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20 Most Interesting Silverlight Tutorials

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:45:00 GMT

In this article we presents a collection of best Silverlight tutorials.

ASP.NET DropDownList with Custom Paging

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:30:00 GMT

Very cool post that shows how to page through an ASP.NET DropDownList control as if it were a GridView control

Treating Warnings as Errors in Visual Studio

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:00:00 GMT

The compiler used by Visual Studio can produce errors when code cannot be built and warnings when it completes compilation successfully but there are areas of concern. To avoid warnings being missed or ignored, there is an option to treat them as errors.

Generate Web 2.0 applications straight from your database

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:00:00 GMT

In today's economy, web developers everywhere are looking for a competitive edge. They need a way to produce high quality, customizable, .NET web applications fast. Check this tool that does that.

Thread.Sleep is a sign of a poorly designed program.

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:15:02 GMT

Other than for debug code, Peter details why Thread.Sleep isn't for production code.

Delayed execution vs ToList() in LINQ Database Queries

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:00:02 GMT

Should you use ToList() in your repository methods, or should you pass the iterator back to the UI to delay the execution of the query? Read on to find out why it's a bad idea to delay execution in this case.

Visual Studio 2010: Web application packaging and publishing

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 has very powerful web application packaging and deployment system. When deploying your web application you create the deployment package and then publish it to web server. After configuring it is one-click action to get current version of application up to target server. Let's see how it works.

9 Important XML Syntax Rules You Must Know

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:50:31 GMT

XML became a W3C Recommendation on February 10, 1998. It has been amazing to see how quickly the XML standard has developed, and how quickly a large number of software vendors have adopted the standard. The syntax rules of XML are very simple and logical. The rules are easy to learn, and easy to use.

Com Interop in C# 4.0

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:30:56 GMT

These remaining features that we'll chat about all have a strong tie to the COM world - that is, the features themselves require that the objects that you're playing with are COM objects. How do we determine that? Well, you'll soon find out!

Microsoft deprecating Oracle client in Dot Net 4

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:30:00 GMT

Microsoft has announced through a blog that the ADO.NET 4 spec will mark the Oracle client as deprecated with plans for removal. They are also recommending that users go to a third party Oracle provider. Stop Helping the Competition? Wow, this will mark the first time an ADO.NET provider has been removed from the .Net framework. Is this a case of Microsoft trimming the fat, or pushing Oracle? I always thought it a bit of a free ride that Microsoft was helping Oracle by building their provider for them...

Life After Loops

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:15:00 GMT

Eliminating cumbersome looping code using Linq

The "Sim City" effect

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:30:00 GMT

What happens when you turn your back on a software development project.

Application Pool not listed in IIS 6

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:23:35 GMT

When recently upgrading a server from Windows 2000 to Windows Server 2003 it was noticed that the the Application Pool option was not available. After fishing around for a while it was found that IIS was running under IIS 5.0 Isolation mode

Asp.Net vs php : Speed Comparison

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:00:00 GMT

Why is the myth that php is faster than Asp.Net so prevalent? Asp.Net is faster than php, here are the facts. So many times I have heard php pushers claim that php is so much faster than Asp.Net and that Asp.Net is clunky and slow. The most annoying part is that everything I have read (that is not factless opinion), and I mean everything, says that this is wrong; but for some reason, this myth is widely accepted. It has become a religious argument that ignores the facts...

Team Foundation Server 2010 - Eventing Service - Subscribing to events

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:20:16 GMT

Visual Studio Team System exposes number of opportunities to extend its features and functionality. Responding to events published by the Team Foundation Server (TFS) is one of the extensibility opportunities which may be used most extensively. In this two part series, we will take an overview of the events raised by TFS and how to subscribe to those events. This article is an update on my earlier article which I had written for TFS 2008. This article will cover the specifics required for TFS 2010 (at this moment Beta 1) as compared to TFS 2008.

SubSonic 3.0: ActiveRecord

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:45:00 GMT

Google's project site is down for a while and I have some perf tests running in the background so I thought it might be time to crank out a few more "preview" posts of SubSonic 3.0. This one's about ActiveRecord - one of my favorite patterns for its ease of use and versatility.

Learning new Programmming Languages and Technologies

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:00:00 GMT

Recently, I've read article after article about how part of being a good software developer is about being open to new technologies, and to "learn new things" - and I'd be foolish not to agree. However...

Implementing KeyBoard Shortcuts in ASP.NET applications using jQuery

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:15:00 GMT

Cool post on how to implement Keyboard Shortcuts in ASP.NET applications using jQuery

11 keystrokes that made my jQuery selector run 10x faster

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:15:00 GMT

An in-depth analysis of the performance concerns when using a popular jQuery selector and a couple ways to dramatically speed it up, including benchmarks.

ASP.NET MVC Installer For Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 And Roadmap

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:30:00 GMT

"Today I'm happy to announce that we're done with the work I described and the installer is now available on CodePlex. Be sure to give it a try as many of the new VS10 features intended to support the TDD workflow fit very nicely with ASP.NET MVC, which ScottGu will describe in an upcoming blog post."

Creating a Tag Cloud using ASP.NET MVC and the Entity Framework

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:45:01 GMT

A Tag Cloud is a visual depiction of Tags or categories on a web site. CSS is used to set the variable font size of each Tag to illustrate its relative frequency or popularity within the site. As part of the migration of my site to ASP.NET MVC, I am introducing one to replace the Categories navigation that appears on the left hand side of each page, which contains a count of items within each category.

15 Books You Must Have If You Are Doing ASP.NET Web Development

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:00:00 GMT

Good books give you a quick and handy insight into a technology. You should choose books that are usually written by professionals who recommend best practices and different methods of solving a business problem using the technology. In this post, I will share some books I recommend for ASP.NET and other related Web Development technologies

Handling Legacy URLs with ASP.NET MVC

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:00:00 GMT

According to Google's Webmaster tools, there are about 15,000 incoming links to my site. 13,000 of those reference a .ASPX file on disk. When I convert to MVC, with new Search Engine Friendly urls, all those links will break unless I do something about it. Presenting users with a 404 - file not found is not an option. I need to show them the content they were expecting, and update Search Engines with the news that things have changed. Here's how I will be managing those Legacy URLs.

LINQ to SQL is NOT dead!

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:00:03 GMT

Ever since Microsoft announced that the Entity Framework was their ORM of choice, people everywhere have been saying, "LINQ to SQL is dead!" A lot of people feel like they're not allowed to use LINQ to SQL anymore and that they have to use Entity Framework instead. In fact, LINQ to SQL is not only alive and well, Microsoft has even announced LINQ to SQL improvements in .NET 4.0, including finally adding using ITable<T> for tables instead of Table<T>, which makes it much easier to test. Combine that with this open source tool that will create an IDataContext interface for you and you're on your way to testable LINQ to SQL. So no, LINQ to SQL is not dead!!

Refactoring: parameterize constructor

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:45:03 GMT

In legacy code you may find classes with constructor where some objects are created and initialized. These classes are not easily testable because they depend on other classes and therefore when you unit test these classes they may also throw exceptions of classes they depend on. In these cases we can use parameterize constructor refactoring.