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Update on Silverlight 2 - and a glimpse of Silverlight 3

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:16:21 GMT

ScottGu unveils the plans for Silverlight 3, shipping next year

Different Types of Automated Tests

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:44:12 GMT

When I first learnt about NUnit , I thought that all the tests that are written in NUnit are unit tests. And all the tests that are written using other tools and languages-- including scripting tools are integration tests. Now I know how wrong I was.

Testing is hard but debugging just sucks A$$

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:31:02 GMT

"At the users group I asked the question to the group 'who creates automated tests as part of their daily development cycle?'. After I asked this question I followed it up with, and if you don't WHY, WHY, WHY, WHY...... Below are some of the answers I received (btw, not the first time I have heard these reasons)."

Breaking changes to the String class in .NET 4.0

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:31:13 GMT

This change will affect the behavior of the String.StartsWith, String.EndsWith, String.IndexOf and String.LastIndexOf methods by changing them to perform an ordinal (byte-for-byte) comparison by default instead of a culture-sensitive comparison using CultureInfo.CurrentCulture. In addition, the default overloads of String.ToUpper, String.ToLower, Char.ToUpper and Char.ToLower will be changed to use CultureInfo.InvariantCulture instead of CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.

Working With ASP.Net MVC Part 1

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:16:04 GMT

a quick look at building an application using the new ASP.Net MVC Beta, part one will handle the database

Use jQuery and quickSearch to interactively search any data

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:31:04 GMT

A complete example of how to implement progressive search in ASP.NET, using the jQuery plugin quickSearch. The source download includes a customized version of quickSearch for use with ASP.NET.

Gravatar with ASP.NET MVC

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:46:11 GMT

Ryan Lanciaux discusses a class for retrieving Gravatar images -- this class was mainly written to facilitate using Gravatar with ASP.NET MVC.

jQuery Intellisense Updates from Microsoft

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:46:21 GMT

With Microsoft's recent releases of the jQuery Intellisense file plus the hotfix released this week using jQuery in Visual Studio has become a lot easier and more convenient. Here is a little more detail on what you need and how it works.

Debate: Do We Really Need Three Layer Architecture?

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:46:09 GMT

How many of you changed your database vendor (i.e. Sql Server, Access) after developing an application? How many of your data entities include business logic? I could say, less than 10% in both cases for my case. I found the similar statistics for my other known developers. I guess this is true for less that 10% of the developers around the world.

A first look at Duck Typing in C# 4.0

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:31:03 GMT

A complete end-to-end C# 4.0 example with source code using IDynamicObject and MetaObject in order to generate a fully dynamic type using a Dictionary as storage. It also shows how a dynamic type can enter the static typed world and act just like a typed class - dynamically. :)

How to run ASP.NET MVC on Windows Azure

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:31:02 GMT

A quick how-to on getting ASP.NET MVC up and running on Windows Azure.

Gotcha: ASP.NET and exceptions in asynchronous threads

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:50:32 GMT

If an unhandled exception occurs in a secondary thread which has been launched by your ASP.NET application, IIS will force your application to restart.

7 Steps To Shameless (Successful) Self Promotion

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:46:13 GMT

How do you get yourself known in the community and in the industry? Jeff offers 7 steps on how to get yourself out there.

How to Use == Operator Correctly

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:39:34 GMT

Overriding == Operator is easy? Think again, it's not. Here's why.

Looking for a Lot of .NET Code Samples - They Are Right Under Your Nos

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:16:11 GMT

You have a wealth of code samples on your computer, here is how to find them!!!! An Easter Egg from Microsoft.

The Software Developer's Dream

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:09:54 GMT

Tom Preston-Werner, one of the founders of GitHub , wrote an enlightening article about his decision to turn down 300K bonus from Microsoft in order to work on the GitHub project one year ago . A beautifully written article. I love it absolutely.

Blisteringly fast Integration Tests with NHibernate and SQLite

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:46:02 GMT

Intergration tests can be slow and can be painful to run often. In this post I cover using SQLite with NHibernate, and automatically switching between SQLite and SQL Server

The Cloud OS

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:38:02 GMT

Surely, Microsoft doesn't expect developers to write a web app\service and connect to SSDS over the tubes even with SSL. The missing link is a cloud based application development platform. This has to be coming and I predict it to be announced at PDC.

Why Every Good Developer needs to Know how to Mock

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:31:02 GMT

While unit testing is generally considered a good practice ( even among those who don't do unit tests), mocking doesn't seem to carry the same aura. There are a lot of arguments saying why mocking is bad , how it kills testability etc. But in my day-to-day job, as well as in my personal projects, I found mocking is definitely indispensable.

Guidelines to Create an Installer for Windows Apps

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:39:01 GMT

After finish writing your software, it's time to distribute your applications to your customer. You think that software deployment should be easy, right? After all, all you have to do is to just fire up a Microsoft Setup and Deployment project and put in all the dlls in the application directory and you are done, easy? Well... not so!

The Downside of Permanent Employment

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:21:38 GMT

Permanent employment is great, you are secured, you have stable incomes, you have....wait, what about the downsides?

Why IT Managers are Hiring Based on Experience

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:19:27 GMT

Why the hiring managers are not seeing your brilliance and are not hiring you.

An Open Letter to Scott Guthrie

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:32:01 GMT

Thank you for your team's contributions to the software development industry. ASP.Net, the CLR, and your other significant additions to the .Net platform have genuinely advanced the state of software development. Although it may seem that you are damned if you do and damned if you don't, most of us developers out here do appreciate your work.

Testable Code? Who Cares?

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:33:44 GMT

Testable Code is good, all good. It makes maintenance easier, it is easier to change...but wait, if it's so good, why we are still talking about it instead of getting every developer to do it?

Behind the Scenes at Microsoft.com

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:01:02 GMT

Learn how the Microsoft.com operations team meets the demands for one of the top 5 websites on the Internet today. The team supports the server product teams at Microsoft by "dogfooding" products such as Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and IIS7 years before being released to customers. Keith and Woody sit down with Brad LeRoss and Jim Dobbin of the MSCOM team discuss the Microsoft.com architecture and infrastructure, history of the team, the process of content delivery and a few funny stories.