Fluent ADO.NET (there's actually a good reason for it!)(elegantcode.com)

submitted by just3ws(560) 3 years, 1 month ago

More DAL silliness, but for a good reason. The author was restricted from using an ORM by his client so he came up with a cool way to make his life a little easier. Pretty cool. Scratch that itch! read more...

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Optimizing Performance in WPF Applications(codedigest.com)

submitted by satheeshbabu(1565) 3 years, 1 month ago

Ever fed up with your own WPF window taking too much time to load and render the contents? Had the bitterest of bitter experience that your WPF application eating up a lot of resources and memory and fighting harder to get through with the existing hardware configuration? read more...

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Content Stealing Jerks(kevinwilliampang.com)

submitted by kpanghmc(2055) 3 years, 1 month ago

I've grown somewhat accustomed to seeing my articles regurgitated on some random blogger's site and passed off as their own. Usually I just send content stealing jerk (CSJ for future reference) an e-mail asking that they provide some sort of link back to my original article and leave it at that. Sometimes they comply, oftentimes they don't. In the end, life goes on. After all, it's not like I'm going to press charges over it. read more...

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View Models: POCOs versus DependencyObjects(kentb.blogspot.com)

submitted by Khaba(125) 3 years, 1 month ago

If you're leveraging the MVVM pattern in your WPF/Silverlight development, you will quickly be faced with a decision regarding the implementation of your view models: should they be DependencyObjects, or POCOs (Plain Old CLR Objects)? read more...

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Building a Progressive Fluent Interface(dimecasts.net)

submitted by dwhittaker(13.1k) 3 years, 2 months ago

Taking a look at how to build a Progressive Fluent Interface which is a DSL where the options can and will change as you progress through the syntax. This is a useful form of a fluent interface if the want to be able to skillfully guide the user down only one path at a time. read more...

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Do You *Really* Need a College Degree to Get a Programming Job?(javaworld.com)

submitted by estherschindler(550) 3 years, 2 months ago

There's plenty of articles about the shortage of skilled IT workers and the difficulty experienced by companies in finding qualified software developers. The whining would be far more credible if the Want Ads didn't have a silly, arbitrary qualification: a college degree. read more...

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Validation of NHibernate Entities(marekblotny.blogspot.com)

submitted by ma4ti4(245) 3 years, 2 months ago

Article shows why NHibernate Validator is useful and how to configure it together with Fluent NHibernate in one project. read more...

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Things we wish Microsoft would fix in Visual Studio 2010(vistadb.net)

submitted by vistadb(879) 3 years, 2 months ago

Now I know we are probably only one of ten companies in the world who actually need to write data plugins for Visual Studio. But there are a few things that are so broken they tend to really drive me nuts. I had a chance to speak with other DDEX developers at TechEd last year and asked them about these things. Almost universally they said "Yep, it's broke". And when I asked how they dealt with these issues, they almost all said that they ended up having to write custom wizards, dialogs, etc for Visual Studio because the built in ones are broke or don't know how to use Data Providers correctly. read more...

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You can do some crazy things with WCF(slagd.com)

submitted by Danielg(130) 3 years, 2 months ago

Have you ever wanted to code something that wasn’t exactly best practices, but would make for a neat concept? I know that I have. That's why I decide to spike a database driver for NHibernate that works accross the network, or across WCF specifically. read more...

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AnkhSVN 2.0.6310 Released - Subversion Plugin for Visual Studio.(ankhsvn.open.collab.net)

submitted by refpointer(165) 3 years, 2 months ago

New features include: Experimental support of Visual Studio 2010, Overall performance improvemens, and much more... read more...

1 comment |category: Visual Studio |Views: 590

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UX patterns vs UI patterns(devlicio.us)

submitted by Bagavathi(150) 3 years, 3 months ago

Distinction between UX and UI read more...

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Sending Domain Objects Across the Wire(broloco.blogspot.com)

submitted by FlukeFan(279) 3 years, 3 months ago

or Using NHibernate and WCF read more...

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Why aren't I an MVP?(codebetter.com)

submitted by klaus_b0(210) 3 years, 3 months ago

There's a problem with the MVP program I'd like to talk about. The fact that I'm no longer an MVP (haven't been for over a year now) isn't the problem, merely a symptom. My problem is that I don't know why I'm not an MVP, and by extension I don't know why others are. The process of becoming and remaining an MVP is completely opaque. Plainly, the MVP program lacks transparency. read more...

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House of Cards Design Anti-Pattern(msmvps.com)

submitted by PeterRitchie(1505) 3 years, 3 months ago

Peter details what he calls the "House of Cards" design anti-pattern. read more...

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Things to Notice When Binding to Large Collection (dev102.com)

submitted by shaharyr(4325) 3 years, 4 months ago

Lately I was working on an application that had to display a large amount of objects on screen and allow filtering. I have learned that scrolling large collections was not so simple in WPF, and I definitely did not see the problems coming. read more...

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Beyond SoundEx - Fuzzy Searching in MS SQL Server(anastasiosyal.com)

submitted by Anastasiosyal(960) 3 years, 4 months ago

In this post see how you can perform fuzzy deduping operations and fuzzy string matching by bringing the power of an open source string metric library (SimMetrics) into sql server read more...

1 comment |category: C# |Views: 579

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