GMT

Avoiding MVC anti-patterns.