The Road to Functional Programming in F#(richardminerich.com)

submitted by Rickasaurus(1225) 1 year, 3 months ago

In F# there are a lot of options when it comes to choosing the style in which you will perform a computation. So, for our last meeting of the the NYC F# User Group I decided to try and build a general understanding of how the different styles are related to each other through trying them and discussing our results. Come along with us and explore five of different styles of programming in F#. read more...

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Fix for the ever-growing Search and Replace Dialog(connect.microsoft.com)

submitted by yesthatmcgurk(4063) 1 year, 9 months ago

MS just released a fix for the ever-growing Search and Replace dialog for Visual Studio 2010. Been waiting for this since RTM! read more...

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Versioning Issues With Optional Arguments(haacked.com)

submitted by Rickasaurus(1225) 1 year, 9 months ago

If you have a method with optional parameters, you can never add an overload with additional optional parameters out of fear of causing a compile-time breaking change. And you can never remove an existing overload, as this has always been a runtime breaking change. read more...

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Oh, look! ASP.NET MVC 3 preview 1 released!(www.microsoft.com)

submitted by yesthatmcgurk(4063) 1 year, 10 months ago

The blogs are silent, but preview 1 of MVC 3 just became available on Microsoft's downloads page. read more...

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VerCache Madness with .NET ActiveX Controls(www.atalasoft.com)

submitted by Rickasaurus(1225) 1 year, 10 months ago

About a year ago I was working on building our DotTwain ActiveX control and wrote two articles on some useful tips that I discovered. Since that time, I’ve seen a problem on a few customer computers where, after upgrading once, the control would never run. Instead, it would just try to reinstall after every page load. read more...

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Final release for Silverlight 4 tools includes WPF fixes!(karlshifflett.wordpress.com)

submitted by yesthatmcgurk(4063) 1 year, 11 months ago

The final release of Silverlight 4 tools includes fixes that affect all WPF users, specifically those who are experiencing issues with design time data. Update today! read more...

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Use T4 templates to declare you dependency objects(www.scottlogic.co.uk)

submitted by yesthatmcgurk(4063) 2 years ago

Okay, while that's cool enough (kill me if I have to wade through another code file chock full of DP BS), this article contains details about using the DTE from within T4 templates and other nuggets that will enrich your code beyond this subject alone. read more...

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MetaGen: Use T4 templates to remove reflection from your code!(danielvaughan.orpius.com)

submitted by yesthatmcgurk(4063) 2 years ago

Why should you care? Ever implement INotify*Changed? Smell all those strings? Or have you ever {Binding I_Hope_This_is_Spelled_Right}? With a simple little T4 template you can rid your code of these nasty smelly strings! read more...

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The Ted Neward F# Folding Challenge(richardminerich.com)

submitted by Rickasaurus(1225) 2 years ago

My friend, and fellow Professional F# 2.0 author, Ted Neward recently challenged me to a bit of a Code Kata. Take a list of numbers and compress it in a particular simple way but without any mutable state. read more...

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ScottGu acknowledges Tiny Face Man from the VS 2k8 installer(twitter.com)

submitted by yesthatmcgurk(4063) 2 years, 1 month ago

No need to click through; here is his comment in full: "Not sure why there are people in the posters. At least the freaky smile guy in VS setup is gone w/ 2010 - he will haunt us no more :)" read more...

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Step by step guide for upgrading from TFS 2010 RC to RTM(geekswithblogs.net)

submitted by yesthatmcgurk(4063) 2 years, 1 month ago

Full, step by step guide to upgrading from RC to RTM (final release). Use this guide if you have source in TFS 2010 RC that you want to keep after installing the RTM. read more...

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How to run, ON THE CHEAP, an IIS7 hosted website on Amazon EC2(learn.iis.net)

submitted by yesthatmcgurk(4063) 2 years, 1 month ago

Its beautiful.... This article shows step by step, with clear instructions and lots of images, how to host your asp.net website on Amazon's EC2. I'm shocked at how easy it is. 1) Create account 2) Select image 3) do a little dance 4) publish your website to the cloud read more...

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What the heck is a URI and why can't I just use a string?(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by yesthatmcgurk(4063) 2 years, 3 months ago

The System.Net team at MS answers this and other questions in the System.Uri faq. read more...

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ILMerge update(research.microsoft.com)

submitted by yesthatmcgurk(4063) 2 years, 3 months ago

ILMerge is a tool from Microsoft Research that can combine assemblies after compilation. Makes drag and drop deployment for programs with multiple DLLs more convenient. read more...

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Buy Anders' Pascal 4 dev laptop(cgi.ebay.com)

submitted by yesthatmcgurk(4063) 2 years, 3 months ago

Ebay auction for Anders Hejlsberg's (lead architect at MS on the .NET platform) old laptop on which he developed Turbo Pascal 4. Proceeds go towards Haiti relief. Pretty damn cool, and (at least right now) cheap! read more...

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Get Started with F# via Higher order IEnumerable<T> extension methods(www.atalasoft.com)

submitted by Rickasaurus(1225) 2 years, 3 months ago

The more I use F# the more I want to write my every day production C# code in a functional way. To this end, I’ve written a few higher order extension methods as the need arose. I wanted to take a moment and share them with you. read more...

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