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Foundations of Programming - Learning Application

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:46:10 GMT

If you're anything like me, you probably learn a lot better by going through code rather than reading books. I'm happy to release the Foundations of Programming Learning Application - it's a complete solution meant to show what was covered in the Foundations series.

Your Software Can't Heal Itself

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:46:03 GMT

Stop pretending that you can guess how a 100k line application is going to fail, and stop putting in tons of code to account for failures that you don't know are going to happen. How come we often ignore YAGNI in the face of writing robust software?

Microsoft cracking down on community extensions

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:01:02 GMT

Microsoft released a tool called Microsoft Source Analyzer, or StyleCop. It analyzes source code for standards violations. It's a 1.0 release, so it doesn't do some things ... like have a published API for custom rules or MSBuild integration. So the community dug in and figured out how to do these things and now MS is firing off license-violation emails. Don't they get it? The community wants to use the product, but it's too limited ... these extensions help make it better.

Free WPF Image File Viewer with Annotations

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:01:03 GMT

This post includes a free image file viewer application complete with annotation controls - source code for the project is also included - this is a Windows Presentation Foundation application, 100% .NET, and was built using the DotImage toolkit from Atalasoft.

Some concepts to know before you use an IoC tool

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:01:09 GMT

The baseline understanding required to effectively implement dependency injection

Foundations of Programming Ebook

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:46:04 GMT

Covering the basics of good programming.

I finally get the point of inversion of control

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:31:02 GMT

A quick overview of IoC (with diagrams!).

S#arp Architecture: ASP.NET MVC with NHibernate and Spring

Tue, 27 May 2008 13:16:04 GMT

Architectural foundation for rapidly building maintainable web applications leveraging the ASP.NET MVC framework with NHibernate 1.2 and Spring.NET 1.1.1.

Connect to a SQL Database and Use the LINQ to SQL Designer

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:05:02 GMT

To begin working with LINQ to SQL in Visual Studio 2008 you will need a database that you can query and a copy of SQL Express. If SQL Express is not installed on your system, you can download it here. Follow these steps to install and access the copy of the Northwind database that accompanies the samples that ship with Visual Studio 2008.