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Object Pipelines(www.blackwasp.co.uk)

submitted by BlackWaspBlackWasp(4212) 2 days, 2 hours ago

A pipeline is a chain of connected steps that process information. In object pipelines, each step receives an object and performs an action using it before passing an object to the next step. This repeats until every step is complete. read more...

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SQL Data Decimation by Date Range and Nth Record(www.arroyocode.com)

submitted by ArroyocodeArroyocode(101) 2 days, 19 hours ago

Data decimation (aka Down Sampling) of large SQL datasets allows application to quickly visualize trends in data over large historical periods greatly improving application performance. Combining a custom date range and a SQL Modulo operator, quickly and evenly display long periods of data. read more...

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ASP.NET MVC Performance Profiling(www.adathedev.co.uk)

submitted by AdaTheDevAdaTheDev(123) 3 days, 12 hours ago

The benefits of using MiniProfiler for profiling an ASP.NET / ASP.NET MVC application read more...

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INotifyPropertyChanged with Compile Time Checking(www.codecapers.com)

submitted by threenine39threenine39(329) 4 days, 11 hours ago

neat little tips for wpf read more...

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Developer Productivity Tools and Visual Studio Extensions(www.mehdi-khalili.com)

submitted by dpetersondpeterson(4397) 5 days, 12 hours ago

Mehdi Khalili shares what's in his toolbox for Visual Studio. It's a curated list of some of the best productivity boosters available. read more...

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A Basic Guide to Building Chrome Extensions(deanhume.com)

submitted by deanomachinodeanomachino(764) 5 days, 17 hours ago

Google Chrome has come a long way since it's early days. I am a big fan of the Chrome Developer tools and use it in my day to day development. There are also loads of great tools and extensions that are on offer at the Chrome store, and most are available to download for free. Depending on your requirements, creating a Chrome extension is really quick and easy - all it requires is a little knowledge of JavaScript and HTML. In this post, I am going to run through a tutorial that shows you how to create a small Chrome extension that allows you to display the top 5 posts on this blog from the RSS feed in a popup. It is a pretty basic example, but will give you a good understanding of Chrome extension development. read more...

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Basic HTTP authentication in ASP.NET Web API using membership provider(www.piotrwalat.net)

submitted by pwalatpwalat(44) 9 days, 2 hours ago

Blog pos showingt how to provide Basic HTTP authentication in ASP.NET Web API with support for membership and role providers by extending framework’s AuthotrizeAttribute. read more...

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Towards more secure password hashing in ASP.NET(www.dotnetnoob.com)

submitted by klingsklings(50) 9 days, 16 hours ago

A lot can be done to increase security of how password hashes are created and stored in ASP.NET applications. This article explains more about the PBKDF2 algorithm found in the framework, and how to configure it for more secure password hashing. read more...

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Post-increment Operator and Precedence(www.kodefuguru.com)

submitted by KodefuGuruKodefuGuru(2818) 10 days, 6 hours ago

int i = 0; i = i++ + i--; Console.Write(i); What is written to the console? read more...

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EF5 Release Candidate Now Available(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by dpetersondpeterson(4397) 10 days, 12 hours ago

The release candidate for Entity Framework 5.0 is now available on Codeplex. There have been several new improvements since beta 2. read more...

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Why use generics in C# dot net(techsamosa.com)

submitted by ankygoyalankygoyal(519) 12 days, 14 hours ago

This article briefly describes the main benefits of using generics in c# read more...

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Asp.net Web API and google chrome’s Postman plugin(ianswerable.com)

submitted by govindmalviyagovindmalviya(14) 13 days, 12 hours ago

debug and test your Asp.net Web API with google chrome’s Postman plugin read more...

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Work Stealing | Passion of Programming in .NET(badamczewski.blogspot.com)

submitted by badamczewskibadamczewski(9) 13 days, 16 hours ago

When working with multi threaded applications, we tend to spawn worker threads which can lead to ineffective code when not done correctly, for example threads will not get reused and will be recreated for each work items. The solution to all those problems is a ThreadPool which reuses threads and queues work items that are consumed by those threads. This sort of implementation while simple can have side effects as unless the pool Queue is immutable it will have to be locked each time an item Enqueued and... read more...

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Hello Services / WCF, WebAPI, REST, JSON And Ajax(www.kendoui.com)

submitted by burkehollandburkeholland(48) 16 days, 10 hours ago

This is the second module in the series "HTML5 Development For ASP.NET Developers". This screencast / post covers how to create RESTful services with WCF WebAPI and how to consume those services with jQuery using JSON serialization. read more...

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Windows Dedicated Servers vs. Virtual Private Servers(www.epicwinhosting.com)

submitted by bsenoffbsenoff(1583) 16 days, 22 hours ago

Our friends of Epic Win Hosting spell out all of the differences you need to know about. read more...

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Creating Parallel Tasks with TaskFactory(www.blackwasp.co.uk)

submitted by BlackWaspBlackWasp(4212) 23 days, 3 hours ago

The Task Parallel Library provides a number of ways in which parallel tasks can be instantiated. This article describes the use of the TaskFactory class, which uses the factory method design pattern to generate and start tasks with a single method call. read more...

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