Managed and Unmanaged, Metaphorically(atalasoft.com)

submitted by ericdcoolest(1200) 3 years, 6 months ago

"Last night I was asked what the difference was between managed and unmanaged code by a non-coder. I came up with a metaphor which works and our CEO asked me to post it." read more...

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FormView not retaining values when server-side validation fails(livingincode.com)

submitted by pallu(10) 3 years, 6 months ago

Takes care of the problem in the Title read more...

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An Updated Abstract Boilerplate HttpHandler(blog.theaccidentalgeek.com)

submitted by jbrinkman(55) 3 years, 6 months ago

An update to Phil Haack's standard abstract HttpHandler read more...

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The Future of Programming Languages(atalasoft.com)

submitted by ericdcoolest(1200) 3 years, 7 months ago

In this article I'm going to focus on Dynamic Typing and Metaprogramming in particular. It's interesting to consider what the impact on the maintainability of our code from their increased prominence might be. read more...

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Tidying Up Old Blog Entries (Cleaning up MS Office HTML tags)(atalasoft.com)

submitted by ericdcoolest(1200) 3 years, 7 months ago

Looking back it seems like complete lunacy. For a period of time my method of choice to create blog entries was to write them out in Word 2003 and then export html. The almost unreadable text has been haunting me for a long time and I've finally gone back and fixed them. Along the way I built a small utility for doing this and here it is read more...

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Make Visual Studio Generate Your Repository(blog.wekeroad.com)

submitted by johnsheehan(4785) 3 years, 7 months ago

As many of you may know, I've been goofing around with Code Generation again with SubSonic's new MVC Addin. One of the things I really wanted to try and flex is Visual Studio 2008's code generation bits - T4. Not many people know it even exists, and to me it's one of the Great Hidden Secrets of Visual Studio 2008. read more...

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Load Virtual Earth on Demand(liveside.net)

submitted by crpietschmann(11.3k) 3 years, 7 months ago

The Virtual Earth JavaScript control is not small weighing in at 217KB when compressed in Version 6.2. When you require the rich experience of Virtual Earth this size is not an issue, the control is aimed at broadband users and within a few moments of interacting with the map you can easy exceed this with the rich imagery being loaded on demand. But what if your web page only needs to show the Virtual Earth map when a user asks for it or you just want your page to load super fast? You need to load Virtual Earth on demand. read more...

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Start menu context annoyances(atalasoft.com)

submitted by ericdcoolest(1200) 3 years, 7 months ago

Dave discusses some options when it comes to a context menu add-on used for finding out what files have a lock on them by team members, etc. read more...

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Avoiding the Dangers of Ambiguously Defined Data-Types(atalasoft.com)

submitted by ericdcoolest(1200) 3 years, 7 months ago

When you are handed a string, integer, or any value type, can you know what it really represents? Can you define the range of appropriate behaviors for that data? Can you tell if it's formatted correctly? The problem is, in all of these cases, you can't... read more...

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How much should I expect my end-user to know?(atalasoft.com)

submitted by Rickasaurus(1225) 3 years, 8 months ago

From a software support perspective, the question is, how much should I expect my end-user to know? If someone asks me a basic question about our product, then I answer it without hesitation. But what if someone asks me a basic programming question? For example, how to create a for-loop? read more...

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How to set up your own free VSLab-based Matlab/Mathematica replacement(atalasoft.com)

submitted by Rickasaurus(1225) 3 years, 8 months ago

VSLab has just been updated with full support for Visual Studio 2008 Shell and the F# CTP release. It has been a rough couple of weeks for the VSLab team as F# CTP changed a number of things and they have been working hard to put together a compatible release. In this article I talk about a bit about what exactly VSLab is and walk you through creating a free VSLab installation. read more...

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Visual Studio Shell 2008: Bringing More .NET Languages into the Fold(atalasoft.com)

submitted by Rickasaurus(1225) 3 years, 8 months ago

Visual Studio Shell was released in January of 2007 without much fanfare. Even though it's free to download, at the time it was not very useful for most developers as few packages had yet been written for it. Now eight months have gone by and quite a few projects are sporting free Visual Studio interfaces. In this article I discuss Visual Studio Shell itself as well as several of the languages which are currently developing shells. read more...

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What if it's not in Environment.SpecialFolder?(atalasoft.com)

submitted by Rickasaurus(1225) 3 years, 8 months ago

The correct way to find the location of system folders not listed in Environment.SpecialFolder. read more...

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Changing Your Garbage Collector Settings on the Fly(atalasoft.com)

submitted by Rickasaurus(1225) 3 years, 8 months ago

.NET 3.5 and 2.0 SP1 jointly included a new feature which lets you programmatically manipulate the way your garbage collector acts. This can be done through changing the value of a new property of the System.Runtime.GCSettings class named LatencyMode. In this article I will walk you through this new property and the different effects of each of it's possible settings. read more...

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More F# At Code Camp Hartford(atalasoft.com)

submitted by ericdcoolest(1200) 3 years, 9 months ago

Rick Minerich writes about CodeCamp in Hartford and his recent F# presentation with slides and code examples read more...

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Generic Fiddling(atalasoft.com)

submitted by ericdcoolest(1200) 3 years, 9 months ago

I spent an hour yesterday playing with generics to get my chops up a little better. After reading Krzystof Cwalina's post on the layout of the generic collections, I came up with this little gem: read more...

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