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Exception Categories - YALE

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:58:10 GMT

This is an awesome article that tells you the state of the art with regards to exception handling in C# and similar languages. Print this out and read it!

Exception Handling Basics

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:01:02 GMT

The basics of exception handling and getting good stack traces.

string.Empty versus ""

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:01:02 GMT

The author shows ways that "" is better than string.Empty and results in clearer and possibly faster code.

Visualising Sorting Algorithms

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:07:33 GMT

Beautiful visualisations of sorting algorithms.

A Closable jQuery Plug-in

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:16:03 GMT

I've found it very useful to have a closeable plug-in that hide the content of an HTML element providing a visual close image cue. Almost every UI I build these days requires either closing pop up windows or even more commonly requires that items are removed and visually hidden which usually implies 'close' behavior. In addition to removing a bunch of HTML markup, having a plug-in is also quite useful for server controls especially if multiple behaviors (plug-ins) need to be applied.

Building a Nant Script -- Part 4: Adding fxCop to your build script

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:31:13 GMT

Taking a look at how to add in the ability to run the fxCop static analysis tool to your build script. Having this ability can allow you to keep very close tabs on your code at any time.

5 Blogs ASP.NET MVC Developers Should Be Following

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:46:07 GMT

Everyone knows that Phil Haack, Rob Conery, Scott Hanselman, and Scott Guthrie all provide good ASP.NET MVC content on their blogs. I wanted to provide a list of excellent resources on ASP.NET MVC that are a little less well known.

C# Design Patterns - The Visitor Pattern

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:31:02 GMT

One principle that I really like is the Open/Closed principle which says that an object should be open to new functionality but closed to structural changes. The visitor pattern helps facilitate this principle by giving us the means to perform operations against an object without changing the objects structure. Looking back at a previous pattern we wanted to adjust the registration cost for a dog if they had been picked up by the dog catcher.

Introduction to JOINs - A simplest Visual Explanation of Join

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:16:02 GMT

Introduction to JOINs - A simplest Visual Explanation of Join This post is for every developer who just want to make sure that their basics of Join is perfect. Bookmark this for future use or for teaching your friends of Jr. about Joins. Blog about this post if you like it.

Native JSON in IE8, Firefox 3.5 plus Json.NET

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:46:04 GMT

This post looks at how to use the new native JSON API in IE8 and Firefox 3.5, and how it can complement Json.NET's server side JSON support by parsing and generating JSON on the browser.

Learning the Template Pattern

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 10:01:03 GMT

Taking a look at how you can use the Template Design Pattern in your applications. The Template Design Pattern is perhaps one of the most widely used and useful design pattern. It is used to set up the outline or skeleton of an algorithm, leaving the details to specific implementations later. This way, subclasses can override parts of the algorithm without changing its overall structure.

13 ASP.NET MVC extensibility points you have to know

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:46:06 GMT

One of the main design principles ASP.NET MVC has been designed with is extensibility. Everything (or most of) in the processing pipeline is replaceable so, if you don't like the conventions (or lack of them) that ASP.NET MVC uses, you can create your own services to support your conventions and inject them into the main pipeline. This post shows 13 extensibility points that every ASP.NET MVC developer should know, starting from the beginning of the pipeline and going forward till the rendering of the view.

WorkGrabber.com - Sweet ASP.NET MVC 1.0 + jQuery Application

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:01:24 GMT

Mike Bosch shows us his latest creation using ASP.Net MVC: WorkGrabber.com is a social marketplace for local contractors and customers to interact and get projects done.

Novell's Mono brings SIMD support to C#

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:31:21 GMT

Parallel programming is not just about multi-threading and multi-core. There's also a lot of power in the SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) extended instruction set available in most modern microprocessors from Intel and AMD. From Dr Dobb's Go Parallel blog.

Creating SOLID Code: Refactoring the SOLID episode on DI to use IoC

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:16:04 GMT

Taking a look at the prior SOLID episode on DI and refactoring it to utilize the StructureMap IoC Container

Using complex types to make calling services less... complex

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:46:03 GMT

A detailed examination of how jQuery can call ASP.NET AJAX web services (or page methods) with complex types as parameters, to simplify the process of serializing and sending several fields of data at a time.

Being a software startup in a recession

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:01:02 GMT

Lessons learned about being a software startup in a recession.

Designing .NET Class Libraries

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:16:02 GMT

The Designing .NET Class Libraries series presents design guidelines for developing classes and components that extend the .NET Framework. The goal of the Designing .NET Class Libraries series is to encourage consistency and predictability in public APIs while enabling Web and cross-language integration. The guidelines presented in Designing .NET Class Libraries are intended to help class library designers understand the trade-offs between different solutions. There might be situations where good library design requires that you violate these design guidelines. Such cases should be rare, however it is important that you provide a solid justification for your decision.

Hello World to LINQ Projection in C#

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:46:04 GMT

In this post we will what is projection, what are its benefits and how we can use it with LINQ.

Setting up a minimal ASP.NET MVC project in Visual Studio

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:46:02 GMT

In this post we will walk through the required steps to create a project that contains the minimal amount of configuration and code to get ASP.NET MVC running. In the course of this post you will get a better understanding of Routing and the MVC framework.

Optimizing Performance in WPF Applications

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:01:02 GMT

Ever fed up with your own WPF window taking too much time to load and render the contents? Had the bitterest of bitter experience that your WPF application eating up a lot of resources and memory and fighting harder to get through with the existing hardware configuration?

A conversation with the CTO of I Can Has Cheezburger

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:16:03 GMT

In this podcast I talk with Scott about the technologies they use to build one of the funniest sites on the web. We talk about ASP.NET, PHP, application architecture, the cost of using Microsoft tools and technologies, hiring at a startup, startup strategy, and much more.

Ten C# Keywords That You Shouldn't Be Using

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:31:03 GMT

Overview of some not-so-common keywords and reasons to avoid them...or understand what the implications are if we use them.

Resizing images without loss of quality

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 23:31:45 GMT

ASP.NET provides us with System.Drawing namespace where we can find classes we can use to manipulate with images. There are many people out there who mistakenly think that Image.GetThumbnailImage is best choice for image resizing. You can easily create crappy images if you follow the code examples in previously pointed article. In this post I will show you how to resize images without negative side effects.

Lazy Loading jQuery Tabs with ASP.NET

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:46:16 GMT

This article looks at efficient use of jQuery tabs when displaying data. Specifically, it covers how to lazy-load data, so that it is only accessed and displayed if the tab is clicked.