ASP.NET Myths Busted
Having read a great variety of forum and blog posts, I met a lot of misconceptions about ASP.NET that definitely made people to turn away from... more »
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White paper on IronRuby published
Manning published my white paper — or green paper as they call it — on IronRuby. You can find it here...
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Curved ScrollBars using WPF 3D
My blog entry Non-Affine Transforms in 2D? posted a year ago is about using WPF 3D to mimic two-dimensional non-affine transforms, which are not... more »
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QuickSort for Fun!
This is a QuickSort for fun in C# 3 for a list with repeated items.
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Microsoft .NET 3.5 SP1 Released: More Controls, Streamlined Setup, Improved Start-up
The .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) delivers more controls, a streamlined setup, improved start-up performance, and powerful new graphics... more »
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5 Software Build Patterns
Do you want to help develop build patterns and identify? We have patterns-a-plenty for writing code. How about patterns for building it?
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Why XAML is Powerful
XAML, Microsoft's eXtensible Application Markup Language, was released with the .NET 3.0 framework and works with the new technologies available in... more »
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You've caught an exception. Now what?
An effective strategy for handling exceptions is to catch them at the boundary of a coarsely-grained "unit of work". Once you've caught an exception,... more »
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Getting and Setting Environment variables in C#
Environment variables are strings that save information about the entire environment in your system. These string values are dynamic and they can... more »
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Why I Love Java Way More Than .NET
A little insight on the craziness I endured just so I could add a reference to an in-house library in my .NET solution.
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Scraping, or Programatically Accessing, a Secure Webpage
There are many secure websites out there that provide useful information but do not have a public API to access it's data. A prime example of this is... more »
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Call Server Side code from Client Side using ASP.NET AJAX
To call server side functions from client side (javascript), on way is to use AJAX, and the easiest way out, is to use the ASP.NET AJAX Extensions. In... more »
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Getting Starting with StructureMap -- Simple Setup Scenarios (v2.5)
A short screencast on getting starting with StructureMap -- Simple Setup Scenarios (v2.5)
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Lean Software Development
While working in London for TrafficBroker I had the opportunity to try out Fred George's Lean process. To date, it's absolutely my favorite way to... more »
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Bad Ass Development Rig
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Follow the illustrated step-by-step assembly of a liquid-cooled, 8-core development machine based on the Intel SkullTrail motherboard, blazing fast... more »
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DateTime vs. DateTimeOffset in .Net
The DateTime data type has been around since .Net 1.0 and suited us well for a long time. It simply defines a date and a time together and offers... more »
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Core .NET Refcard Available - Download Now
The .NET Framework has been growing steadily since its birth — the API for .NET 3.5 is far bigger than that of .NET 1.0. With so much to remember,... more »
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SmallestDotNet: On the Size of the .NET Framework
There's been some confusion about the size of the .NET Framework. The .NET Framework is not really a 200+ meg download. Which installer do I... more »
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TimeZone vs. TimeZoneInfo in .Net
The TimeZone data type was introduced in .Net 1.0 as a mechanism for retrieving information about the current time zone, and to convert times from... more »
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Fast Serialization
We use ALOT of serialization in the current system I work with. Serializing/deserializing 100,000,000 objects in a day is pretty common. For a long... more »
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Top Must-Have Tools for an ASP.NET Web Developer
Of all these years, working as a .NET developer, here is a collected and compiled set of tools that will help you out in your ASP.NET projects. Since... more »
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Design Patterns – Part 2
The observer pattern is incredibly useful, so useful in fact that it has found itself used all over the place in .NET. Underlying the observer pattern... more »
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Boo Lang Studio 1.0 Alpha it out!
Jeffery Olson has just made the first release of Boo Lang Studio available. This one comes with a "Yes, Dear" installer.
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Don't tell me you did that with JavaScript
This week I experienced something that made me feel more confident about the viability of JavaScript as a first-class language in ASP.NET development.... more »
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Why Data as a Service isn't a Bad Idea
Why the Database as a Service is a Bad Idea but Data as Service isn't a Bad Idea Early this week I encountered the post "Why the Database as a... more »
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