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Slash your ASP.NET compile/load time without any hard work

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:41:32 GMT

Tips & tricks to make your ASP.NET development more enjoyable (cut down compilation time / first load time).

Selective Unit Testing - Costs and Benefits

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:30:00 GMT

Test Driven Development is widely regarded as a hallmark technique of professional software development, but should you really do it all the time? Steve Sanderson argues that unit tests yield significant practical business value only for certain kinds of code. This blog post suggests what might be the underlying forces that determine whether unit tests will justify the long-term expense of creating and maintaining them. These ideas are then applied to structuring an ASP.NET MVC application.

NHibernate and Execution Plans

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:30:00 GMT

Lately we have been investigating ORM's (Object Relational Mapping) frameworks for use on a large enterprise level website which we been given the rare opportunity to rebuild from the ground up in Microsoft MVC. We decided to go ahead with NHibernate until stumbled across a major issue causing queries run by NHibernate not re-using SQL Server execution plans.

Getting Started with IronPython

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:00:00 GMT

I recently spent some time getting IronPython up and running on my system; I will review what I learned in this post.

Exclusive Interview With Steve Ballmer: Products, Competition, The Roa

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:30:00 GMT

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.

Fun With Method Missing and C# 4.0

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:00:00 GMT

Ruby has a neat feature that allows you to hook into method calls for which the method is not defined. In such cases, Ruby will call a method on your class named method_missing. I showed an example of this using IronRuby a while back when I wrote about monkey patching CLR objects. Typically, this sort of wild chicanery is safely contained within the world of those wild and crazy dynamic language aficionados, far away from the peaceful waters of those who prefer statically typed languages. Until now suckas! (cue heart pounding rock music with a fast beat)

Pay Attention to the Foreach Implicit Casting

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:15:00 GMT

In order to reduce an explicit conversion effort using the foreach statement, the C# developers decided to do an automatic conversion for us. We must pay attention to it...

The Law of Demeter Is Not A Dot Counting Exercise

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:45:00 GMT

As a discussion of a code expression with more than one dot grows longer, the probability that someone claims a Law of Demeter violation approaches 1

Delayed execution vs ToList() in LINQ Database Queries

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:00:02 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.

Asp.Net vs php : Speed Comparison

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:00:00 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...

Learning Doesn't Work if You Don't Do It Right...

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:56:03 GMT

If you're going to spend time reading and searching, make sure you know what works best for your brain.

Learning new Programmming Languages and Technologies

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:00:00 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...

How to test your multi-threaded code (part 1 of 3)?

Wed, 06 May 2009 23:01:04 GMT

CHESS is the answer. At least this is what we have best right now.

Building a Progressive Fluent Interface

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:31:32 GMT

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.

Construct a comma delimited list from table column with SQL

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:16:08 GMT

How many times have you had to create a comma delimited list from a table column? Do you ever remember how to do it? I don't. Here is a little snippet I find useful

YourTopJob.com - Find IT jobs across the UK

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:38:50 GMT

Job site, with IT jobs, across the UK

RegEx Multiple Matches with Lookahead Assertion

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:16:04 GMT

This is a quick article where I would like to show how to use regular expression to get all matches of a particular pattern from the string.

SQL Find last week date range

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:31:04 GMT

The other day we needed to write a report on online sales for the last week. SQL doesn't offer developers many predefined functions to work with date ranges unlike the C# programming language. Here is a little example how to query SQL for some data between the dates for the last week.

Anders Hejlsberg: The future of programming languages

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:31:02 GMT

In this video Anders Hejlsberg takes a look at the future of programming languages and sees the trends; declarative, dynamic and concurrent. As the chief designer of the C# programming language and a key participant in the development of the .NET Framework Anders Hejlsberg has a lot to say about this development - not just as a wish but also as something that can be realized.

ListBox Extension Method for Get and Set Selected Values

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:28:28 GMT

ASP.Net ListBox control allows two types of selection mode: single and multiple. Working in single selection mode is similar to working with DropDown list control. Use ListBox.SelectedValue to get the value that was selected by a user. In order to set a selection SelectedIndex property can be used or Selected property of a particular item should be set to true.

BlogEngine Flaws

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:01:10 GMT

Recently I've been having problems as the site has gotten more popular I've had comments and even posts disappearing randomly, sometimes re-appearing you might have experienced this yourself either on my site or in your own so after divulging into the code to see what was happening found something I thought was shocking. When you add a comment, or Rating, Approving and Remove Comments this is what BlogEngine DbBlogProvider actually does...

Web developers. You suck.

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:46:05 GMT

Well, JavaScript developers, specifically. In order to aid in development of my own websites, I enabled JavaScript debugging in Internet Explorer a few weeks back. To my horror, I have quickly experienced what seems to be complete disregard for serving syntactically correct JavaScript on the open internet. No, I'm not just talking about a few niche websites, run by amateur programmers. I am talking about industry-leading nerd-friendly powerhouse websites that should know better.

Get Checked Repeater Items Extension Method

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:46:12 GMT

Imagine you have a list of some items and checkboxes next to each item providing the ability for a user to make multiple choices and submit a result in one go. Weather you are implementing a news groups subscription, user survey or online products catalogue - the code behind is the same: we bind some object list to a data control like Repeater, add a checkbox to every item, set checkbox value to item ID.

enum to friendly string extension method

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:01:02 GMT

We use enums quite extensively in our application as they are a great for representing integral values in a strongly typed way using symbolic names. The enum names are not very friendly to the user and I recently read a some good articles which tried to solve this problem. However, I think i've found a better solution to this problem using extension methods.

SCOPE_IDENTITY() return the id from the database on insert

Fri, 23 May 2008 22:16:03 GMT

As a .NET programmer most of my time is spent coding in C# and I try to avoid writing SQL where possible. Recently I had to write an insert stored procedure and needed to return the ID of the row I was inserting. While writing my usual bad SQL I came across a fascinating function I've never used before, SCOPE_IDENTITY().