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What's Wrong with Strongly Typed Dataset Designer

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:36:28 GMT

I might be beating a dead horse here.But strongly typed dataset was giving me so much hard time that I have to rant about it. Actually strongly typed dataset is quite handy if all you have to do is just need to query or update a single table. The problem is that the real world is far less ideal than that. When you apply a suboptimal tool on a complicated, messy real world situation you are going to face a lot of problems. And this was exactly what happened when I was using strongly typed dataset designer in my work.

Is LINQ Becoming a Monster?

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:10:16 GMT

I love LINQ . It gives the developers the power to query databases and lists in a manner far more succint, readable and elegant than that could otherwise be obtained via traditional looping methods ( you know, the combination kinds of for, if ) that normally result in lines and lines of code, methods and sub-methods calling. But after using it for quite sometime, I found that LINQ could be a bit prohibitive. Prohibitive in the sense that you always have to write LINQ expressions that are big, complicated, ugly and undecipherable at times.

Why Net Negative Producing Programmers are Here to Stay

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:16:03 GMT

Why Net Negative Producing Programmers are Here to Stay-- despite the cost, a response to http://blog.jayfields.com/2009/01/cost-of-net-negative-producing.html

The Next 20 People .NET Developers Should Follow on Twitter

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 03:16:02 GMT

Here is another setup of top 20 .NET Developers on Twitter that you should consider following... This is the second installation from his previous post of top 20 .NET Developers on Twitter... These two posts equal 40 people you might want to follow!

Why Good Developers Are Not Getting 10 times the Pay?

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:31:02 GMT

The productivity gap between the good developers and the bad ones can be very huge. But why good developers are not getting significantly more than the bad ones?

Update on Silverlight 2 - and a glimpse of Silverlight 3

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:16:21 GMT

ScottGu unveils the plans for Silverlight 3, shipping next year

Different Types of Automated Tests

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:44:12 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$$

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:31:02 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 20:31:13 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

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:16:04 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

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:31:04 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

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:46:11 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 22:46:21 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?

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:46:09 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 23:31:03 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

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 05:31:02 GMT

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

Gotcha: ASP.NET and exceptions in asynchronous threads

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:50:32 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

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:46:13 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 19:39:34 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 09:16:11 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 18:09:54 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

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:46:02 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 12:38:02 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

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:31:02 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 15:39:01 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!