Microsoft cracking down on community extensions

lovethedot.blogspot.com — Microsoft released a tool called Microsoft Source Analyzer, or StyleCop. It analyzes source code for standards violations. It's a 1.0 release, so it doesn't do some things ... like have a published API for custom rules or MSBuild integration. So the community dug in and figured out how to do these things and now MS is firing off license-violation emails. Don't they get it? The community wants to use the product, but it's too limited ... these extensions help make it better. read more...

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Performing Subselects with Linq2Sql

dimecasts.net — Short screencast on performing Subselects with Linq2Sql read more...

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Difference between LINQ to SQL and the Entity Framework

dotnethitman.spaces.live.com — LINQ to SQL and the Entity Framework have a lot in common, but each have features targeting different scenarios. read more...

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Creating an ASP.NET MVC OutputCache ActionFilterAttribute

blog.maartenballiauw.be — This blog post explains how to create an OutputCache ActionFilterAttribute to enable server-side and client-side caching. In every web application, there are situations where you want to cache the HTML output of a specific page for a certain amount of time, because underlying data and processing isn't really subject to changes a lot. This cached response is stored in the web server's memory and offers very fast responses because no additional processing is required. Using the ASP.NET MVC framework (preview 3, that is), output caching is still quite hard to do. Simply specifying the OutputCache directive in a view does not do the trick. Luckily, there's this thing called an ActionFilterAttribute, which lets you run code before and after a controller action executes. read more...

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HashSet to the Rescue

slagd.com — If you are using a generic List<T> to store unique object references in there is a better way. It's called the HashSet<T> and it is new in .Net 3.5 It's indexed and it's blazing fast. read more...

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How To Create a WPF Custom Context Menu

dev102.com — An easy to learn and implement example about WPF custom context menu creation read more...

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Playing Nice With Service Locators

kohari.org — An explanation of how you can use the Service Locator pattern along with dependency injection to make your code more flexible in certain cases. read more...

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Which kind of cast should you use in C#?

gen5.info — C# offers two casting operators: the prefix-cast and the as-cast. Although the two operators compile to different op-codes in the CLR, the practical difference between them is in how they handle failed casts. Prefix-cast throws an exception on cast failure, while as-cast returns null. It’s easier to implement correct error handling when you use prefix cast, because it doesn’t require manual checks for null values that can cause problems in distant parts of your program. Prefix-cast should be the default cast operator on your fingertips, that you use for everyday situations — reserve as-cast for special cases where performance matters. read more...

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