T4MVC: Strong Typing vs Magic Strings(yobriefcase.posterous.com)

submitted by kouphax(345) 1 year, 7 months ago

Magic strings are everywhere in ASP.NET MVC 2. Less so than in version 1 and some of the Beta and RC releases but there are still some kicking around. The problem with literals is that they don’t give you any compile time error checking or refactoring ability. read more...

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Mercurial Revision No to Version your AssemblyInfo - MsBuild Series(markkemper1.blogspot.com)

submitted by mkemper(518) 1 year, 7 months ago

This post is going to focus on getting our version number automatically updated during the build process. We are going to use the AssemblyInfo task from the “MSBuild.Community.Tasks” library and the HgVersion task from the “MSBuild.Mercurial” library. The HgVersion task will get the revision number from our Mercurial source control repository so we can include it in our assemblyInfo file. The AssemblyI... read more...

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Visual Studio 2010 Keyboard Shortcuts Poster(www.devcurry.com)

submitted by mopen(3596) 2 years, 1 month ago

You can now download the reference cards (available as print ready pdf’s) for the default keybindings in Visual Studio 2010 for Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++ and Visual F# over here read more...

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IntelliTrace: Fast Track to Debug Microsoft .NET Apps in VS 2010(www.dotnetcurry.com)

submitted by mopen(3596) 2 years, 2 months ago

IntelliTrace is a new feature that is introduced by Microsoft in Visual Studio 2010 for putting the debugging in the fast track. It will reduce the time taken by debugging an application by reducing the number of debugging passes required to be executed by the developer. read more...

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HanselMinutes: Women in Technology in the Muslim World - with Aby And (www.hanselminutes.com)

submitted by mosessaur(5424) 2 years, 2 months ago

Scott's in Egypt today and he had the opportunity to sit down with Lamees and Abeer, two successful women in IT. Lamees is a programmer transitioning to Systems Analysis, and Abeer is a veteran Senior Systems Analyst and Agile Project Manager at Dashsoft. Nearly 50% of the people at Cairo Code Camp are women. What is Egypt doing right to encourage so many women to choose technology as their career? read more...

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Mercurial tutorial - by Joel Spolsky(hginit.com)

submitted by powerrush(3873) 2 years, 3 months ago

Mercurial is a modern, open source, distributed version control system, and a compelling upgrade from older systems like Subversion. In this user-friendly, six-part tutorial, Joel Spolsky teaches you the key concepts. read more...

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12 ASP.NET MVC Best Practices(codeclimber.net.nz)

submitted by keyvan(4086) 2 years, 6 months ago

In this post Simone Chiaretta outlines a list of 12 best practices to use with ASP.NET MVC. read more...

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Visual Studio 2010 & .NET Framework 4 Training Kit October Released!(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by jbarnes(3479) 2 years, 7 months ago

This past week, we released the October preview of the Visual Studio 2010 & .NET Framework 4 Training Kit. The Kit includes 15 presentations, 20 hands-on labs, and 13 demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2010 features and a variety of framework technologies. read more...

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Difference Between Candidate Keys and Primary Key(blog.sqlauthority.com)

submitted by pinaldave(9662) 2 years, 7 months ago

Not long ago, I had an interesting and extended debate with one of my friends regarding which column should be primary key in a table. The debate instigated an in-depth discussion about candidate keys and primary keys. My present article revolves around the two types of keys. Let us first try to grasp the definition of the two keys. read more...

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Exclusive Interview With Steve Ballmer: Products, Competition, The Roa(techcrunch.com)

submitted by bobfamiliar(3648) 2 years, 8 months ago

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer visited Silicon Valley on Thursday for his annual meeting with top venture capitalists to talk about Microsoft product strategy. This was his first visit to Silicon Valley since announcing the search partnership with Yahoo in July. I had a chance to sit down with him just after that event for a hour-long one-one-one interview. In the first 10+ minutes of the interview Ballmer gives his high level thoughts on major Microsoft products and strategies (including Windows, Windows Mobile, Internet Explorer, Bing, Azure, Mesh, Natal and others), competition, the future of search and search marketing, Microsoft’s “three screens and the cloud” strategy, the recent acquisition of Interactive Supercomputing and, yes, even his thoughts on Twitter. read more...

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What's New in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 4.0 Part- II(dotnetcurry.com)

submitted by samsert(2159) 2 years, 8 months ago

In part 1 of this article, we went through a new feature of WCF - ‘Simple Configuration’. In this second part of the article series, we will see how WCF 4.0 performs routing. read more...

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Simple .NET Developer Survey(questionpro.com)

submitted by javery(5523) 2 years, 8 months ago

A chance to win $100 at Amazon by taking a simple .NET developer survey read more...

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Silverlight RIA Services and AutoCompleteBox(dotnetcurry.com)

submitted by samsert(2159) 2 years, 8 months ago

Check this cool article on how to use the AutoCompleteBox control in conjunction with RIA Services. read more...

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How to improve your LINQ query performance by 5 X times ?(c-sharpcorner.com)

submitted by nareshsh(824) 2 years, 8 months ago

LINQ has been criticized by many early adopters for its performance issues. Well if you are just going to drag and drop using DBML code generator I am sure you will land up in to mess. Try doing this make a simple LINQ to SQL project using DBML and see your read more...

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C# Identify Crisis, You Have To Know Your Identity(devcomponents.com)

submitted by devexpert(260) 2 years, 8 months ago

Marking the beginning of the end of C# as language and its ongoing identity crisis. read more...

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Take an ASP.NET Application offline with HttpModules(blog.dreamlabsolutions.com)

submitted by arnoldmatusz(600) 2 years, 8 months ago

Whenever you do maintenance work on a website it is advisable to show the visitors a nice message telling them politely to come back later, rather than a nasty error, or even worse: a big Yellow Screen of Death. Read how I found a solution similar to the app_offline.html approach using HttpModules and how I still allow administrators to access the website. read more...

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