Talking To CouchDB in .Net With Relax(www.sharplearningcurve.com)

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Introduction to a .Net API for talking to CouchDB. read more...

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Creating Windows Services With Symbiote Daemon(sharplearningcurve.com)

submitted by alexexmachina(1020) 1 year, 9 months ago

A 9 minute introduction to the Symbiote framework's Daemon library demonstrating how easy Symbiote makes things like creating windows service. This is meant to be a very simple introduction to this new open source collection of libraries. read more...

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Using jQuery To Control ASP.Net Client Side Validation(sharplearningcurve.com)

submitted by alexexmachina(1020) 2 years, 6 months ago

I recently had to add functionality to a ASP.Net 3.5 web form of ours that allowed a user to provide a suggested alternative when the value they needed wasn’t available in a drop down box. To do this, I wanted to be able to turn our client side validation on and off for the controls involved. read more...

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Create Dictionaries From Two IEnumerables With Zip In .Net(sharplearningcurve.com)

submitted by alexexmachina(1020) 2 years, 11 months ago

Want a way to quickly and simply combine two IEnumerables into a Dictionary? Check out my .Net implementation of Haskell's Zip function. I even include MSUnit tests. read more...

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DatabaseRepository Sneak Preview(sharplearningcurve.com)

submitted by alexexmachina(1020) 2 years, 11 months ago

Examples from the new version of Nvigorate's ORM functionality. (coming soon-ish) Shows classes, map files, configuration and code examples for CRUD operations for a very simple domain model. read more...

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ArgumentOutOfRangeException in DropDownList - ASP.Net(sharplearningcurve.com)

submitted by alexexmachina(1020) 2 years, 11 months ago

Tired of the ArgumentOutOfRangeException in your Data Bound DropDownLists? I kept running into this issue on a project where the data integrity was out of my control. See one approach for adding a way to customize how you can elegantly handle this exception and change control behavior. read more...

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How The Adapter Pattern Saved My Sanity(sharplearningcurve.com)

submitted by alexexmachina(1020) 3 years, 5 months ago

I show how I used the adapter pattern to enable writing WCF service contracts against a base class but keeping the implementation child-type specific. It allowed us to go from 26 contracts down to 2 (one for each base class that our objects inherited from). read more...

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Using Lambdas To Write A Faster Factory(sharplearningcurve.com)

submitted by alexexmachina(1020) 3 years, 6 months ago

A while back, Scott Hanselman started a series of posts about leveraging lambdas as anonymous functions for a factory pattern in his BabySmash program. Recently I had to refactor a large portion of the persistence layer and realized that I needed a factory that would create SqlParameters with the correct SqlDbType given different sets of circumstances. read more...

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Faster Than Reflection - Lambda Almighty(sharplearningcurve.com)

submitted by alexexmachina(1020) 3 years, 6 months ago

In my previous post Using Lambdas To Write A Faster Factory I was demonstrating a neat use of lambdas in conjunction with a dictionary to create a concise and quick factory pattern. Since then I've found some other really nice uses for lambdas and stumbled across some other LINQ related goodness. In this post, I'm going to demonstrate a way to use Lambdas in place of reflection for reading and writing values at runtime and run some performance numbers by you. read more...

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Eliminate Nulls(sharplearningcurve.com)

submitted by alexexmachina(1020) 3 years, 6 months ago

I realize that Microsoft, under pressure from a lot of developers who wanted to further bastardize null, introduced nullable value types in the 2.0 version of the framework. But I think I can make a rock-solid argument for why 1) nulls are not intended to drive business or programmatic logic and 2) should only be allowed in code or database on the rarest of occasion. read more...

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WCF SvcUtil Proxy Generation Issues(blogs.ittoolbox.com)

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We recently ran into a bug that occurs in WCF's SvcUtil where the proxy generation can run amok and generate proxies for every datatype referenced in the service. read more...

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WCF Service Factory Pattern - The Problem(blogs.ittoolbox.com)

submitted by alexexmachina(1020) 3 years, 8 months ago

I've yet to find a way around WSDL's inability to support generics. If this doesn't sound like a problem to you, either you know something I don't (please educate me) or you've yet to run into the right situation where you're writing a common service bus that multiple applications will be using for their persistence and access layer. read more...

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Cutting Through The Hype - What You Should Know About SharePoint(blogs.ittoolbox.com)

submitted by alexexmachina(1020) 3 years, 11 months ago

I had always dreaded working with SharePoint, now that I'm elbow-deep in SharePoint, I figured I'd try to give an objective write-up about it for those who don't know much about it but would like to know more. read more...

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To Kill A Project: Part I - Timelines(blogs.ittoolbox.com)

submitted by alexexmachina(1020) 4 years, 3 months ago

In my experience there are common behaviors, paradigms, attitudes and fallacies which permeate the management of IT projects that are directly responsible for the obscene rate of project failure. In the first part I'm going to talk about how unrealistic timelines will ensure failure. read more...

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Frans Bouma Is Right About The .Net Source Release (Mostly)(blogs.ittoolbox.com)

submitted by alexexmachina(1020) 4 years, 4 months ago

Ok, so I got a little cranky and wrote Microsoft Releases .Net Framework Source ... and Receives Criticism. I did a stupid thing, over-generalized and assumed that all criticism Microsoft had received to that point would be the same mindless drivel about how everything they do is chock-full of pure evil.... read more...

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Microsoft Releases .Net Framework Source ... and Receives Criticism(blogs.ittoolbox.com)

submitted by alexexmachina(1020) 4 years, 4 months ago

So if you're up on Microsoft or .Net, you've probably heard by now that Microsoft is going to release the source to the .Net Framework. I see this as a positive step and think it can only help .Net developers not just support, but understand what they're working with. Anyone curious enough about .Net has been decompiling .Net source via Reflector for quite a while now (I know I have). read more...

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