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Amazing Short Films from District 9 director Neill Blomkamp.

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:51:08 GMT

Amazing silverlight media from Neill Blomkamp of District 9.

Silverlight 3 Media Platform : tangent.ux labs

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:20:49 GMT

Amazing Silverlight 3 HD media platform with deep zoom context. The best there is today for complex and very high quality content. Browse it on out Amazon S3 bucket: http://smooth.s3.amazonaws.com/default.htm

Silverlight 3 Art Project - Something Completely Different

Mon, 18 May 2009 05:51:40 GMT

Silverlight 3 Art Project - Something Completely Different using interesting simulated life Spline example.

Silverlight 3 Beta Really Does Play Adobe Video Content « Domain .NET

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:32:18 GMT

Silverlight 3 Beta used to build this 'All Broadband Video' player with a special emphasis on the new H.264 support allowing all the most important quality Adobe video formats to work (as you can see here).

Why You Want To Be A Craftsman Instead Of A Cowboy

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:01:02 GMT

I was a bit surprised at first to hear Jeff and Joel's comments because they are some smart guys that have produced some successful software. I highly doubt, regardless of how it came across, they intended to imply that you should ignore all guidelines and just string together your code. Unfortunately, the comments of their posts make it all too clear that this is exactly the way a lot of programmers took it. What's worse is bad programmers will use this as a defense for their resistance to improving their skills.

Martin Fowler and the .NET Developer Mandate for Oslo « Domain .NET Te

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 08:25:38 GMT

One danger that DSL advocates need to guard against is the notion that first you design a DSL, then people use it. Like any other deice of software, a successful DSL will evolve. This means that scripts written in an earlier version of a DSL may fail when run with a later version.

Refactoring Service Dependencies to Separated Interface

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:47:26 GMT

Fantastic article by Billy McCafferty on content you already know... Don't you?? This covers some of the core points that any modern developer simply must know if they want to be taken seriously on all but the most trivial projects.

Advanced Bidirectional Silverlight 2.0 to ASP.NET Integration - Part 1

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:49:54 GMT

This is the first post covering techniques for both sending data into your Silverlight environment from ASP.NET as well as getting data out of Silverlight without resorting to a lot of new elements in your architecture. The goal is to use what you already have with the least fuss. You may think you need to resort to 'pushing' all data from Silverlight into say a service using WCF but that is not the case in many scenarios. For example, you may have activity which the user creates inside Silverlight 2.0 that results in visual elements you want to send out to ASP.NET for persistence in your ORM environment (where Silverlight has no involvement).

C# Delegate Shortcut - No more null testing on events for subscribers

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 03:04:25 GMT

Do you use this syntax? It adds up as you can leave null tests in the dust for event subscribers: EXAMPLE: public event EventHandler<AnimationImageEventArgs> AnimationImageClicked = delegate { }; Post has full details, but most might already know this. If not your wasting cycles.

DeepZoom extended into 3D Demo

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:28:34 GMT

DeepZoom extended into 3D Demo directly from this link.. Silverlight 3?

RIA in Sharepoint: Silverlight with 3D Extended DeepZoom - so cool

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:04:50 GMT

NOTE: There is an interesting contest to find an image in this. Check the post. Long story short, this is an effort to bring RIA to the SharePoint world. But not just RIA style usability, I believe we pushed the envelope even further by incorporating not only DeepZoom (SeaDragon) for 'zoom in to the pixel' resolution, but the 3D extensions not present by default (you have the essentials but only the amazingly talented people behind the Hard Rock Memorabilia site (vertigo) have shown this style of combined zoom/3d that we have seen in any largely deployed sample)

Dynamically Loading an assembly at Runtime and calling its methods

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:16:07 GMT

This article explains how to load an assembly dynamically and call its method.

XAML and Layered Dependency Injection Spike

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:34:01 GMT

very nice work!

NHibernate Profiler Freakin Awesome

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:22:17 GMT

Dude, you are my hero.

Visual Studio 2010 Gets Serious about Visual Metrics - Screen Shots He

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:35:33 GMT

For most businesses only about 20% of the code being written today is for new applications; (DDN: Not true 100% however that is about right for budgets which is likely what they meant anyway). the majority of work is being done on existing code bases. A typical issue encountered when working on existing code is not having good tools to help the architect or developer understand the system. (DDN: Uh.. How about no regression tests? How about no mandate for reuse, framework API quality, etc. etc.? Sure lets not talk about the why, just the ways we can profit from it) This can make it challenging to not only understand what needs to be done to make the required changes, but it makes it equally challenging to understand the broader impact of the changes. Often it isn't until much later that an unexpected bug is discovered as a result of a change. Our modeling tools have tight integration into the actual code of the application. This means that a developer or architect can use models to explore existing code assets.

