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Utilities.NET 1.0 released

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:46:02 GMT

Utilities.NET is a collection of helper classes and components for quickly solving common .NET programming tasks.

Integrating jQuery with ASP.NET

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:16:01 GMT

An altenative AJAX solution to use jQuery instead of ASP.NET AJAX.

LINQ Closures May Be Hazardous to Your Health!

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:01:02 GMT

This article is really academic in nature on the topic of closures and how they fit into LINQ query expressions. It contains a highly-contrived example that is not representative of quality LINQ code. One of the most interesting aspects of LINQ query expressions is that they produce lexical closures. Exploiting closures in query expressions can be powerful but tricky.

5 Facebook.NET Development Tips

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:46:02 GMT

5 Facebook.NET Development Tips - Use Steven Treffen's Visual Studio.NET starter kit for Facebook.NET, develop and debug your application as an <iframe> application, use strongly-typed references to Master Pages in all of your .aspx files, Use <fb:FacebookHyperLink> extensively, and Use the FBML Test Console.

Profiling .NET Applications

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:31:02 GMT

A guide with screen shots illustrating how to identify and eliminate bottlenecks in a .NET application using a profiler

What if null if null is null null null is null?

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:16:02 GMT

I'll discuss some well-known and some less well-known functions and keywords that are specifically created to deal with NULL values

Using Google Analytics with rich (managed) web applications in Silverl

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:01:02 GMT

Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 and the HTML DOM bridge can easily interface with Google Analytics to help you analyze, track, and better understand your web site visitors. Already a common activity for Flash and Flex developers, the concept of tracking within a rich web application may be new to traditional client application developers, and probably not something done with common WPF applications, but it's simple to add and very useful to advertisers.

SubSonic of the Day - They Query Tool

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:16:04 GMT

By now, you have probably heard of LINQ. LINQ, as you probably know, stands for Language Integrated Query. The LINQ queries you build inside of C# or VB are baked into the .NET 3.5 framework. SubSonic takes a more traditional approach (right now) and uses the Query as an object. Instead of doing weird things like var myQ = from.... and Dim myQ = Select..... you create an object and manipulate a query rather than have a language do the querying for you.

StringBuilder is not always faster - Part 2

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:16:03 GMT

n a previous article ("StringBuilder is not always faster), I provided some quick benchmark data and gave "rules of thumb" for when to use StringBuilder and when to use traditional string concatenations. In this follow-up article, I will attempt to provide a more detailed analysis.

Multi-targeting VS2005 and VS2008 Web Application Projects - A Gotcha

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:31:03 GMT

Tips on Multi-targeting VS2005 and VS2008 Web Application Projects

Proposed DotNetKicks Redesign

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 13:16:02 GMT

The current skin of DotNetKicks just isn't quite there. It doesn't look as cool as it could. And I'm sure it's just because the time hasn't been spent to make it look good. So, I thought I'd put together a mockup design that is based off the current design, but with some improvements. I like it, but the test is if any of you like it too. Let me know what you think.

PostSharp - A Post-Compiler for .NET

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:16:02 GMT

PostSharp is a platform that allows you to transform or analyze your .NET assemblies after compilation. It reads binary assemblies into memory, execute a suite of plug-ins and write back the modified code. Geat tool for Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP).

10 Hot ASP.NET Tips and Tricks - 9/28/2007

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:46:02 GMT

10 Hot ASP.NET Tips and Tricks for the week of 9/28/2007. Includes boosting visual studio 2005 for enhanced productivity, server side redirects into a new window, master page hacks, speeding up your ASP.NET applications by stripping out extra HTTP handlers, page modules, and partial methods.

An architect should code. Period

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:46:02 GMT

This has been said over and over again, but as long as it keeps happening it just has to be said again. A very common career path in IT "promotes" a coder over the years to a program manager with architect responsibilities. And being an architect they stop writing code themselves. The thing I see over and over again is that these people keep living in the programming environment in which they grew up.

Little things to help you CodeBetter

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:31:02 GMT

Jeremy Miller's tips for better coding.

IIS 7.0 Hits RC0 - Lots of cool new IIS7 Extensions Also Now Available

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:01:02 GMT

Scottgu blogs about the IIS 7.0 RC0 release

One Language

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 11:01:02 GMT

Martin Fowler on whether we should strive to only have one language in our development efforts or not.

KickIt For CommunityServer 2007

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:16:02 GMT

Kick It addition to all posts code for Community Server 2007.

C# 3.0 partial methods - What, why and how?

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:31:02 GMT

Partial methods are methods living in partial classes and which are marked as partial. Their existence also stims from the world of code generation. Bart De Smet explains the what, how and (most importantly) why of partial methods.

MonoRail #4: Validation

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:16:02 GMT

Shows how to wire-up validation in MonoRail using the Validator Component/Library.

Answering xUnit.net Questions

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 14:46:02 GMT

Some Q & A on xUnit.net. Brad Wilson answers some of Roy Osherove's questions.

Scott Guthrie Stories

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:31:02 GMT

Index to articles on CSharp and Web development by Scott Guthrie

Effective user interface testing

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:46:02 GMT

User interface tests are a bit tricky - it is easy to get carried away and waste quite a lot of time, without getting any real benefits. However, if planned properly, automated UI tests can have a great effect on the project. Here are a few tips on how to make the most of automated user-interface tests.

Deciding When to Use Depencency Injection

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:01:02 GMT

Expressing the struggles of deciding when to use Dependency Injection and, more importantly, when not to use it.

In your face LINQ

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 18:31:01 GMT

Okay, I admit it, the title is an attention getter ;) But checkout our improved DynamicQuery syntax. I was writing some unit tests and just had to post this. Writing Queries like this with intellisense is so intuitive ... And it will work on SQL, SQL CE, MySQL, PostgreSQL, VistaDB, Oracle and Access ...