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Design Patterns - Using the Decorator Pattern in C#

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:45:02 GMT

Decorator Patterns belong to the Structural Pattern category and it's role is in providing a way of attaching new behavior to the object at run time. The object is unaware of the new behavior and this pattern is a good candidate for enhancing legacy applications. Decorator Pattern provides a way of adding functionality to an existing class without using inheritance.

Only In A Database Can You Get 1000% + Improvement By Changing A Few L

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:01:04 GMT

Only In A Database Can You Get 1000% + Improvement By Changing A Few Lines Of Code

Top .NET Developer Resources

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:10:40 GMT

A comprehensive list of resources which can be utilized to keep skills sharp and stay on top of the latest industry trends.

Evolution of C# delegate syntax from .NET 1.x to 3.5

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:16:02 GMT

Evolution of C# delegate syntax from C# 1 - C# 3.

Good SQL Articles To Read If You Can't Afford Books

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:01:02 GMT

You have only $50 left and you can buy two DVDs or one SQL book, what do you do? I would buy the book but not every person has the same idea of a fun time. This is the reason why I present you with a bunch of links to articles which will give you very good info. some of this you won't be able to find in a book anyway.

SQL people that I follow on twitter

Mon, 19 May 2008 21:08:48 GMT

Calling all twittering DBA's and DBD's.

December 16th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, VS, .NET, IIS

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:46:02 GMT

Scotts new links

Exists Vs. Count(*) - The battle never ends...

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 03:01:03 GMT

Exists Vs. Count(*) - The battle never ends... why you should use exists and not count(*)

Here's what you as a programmer need to know about LINQ

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:01:11 GMT

How much do you know about LINQ? If you only heard about it, you should read Mark Whitehorn's article.

Free SQL Server tools that might make your life a little easier

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:16:03 GMT

Free MS and non MS tools for easoer work with SQL Server 2005 and 2000

In depth: The ASP.NET MVC Pipeline

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:46:02 GMT

Lots of technical details about the new ASP.NET MVC framework, with a comprehensive diagram of the whole pipeline. A great way to get to know the new framework.

The General Guidelines of Whether to Create Indexes in a Database

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:51:46 GMT

When you are considering whether to create an index, evaluate two factors to ensure that the index will be more efficient than a table scan: the nature of the data and the nature of the queries based on the table.

The Gospel of the GUID - And Why It Matters!

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:16:03 GMT

There is only one commandment in the Gospel of the GUID: Thou shalt always use a GUID to uniquely identify a row in a table.

My favorite interview questions

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:31:03 GMT

These are some of the questions that I ask when I'm interviewing a new applicant for a developer position.

SQL - Truncate and Delete

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:16:02 GMT

Truncate an Delete both are used to delete data from the table. These both the command will only delete the data of the specified table, they cannot remove the whole table data along with its structure. Now it's ok that both the SQL statements are used to delete only the data from the table but they both differ from each other in many aspects like syntax, performance, resources uses etc. to find out all differnces take a look of this article.....

Granting Execute permission on All Stored Procedure for a new SQL Serv

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:56:32 GMT

In last few days I have been working with SQL Server Users. In My application the user of the Stored Procedures is not the creator (owner) of the Stored Procedures. Hence the user does not have execute permission on any of the Stored Procedures by default.

Best SQL server deadlock debugging instructions ever

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:45:05 GMT

There are a lot of articles on the net about debugging deadlocks in SQL server, but this three part series from Bart Duncan is the most helpful and complete instructions of all of them. They also cover the new deadlock debugging features in SQL Server 2005 that most other articles do not.

How to resolve relative url's without ResolveUrl

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:31:02 GMT

string absoluteUrl = VirtualPathUtility.ToAbsolute(relativeUrl);

LINQ Closures May Be Hazardous to Your Health!

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:01:02 GMT

This article is really academic in nature on the topic of closures and how they fit into LINQ query expressions. It contains a highly-contrived example that is not representative of quality LINQ code. One of the most interesting aspects of LINQ query expressions is that they produce lexical closures. Exploiting closures in query expressions can be powerful but tricky.

What if null if null is null null null is null?

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:16:02 GMT

I'll discuss some well-known and some less well-known functions and keywords that are specifically created to deal with NULL values

C# 3.0 partial methods - What, why and how?

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:31:02 GMT

Partial methods are methods living in partial classes and which are marked as partial. Their existence also stims from the world of code generation. Bart De Smet explains the what, how and (most importantly) why of partial methods.

.NET 2.0 Data Structures

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:31:02 GMT

The .NET 2.0 framework includes many data structures that go unnoticed by many developers. Additionally, there are very powerful data structures that are not part of the base class library, but are very efficient when used in the right situation. This is a great article that (re)demonstrates a very important topic that many of us have forgotten since college.

How to design a Fluent Interface

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:16:02 GMT

How to design Fluent Interfaces and why it's important to know about this pattern.

Deciding When to Use Depencency Injection

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 02:01:02 GMT

Expressing the struggles of deciding when to use Dependency Injection and, more importantly, when not to use it.

Rendering ASP.NET controls out of place

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:46:01 GMT

It's called the Renderer control because that's what it does -- you put it somewhere, point it at another Renderer control, and it renders the other control in it's place.