A recipe for Dev to Production with ASP.NET MVC and RavenDB(devdirective.com)

submitted by RobertTheGrey(447) 1 month, 24 days ago

Been meaning to spend time looking into a NOSQL solution, but don't have time to do the research? Now is your chance! We've broken it down for you so you can get at this topic from dev to production. So, don't be tentative and let procrastination hold you back. Learn this stuff! You'll be happy you gave it the time it deserves... read more...

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Mono 2.11.0 is out(tirania.org)

submitted by Noldorin(829) 2 months ago

Michael de Icaza details the various new features and enhancements that come with the important new 2.11 milestone of the Mono project. This includes largely complete support for the new SGen garbage collector, .NET 4.5 and C# 5.0 support (including partial WinRT support), and a number of other exciting changes. read more...

1 comment |category: Mono |Views: 132

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5 things to learn about ASP.NET MVC 4(devdirective.com)

submitted by RobertTheGrey(447) 2 months ago

MVC took 3 versions to become a stable and widely usable web application development framework, but still had you doing many things from the ground up. Version 4 now comes with plenty more in the box and it's looking more and more like a web framework to be reckoned with read more...

2 comments |category: MVC |Views: 665

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5 things you never thought about doing with MVC 3(devdirective.com)

submitted by RobertTheGrey(447) 2 months ago

Let's face it - there are a lot of sites out there now running MVC3, probably mostly using the same patterns. This is a taster of some of the creative ways that this versatile platform is being used. read more...

2 comments |category: MVC |Views: 591

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Build a p2p chat application with WPF and ASP.NET Web API(www.strathweb.com)

submitted by fdub(281) 2 months, 1 day ago

Learn how to build a fully functional WPF p2p (peer-to-peer) chat application with ASP.NET Web API and .NET 4.5 read more...

3 comments |category: Windows Presentation Foundation |Views: 161

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What else is new in C# 5?(www.mindscapehq.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 2 months, 4 days ago

Ivan Towlson shows us some of the neat new features in C# 5 that aren't getting as much press: method caller information and loop variables in lambdas. read more...

1 comment |category: C# |Views: 700

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Building Expression Evaluator with Expression Trees in C# – Part 3(www.aboutmycode.com)

submitted by mcnamaragio(283) 2 months, 5 days ago

A third post of a series about building expression evaluator using expression trees in C#. This post adds support for variables using shunting yard algorithm. read more...

add a comment |category: C# |Views: 183

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Why Metro?(blogs.dotnetkicks.com)

submitted by codingbandit(37) 2 months, 7 days ago

A post about the Windows 8 Metro experience - chime in here on reasons why you think it's a good thing, a bad thing or if you're indifferent about it .. read more...

add a comment |category: Windows 8 |Views: 227

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Using C# 5.0 Async for File Access(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 4 months, 2 days ago

Alan Berman shows us how we can improve the responsiveness of our applications without jumping through callback hoops by taking advantage of C# 5.0 async when performing file I/O. read more...

add a comment |category: C# |Views: 337

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Going Faster: Sexy numbers and full post-mortem(blogs.dotnetkicks.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 4 months, 3 days ago

In a followup to my article on how not to suck at serving web content, I go over what we did to improve page performance at DotNetKicks and why it worked. Read the first post if you haven't already: http://blogs.dotnetkicks.com/dnk-jump-in/2011/12/21/going-faster-how-not-to-suck-at-serving-web-content/ read more...

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A few principles for writing blazing fast code in .NET(www.smelser.net)

submitted by JoeGeeky(364) 4 months, 4 days ago

Just a few tips to write code that requires higher performance demands read more...

2 comments |category: C# |Views: 1020

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async / await, some reasoning (blogs.microsoft.co.il)

submitted by bnaya(431) 4 months, 7 days ago

async / await some reasoningasync / await some reasoning this post will try to make some reasoning about the .NET 4.5 / C#5 await keyword. I will begin a quiz. how long will it take to the following method to produce the 42 value?Code SnippetasyncTask read more...

1 comment |category: C# |Views: 38

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Visual Studio Achievements, now a reality!(blog.whiletrue.com)

submitted by rudib(49) 4 months, 8 days ago

Follow up to last year's comic story on Visual Studio having game-like achievements. read more...

3 comments |category: Visual Studio |Views: 316

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10 Things ASP.NET Developers Should Know About Web.config Inheritance(weblogs.asp.net)

submitted by jongalloway(4380) 4 months, 9 days ago

Ten things you should know about Web.config inheritance and overrides that will simplify some configuration challenges and help with debugging. Bet there are some you didn't know about! read more...

5 comments |category: ASP.NET |Views: 1282

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MVC Asynchronous Controller : The Basics(deanhume.com)

submitted by deanomachino(764) 4 months, 9 days ago

When I first saw the Asynchronous Controllers introduced in MVC 2, I couldn't wait to start playing around. I thought that it would be a really easy to get up and running with a simple example, but after searching online for a few working examples - pretty much all of them used an event based pattern that wasn't easy to understand. In this blog post I am going to run through a really simple example that will show you the basics of Asynchronous Controllers, and show you how easy they really are. read more...

add a comment |category: MVC |Views: 205

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Utilising MEF to self-register HTTP modules(blog.tompipe.co.uk)

submitted by stemyers(50) 4 months, 9 days ago

Learn how to use MEF and .NET 4’s new PreApplicationStart as a configuration fee way to register HTTP modules. read more...

1 comment |category: ASP.NET |Views: 130

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