Design Patterns – Using the Singleton Pattern in C#(dotnetcube.com)

submitted by dncdude(1350) 2 years, 10 months ago

Singleton Pattern belongs to the category of Creational Patterns. If you recall from the Overview article, the Creational Patterns are the subset of Design Patterns that encapsulate the logic of object creation. In a Singleton Pattern, there is a class (Singleton class) that ensures that only a single instance of itself can be created. It also provides a global point of access to this instance. So, irrespective of where in your code base this class is instantiated, you will always get access to the same instance. read more...

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Free PowerShell EBook(kodefuguru.com)

submitted by KodefuGuru(2818) 2 years, 10 months ago

Looking for something to do this weekend? Looking to master PowerShell? PowerShell MVP Dr. Tobias Weltner has released a free book just for you, Mastering Powershell! read more...

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Maximizing View of SQL Server Management Studio – Full Screen(blog.sqlauthority.com)

submitted by pinaldave(9662) 2 years, 10 months ago

I had a great, unforgettable time at Teched India 2009 in Hyderabad. I had delivered a successful session on SQL Server Management Studio Best Practices, which created a lot of interest in community. I was truly amazed at the tremendous response I got. I received countless different questions on this subject as soon as the event was over. One of the most frequently asked questions was about my demo on how to increase real estate of SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio). I had explained the following two different methods: read more...

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How to read from Performance Counters(dimecasts.net)

submitted by dwhittaker(13.1k) 2 years, 10 months ago

Part of the core .net framework allows you to not only create performance counters, but also allows you to read from them as well. We will show how you can easily create hooks to take advantage of these counters and read in the data. read more...

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Bing Desktop Translator using C# and VB.NET(dotnetcurry.com)

submitted by shobankr(165) 2 years, 10 months ago

n this article we will see how we can create a simple Desktop Translator which uses the Bing Translator API. read more...

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Introducing CodePaste.NET(west-wind.com)

submitted by rstrahl(7226) 2 years, 10 months ago

As a learning experience for taking ASP.NET MVC for a spin I recently created a new site that has now gone live: Codepaste.NET which provides a public location to post code snippet and link them from social network sites that have limited input lengths and make code discussions otherwise difficult. The site's a work in process, but I hope it's useful to some of you for sharing and discussing small blocks of code online. read more...

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Url.Action() and RouteValue Encoding(west-wind.com)

submitted by rstrahl(7226) 2 years, 10 months ago

When creating custom URLs with the UrlHelper.Action() method is a great way to create links to other URLs in the current Web application. However, you need to be careful of certain encoding issues as certain characters are not correctly encoded to work properly as parameters. read more...

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How to add "Open with reflector" to your right-click actions(itscodeinhere.com)

submitted by RhythmAddict(440) 2 years, 10 months ago

A tip for convenience, this post provides instructions on how to easily add "Open with reflector" to your windows explorer right-click menu so you can right-click and open any DLL with reflector. read more...

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Branch-Per-Feature Source Control. Introduction(lostechies.com)

submitted by nprather(105) 2 years, 10 months ago

Derick Bailey starts a new series on Source Control, specifically looking at the idea of having a branch of source code for every feature being created. In Part 1: Why he looks at traditional approach, and the many down sides of working this way, and looks at how Branch Per Feature addresses those problems read more...

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Sharp Architecture RTM (devlicio.us)

submitted by dove(735) 2 years, 10 months ago

A well worked and actively contributed lightweight framework to build ASP.net MVC apps with NHibernate. read more...

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Styling Silverlight Controls(jeffblankenburg.com)

submitted by sadukie(505) 2 years, 10 months ago

On the 10th day of 31 Days of Silverlight, Jeff Blankenburg takes us through how to style controls in Silverlight. read more...

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SELECT 1 vs SELECT * – An Interesting Observation(blog.sqlauthority.com)

submitted by pinaldave(9662) 2 years, 10 months ago

I have been using SELECT 1 instead of SELECT * when checking existence of rows. I would like to see what my readers have opinion about this. Please have your opinion and make your comment here. read more...

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The Law of Demeter Is Not A Dot Counting Exercise(haacked.com)

submitted by gschuager(110) 2 years, 10 months ago

As a discussion of a code expression with more than one dot grows longer, the probability that someone claims a Law of Demeter violation approaches 1 read more...

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Building a NAnt script - Part 5: Adding MSTest results to your build s(dimecasts.net)

submitted by dwhittaker(13.1k) 2 years, 10 months ago

Taking a look at how to add in the ability to run the MSTest testing engine via our scripts to run our MSTest unit tests. read more...

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LINQ to SQL and Transactions(west-wind.com)

submitted by rstrahl(7226) 2 years, 10 months ago

Using explicit Transactions with Linq to Sql is fairly rare but when you need them you'll find that it natively doesn't provide manual transaction management. Rather you have to rely on the TransactionScope class to provide transaction wrapping. Here's a contrived example, and a couple of different transaction scenarios using TransactionScope to manage multiple L2S data operation as a single transaction. read more...

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SQL SERVER – Backup Timeline and Understanding of Database Restore Pro(blog.sqlauthority.com)

submitted by pinaldave(9662) 2 years, 10 months ago

In general, databases backup in full recovery mode are taken in three different kinds of database files. 1. Full Database Backup 2. Differential Database Backup 3. Log Backup What really perplexes most people is differential database backup. read more...

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