Fetching collections with NHibernate, a mistake a I always do!(www.primordialcode.com)

submitted by Guardian(1104) 10 months, 6 days ago

Be careful when optimizing your queries using join fetching in NHibernate! If you do it without care you can incur in my same mistakes! read more...

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C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Nullable static class(www.blackrabbitcoder.net)

submitted by BlackRabbitCoder(661) 10 months, 26 days ago

C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Nullable static class Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. Today we’re going to look at an interesting Little Wonder that can be used to mitigate what could be considered a Little Pitfall.  The Little Wonder we’ll be examining is the System.Nullable static class.  read more...

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Getting Started With .NETMF and Netduino(midnightprogrammer.net)

submitted by prashantmx4(815) 11 months, 1 day ago

Article on getting started with .NET Micro framework and Netduino. Working with embedded devices is now easy and we can all do with VS2010 and C# read more...

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How to Securely Verify and Validate Image Uploads in ASP.NET and ASP.N(www.aaronstannard.com)

submitted by Aaronontheweb(1140) 11 months, 2 days ago

How do you verify that content that your users are uploading to your ASP.NET site are just harmless images and not something malicious? Use GDI+ to validate that images are images and nothing else! read more...

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ASP.NET MVC HTML5 Before and After: The “semantic” markup of HTML5(www.progware.org)

submitted by iwannis(452) 11 months, 2 days ago

The semantic markup/value of HTML5 In this post, we see how the new semantic tags of HTML5 alter the HTML generated for the homepage of a simple site and why this is important. read more...

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Our new sister site is born - DevDirective.com(blogs.dotnetkicks.com)

submitted by RobertTheGrey(447) 11 months, 7 days ago

Last week we launched DevDirective.com which will be in closed beta for a short while. If you want to find out what it’s about, then pay us a visit – it’s all on the front page! read more...

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Exceptional Code(www.awkwardcoder.com)

submitted by sommardahl(85) 11 months, 7 days ago

When do you throw an exception? I never asked myself that question until a few weeks ago when some guys on my team started wondering aloud. I suppose I never asked because I just threw exceptions whenever I felt like it. But the question on the minds of my collegues has got me thinking too. When should I throw exceptions? read more...

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Introduction to viewbox in WPF(www.dotnetlogix.com)

submitted by dotnetlogix(524) 11 months, 8 days ago

If we want to select a specific area from an image then how we will do it. The solution for this is ViewBox. read more...

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Build a dialog form using jQuery UI in MVC 3(www.iwantmymvc.com)

submitted by schwarty(125) 11 months, 9 days ago

Learn how to build an inline dialog form for editing data within an ASP.NET MVC 3 web site using the jQuery UI library. read more...

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C#/.NET Fundamentals: Choosing the Right Collection Class(geekswithblogs.net)

submitted by BlackRabbitCoder(661) 11 months, 10 days ago

The .NET Base Class Library (BCL) has a wide array of collection classes at your disposal which make it easy to manage collections of objects. While it's great to have so many classes available, it can be daunting to choose the right collection to use for any given situation. As hard as it may be, choosing the right collection can be absolutely key to the performance and maintainability of your application! This post will look at breaking down any confusion between each collection and the situations in which they excel. We will be spending most of our time looking at the System.Collections.Generic namespace, which is the recommended set of collections. read more...

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Displaying PDF Files in Windows Phone 7 Mango(michaelcrump.net)

submitted by mbcrump(1034) 11 months, 10 days ago

Several people have asked me if it is possible to display a PDF File in a Windows Phone 7 application after they saw me do in a Silverlight application. The answer is yes and it is a lot easier than you might expect. Let’s get started. Head over to ComponentOne’s WP7 Controls site and click “Download CTP” from the right side. Note: The download is completely FREE. read more...

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C# Library for Grammar and Spell Checking - Arik Poznanski's Blog(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

submitted by arikp(1204) 11 months, 18 days ago

I recently had the idea to create a plug-in for Windows Live Writer that will provide grammar checks in addition to the built-in spell checks. As I’ve showed before, creatingplug-ins for Windows Live Writer is easy, the problem was to get the code for doing the grammar checking. I’ve found this wonderful site named “After the Deadline” that provides a web based API for both grammar and spell checking, free for non-commercial use! read more...

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Speed up Visual Studio Builds - Arik Poznanski's Blog(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

submitted by arikp(1204) 1 year ago

Recently I got involved in a big project where we had a single solution with approximately 100 projects. read more...

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Free webinar: 5 misconceptions about .NET memory management - June 1st(www3.gotomeeting.com)

submitted by javery(5523) 1 year ago

Join us June 1st for a free webinar about .NET memory management. read more...

1 comment |category: Products |Views: 168

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Silverlight 5 3D Housebuilder Project Shown at MIX11(johnpapa.net)

submitted by bunglebooz(1132) 1 year ago

I presented this application during the MIX11 Day 2 keynote to demonstrate the new 3D features in Silverlight 5 along with a few other new Silverlight 5 features including RelativeSource Ancestor, Data Binding Debugging, Implicit DataTemplates, and Binding in Style Setters. Download it now read more...

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Silverlight TV 69 UX and Perceived Performance in WP7 Apps(johnpapa.net)

submitted by bunglebooz(1132) 1 year ago

Jobi Joy, UX Architect with IdentityMine, joins John to discuss some of the lessons his company learned while contributing to the very popular and successful IMDB and Twitter Windows Phone applications. Jobi covers a wide array of topics, including the design and the UX of the IMDB application as well as what "perceived performance" means, and he dives into the framework read more...

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