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Batching WCF calls

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:01:03 GMT

Great approach to overcome unnecessary roundtrips to a WCF service!

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)

Keep your .config clean with external config files

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:01:19 GMT

The web.config (or app.config for non-web applications) file is the central place to configure your web application, starting from connection strings, over application settings to ASP.NET specific topics like caching, authentication & authorization, sessions as well as HTTP handlers and modules. Normally the web.config starts as a neat little pet you can easily manage. But as soon as your project grows mature, web.config turns out to be a huge beast. This article shows you a way to tame the beast.

Try-catching in a single line of code

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:01:07 GMT

Just another silly extension method hack :)

Unofficial google shell... awsome

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:16:04 GMT

Web base command shell for google. What else can I say?...

Sysinternals, now easier to get than ever

Sat, 31 May 2008 14:01:07 GMT

The sysinternals team has placed all their tools on a network share... on the internet. Now you can copy and run any of their tools from the command line. Anywhere. With no installs, website googling, unzipping or anything. \\live.sysinternals.com\tools\

ASP.NET MVC framework preview 3 released!

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:16:03 GMT

Don't know how I do it, but I think this blog post is yet again the first one mentioning a new release of the ASP.NET framework (preview 3) The official installation package can be downloaded from the Microsoft site. Source code is also available from CodePlex.

ReSharper 4 approaching beta status

Tue, 20 May 2008 16:16:05 GMT

No official announcement yet, but the ReSharper 4.0 Nightly Build page is showing the first build marked as stable and with the status "Beta Candidate".

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.

Having fun with project managers! (or: why you should lock your deskto

Thu, 08 May 2008 16:05:06 GMT

Have you ever left your computer unattended? (I do hope that!) Do you lock your desktop when this occurs? (I hope so either!) Not locking your desktop can be a risk. Your data might get stolen, someone might install a trojan, ... My project manager is one of those people who do not lock their computer when away. After having explained that this is a very simple thing he still seems to forget it everytime. Since a few weeks, we are using some more persuasive manners to teach him to press the Windows-key + L whenever he leaves his computer. Some practical jokes...

best programming jokes

Thu, 08 May 2008 17:46:05 GMT

a very big good collection of programming jokes, WOWwwwwwww

Creating user friendly strings for enum values

Thu, 01 May 2008 17:46:02 GMT

I'll show you how to create a custom attribute for enum values to assign extra information to an enum. In this case, we'll be associating a user friendly display name.

A Great Visual Studio Add-on You Must Have

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:01:03 GMT

Recently I found out this great add-on for Visual Studio 2008 called PowerCommands. PowerCommands Extends the functionality of Visual Studio 2008 by adding some features which we all want built into Visual Studio. PowerCommands provides the following...

Great Little Silverlight Tool Every .Net Developer Need

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:31:02 GMT

A light and handy Silverlight utility which allows you to select through all the possible String.Format options. And provides you with a code snippet to paste into your code.

How to grayout an image in .Net

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:31:02 GMT

This article shows how to gray out an image in .net programmatically. This can be useful for making "Disabled" versions of images, etc.

Real Ultimate Power: Dependency Injection With Ninject

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:01:09 GMT

Using Ninject for Dependency Injection / IoC

Why Convert.ToInt32 Might be Dangerous

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:16:03 GMT

Casting float to int is interesting. Not only it causes the value to get truncated, but it also changes binary representation. When you want to cast float to int you have two options:

How DotNetKicks posts are being ripped off for other sites!

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:01:02 GMT

How posts from DotNetKicks are being copy-and-pasted wholesale into other sites. Is your hard work blogging just being stolen for other companies traffic?

ASP.NET MVC Framework out on CodePlex

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:46:02 GMT

This morning, I was browsing the new projects page on CodePlex and noticed something nice! The ASP.NET MVC team already rumoured around making the ASP.NET MVC framework source code available on CodePlex, but here it is: the ASP.NET MVC project on CodePlex.

.NET Event Techniques

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:31:02 GMT

A very simple technique to avoid the need for a null check prior to raising an event

The One Single Tip to Comment Your Code

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:01:02 GMT

You've heard about 13 tips to comment your code, but what about the One Single Tip?