The Robot Factory Code Kata(bradygaster.com)

submitted by bradygaster(4897) 7 months, 12 days ago

On the drive home from my last Behavior Driven Development talk, I began thinking about the idea of Code Katas and how one might be appropriate in my future disucssions of Behavior Driven Development. Given that BDD tries to solve things in as simple and direct a path as possible, and given that BDD takes some of the lessons learned via TDD and applies them in slightly more business-centric language, a Kata would demonstrate well the effectiveness of BDD when applied to a problem domain. So, I took the example problem domain of a robotic assembly line that I've been using since I was a full-time trainer and implemented it using SpecFlow and Moq. read more...

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Rendering PDFs with pdf.js using HTML5 and JavaScript(deanhume.com)

submitted by deanomachino(764) 7 months, 13 days ago

A couple of clever guys over at Mozilla have thought about this and have come up with a genius way of displaying PDFs inside your browser using Javascript and HTML5. The code is available for download on Github. PDF.js is community-driven and supported by Mozilla Labs which means its good news for us as developers. In the long run this plugin is intended to render PDFs natively within Firefox itself and will eventually ship with Firefox. For now though, we can start using the power of this plugin within our applications today. read more...

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Rendering PDFs with pdf.js using HTML5 and JavaScript(deanhume.com)

submitted by deanomachino(764) 7 months, 13 days ago

A couple of clever guys over at Mozilla have thought about this and have come up with a genius way of displaying PDFs inside your browser using Javascript and HTML5. The code is available for download on Github. PDF.js is community-driven and supported by Mozilla Labs which means its good news for us as developers. In the long run this plugin is intended to render PDFs natively within Firefox itself and will eventually ship with Firefox. For now though, we can start using the power of this plugin within our applications today. read more...

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Viewmodel assemblers in ASP.NET MVC(jclaes.blogspot.com)

submitted by JefClaes(650) 7 months, 14 days ago

Working on a new ASP.NET MVC side-project, I have the luxury to experiment with new technologies, but also with different patterns and naming conventions. Something which bugged me in a previous project was that we made our service layer return viewmodels. It worked rather well because the service layer in our MVC project was just another layer between the real domain services - where most of its work was creating viewmodels from domain objects or translating viewmodels into domain objects, so they c... read more...

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Looking at .NET Source code from Visual Studio(dailydotnettips.com)

submitted by rcash(4149) 7 months, 15 days ago

This article talks about how you can get an integration of Source code server with your .NET programs so that you can easily see the Source code of the .NET library while you debug. By source code I mean the actual source code. read more...

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The three pillars of unit tests: A helpful guide for beginners(blog.goyello.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 7 months, 15 days ago

If you're new to TDD, then this short but sweet article by Pawel Olesiejuk is just what the doctor ordered. It covers the three pillars of test-driven development, which should push anyone just learning TDD in the right direction. read more...

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SolrNet to the Rescue – Why Use SolrNet?(futureofcoding.com)

submitted by rafi(87) 7 months, 16 days ago

Instead of SolrSharp or other libraries why not use SolrNet. It is easy to use and extremely flexible. read more...

4 comments |category: ASP.NET |Views: 362

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Geo-Load Balancing with the Azure Traffic Manager(blog.structuretoobig.com)

submitted by bradygaster(4897) 7 months, 16 days ago

When you deploy a typical web role in Azure, each instance is automatically load balanced at the datacenter level. The Azure Fabric Controller manages upgrades and maintenance of those instances to ensure uptime. But what about if you want to have a web solution closer to where your users are? Or automatically direct traffic to a location in the event of an outage? This is where the Azure Traffic Manager comes in, and I have to say, it is so easy to set up – it boggles my mind that in today’s day and age, individuals can prop up large, redundant, durable, distributed applications in seconds that would rival the infrastructure of the largest websites. read more...

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Windows 8 Metro declarations: Protocol(www.tozon.info)

submitted by rcash(4149) 7 months, 17 days ago

This series explores the currently available declarations, starting with Protocol. C# Windows Metro style application samples are throughout the whole series. read more...

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Use Local storage to make your web applications rock(professionalaspnet.com)

submitted by vijayst(1311) 7 months, 17 days ago

Single page web applications are on the rise that use sophisticated HTML5, Javascript, CSS3. Local Storage is useful for these applications to store application specific data upto 5 MB. This post describes how to use Local storage in your applications. read more...

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Use Visual Studio 2010 to Profile your ASP.NET Application which is ho(abhijitjana.net)

submitted by rcash(4149) 7 months, 21 days ago

Most developers are familiar with profiling an ASP.NET application from c prompt but did you know you can also do this from inside Visual Studio from the menu options? This simple tutorial will show you how to profile an application on IIS within VS 2010. read more...

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MSDN Magazine - 3 New Articles on Async/Await(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 7 months, 22 days ago

This month's issue of MSDN Magazine is out with 3 new articles on async and await in the Visual Studio Async CTP. Stephen Toub shares these articles with us and gives us a suggested order in which to read them, sort of a one-stop shop for learning about the Async CTP. read more...

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Nancy v0.8 Released - Not your granddaddy's Sinatra(www.grumpydev.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 7 months, 22 days ago

Nancy, the Sinatra-inspired web framework for ASP.NET has just released version 0.8 with loads of cool features. This latest release is the work of 19 contributors over 186 commits, and includes highly requested features such as basic authentication and CSRF protection. Check it out! read more...

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Automating Code Changes with Studioshell(www.beefycode.com)

submitted by bradygaster(4897) 7 months, 23 days ago

Jim Christopher, author of StudioShell, talks about how he used his product to scour through hundreds of thousands of lines of code to make tiny changes. He uses StudioShell to automate the task, saving potentially weeks of work in the process. read more...

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Microsoft makes the case for more jQuery(www.readwriteweb.com)

submitted by vijayst(1311) 7 months, 26 days ago

In this post, the author explains Microsoft's two projects that embrace modern web UX. One is the PRISM framework that uses the Silverlight technology. The other is the SILK framework that uses more of HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery. Of late, Microsoft is moving more towards the Silk project - HTML5 and jQuery. This post is a good read. read more...

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NHibernate Code-Based Mappings vs. FluentNHibernate(kazimanzurrashid.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 7 months, 26 days ago

Kazi Manzur Rashid shows us some side-by-side comparisons between the new code-based mappings in NHibernate and FluentNHibernate. Code-based mappings are built in to the lastest release of NHibernate; FluentNHibernate is compatible with the latest release as well. read more...

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