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Using SQLite in a Windows Phone app. Part 1

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:10:59 GMT

Although the Windows Phone platform doesn't support a local database out of the box, adding support for SQLite to a Windows Phone app is actually very easy. Vici CoolStorage, an open-source data access layer and ORM, allows you to add local SQLite db access to your Windows Phone app

The difference between 1986 and 2010

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:00:53 GMT

Why is Apple still living in the eighties? Just a tiny example of how languages and frameworks have evolved (unless you live in Apple's parallel universe)

Vici CoolStorage: ORM on MonoTouch made simple

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:34:26 GMT

Introducing the first port of a .NET ORM to MonoTouch, and how it can make life as an iPhone a lot easier.

Mercurial tutorial - by Joel Spolsky

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:30:00 GMT

Mercurial is a modern, open source, distributed version control system, and a compelling upgrade from older systems like Subversion. In this user-friendly, six-part tutorial, Joel Spolsky teaches you the key concepts.

Vici MVC finally released as part of the Vici Project

Sun, 31 May 2009 15:30:00 GMT

Vici MVC (formerly known as ProMesh.NET) has been released as part of the new Vici Project, an open-source collection of .NET libraries and frameworks.

How .NET Regular Expressions Really Work

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:46:04 GMT

A very deep dive into the source code for how .NET Regular Expressions really work

Is Nick Stakenburg Bullying His Open-Source 'Competitor'

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:16:02 GMT

This is obviously a scare tactic used by a vendor to frighten a 'competitor' who is encroachinig on his sales. Nick (the vendor) is jarred by the fact that someone has released a comparable (better?) product that his and it is free. It behaves somewhat the same, so obviously it was copied... This is a serious issue, we can't let companies push around open-source with threats like this.

How To Guarantee That Your Software Will Suck

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:31:10 GMT

Do you bad software and unhappy developers? Well, it isn't that hard...

Implementing a red black tree in C#

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:01:08 GMT

This article talks about how to implement a red-black tree in C#. The implementation is generic, and it also implements IEnumerable<T>.

Simple time mocking for testing time-dependent code

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:46:28 GMT

We all love writing unit tests, don't we?. But what if you need to test code that relies on the date or some elapsed time? Just fake the time!

LINQ To SQL Gets Kicked to the Curb... Needs A Good Home!

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:16:02 GMT

Great post on why L2S needs to be supported by the community and why a L2S targeted at the community is a good idea.

Extracting URLs, not perfect but "good enough"

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:52:32 GMT

Detecting URLs in text is harder than you would expect. In fact, it can't be done with a set of hard rules, but we can get very close by using a single .NET regular expression. Purists will protest, but what's wrong with "good enough"?

What's with the BOM in Visual Studio?

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:32:01 GMT

Ever seen weird bytes in your javascript code? Having problems with javascript not working in Google Chrome? Maybe you're the victim of BOM (byte-order marks) bytes that are saved with every javascript file you create in Visual Studio....

ProMesh.NET v2.0 RC1 is (finally) out

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:31:02 GMT

After months of writing documentation, the first release candidate of ProMesh.NET v2.0 has been released in the wild. ProMesh.NET is a powerful MVC framework for .NET 2.0 that has been around for a long time, but today it finally reached another important milestone.

ProMesh.NET v2.0 (MVC Framework) just around the corner

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:48:12 GMT

Time for an update on the state of ProMesh.NET, the open-source MVC Web Application framework I started a few years ago. The last public release was almost 7 months ago, and a lot has been changed since then. The original plan was to create a version 1.5, but I decided against that and made it in a full 2.0 release

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.

MVC Routing Security Hole

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:16:11 GMT

Stephen Walther's latest MVC tip introduced me to the MVC framework's ability to pass server variables into actions as parameters. Unfortunately using this feature is a very bad idea and could jeopardize the security of your application. Take a look at a code sample you might find surprising.

Unofficial google shell... awsome

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:16:04 GMT

Web base command shell for google. What else can I say?...

CoolStorage.NET 1.2.0 released

Fri, 30 May 2008 03:29:53 GMT

It has been almost one year since the last public release of CoolStorage.NET ("cool" open-source object mapper for .NET 2.0), but this doesn't mean the product was dead. A lot of people regularly downloaded the latest builds from CodePlex and I received a lot of great feedback, which finally lead to the release of version 1.2.

ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 Release

Wed, 28 May 2008 04:16:07 GMT

From ScottGu's weblog - "This morning we released the Preview 3 build of the ASP.NET MVC framework. I blogged details last month about an interim source release we did that included many of the changes with this Preview 3 release. Today's build includes some additional features not in last month's drop, some nice enhancements/refinements, as well as Visual Studio tool integration and documentation."

A good coding font makes a difference. Envy Code R, better than ever!

Wed, 28 May 2008 02:46:12 GMT

Am I the only one who believes a great programming font can boost your productivity and increase your coding joy? Check out Damien Guard's superb new release of Envy Code R, my favorite coding font.

The future of .NET, Visual Studio and more

Mon, 26 May 2008 15:31:04 GMT

The career pages of Microsoft give hints what the future holds for us developers. This post picks out the interesting little details about future versions of Visual Studio, .NET Framework, SharePoint, SQL Server etc and analyzes a bit what they could mean.

The problem(s) with value types

Wed, 28 May 2008 01:16:18 GMT

Value types can sometimes cause unexpected behavior. This post explains one of the pitfalls you can encounter when using arrays and lists of value types.

Microsoft Source Analysis for C# Released

Sat, 24 May 2008 00:31:14 GMT

From post: "Source Analysis is similar in many ways to Microsoft Code Analysis (specifically FxCop), but there are some important distinctions. FxCop performs its analysis on compiled binaries, while Source Analysis analyzes the source code directly. For this reason, Code Analysis focuses more on the design of the code, while Source Analysis focuses on layout, readability and documentation."

Wizards are evil

Thu, 22 May 2008 16:19:29 GMT

Generated code is great... if it was generated by you,or you fully understand the generated code! Essentially, when you are using a code generator, you will be screwed at some point in the future.