The Book Writing Process

published 1 day, 17 hours ago, submitted by keyvan 2 days ago

codeclimber.net.nz — Simone Chiaretta writes about the writing process of a book, especially a programming book, based on his own experiences with Wrox when working on Beginning ASP.NET MVC. read more...

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Have you ever wondered why CodePlex is so slow?

published 1 day, 23 hours ago, submitted by gt1329a 2 days, 5 hours ago

encosia.com — Taking a look at one feature on CodePlex that is much slower than it needs to be, due to indiscriminate use of UpdatePanels and bloated ViewState, and then comparing it to similar functionality on Stack Overflow to illustrate how much more efficiently the same feature can be implemented. read more...

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How I’ve put my wife into SVN

published 2 days, 5 hours ago, submitted by AdrianAisemberg 2 days, 23 hours ago

sharpregion.com — SVN and TortoiseSVN are really great tools. It is a shame that these tools are used only by developers. I believe that every home should use SVN to keep track of it’s files. The problem is that these tools are planned for developers. Using the file-system in windows is not a trivial task for everyone. In fact, sometimes people tend to be afraid of it. Not only using the file-system, but also using some client application that does not even have a window? And where do I get an SVN server anyway?!? Keep reading. you might find it useful. read more...

2 comments | category: Products | Views: 481

Virtual file.... from IStream

boxedapp.com — The blogpost shows how to create a virtual file if you have implementation of IStream. The article includes a C# implemenation of IStream and a few samples. So you can create a virtual file with any behavior! Hope it can be interesting for .net developers :) read more...

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Using ReSharper with Silverlight

submitted by pbrooks 3 days, 15 hours ago

pagebrooks.com — If you have ever used Resharper, you may know that it has a great feature called Templates. Templates give you the ability to quickly generate code that you would generally need to write by hand. I've built 4 templates that you can use in your Silverlight endeavors. read more...

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Tweaking OnApplyTemplate Event Timing in Silverlight 2

submitted by pbrooks 4 days, 2 hours ago

pagebrooks.com — When building a custom control in Silverlight 2, the OnApplyTemplate method gives you the opportunity to “wire-up” logical instances of elements in your control. When a control is loaded, it is important to realize that in Silverlight 2, this method is not triggered very early with respect to other events. In other words, you could very easily write code that fails just because of where you call it. Understanding the control’s life cycle will help in avoiding these situations. read more...

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Back to Basics: Delegates, Anonymous Methods and Lambda Expressions

published 6 days, 20 hours ago, submitted by EtienneTremblay 7 days, 2 hours ago

codebetter.com — Great article on .NET basics read more...

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Combining ASP.NET MVC and new ASP.NET Charting Controls

submitted by Jemm 8 days, 2 hours ago

weblogs.asp.net — "As ScottGu recently posted on his blog, Microsoft have recently released a set of charting components. Several people followed up with comments on his post asking whether it was possible to use them with ASP.NET MVC. The good news is that it certainly is, if you are using ASP.NET as the View engine (the default). And there's actually relatively little that you have to do. This post outlines the steps you'll need to take to get it up and running." read more...

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