Web Testing with MbUnit and WatiN: Testing Asynchronous AJAX calls(www.developerfusion.com)

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Concluding his look at combining MbUnit and Watin to produce clean web integration tests, Yann Trevin looks at testing asynchronous calls read more...

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Using NuGet Packages(www.developerfusion.com)

submitted by james.crowley(1212) 6 months, 23 days ago

NuGet is a Visual Studio extension that makes it easy to pull in libraries, components, and most importantly their configuration into your visual studio project. In this article, based on chapter 5 of ASP.NET MVC 3 in Action, the authors discuss NuGet and show you how to use it to add functionality to a project. read more...

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Learning how to use Value Converters in Silverlight(dimecasts.net)

submitted by dwhittaker(13.1k) 8 months, 17 days ago

Taking a look at how to use and harness the power of Value Converters. A Value Converter (IValueConverter) allows for you to perform custom logic during Bind time in XAML based applications. With a value converter you can implement pretty much any type of complex logic you want (bool to visibility, changing styles, etc) at runtime and have this logic extracted away in a stand alone class. read more...

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Getting Started w/ NuGet(dimecasts.net)

submitted by dwhittaker(13.1k) 8 months, 26 days ago

Learning how to use the NuGet Package Management System. We will start off by looking at how to install NuGet inside of Visual Studio. We will then learn how to use NuGet to install/uninstall packages. We will end the episode by looking at how to create our first NuGet Package. read more...

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Working with Advanced Aspects with Postsharp (dimecasts.net)

submitted by dwhittaker(13.1k) 8 months, 26 days ago

Taking a look at how to use the AOP (Aspect Orientated Programming) framework Postsharp. In this episode we will focus on how to use the OnMethodBoundry, MethodInterceptions, LocationInterception and EventInterception Aspects. We will look at how each of these can be used and how they can be used in conjuction with each other to build a better application. read more...

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Getting Started with AOP using Postsharp(dimecasts.net)

submitted by dwhittaker(13.1k) 8 months, 26 days ago

Taking a look at how to implemented AOP (Aspect Orientated Programming) with PostSharp. We will be using the Postsharp library in this episode and we will take a look at how to create our first Aspect as well as how to use the metadata with the aspect to provide real business value in your application. read more...

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Learning how to use Behaviors in Silverlight(dimecasts.net)

submitted by dwhittaker(13.1k) 8 months, 26 days ago

Taking a look at how to use and harness the power of Behaviors. A Behavior in Silverlight is a way to extend an existing UI element in order to add additional state or actions to it. We can create these Behaviors and attach them to pretty much any UI element you could hope for. read more...

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WP7: Using Location Services (www.dimecasts.net)

submitted by dwhittaker(13.1k) 10 months, 7 days ago

Taking a look at how to use the Location Services (GPS) built into the Windows Phone 7 platform. We will first take a look at how we can use the location servcies library on the phone to get the phones current GPS information. We will then take a look at how we can use that information in conjuction w/ the Bing Services to get the street address for the GPS coordinates read more...

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WCF: How to create Custom Message Interceptors(www.dimecasts.net)

submitted by dwhittaker(13.1k) 10 months, 7 days ago

Taking a look at how to extend WCF to create custom Message Interceptors We will first take a look at how we can create our custom interceptors and hook them into the WCF pipeline. We will then take a look at how we can intercept both inbound and outbound messages to allow us to perform some sort of actions agains the messages. read more...

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MVVM - How to create a ViewModelLocater(www.dimecasts.net)

submitted by dwhittaker(13.1k) 10 months, 7 days ago

Taking a look at how we can create a simple ViewModelLocator to inject our ViewModel into our DataContext at runtime via conventions. The ViewModelLocator Pattern will allow you to create a very flexable application because it will decouple your Views from your ViewModel. The approach in this episode will take a convention based approach to determine which ViewModel should go with a given View. read more...

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WP7 - Learning how to use Live Tiles(www.dimecasts.net)

submitted by dwhittaker(13.1k) 10 months, 7 days ago

Taking a look at how we can use Live Tiles in WP7 (Mango). WP7 Mango has introduced not only the ability to create Application Tiles via code but they have also added the ability to create Secondary Tiles, tiles which can deep link into your application. These Secondary tiles can also be created, updated and deleted in code and can provide a very powerful feature for your application. read more...

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How power–friendly is your software?(www.developerfusion.com)

submitted by james.crowley(1212) 10 months, 28 days ago

Rising consumer demand for power-efficient products has driven computer manufacturers to develop and build ever-sophisticated power-management technologies into their devices. In the case of PCs, several hardware and software components must function in harmony if significant power savings are to be realised. This article examines the often overlooked and significant role played by application software in reducing PC power usage. read more...

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Data received through automated error reports – online demonstration(sa-demo.red-gate.com)

submitted by javery(5523) 11 months, 20 days ago

View this online demo of tracking automated error reports. read more...

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Can you hack the cloud? Win £1K at free hack day(www.thecloudhack.com)

submitted by james.crowley(1212) 11 months, 20 days ago

There's a free hack day on 11th June in London with access to restricted API's from leading brands (PayPal, Huddle, National Rail & Bing). Plus engineers from Microsoft and our API partners to offer on the spot technical support from the experts and win great prizes all day. read more...

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How to migrate your ASP.NET app to the Azure cloud (www.developerfusion.com)

submitted by james.crowley(1212) 11 months, 26 days ago

Cloud computing is one of the hot topics of 2011 with those willing to make the jump to a cloud-based solution finding financial savings in this new approach as well as, in many cases, better fault tolerance and a more responsive service turnaround in many cases. However, what many developers may not realise is just how straightforward it can be to migrate a web site from a local or hosted server into the cloud. read more...

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Introduction to Windows Azure - What you should know(www.developerfusion.com)

submitted by james.crowley(1212) 1 year ago

Neil Mackenzie looks at where Windows Azure fits among the various cloud computing offerings in the wild today, and also at the four key areas of Azure that new developers will need to be aware of when they start their first project. read more...

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