ADO .NET Entity Framework Vote of No Confidence(efvote.wufoo.com)

submitted by terrble(1665) 3 years, 11 months ago

Over the past year, Microsoft and the Entity Framework team have received a tremendous amount of feedback from experts in entity-based applications and software architectures on the .NET platform. While Microsoft’s announcement of its intention to provide framework support for entity architectures was received with enthusiasm, the Entity Framework itself has consistently proved to be cause for significant concern. read more...

3 comments |category: ADO.NET |Views: 349

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How to create a virtual machine from a physical one(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by tom24(1100) 4 years ago

P2V options - converting a physical machine to a virtual machine read more...

add a comment |category: Tips & Tricks |Views: 55

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Using a Windows Service just to run a scheduled process is Wrong!(weblogs.asp.net)

submitted by HoolieMan(1715) 4 years ago

A classic post by Jon Galloway: A Windows Service is the wrong solution to scheduling one-off custom processes. The right solution for scheduling simple processes is the Windows Task Scheduler. read more...

1 comment |category: Architecture |Views: 113

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Why is it so F#...ing Difficult to Buy Visual Studio!?(devblog.ailon.org)

submitted by ailon(1335) 4 years ago

Have you tried upgrading Trial edition of Visual Studio or buying it through the official site while living outside of United States? I wasted half a day and failed. read more...

2 comments |category: Visual Studio |Views: 65

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See how simple is to create a great user interface for you app(wpf-graphics.com)

submitted by abenedik(225) 4 years ago

See how simple is to create a great user interface for your WPF or Silverlight application. You can simply use almost any vector drawing application (Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Inkscape, Visio, Autocad, Excel, Word, etc.) and then with the ViewerSvg or Paste2Xaml convert the drawing into XAML. Or even simpler, you can use one of the thousands vector images that are already available on the internet - see links. There are also samples that demonstrates the power of vector images and how simple is to create a great effects with them. read more...

add a comment |category: Windows Presentation Foundation |Views: 70

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Top 10 Best Practices for Production ASP.NET Applications(daptivate.com)

submitted by kbeyer(445) 4 years, 3 months ago

A list of some things to pay attention to when dealing with production ASP.NET applications. read more...

1 comment |category: ASP.NET |Views: 175

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10 ASP.NET Performance and Scalability Secrets(codeproject.com)

submitted by superghost(2260) 4 years, 3 months ago

ASP.NET 2.0 has many secrets, when revealed, can give you big performance and scalability boost. For instance, there are secret bottlenecks in Membership and Profile provider which can be solved easily to make authentication and authorization faster. Furthermore, ASP.NET Http pipeline can be tweaked to avoid executing unnecessary code that gets hit on each and every request... read more...

2 comments |category: ASP.NET |Views: 69

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Are you making these 3 common ASP.NET AJAX mistakes?(encosia.com)

submitted by gt1329a(7849) 4 years, 7 months ago

An overview of the impact several ASP.NET page life cycle issues have on ASP.NET AJAX development, and how to avoid them. read more...

6 comments |category: AJAX |Views: 397

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Where are all the cool startups that run on ASP.NET?(sashasydoruk.com)

submitted by gavinjoyce(25.7k) 4 years, 9 months ago

"Sure there are Community Server, MySpace, DotNetKicks and DasBlog; there are all very fine products, but compare them to LAMP, Rails and Java lineup: Digg, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Flickr, Backpack and the Company, Delicious, all the Google Apps, Mint, Meebo, Twitter, Zillow and of course Infinite Cat Project. If you checkout the new startups on TechCrunch, it seems like every new startup is something Linux based and is not ASP.NET." read more...

5 comments |category: ASP.NET |Views: 20

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The problem isn't the poor database model; It's that external code is (weblogs.sqlteam.com)

submitted by jimrice14(880) 4 years, 9 months ago

Dealing with poorly designed databases is a simple and common fact of life for programmers. It happens, sometimes due to lack of experience or education, or sometimes because business requirements were never analyzed properly or they changed. It's hard to avoid poor database designs, but it takes only a simple concept to make fixing those designs much easier. read more...

1 comment |category: Database |Views: 1

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Free refactoring tool for ASP.Net and Visual Studio - Must See!(community.devexpress.com)

submitted by cycnus(130) 4 years, 9 months ago

Developer Express released a free version of their refactoring tools for ASP.Net. There are also links to a funny screencast and to an article with many screenshots in the blog entry. read more...

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How to have Silverlight interact with the DOM(codeflakes.net)

submitted by gill(1070) 4 years, 9 months ago

This article explains how you can have Silverlight interact with the DOM of the HTML document it is in. read more...

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C# Syntactic Macros(aboutcode.net)

submitted by andrewdavey(45) 4 years, 9 months ago

Code generation in Visual Studio that transforms C# in more C#! Currently there is just a macro to generate a basic class implementation from an interface. But the architecture will allow for a host of code transformations. read more...

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Open source .NET libraries you should be already using(plentyofcode.com)

submitted by bayarsaikhan(830) 4 years, 9 months ago

As we know, there are many good, enterprise level, open source libraries, frameworks and projects implemented in Java. Most of them are being ported into different platforms like .NET and PHP, so developers are migrating to the these platforms with their familiar tools. For example, i have been using Ant, JUnit, Log4J, iText and many mores when i was developing in Java, but now i am still using Log4Net and Nunit in my current read more...

4 comments |category: Open Source |Views: 25

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The Least You Need to Know about C# 3.0 (Beta 2 Edition)(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by Coldduck9(470) 4 years, 10 months ago

A lot of people (myself included) have written about LINQ in the next version of C#. LINQ is indeed an empowering technology. However, even without LINQ, C# 3.0 would be a compelling upgrade. Now that Beta2 is publicly available, here’s my personal list of the most useful features in the next release. read more...

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Most Useful 20+ Visual Studio A(plentyofcode.com)

submitted by bayarsaikhan(830) 4 years, 10 months ago

I have collected list of the Visual Studio Add-ins, most of which are open source or free. I hope this list will help you to code more faster and effective. If there is not your favorite add-in in the below list, do not hesitate to add it as a comment. read more...

3 comments |category: Visual Studio |Views: 24

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