Managing social data in Silverlight: do you push or pull?(dimebrain.com)

submitted by dcrenna(1355) 3 years, 4 months ago

A discussion about how to handle service calls for social applications using data like Twitter: do you pull from the server or push to the client? Includes a complete reference application for demonstrating pushing Twitter data asynchronously to a Silverlight client. read more...

add a comment |category: Silverlight |Views: 10

tags: Silverlight another

A fluent C# library for Twitter(dimebrain.com)

submitted by dcrenna(1355) 3 years, 4 months ago

This C# library allows you to compose queries to Twitter easily, as well as serialize responses into data classes, make asynchronous calls, and perform caching and URL shortening automatically. It covers 100% of the Twitter API. read more...

1 comment |category: C# |Views: 445

tags: Twitter C# another

Composing animations with Silverlight.FX(dimebrain.com)

submitted by dcrenna(1355) 3 years, 5 months ago

Shows how to use Nikhil Kothari's Silverlight.FX with a fluent interface to build composable animations like jQuery. read more...

add a comment |category: Silverlight |Views: 34

tags: Silverlight another

How to determine generic implementers and type parameters at runtime(dimebrain.com)

submitted by dcrenna(1355) 3 years, 5 months ago

A few extension methods to help when working with generic interfaces, and the types declared with them, at runtime. read more...

add a comment |category: C# |Views: 16

tags: C# another

Improving the readability of the Specification pattern(dimebrain.com)

submitted by dcrenna(1355) 3 years, 5 months ago

A quick tip on how to use extension methods to improve the readability of the Specification pattern. read more...

add a comment |category: ALT.NET |Views: 34

tags: ALT.NET another

Reducing the Cost of Change(ayende.com)

submitted by dcrenna(1355) 3 years, 6 months ago

A philisophical comment on how the biggest hurdle to reducing the cost of change in software is treating change as costly. read more...

add a comment |category: Architecture |Views: 6

tags: Architecture another

LINQ + WCF + Silverlight(dimebrain.com)

submitted by dcrenna(1355) 3 years, 7 months ago

A seven part article with a full solution for setting up a CRUD application across tiers, one of which is a Silverlight application. read more...

add a comment |category: Silverlight |Views: 32

tags: Silverlight another

A better JavaScript minifier(dimebrain.com)

submitted by dcrenna(1355) 3 years, 8 months ago

A complete C# port of Yahoo's YUI Compressor is now available on CodePlex. It also provides complete MSBUILD support. read more...

add a comment |category: ASP.NET |Views: 27

tags: ASP.NET another

From ASP.NET to Silverlight in Five Leaps(dimebrain.com)

submitted by dcrenna(1355) 3 years, 10 months ago

Starting to work on Silverlight with an ASP.NET background? Here are five subtle shifts in thinking you'll need when planning your first project. read more...

add a comment |category: Silverlight |Views: 14

tags: Silverlight another

Thoughts on building social software in .NET(dimebrain.com)

submitted by dcrenna(1355) 3 years, 10 months ago

Describes how lack of adoption and existing conventions might cause someone to avoid .NET for social networking projects, with a few ideas on how LINQ's strengths can help separate what makes a social application unique, from everything else we can automate and conventionalize. read more...

2 comments |category: Other |Views: 12

tags: another

IDictionary's missing methods(dimebrain.com)

submitted by dcrenna(1355) 3 years, 10 months ago

A set of extension methods to make any IDictionary-implementing collections easier to work with: TryGetValue, ContainsKey, and RemoveAll. read more...

add a comment |category: C# |Views: 7

tags: IDictionary Collections C# another

Books vs. blogs: the value of technical books and ideas to improve the(dimebrain.com)

submitted by dcrenna(1355) 3 years, 10 months ago

Some ideas to raise the value of technical books so that they survive in the face of constant technical change that blogs can adapt to instantly. read more...

add a comment |category: Other |Views: 10

tags: another

Rejoinder #1 to "Vote of No Confidence in Entity Framework"(neverindoubtnet.blogspot.com)

submitted by dcrenna(1355) 3 years, 10 months ago

A balanced look at the Entity Framework's "Vote of No Confidence" from an architect that doesn't share the same conclusions as the authors. read more...

add a comment |category: Other |Views: 20

tags: EntityFramework another

Frictionless data persistence in Silverlight 2(dimebrain.com)

submitted by dcrenna(1355) 3 years, 11 months ago

This article will show you how to work with plain objects in Silverlight code, and use attributes to have those values automatically persisted in IsolatedStorage, or a compressed version of IsolatedStorage. You can also use this approach to define your own targets, all without writing any plumbing code around your state objects. read more...

add a comment |category: Silverlight |Views: 38

tags: Silverlight Persistence Attributes Compression IsolatedStorage another

Compression in Silverlight 2 : porting SharpZipLib(dimebrain.com)

submitted by dcrenna(1355) 3 years, 11 months ago

Maximize the user's IsolatedStorage capacity in Silverlight applications. This article provides a way to use stream compression in Silverlight to shrink your storage payload, by porting ICSharpCode's SharpZipLib project into Silverlight 2 Beta 2. read more...

add a comment |category: Silverlight |Views: 373

tags: Silverlight ICSharpCode SharpZipLib Compression IsolatedStorage another

Frictionless data persistence in ASP.NET WebForms(dimebrain.com)

submitted by dcrenna(1355) 3 years, 11 months ago

This article provides an approach to eliminating boilerplate code for storing state in Application, Cache, Context, Cookies, Session, Hidden Fields, Query Strings, and ViewState (on the client or on the server). Using attributes, you can switch your state persistence from ViewState on the client to an encrypted session variable without writing any code. read more...

add a comment |category: ASP.NET |Views: 27

tags: ASP.NET another