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Silverlight Session Scheduler at CodePlex(tocode.blogspot.com)

submitted by johnnystockjohnnystock(50) 4 years, 1 month ago

Small article about a Silverlight conference session scheduler that includes a link to the full source at CodePlax. Demonstrates User Controls, global variables and other Silverlight 2 techs. read more...

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Programming Challenge #1: HTML Calendar(jacobcarpenter.wordpress.com)

submitted by jacobcarpenterjacobcarpenter(40) 4 years, 1 month ago

Surprised by the amount of code for such a seemingly simple task, I figured it'd be interesting to solicit solutions to outputting a calendar in HTML. read more...

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Tool Theory(codebetter.com)

submitted by archibaldtortarchibaldtort(25) 4 years, 1 month ago

Good article on what a tool is and good tool design read more...

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The most important quality of a developer: Self-criticism(codeclimber.net.nz)

submitted by simonechsimonech(10.1k) 4 years, 1 month ago

I think an awful lot of creation is made out of, also, the self-criticism of a developer, and very often I think probably what makes one seem better than another his that his critical sense is more acute. It may not be that he is more gifted in any way but just that he has a better critical sense. read more...

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Improving .Net Performance With Ngen: The Native Image Generator(atalasoft.com)

submitted by tomdogtomdog(3230) 4 years, 1 month ago

An overview Microsoft's complimentary .NET tool called NGen (Native Image Generator) and how it's used in 1.1 and 2.0 read more...

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Expression Trees: Why LINQ to SQL is Better than NHibernate(rapidapplicationdevelopment.blogspot.com)

submitted by LearLear(1195) 4 years, 1 month ago

The article claims that LINQ to SQL is inherently better than NHibernate because LINQ takes advantage of a new C# language feature called expression trees. read more...

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C# DateTime.MinValue is not the same as SqlDateTime.MinValue(geekdaily.net)

submitted by justinbezansonjustinbezanson(1555) 4 years, 2 months ago

Working with non-nullable types in C# can be a bit of a pain. For instance when I have a date as a string and need to parse it into a DateTime what should the value be if the parse fails? I can’t use null because DateTime is not a nullable type. read more...

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Automatic Properties(codebetter.com)

submitted by archibaldtortarchibaldtort(25) 4 years, 3 months ago

Automatic Property feature of .NET 3.5 read more...

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