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Stacked spline area graphs in Silverlight

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 03:00:50 GMT

Creating graphs in Silverlight? First in the series of posts on new charting controls shipping in Mindscape Silverlight Elements is the stacked spline area graph. See how easy it is to create, style and show of your data in an attractive fashion with Silverlight!

NoSql No Problem - NoRM and MongoDB Tutorial - Querying

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:15:52 GMT

MongoDB offers a rich query environment with lots of features. Queries in MongoDB are represented as JSON-style objects, very much like the documents we actually store in the database. If you're moving to MongoDB from a relational databases, you'll find that many SQL queries translate easily to MongoDB's document-based query language. This tutorial is based on MongoDB's documentation and its goal is to show how easy is querying MongoDB database using NoRM.

Senior developer versus junior developer

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:52:26 GMT

What does it take to advance from junior to senior developer? The most obvious answer is experience. But is it only that? Or maybe number of years of experience is completely irrelevant?

Making the Most of Silverlight Text Rendering

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 08:23:42 GMT

There really isn't a single rendering methodology that is going to look great for all fonts in all situations. So, I thought I'd share some of my (highly subjective) opinions. Here are a couple of things that I do get better text rendering in Silverlight.

Super Simple MVVM

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:30:52 GMT

When I was learning MVVM it was taking a bit to really "click". I was checking for videos or tutorials for something super simple. I never really found anything, they always were doing more than I needed for something super simple. I finally told myself I was going to write a simple app where I have two text boxes, a button, and a label.

Scott Guthrie on creating the .NET Framework

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:30:52 GMT

A behind the scenes look at Microsoft, interviewing Scott Guthrie and other key figures at Microsoft on the initial steps towards what became the .NET Framework. Scott Guthrie describes how he prototyped the first version of ASP.NET over one weekend in the Christmas of '97, and how Microsoft took the risky decision (at least at the time) to build almost all of it in C#.

Applying Software Design Patterns - Free Ebook

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:45:52 GMT

A short Ebook on Design Patterns - The objective is to introduce software design patterns in a simple, human readable, and funny (?) way - in the context of designing a soccer engine - By discussing the thought process behind applying design patterns

Piracy in .NET Code - Part 3 - Even when the code is obfuscated « Nav

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:18:49 GMT

This post is about how someone with little advanced knowledge in CLR / Windows can bypass important function calls like license validation.

From WPF functional Unit Tests to Specifications using MSpec and White

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:30:52 GMT

I am in the train back home and wanted to try out quickly to migrate our WPF functional tests written has Unit Tests to BDD Specifications. Here is the code I started from, pure Unit Test using NUnit and White Now the same functional test written as a BDD specification using MSpec

ASP.NET MVC Charts

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:15:52 GMT

There are a few references online about how to get the new ASP.NET Charting controls working with the MVC framework. However, some of them are outdated, and the corresponding information to make it work with MVC2 are spread out. So in an effort to organize the info all in one place, here's a quick step by step guide on how to get this working

CouchDb vs RavenDB - Map & Reduce

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:30:52 GMT

A comparison of the Map/Reduce systems in CouchDB and RavenDB and an explanation of quite how different they really are.

RavenDB vs CouchDB - Basic Queries

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:30:52 GMT

RavenDB and CouchDB are compared for their basic querying behaviour

SmartGit, the Rainbow Unicorn of Windows Git Clients

Thu, 27 May 2010 18:54:06 GMT

I have been using Github for a while now, but one of my biggest complaints of using Git was the lack of a sweet client to use in Windows. Here's my review of SmartGit.

Dropbox API, RestSharp and C# Part 2: The Revenge!

Wed, 26 May 2010 07:34:47 GMT

How to use the DropBox API with RestSharp - Part2: Files

No SQL in the Wild

Wed, 19 May 2010 23:50:17 GMT

How we use MongoDB and MySQL for the development of TekPub.

Dropbox API and RestSharp for a C# developer

Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00:52 GMT

How to use the DropBox API with RestSharp

IQueryable Can Kill Your Dog, Steal Your Wife, Kill Your Will To Live,

Wed, 12 May 2010 19:30:52 GMT

If you take a quick detour over to StackOverflow, you'll realize very, very quickly that, when it comes to wholly and full-heartedly screwing up your Linq to SQL statements, the screw-up almost always involves a misunderstanding of the purpose and...

A few thoughts on jQuery templating with jQuery.tmpl

Fri, 07 May 2010 14:15:52 GMT

Some thoughts on the current state of the jQuery.tmpl plugin, and suggestions for making it better.

Silverlight, M-V-VM ... and IoC - part 3

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:09:31 GMT

Silverlight, MVVM and IoC, part 3 a first time implementation of a ViewModel and View class that can be used with an IoC framework; container configuration and resolution.

Coding Dojo Part 1: TDD & BDD with Nunit, WatiN, SpecFlow, and MVC 2.0

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 04:16:05 GMT

Now, for what I learned! I'm going to do 3 posts showing what we went over at the dojo. Part 1, this post, will be only about SpecFlow and how to set it up for your projects.

The NoSQL Movement, LINQ, and MongoDB - Oh My!

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 04:17:59 GMT

Maybe you've heard people talking about ditching their SQL Servers and other RDBMS entirely. There is a movement out in the software development world called the "No SQL" movement and it's taking the web application world by storm.

Building an RSS Feed in ASP.NET MVC

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 23:45:00 GMT

When building a website it is common to expose an RSS/ATOM feed for your content. Feeds serve two main purposes. The first, is that it allows other sites to consume your content for syndication. For example if you write .NET articles, there may be other partner sites that subscribe to your feed and dynamically pull in your content. Secondly, feeds allow users to subscribe to your site so they can get notifications when your content is updated. This is especially relevant for sites with irregular content updates such as a personal blog. In the .NET 3.5 framework there is a namespace titled System.ServiceModel.Syndication which very few people seem to know about. The classes contained in this library allows you to create and consume RSS feeds with minimal effort. I recently created a feed for my WeBlog application. I was astonished about how little time it took to implement an RSS Feed. Instead of weighing you down with all the details...I'll let the code do the talking....

Multi-tenancy in ASP.NET MVC - Controller Actions (Part II)

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:33:24 GMT

An explanation of how MvcEx generates controllers by compositing actions together, and why it's simply not worth it.

Windows Azure Billing and Administration

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 07:53:53 GMT

As one looks to on-board the Windows Azure Platform it is important to understand the billing and administration functionality and workflows.

Editable MVC Routes (Apache Style)

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:30:05 GMT

After remembering a post by Phil Haack about Editable MVC Routes. By merging together Routing and Rewriting in the same process, and making the routes as editable as the rewriter rules I might be able make the differences or at least the benefits of having both a little more clear, because developers could play with both in real time and start to connect in their mind when one is more useful than the other. So I started with the latest release of my URL Rewriter and created a contrib project on GitHub that extended the Apache support in the rewriter to also include System.Web.Routing. The syntax looks similar to the Apache mod_rewrite but specific for routes.