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A simple way to run C# code from bat file

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:03:16 GMT

Demonstrating a way how to embed C# code into BAT file

Adding Git Command Line To Visual Studio

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 04:34:17 GMT

If you are an avid Git user like I am, but also happen to work in a Visual Studio environment, you know that getting to your Git Bash command prompt is anything but easy.

Create Fluent API in C#

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:20:17 GMT

Blog explains how Fluent API can be created using C#.

5 Ways That Postsharp Can SOLIDify Your Code: Authorization

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:13:43 GMT

One of the best uses of AOP is to take cross-cutting concerns that repeat themselves over and over in your system, and move them into their own class. Authentication and authorization are important parts of many applications, but too often the code to check if a user is authorized is spread all over the app. A class should have one and only one reason to change, so let's get the "auth" stuff into its own class.

WPF Themes now available on NuGet

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:08:17 GMT

WPF Themes are now available on NuGet

Modifying LINQ To SQL command text

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 20:37:17 GMT

Here's a bit of code that'll let you modify any command text LINQ To SQL generates before it hits the database. It's always been possible to call DataContext.GetCommand and use modified SQL in a call to DataContext.Translate or DataContext.ExecuteQuery, but that's pretty restrictive in the complexity of query you can use. Also, if LINQ To SQL decides it needs to batch multiple SELECT statements for the desired results, GetCommand can only give you the first one. The first thing to do is replace the IProvider implementation used by your DataContext. Unfortunately, DataContext's Provider property is both private and read-only. Also, the IProvider interface itself is private. This is bad in every way, and we absolutely shouldn't try to hack our way through that. but we will.

How to get rid from annoying IE warning when you debug a Silverlight

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 14:20:29 GMT

When you try to open a local file, Internet Explorer gives the following warning: "To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has restricted this webpage from running scripts or ActiveX controls that could access your computer.Click here for options.".

The Complete Guide To Validation In ASP.NET MVC 3 - Part 1

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:07:18 GMT

The latest release of ASP.NET MVC (version 3) has a number of new validation features that significantly simplify both the validation code AND the html outputted to the client. This multi-part article will attempt to cover all common validation scenarios and introduce all the new MVC3 validation features along the way. We will provide detailed explanations as well as full code examples that you can adapt for your own needs.

Output Caching Actions Gotcha in ASP.NET MVC 3

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 09:48:18 GMT

The following article describes how to avoid the output caching problem in ASP.NET MVC 3.

LINQ - Performance considerations when building traffic heavy websites

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:16:01 GMT

A look at how to tackle LINQ performance problems on busy websites

An alternative to WinDbg - Debug Analyzer.Net

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:14:08 GMT

Debug Analyzer.NET is a debugging tool to analyze memory dumps using plug-ins written in .NET framework and can be used as WinDbg alternative

SlimTune - an open source profiling for .NET applications

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:27:09 GMT

SlimTune is a open source profiler and performance tuning tool for .NET based applications, written in C#, VB.NET. It provides nice set of powerful features

XPath Visualizer

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:51:16 GMT

XPath Visualizer is a simple tool, that lets you execute a XPath query and see the results. The .Net 3.5 is required to use the tool .

Extensibility pattern in c#

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 02:15:52 GMT

The Extensibility pattern allows to expand an object functionality in the runtime . All needful interfaces can be found in System.ServiceModel namespace.

Buy Anders' Pascal 4 dev laptop

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:30:03 GMT

Ebay auction for Anders Hejlsberg's (lead architect at MS on the .NET platform) old laptop on which he developed Turbo Pascal 4. Proceeds go towards Haiti relief. Pretty damn cool, and (at least right now) cheap!

ASP.NET MVC 2 RC 2 Released

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:00:00 GMT

After receiving feedback from our last release candidate back in December, we decided it would be prudent to have one more release candidate that incorporated the feedback. You can read the release notes for everything that changed, there's not a whole lot.

Write C# instead of JavaScript - gain the productivity of C# dev.

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:15:07 GMT

SharpKit is a Web Toolkit that enables you to write C# and convert it to JavaScript during compilation. Writing and maintaining JavaScript code can be very expensive. Migrating from JavaScript to C# enables you to: *Leverage Visual Studio C# productivity *Maximize cross-browser compatibility *Streamline client-side code review

Multi-process C# app like Google Chrome

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:00:03 GMT

How to communicate between multiple processes like Google Chrome in C# using named pipes. Included source code & example.

A Powerful SharePoint Lookup Column, I Bet You May Need It.

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:12:28 GMT

Most of SharePoint Lookup functionality you want to enhance your SharePoint performance can be find from this powerful tool. <l>SharePoint cross-site lookup, <l>SharePoint cascading lookup <l>SharePoint filtering lookup, <l>SharePoint parent-child relationship between different lists.

Accelerator and F# (IV.): Composing computations with quotations

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:32:22 GMT

In this article series we're talking about the Accelerator project, which can be used from F# to write code that runs in parallel on GPU or multi-core CPU. In this article, we'll look at building complex data-parallel programs with F# quotations, we'll implement blur filter and we'll also discuss architecture and performance.

Silverlight 4 - How to Capture Audio and Video from a Web Cam

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:00:31 GMT

One of the coolest new features in Silverlight 4 is the ability to capture audio and video input from Web Cameras. With a few simple lines of code, you can request permission to your users to leverage their capture devices and then capture both the audio and video streams. So far, there have been some great examples of how to capture the video and use it as a background "brush" to paint a screen in the browser to show what the camera sees along with a few samples for enabling "snapshot" images from the webcam. But no one has actually taken it all the way to saving the captured video and audio streams locally (in isolated storage) to allow for a later file upload of the captured video segment - Until now. Check-out this post from Mike Taulty's Blog - where he shows you how to successfully save the streams to disk: http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/2009/12/30/silverlight-4-webcams-oncemorewithaudio.aspx

The TekPub LINQ Challenge Part 2 - Faster Algorithms

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:45:00 GMT

Comparing performance of different ways of checking for prime numbers, including some interested benchmarks and use of parallel linq.

Ordering fields in ASP.NET MVC 2 templated helpers

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:15:00 GMT

Ever worked with the templated helpers provided by ASP.NET MVC 2? Templated helpers provide a way to automatically build UI based on a data model that is marked with attributes defined in the System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations namespace. For example, a property in the model can be decorated with the attribute [DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = "{0:c}")], and the templated helpers will always render this field formatted as currency. If you have worked with templated helpers, you must agree: they can be useful! There's one thing which is impossible in the current version: ordering fields. And that's what this post will accomplish.

.NET Projects: Generating Documentation with Sandcastle

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:15:02 GMT

This is a walkthrough in automating Sandcastle to generate API documentation during an automated build process.

Bookmarking with Visual Studio and ReSharper 5.0

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:45:01 GMT

Learn how to use bookmarks in Visual Studio and with new upcoming version of ReSharper 5.0