Visual C# IDE Tips Part 2

techbubbles.com — This post explains the some more tips on using Visual C# IDE to enhance developer productivity. read more...

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An architect should code. Period

codebetter.com — 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. read more...

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Calculating Baseball Statistics With LINQ

derekslager.com — Unfortunately, like most Microsoft-authored samples, they are focused around boring business use cases. Maybe it's just me, but I like seeing innovative language features demonstrating something other than calculating the average price for in-stock products (yawn). read more...

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ModalPopupExtender for Editing Rows in a GridView (Master/Deta

published 1 year, 3 months ago, submitted by mberseth 1 year, 3 months ago

mattberseth.com — Example showing how to implement the classic Master/Details scenario using ASP.NET AJAX and the ModalPopupExtender control in the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit. read more...

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The Null Object Pattern

published 1 year, 3 months ago, submitted by jeremyjarrell 1 year, 3 months ago

jeremyjarrell.com — An alternative way to alleviate yourself from checking for null each time you work with a potentially missing object. read more...

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Why Not To Catch General Exception Types

blogs.msdn.com — In its best practices guideline, Microsoft specifies that a generic Exception should not be caught. But why is this? read more...

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Good bye NUnit.Behave hello Behave#

lostechies.com — Most of you who read my blog know that I have been working on NUnit.Behave which was meant to mirror the functionality of rbehave in .Net. My initial spike was a success but it required that you inherit from an base NUnit Test Fixture. Even I wouldn't use it! So I spent some time decoupling it from NUnit into it's own framework. At the same time my idea caught on and Jimmy Bogard decided to do the same thing. Well to make a long story short we have been collaborating on the differences between our two frameworks over the last week and have decided to go with Behave#. I love OSS, where else could this be possible! read more...

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The Least You Need to Know about C# 3.0 (Beta 2 Edition)

blogs.msdn.com — A lot of people (myself included) have written about LINQ in the next version of C#. LINQ is indeed an empowering technology. However, even without LINQ, C# 3.0 would be a compelling upgrade. Now that Beta2 is publicly available, here’s my personal list of the most useful features in the next release. read more...

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