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JavascriptHelper-Managing JS files for ASP.NET MVC

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 23:21:00 GMT

If some part of an ASP.NET MVC page, say a helper or partial page, needs a particular JavaScript file, there's not easy way to manage them. Wouldn't it be great if there was a way to automatically figure out just the files we need for a certain page, and include just those, without us having to do a lot of thinking about it. Isn't that the type of thing we invented computers for?

Honest Illusion : Creating an Entity Framework connection from another

Tue, 03 May 2011 22:02:24 GMT

Database connection strings used to be simple. Well, simple, once you learned the arcane syntax, But, at least they had stayed the same for about a decade. But with the EntityFramework, they took on an even more arcane "connection string - within -a -connection string" format. And while the inner connection string related to your database, the wrapping connection string was intimately tied to the entity context.

Naked Came The Null Delegate : Chapter 1 - "I, Disposable !"

Sat, 09 Oct 2010 12:29:18 GMT

The start of a collaborative novel of sex, treachery, intrigue, and SEX in the .Net World "Slowly, as the rest of his coworkers drift off towards home, Seymour Sharpton, continued on in his cubical. He didn't mind. He was trying to look busy, but was really just writing on his Facebook wall.. He knew the one other person working late that night. He had carefully arranged for the new intern - the exotic Vissa Basicova - (a pure virtual..."

Lambda Expressions as Properties

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:08:27 GMT

A way of organizing code using Lambda instead of subclasses.

jQuery.growl Documentation

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:53:19 GMT

jQuery.growl is a cool open-source plugin for a cool open-source javascript library. Some just needed to tell people how to used it.

Lists: Filter, Map and Reduce - and the Magic of IEnumerator.

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:49:30 GMT

There are 3 very handy list functions which make dealing with lists a breeze: Map, Filter and Reduce. But along the way of writing them, an important principle of IEnumerator<> comes up.

The Complete Reference for Any jQuery Developer

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:31:02 GMT

If you ever to do something with jQuery, you should find it in this extensive list.

The Need for Common Search Keywords.

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:57:17 GMT

If you ever tried to Google something like "how to write a linked list in C#" you may have noticed a problem. Most search engines have trouble dealing with the pound sign...

Joins - LINQ's critical, overlooked feature.

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:06:43 GMT

Joins are a vital part of SQL -- but most ORM ignore them -- except for LINQ.

What's inside a foreach() statement?

Fri, 18 May 2007 13:46:49 GMT

A comparision of a foreach() loop and manually looping by calling GetEnumerator() and MoveNext()

More Fun with C# Interators : A Counting Iterator

Thu, 17 May 2007 12:31:01 GMT

A C# Iterator which appears to be a collection filled with a sequence of numbers.