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Starting and using Git successfully

Wed, 12 May 2010 17:38:41 GMT

A great overview about how to get started with Git as well as some pitfalls to avoid if you are coming from SVN.

Build Tools Roundup For .NET Systems

Mon, 10 May 2010 16:25:37 GMT

A great breakdown of all the .Net build systems.

.NET 4.0 and System.Threading.Tasks

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:45:00 GMT

Quick look at threading in .NET 4.0 and the new System.Threading.Tasks.

The Siege Project: A Very Interesting Library to help with IOC

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:07:06 GMT

This library seems to go much further than the existing Service Locator abstractions to make working with different IOC containers much easier.

Fluent NHibernate with System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:51:14 GMT

Want to map your domain with DataAnnotations validation? Using Fluent NHibernate? Then take a look at how to create a simple convention!

IoC, SRP and DI best practices

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:00:00 GMT

A blog post summing some of real world IoC experiences in 5 "laws"

Analyzing AutoMapper performance

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:27:35 GMT

A great real world example of profiling a .net app or library

Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) - Part 6: InteractingViewModel

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:15:05 GMT

How to show ViewModels (Windows) from other ViewModels? This post gives an answer which pays attention to parent/child relations.

LINQPad (new version) - nice tool that can help you to stady LINQ.

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 06:41:18 GMT

LINQPad is nice tool that can help you to study LINQ. I have read firs overview of this tool. Absence auto-complete grieves most people. Auto-complete is present in new version. This option requiring payment. IMHO: auto-complete is more detrimental than efficiency for studying (but very useful for work). But I want say not about that. LINQPad is obtain other interesting feature. Author of this tool Joseph Albahari with your brother had written book "C# 3.0 in a Nutshell" and he added LINQ samples from ...

My ideal IDE

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:15:00 GMT

What some of us would like Visual Studio to do for us

Bart's Control Library - Not What You Think It Is - Part 0

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:46:43 GMT

Very interesting article on minimizing the use of keywords in c# for control flow.

Open Source or Die - The Real Future of Graffiti?

Tue, 12 May 2009 10:16:02 GMT

Telligent's Graffiti hasn't quite flatlined yet, but the signs aren't looking too good. Could OSS be the way to breathe life back into this once-promising CMS platform?

Kobe - MS New Web 2.0 Resource Kit in ASP.NET MVC and My thoughts

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:16:02 GMT

If you recently visited the home page of www.asp.net you will find that Microsoft has released a new Resource Kit for developing Web 2.0 Applications. The resource kit contains a sample reference application that is developed in ASP.NET MVC framework. Since both of these are my area of of interest, I downloaded the codes and give a quick walkthrough. Prior getting to the main discussion, I just want to remind you that it is the second reference application (after Oxite) that is named under Microsoft, so you are suppose to get some quality....

A Challenge to the VB.Net Community at Large on OSS

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:46:03 GMT

Title pretty much says it...

Why Windows 7 Will Save Microsoft

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:16:02 GMT

I was doing some thinking over the past few weeks and I came to a realization. Windows 7, with all of it's improvements in performance, new features, and more streamlined development process, will actually save Microsoft and redeem them from the whole Vista crash. So I decided to write up WHY Windows 7 will tromp every previous Windows version and why we should pay close attention to it.

Blacklist Extension for Author Names

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:04:30 GMT

Getting tired of deleting those darn Busby SEO Test comments on my blog I decided to do something about it. I created a new BlogEngine.NET extension that allows you to generate a blacklist using regular expressions to filter the author names.

Suspicious DNK Accounts

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:31:29 GMT

Conclusion There is an incentive for publishers that use DNK to setup phony accounts that will help get stories from certain domains on the front page. So guess what happens ... it would appear that a certain number of people are doing this.

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:31:13 GMT

"Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 are the next generation development tools and platform for Windows Vista, the 2007 Office System, and the Web."

IServiceLocator a step toward IoC container / Service locator detente

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:46:04 GMT

Today we launched an exciting project on CodePlex, namely the Common Service Locator library. What is it? It's a shared interface that applications and frameworks can reference in order to leverage IoC containers / service location mechanisms without taking hard dependencies.

Subversion Support Comes to CodePlex. Sorta'

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:01:02 GMT

A little publicized feature lets you use Subversion to access project hosted on CodePlex - without the need to run SvnBridge locally!

ASP.NET gets no Respect

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:16:11 GMT

Poor ASP.NET! Is it really that bad? I say No!

Elegant Invariant Checking with C# 3

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:16:03 GMT

Leveraging expression trees and extension methods to build a fluent invariant checking API.

I hate Vista. I'm moving to Windows Mojave.

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:31:03 GMT

So I've heard the bad press. I've seen the pc vs. mac ads. I've heard my friends' complaints about crashing, security, and speed. That's why I'm moving to Windows Mojave. It seems Microsoft finally got an OS right.

4 features for C# 4.0

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:16:03 GMT

C# 3.0 still hasnt sunk in yet for most, yet there already seems to be some buzz about c# features we would like to see in the future. Here is my take on the 4 language features i would like to see implemented in C#

Vb.Net one better than C#

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:31:02 GMT

This is the first time I have envied VB over C#. Here's a thing that is useful and you can do in Vb.Net, but not in C#.