Code Contracts Primer – Part 1: Introduction (devlicio.us)

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If you are not familiar with the Code Contracts library which is coming out of Microsoft R&D labs, you need to check this pretty cool little library out. As of Vs2010/.Net 4.0 this library will be making the jump out of the R&D labs. This is the first in a series where we will walk though various parts of the contracts library. read more...

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Learning how to add IntelliSense for the Spark View Engine(dimecasts.net)

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Learning how to add IntelliSense for the Spark View Engine inside Visual Studio read more...

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How to Create a Custom Performance Counter(dimecasts.net)

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Taking a look at how to create custom performance counters for usage in your application Part of the core .net framework allows you to create code which can hook into the underlying performance counters which the windows OS has. We will show how you can easily create hooks to take advantage of these counters. read more...

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Saying Hello to the Spark View Engine(dimecasts.net)

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Taking a introductory look at the Spark View engine. The Spark is a view engine for Asp.Net Mvc and Castle Project MonoRail frameworks. The idea is to allow the html to dominate the flow and the code to fit seamlessly. read more...

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Learning the Observer Pattern w/ Callbacks(dimecasts.net)

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Taking another look at how we can use the Observer Pattern in our application, but this time we will implement the pattern using call backs and events. The Observer pattern allows you to define a one-to-many relationship inside your application where the parent object (the one) has the ability to notify the child objects (the many) of any state change. You can utilize this pattern to make sure that a set of objects are keep in order when there behavior needs to change based on the state of your application. read more...

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Learning the Observer Pattern(dimecasts.net)

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Taking a look at how we can use the Observer Pattern in our application. The Observer pattern allows you to define a one-to-many relationship inside your application where the parent object (the one) has the ability to notify the child objects (the many) of any state change. You can utilize this pattern to make sure that a set of objects are keep in order when there behavior needs to change based on the state of your application. read more...

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Testing MVC Routes(dimecasts.net)

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Taking a look at how you can test your routes in an MVC application. We will start the process of creating new functionality for our application in this episode by showing how to create the tests for the routes first by using MvcContrib project. In the next episode we will continue creating our routes to make the tests pass. read more...

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Introduction to Mixins For the C# Developer(codethinked.com)

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If you are a C# developer then you may keep hearing about all the cool kids from Smalltalk, Ruby, Python, Scala using these crazy things called mixins. read more...

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Learning the Adapter Pattern(dimecasts.net)

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Taking a look at how you can use the Adapter Design Pattern in your applications. read more...

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Getting your Func<T> along with your Action<T> on(dimecasts.net)

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Taking a look at how you can utilize Func<T> along with your Action<T> to replace the usage of typed delegates in your application read more...

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Navigate your codebase like a pro with ReSharper 4.5(dimecasts.net)

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Taking a look at how you can navigate your souce code using ReSharper 4.5 read more...

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Learning how to harness the power of NUnit RowTest(dimecasts.net)

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Taking a look at how you can utilize the power of RowTests within NUnit. By learning how to use RowTests you can reduce the amount of duplicate test code which exists when doing data driven tests. read more...

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How to modify the T4 templates used by Sharp Architecture(dimecasts.net)

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Taking a look at how you can modify the T4 templates which are used to change the default generation behavior of Sharp Architecture read more...

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Building a Nant Script -- Part 4: Adding fxCop to your build script(dimecasts.net)

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Taking a look at how to add in the ability to run the fxCop static analysis tool to your build script. Having this ability can allow you to keep very close tabs on your code at any time. read more...

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Learning the Template Pattern(dimecasts.net)

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Taking a look at how you can use the Template Design Pattern in your applications. The Template Design Pattern is perhaps one of the most widely used and useful design pattern. It is used to set up the outline or skeleton of an algorithm, leaving the details to specific implementations later. This way, subclasses can override parts of the algorithm without changing its overall structure. read more...

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Creating SOLID Code: Refactoring the SOLID episode on DI to use IoC(dimecasts.net)

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Taking a look at the prior SOLID episode on DI and refactoring it to utilize the StructureMap IoC Container read more...

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