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Creating a Dynamic Extensible Expando Object

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:46:54 GMT

Rick Strahl takes us on a tour of the wonderful ExpandoObject in C# and shows us how to use it to create extensible objects with ease.

What is this thing you call a Type?

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:47:05 GMT

Eric Lippert talks about what a Type in .Net really is.

Open Source Command & Conquer game clone in C#

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:47:05 GMT

OpenRA is an open source clone of the Command & Conquer/Command & Conquer: Red Alert video games. This is a fun little project, and a good bit of code to look over for any C# programmers aspiring to create video games.

Amazon Web Services toolkit for Visual Studio

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:47:05 GMT

Now you can work with AWS from Visual Studio, which gives developers an alternative to Azure and AppFabric. The toolkit allows full maintenance of several AWS products (including SimpleDB).

7 Freely available E-Books/Guides I found essential for .NET Programme

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:00:52 GMT

Freely available E-Books/Guides I found essential for .NET Programme

String comparison algorithm (likeness)

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 06:00:52 GMT

Compare strings. How much alike are 2 strings. Pseudo semantic analysis. Levenshtein distance.

Write an Online Basketball Shooting Game Using Silverlight 4 and Farse

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:53:46 GMT

In this series of articles we will develop an online basketball game using the famous two-dimensional physics engine - Farseer (mainly PhysicsHelper 3.0) under Visual Studio 2010 and Silverlight 4.0 environments.

CouchDb vs RavenDB - Map & Reduce

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:30:52 GMT

A comparison of the Map/Reduce systems in CouchDB and RavenDB and an explanation of quite how different they really are.

Open Source .NET report printing library released

Sat, 29 May 2010 01:30:52 GMT

Using this report printing library, you'll be able to print professional reports with multiple sections fast and easily, with only a few lines of code.

Become a SharePoint Knight with IronRuby

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 06:20:08 GMT

Feel the Power of SharePoint and IronRuby, learn how to script your SharePoint Solutions.

SQL SERVER - GUID vs INT - Your Opinion

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:15:52 GMT

Take your side. State your case. Learn the reality.

Domain-Driven Design: Protect your persistence required methods

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:31:14 GMT

Create "hidden" methods on your model which are still easily accessible to your persistence layer without the use of reflection.

Video: SketchFlow in 90 seconds

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:37:41 GMT

You are pressed for time, but you are dying to know what SketchFlow is? The thought of watching an hour of demo video, like presented here, makes you look frantically at your watch?

Silverlight 4 Released

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:15:00 GMT

..and the much awaited announcement is finally here! Silverlight 4 was announced by Scott Guthrie at DevConnections! Here are some important links

It's Time for This: ActiveRecordEngine for ASP.NET MVC

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:15:00 GMT

Rob Conery speaks about his idea for implementing an ActiveRecordEngine for ASP.NET MVC. Kind of like how Rails does it, but more loosely coupled.

Performing Static Page Checking in MVC

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:00:00 GMT

Taking a look at how you can setup Static Type checking within your ASP.Net MVC web project. Having static checking is a great asset as it can reduce the chances of run time errors due to refactoring. Static checking will also allow the compiler to verify all your strongly typed objects are being called correctly.

xVal v1.0 is now released

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:00:00 GMT

In case you're not aware, xVal is a validation helper for ASP.NET MVC that lets you use your own choice of server-side validation framework (e.g., Microsoft's DataAnnotations attributes, or Castle Validator, or NHibernate Validaion) and dynamically generates client-side validation code from your rules. Version 1.0 adds new features including dynamic client-side validation summaries and remote (ajax) validation rules.

How to test your multi-threaded code (part 1 of 3)?

Wed, 06 May 2009 23:01:04 GMT

CHESS is the answer. At least this is what we have best right now.

Exponentially Improve Performance to Start ASP.net 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 Debug

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:46:05 GMT

Stop the waiting when debugging your ASP.Net Web Applications! Here's a complete RAM Disk solution to save your sanity.

ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 2

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:16:03 GMT

Release Candidate 2 for ASP.NET MVC is now available

15 Most Interesting jQuery Tutorials

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:01:04 GMT

This time we collected the most interesting jQuery tutorials.

CRUD with ASP.NET MVC (screencast)

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:46:02 GMT

Abstract: "In this video, the new tooling for Visual Studio included in ASP.NET MVC release candidate is demonstrated to create a create, read, update and delete user interface within 15 minutes."

How NOT To Optimize LINQ Statements

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:46:03 GMT

About a month ago I was experimenting with different ways to optimize my LINQ queries against the IdeaPipe database, in order to improve the read times. I wanted to improve the read times because our new Facebook Application was being launched and I anticipated an increase in our traffic to the server, which is used to host IdeaPipe and the Facebook Application component. I quickly realized how now to optimize LINQ statements though.

No GoLive required to use ASP.NET MVC in production

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:31:03 GMT

ASP.NET MVC EULA allows its usage in live operating environment, so it can be used in production

.Net 3.5 Changes as Seen from NDepends...

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:01:02 GMT

Really interesting breakdown of the new 3.5 sp release.