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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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Lazy Programming for Smarties(blogs.dotnetkicks.com)

submitted by bsenoffbsenoff(1583) 1 month, 6 days ago

As a programmer, I can honestly say that I am lazy. Forget the menial job of repeating tasks… if it takes me an hour to complete an iteration, I would rather spend 3 hours automating the process. You never know when you might need to do it again, and the click of a button is much more satisfying than an hour of processing data. I know I’m not the only one who feels this way either, otherwise Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas wouldn’t have codified the DRY principle in The Pragmatic Programmer…. Don’t Repeat Yourself. read more...

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Free DotNetNuke Month(www.epicwinhosting.com)

submitted by bsenoffbsenoff(1583) 1 month, 9 days ago

Sign up today and get a free month with your DotNetNuke instance. read more...

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Top 5 Memory Management Gotchas(www.red-gate.com)

submitted by bsenoffbsenoff(1583) 1 month, 9 days ago

Unmanaged memory is often leaked when you forget to write code to deallocate it; however this can also happen because references are retained to the managed object which is responsible for deallocating it. read more...

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Free VPS for a Month from Epic Win Hosting(www.epicwinhosting.com)

submitted by bsenoffbsenoff(1583) 1 month, 23 days ago

Try out Epic Win Hosting for free and see how terrific our service is with DNN, Orchard and other images. EWH is easy to use and powerful! read more...

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Happy Hour starts now: Building apps with the Cocktail platform(drc.ideablade.com)

submitted by bsenoffbsenoff(1583) 1 month, 23 days ago

Belly up to the Happy Hour bar, a Silverlight application (v.4 or v.5) that you'll build from scratch. MVVM, convention over configuration, view composition, screen navigation, data repositories … they are all introduced here in short, easy-to-follow lessons that build progressively from a blank solution to a plausible application. This series gets you started with Cocktail, guiding you towards proven architecture and practices that will sustain your application over time. We show you how … and we explain why. read more...

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DevForce LINQPad driver(www.ideablade.com)

submitted by bsenoffbsenoff(1583) 1 month, 23 days ago

LINQPad makes it easy to test and refine your LINQ queries without having to compile and run the query inside the context of a full application. DevForce makes it easy to use client-side LINQ queries in an n-tier RIA application like Silverlight, WPF, and soon Metro. read more...

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TempHire reference: Best practice architecture for biz apps(drc.ideablade.com)

submitted by bsenoffbsenoff(1583) 2 months, 11 days ago

Cocktail ships with a reference application called TempHire, a line-of-business application for an imaginary temporary hiring agency. TempHire is available as Silverlight 4 and WPF solutions, sharing most of the code between the two solutions. read more...

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64-bit Small and Medium Instances are Here!(www.epicwinhosting.com)

submitted by bsenoffbsenoff(1583) 2 months, 18 days ago

You can now run all our images on either 32 or 64-bit platforms. Previously 64-bit was limited to Micro's so if you wanted the ability to easily upgrade you needed to run 32-bit. No Longer! read more...

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Stumped by .Net Memory Management?(www.red-gate.com)

submitted by bsenoffbsenoff(1583) 2 months, 19 days ago

seems intimidating, but the fundamentals can be easily understood. Here is the beast explained...with a little humor. read more...

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Introducing Wijmo, a feature-packed jQueryUI based widget library(codeclimber.net.nz)

submitted by simonechsimonech(10.1k) 2 months, 27 days ago

A introduction to Wijmo, a jQuery UI based component library, and the rational behind the decision of adopting it vs other component libraries read more...

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Understanding Unit Testing(blogs.dotnetkicks.com)

submitted by bsenoffbsenoff(1583) 2 months, 29 days ago

Unit testing has become nearly ubiquitous in software development, but the large number of frameworks, tools, and development processes can leave many people confused. This article is meant to help developers who are not currently using unit tests, or use them very little, begin ensuring code quality with repeatable tests by outlining various frameworks and methodologies available. read more...

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Getting data on how your software is used(www.applicationmetrics.com)

submitted by bsenoffbsenoff(1583) 3 months, 3 days ago

Application Metrics is an ingeniously simple system to gain insight into how your applications are used - whether they're built for web, desktop, or mobile. With minimal changes, your application will report back information on how it is used by your customers, along with environmental information that precisely characterizes your user's system or device. read more...

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Window 8 Hello World!(blogs.dotnetkicks.com)

submitted by bsenoffbsenoff(1583) 3 months, 6 days ago

You’ve probably been hearing all the buzz about Windows 8. With the first public beta set to release this month it’s difficult not to be excited about it. There are many things that entice me surrounding Windows 8 and I feel that it will revolutionize personal computing above and beyond the current tablet revolution (made popular by Android-based tablets and iPads). read more...

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WordPress VPS Now Available(www.epicwinhosting.com)

submitted by bsenoffbsenoff(1583) 3 months, 9 days ago

A new image with WordPress, PHP, MySql, and MySql Workbench preinstalled and configured is now available. read more...

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Cocktail development platform goes live(cocktail.ideablade.com)

submitted by bsenoffbsenoff(1583) 3 months, 11 days ago

Cocktail takes the pain out of developing enterprise applications in Silverlight or WPF. Cocktail leverages established patterns and practices, such as MVVM, and builds on DevForce’s rich data service capabilities. read more...

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