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Microsoft kills Linq to SQL

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:01:13 GMT

Ayende (aka Oren) expresses disbelief at Microsoft's decision to effectively kill off LINQ to SQL.

Speeding up ASP.NET with the Runtime Page Optimizer

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:31:08 GMT

An great new tool to automatically optimize your ASP.NET website.

Not doing TDD is worst than doing it wrong in the beggining.

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:16:02 GMT

Check this out, and make a learn from it.

Implementing a Repository and Specificaiton pattern using Linq

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:31:03 GMT

In my previous post I put down some thoughts on the Repository and Specification patterns and in the end said that with the introduction of Linq and the growing popularity of ORM frameworks and their support for Linq, it's time to look back at these two patterns and see how we can leverage Linq to simplify the patterns and make them infrastructure agnostic.

Another Use for C# Using

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:16:02 GMT

If you are a C# developer you're familiar with the using directive. It appears at the top of every one of your class files informing the compiler what namespaces should be looked at while compiling this code page so that you don't have to fully qualify every object. (This isn't the interesting bit)

Using C# 3.0 (.Net 3.5) syntax in a .Net 2.0 application

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:16:02 GMT

An overview of using C# 3.0 syntax in a .Net 2.0 application.

Getting rid of strings (2): use lambda expressions

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:31:02 GMT

In the first article of this series I talked about the problems with strings in code. This article will show you how you can use lambda expressions and expression trees as another tool to avoid strings

HowTo: Configure Microsoft Source Analysis

Mon, 26 May 2008 08:46:03 GMT

Lots of folks are complaining about Microsoft's recently released Source Analysis tool, and how they disagree with certain rules, and how it is not configurable. Well, it is configurable, but they put the dialog in a strange place.

Writing your own rules for Microsoft Source Analysis for C#

Mon, 26 May 2008 08:01:02 GMT

How to look at the baked in rules or how to write your own set of rules for the newly released Microsoft Source Analysis for C#.

Microsoft Source Analysis for C# Released

Fri, 23 May 2008 18:31:14 GMT

From post: "Source Analysis is similar in many ways to Microsoft Code Analysis (specifically FxCop), but there are some important distinctions. FxCop performs its analysis on compiled binaries, while Source Analysis analyzes the source code directly. For this reason, Code Analysis focuses more on the design of the code, while Source Analysis focuses on layout, readability and documentation."

Using Consolas font in cmd.exe

Fri, 23 May 2008 09:59:50 GMT

You're using Consolas in Visual Studio already -right? With this little tip you can use it as the command shell too!

Entities, Value Objects, Aggregates and Roots

Wed, 21 May 2008 23:46:02 GMT

Basics of DDD

Generic types and IDisposable, the "using" trick

Wed, 21 May 2008 08:46:03 GMT

This is another one in the series "heck, I never thought of that"... Like most of these articles, if you already knew this trick, ignore me...

7 tricks to simplify your programs with LINQ

Mon, 19 May 2008 09:31:03 GMT

Ever since I learned about LINQ, I keep discovering new ways to use it to improve my code. Every trick makes my code a little bit faster to write, and a little bit easier to read. This posting summarizes some of the tricks that I came across. I will show you how to use LINQ to: initialize an array, iterate over multiple arrays in a single loop, generate a random sequence, ...

Alt.NET Podcast Launched!

Tue, 13 May 2008 23:01:04 GMT

The Alt.NET Podcast has a new podcast. The premier episode is a conversation with David Laribee, Jeremy D. Miller, and Chad Myers about continuously improving yourself, your code, and your team. Give it a listen!

Lazy instantiation one-liner with the coalesce operator

Wed, 14 May 2008 09:31:33 GMT

The one-liner for lazy instantiation of instance fields using the coalesce-operator

Using the DescriptionAttribute to prettify your enumerations

Mon, 19 May 2008 18:31:02 GMT

the article details a wrapper that can be used to get a well-formatted string version of an enumeration value by using the DescriptionAttribute to provide the formatted string. The comments includes an extension method version that works for any enum type.

ScottGu: April 28th Links

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:16:02 GMT

Someone had to submit this sooner or later... :)

51+ Best of jQuery Tutorials and Examples

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:46:02 GMT

A good summary of jQuery resources

Give back to your testing framework

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:16:02 GMT

Can there be code reuse in testing classes? Is code coverage the only measurement we have for test efficiency? Should our testing framework test design and meta-code as well as functionality? Use this test classes base-class to test some things you probably haven't tested before.

The Developer Exchange Program

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:31:03 GMT

How much better a developer would you be if you could regularly observe another Agile team in action... in person.

Use Twitter To Stay On Top Of The .NET Programming News

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:31:02 GMT

Do you use twitter? If you don't you should, it is a great way to find out what is happening in the programming world. Here is a list of some well known programmers and their twitter URL. Phil Haack, Jeff Atwood, Scott Hanselman, Dare Obasanjo, John Lam and many more are on this list

StackOverflow.COM

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:01:03 GMT

JA and Joel Spolsky join forces to kick the s*t out of Experts Exchange. I didn't know anybody else hated them as much as I did. I even toyed with the idea of creating a google frontend to append -experts-exchange to any search....

LINQPad as a Code Snippet Execution Engine

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:01:02 GMT

LINQPad is an awesome tool to quickly execute code. Besides the obvious LINQ testing features that its name implies, LINQPad also can come in quite handy as a generic .NET code snippet execution utility that allows you to run any .NET expression or single statement block. It's a great tool for your toolbox to quickly check behavior of BCL functions for example...

How to share configuration files between projects

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:31:03 GMT

Sharing configuration files between multiple projects in Visual Studio is a simple task, but it is not intuitive in how it is done. In fact, until recently I did not know how to do it via the IDE, I would always hand edit the .sln file to enable this feature (sad I know). Today I thought I would throw up a simple set of screen shots to show everyone how easy it really is.