Dynamic Data Custom Pages: Dynamic/Templated FromView

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:44:21 GMT

Nice!

F# : absolute power corrupts absolutely, but F# removes side-effects

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:34:49 GMT

Functional programming is so addictive. It reminds me when I could code with no team, no deadline, no broken processes or cultures to navigate. I do hope this becomes a common option for general development or at least C# continues to borg functional ideas.

SharePoint 2007 MOSS Update - New BDC Web Man « team domain.dot.net

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:01:30 GMT

For BDC Users.

Linq to QueryableComputer : GAC, Registry, etc. Fusion Log Debugging

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:38:09 GMT

Example: (try this with gacutil.exe) ** ASSEMBLIES BY NAME WITH > 1 REGISTERED = 664 *** Group 'Microsoft' Assemblies=466 Percent=70.18% Public Keys Used=5 Group 'DevExpress' Assemblies=73 Percent=10.99% Public Keys Used=2 Group 'System' Assemblies=71 Percent=10.69% Public Keys Used=4 Group 'Policy' Assemblies=14 Percent=2.11% Public Keys Used=2 Group 'FSharp' Assemblies=11 Percent=1.66% Public Keys Used=1 Group 'VLinq' Assemblies=10 Percent=1.51% Public Keys Used=1 Group 'policy' Assemblies=6 Percent=0.9% Public Keys Used=2 Group 'PresentationFramework' Assemblies=5 Percent=0.75% Public Keys Used=1 Group 'mscorcfg' Assemblies=2 Percent=0.3% Public Keys Used=1 Group 'WebDev' Assemblies=2 Percent=0.3% Public Keys Used=1 Group 'VSTADTEProvider' Assemblies=2 Percent=0.3% Public Keys Used=1 Group 'VsWebSite' Assemblies=2 Percent=0.3% Public Keys Used=1

'Linq to Gac' : Use Linq to Power Query your Gac via C# to Fusion

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 06:59:03 GMT

This post gets the GAC via Linq to bend your way. How? A Fusion Wrapper to IEnumerable over your Gac. No nasty PInvokes to deal with. It's all clean C# which is here to use. We owe a debt to the Mono project for this as well as a very smart Microsoft staff member to be give credit when we can find the page again. Be careful however...Our last post cranked through your registry. This post gets you the GAC. Here is what is done with a holistic post later: * All files we can find (if you specify them) * The Gac (all of it and even the other two 'sub-gacs' if you want * Environmental Stuff (Path variable, etc. but we actually parse them and produce another tree and it fits our code) * A lot more (think all things inside you box) You can even join all this data if you can find the right keys. We joined our registry to our file system 'where the registry key value as a path' (where is was a valid path) didn't exist. Earth-shattering? No. Faster then any virus checker we've tried? ABSOLUTELY. Relevant to virus checkers? No not really actually..

C# 3.0 Query Expression Translation Cheat Sheet

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:26:15 GMT

Excellent guide which we are expanding to cover all Expressions.

Why Every Good Developer needs to Know how to Mock

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:31:02 GMT

While unit testing is generally considered a good practice ( even among those who don't do unit tests), mocking doesn't seem to carry the same aura. There are a lot of arguments saying why mocking is bad , how it kills testability etc. But in my day-to-day job, as well as in my personal projects, I found mocking is definitely indispensable.

Steve Ballmer we love you (sometimes) « team domain.dot.net

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:05:48 GMT

An oldie but always worth another look to remember the insanity that is Steven Ballmer. What are multi-Billion dollar CEOs would act like this? He's a genius for being such an eccentric yet being effective in the 'normal corporate' world. Go Steve. NOTE: We recently got the 'SequenceViz' tool (auto gens sequence diagrams using Cecil for code knowledge) working with SilverLight on the web. It previously only supported SVG in IE using the Adobe viewer. It now does SVG-Xaml Translation.. VERY cool stuff..

NDepend 2.10 Released - Interactive Code Dependencies Graph

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:16:02 GMT

This is indistinguishable from magic!

Expose New Linq Operations from the HashSet<T> Performance Monster

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:46:02 GMT

Linq is not just about databases. It's about reading the registry, your hard-disk, or even a list of function pointers to be invoked. Linq is about more event then sets (collections). It's about making tasks easier in many cases and vastly more powerful (and most importantly your code more readable and maintainable at the same time). It's astounding just how fast the HashSet<T> collection is. This post will show how to gain additional power that is fully supported from Microsoft which is often overlooked, yet it can solve some of the hardest problems (especially around performance however don't prematurely optimize!). Linq, HashSet, ORM, NHibernate, Linq to NHibernate, Linq Undocumented, Functional Programming, .NET 3.5