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Tagging in Normalized Form

Sun, 08 Feb 2009 11:36:18 GMT

How I designed and implemented post tagging on a custom blog engine.

Using Custom Attributes for Fun and Profit

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:59:51 GMT

How custom attributes can improve your QA Process and provide better visibility to the overall health of project code.

Infinite Lists With C# Yield

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:01:07 GMT

What we are about to talk about here may seem like a purely academic exercise, but hopefully I will convince you that this isn't exactly the case. There are several situations in real-world applications where infinite lists can appears if only we were to think about them in the right way.

LINQ-To-Objects and Referential Equality

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:33:28 GMT

I explore why Distinct() does not work with a custom comparer object, and then demonstrate a custom version that uses lambda's to define comparison rules.

Benchmarking the CLR vrs the JVM

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:42:48 GMT

I've found that there are lots of flame wars regarding JVM/CLR performance, but very little solid data, so I thought I'd try running a benchmark of my own.

Announcing GFilter Open Beta

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:42:17 GMT

GFilter has been a small project that I began this week, and I am now opening up for beta. Please drop any bug reports as a comment here. The concept behind GFilter is simple. GFilter allows you to create a personal blacklist of sites that you do not want to show up when you search the internet. This means no more Experts Exchange when you are trying to find a handy regular expression etc...

Order of keys in Dictionary

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:21:04 GMT

The article looks at the order of keys returned by a call to Dictionary.Keys and describes why we cannot make design decisions relying on that.

Domain Objects and Data Readers

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:08:37 GMT

How to defensively code your object population methods so they can handle varying columns in a passed Data Reader.

How to find local Data Sources on your server

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:48:42 GMT

Part of the difficulty of installing custom database driven sites onto remote servers is the unpredictability of the server configuration. I am trying to ease that pain by automating as much as possible the initial configuration.

MVC: ViewData vs TempData

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:46:02 GMT

How do I pass data to a view when using RedirectToAction? TempData. Find out more about how TempData works and how it is different than ViewData.

ASP.NET MVC Dynamic Route builder Released

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:16:02 GMT

This is a simple HTTPModule that allows you to place your routing rules in web.config were they belong.

How To: Validation Using ASP.NET MVC

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:31:02 GMT

Validation using ASP.NET MVC.

ASP.NET MVC makes it impossible to dynamically build RouteTables?

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:26:27 GMT

If you cannot construct an anonymous class during runtime, then there is no way to dynamically build route tables with the MVC framework as it is currently designed.

Fixing the Visual Studio 2008 "InitializingToolbox" bug.

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:20:46 GMT

Opening a ASPX file would stall my system, spike my CPU/Ram usage and sit there frozen, with the message "Initializing Toolbox" in the status bar.

Setting up a SQLEXPRESS Database for use with ASP.NET

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 12:57:52 GMT

How to get solve authentication and permissions issues when using SQLExpress and ASP.NET

The hidden ORM Tax and why profiling is a good thing.

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 03:14:15 GMT

I use a profiler to examine how efficient an ActiveRecord implementation really is, and in turn, find out how inefficient my code really is.

Extend your application by creating a Plugin System

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 07:31:05 GMT

A quick overview of a simple plug-in architecture to allow for future extensibility.

Microsoft and Innovation

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 00:46:02 GMT

Here, in no particular order, are just a few thing that the "evil empire" came up with first.

SQL Server 2005 Fail-over Cluster Upgrade Post Mortem

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:00:46 GMT

An article that discusses potential 'gotcha's when upgrading a SQL Server 2000 fali-over cluster to SQL Server 2005 with workarounds.

MSSQL SERVER 2008 New Features for Developers

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:31:02 GMT

MSSQL SERVER 2008 New Features for Developers

SQL Server Best Practices -links in TechNet

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 23:16:04 GMT

Get the real-world guidelines, expert tips, and rock-solid guidance to take your SQL Server implementation to the next level. These SQL Server best practices draw on the extensive experience and expertise from respected developers and engineers at Microsoft, who walk you through the specifics on solving particularly difficult issues.

Visual Studio 2008 Resources

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:44:52 GMT

By now it is no secret that Visual Studio 2008 will RTM before the end of November. Soma mentioned this at TechEd Europe and I couldn't be more excited! Make sure you are getting ready with for the new version by checking out our webcasts and other training materials that are available. Here is a list of places to help you get prepared:

LINQ: How to do joins between a relational database and xml data

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:32:42 GMT

At my Houston MSDN Event (http://www.msdnevents.com) I had a student ask me if it was possible to do a Join between different data sources using LINQ. Specifically, he asked about joining XML data with SQL data. So I thought "What the hell, let's give it a shot." It turns out you CAN do joins between different data sources with no problems that I can see. Here is my example of how to join SQL and XML data using LINQ.

Simple Serialization and Deserialization in C#

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:39:36 GMT

This post shows how to convert any .NET object to stream of bytes that can be saved on a disk, sent by a protocol via internet etc.

How to create a custom RSS Syndicator

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:52:21 GMT

Code snippets and explanation of how RSS was added to CodeBlog.