Behaviour-Driven Development in .NET with SpecFlow and White(devblog.cloudreach.co.uk)

submitted by MikeBorozdin(1146) 6 days, 10 hours ago

This article gives an overview of behaviour-driven development (BDD), talks about .NET tools for BDD (SpecFlow) and UI testing (White) and proceeds with a working example giving hands on BDD in .NET read more...

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Developing Applications for Visio with Visual Studio(www.mikeborozdin.com)

submitted by MikeBorozdin(1146) 8 months, 23 days ago

This tutorial demonstrates how to extend the Visio functionality by writing an Visio add-in with VSTO, creating a standalone application with both Windows Forms and WPF, and finally by building a browse application with WPF (XBAP). read more...

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WPF DataGrid CheckBox Single Click Checking/Unchecking(www.mikeborozdin.com)

submitted by MikeBorozdin(1146) 11 months, 14 days ago

WPF DataGrid has a very annoying behaviour of forcing users to click twice on a checkbox in order to check or uncheck it. There are a number of solutions proposing handling mouse preview events and switching a DataGrid into the edit mode manually. The problem with such solutions is that the require writing quite a lot of extra code that seems to be an overkill for such a minor, yet irritating problem. I propose a better option, to use a DataGridTemplateColumn instead of DataGridCheckBoxColumn. read more...

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Graphical Tools for SQL Server CE 4.0(www.mikeborozdin.com)

submitted by MikeBorozdin(1146) 1 year, 8 months ago

SQL Server CE 4.0 CTP has promising features, but it's a bit unclear how to manage its databases. This post explains how to use WebMatrix and SQL Server Toolbox for that task. read more...

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Introducing SQL Server CE 4.0 CTP(www.mikeborozdin.com)

submitted by MikeBorozdin(1146) 1 year, 8 months ago

Learn what SQL Server CE 4.0 means for ASP.NET developers. Find out where you can get it and how to install. And finally learn how you can create tables with no tools provided. read more...

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Design Patterns are not a Silver Bullet and the State of the Programmi(mikeborozdin.com)

submitted by MikeBorozdin(1146) 2 years, 4 months ago

Design patterns are not a universal tool that can be applied to any project or be used with any programming language. Quality code can be produced without implementing any pattern or even without using OOP. One shouldn’t think of their colleagues as of bad developers if they don’t know the names of fancy design patterns. Moreover, not any single programming project is a business application. read more...

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AJAX File Upload in ASP.NET with the AsyncFileUpload Control(mikeborozdin.com)

submitted by MikeBorozdin(1146) 2 years, 7 months ago

Finally, it has become possible to easily add AJAX file uploading capabilities to ASP.NET applications. The newly released version of the AJAX Control Toolkit ships with two new controls, one of them is called AsyncFileUpload control which was designed specially for the above mentioned purpose read more...

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Working with Google Maps API in ASP.NET(mikeborozdin.com)

submitted by MikeBorozdin(1146) 2 years, 10 months ago

The tutorial of working with the Google Maps API in ASP.NET. How to programatically find a place on the map, let users choose a place on the map by dragging a marker and etc. read more...

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Sneak Preview: Persistence Ignorance and POCO in Entity Framework 4.0(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by MikeBorozdin(1146) 3 years ago

Entity Framework 4.0 introduces support for Plain Old CLR Objects, or POCO types that do not need to comply with any of the following restrictions: read more...

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Put EntityDataSource Attributes to Code-Behind(mikeborozdin.com)

submitted by MikeBorozdin(1146) 3 years, 2 months ago

When using EntityDataSource or LinqDataSource or even ObjectDataSource you tend to put too much data specific code to your .aspx templates, which certainly is no good. At the same time you can apply a good technique by moving attribute assignment to code-behind. read more...

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CSS Class Names Instead of ASP.NET Client IDs(mikeborozdin.com)

submitted by MikeBorozdin(1146) 3 years, 3 months ago

In ASP.NET the client IDs of controls are often really unpredictable. However in order to reference a rendered HTML element you can use the CssClass attribute and jQuery selectors! read more...

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Do You Suffer From Information Overload?(mikeborozdin.com)

submitted by MikeBorozdin(1146) 3 years, 3 months ago

Do you ever feel surrounded by tons of information that you think you don’t have time to consume? I guess everyone remembers that feeling when you are glancing at your RSS reader and say to yourself: “Jeez, that’s really interesting, all that new development tools and useful refactoring patterns, but I don’t really have time for that, I need to finish my project, cause the deadline is coming”. read more...

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Send Your Feedback about Internet Explorer 8 and Other Beta Products(mikeborozdin.com)

submitted by MikeBorozdin(1146) 3 years, 3 months ago

If you are using IE8 Beta or RC1, but not satisfied with its features or simply spotted a bug, it's reasonable to just send a feedback via the Microsoft Connect web site. read more...

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Making the Entity Framework Fit Your Domain - Part 2(codethinked.com)

submitted by MikeBorozdin(1146) 3 years, 4 months ago

In the first part I talked about getting up to the point where I realized that without going IPOCO I would not be able to use the Entity Framework with any sort of approximation of a real application domain. In this post we are going to go over the entity that I have created and talk about the issues that I had along the way. read more...

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Thoughts on Internet Explorer 8 Usability(mikeborozdin.com)

submitted by MikeBorozdin(1146) 3 years, 4 months ago

Some thoughts from a Firefox user... read more...

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Understanding Attaching/Detaching Objects in LINQ to SQL and in the EF(mikeborozdin.com)

submitted by MikeBorozdin(1146) 3 years, 4 months ago

How can you update/remove objects without retrieving them from the database? read more...

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