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Add a visual Linq expression builder to your app today!

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:44:34 GMT

Rabb Moshe Plotkin has created and open-sourced a control for creating Linq queries visually. Using this control, you can give your users the power to query data, rather than writing canned reports or queries.

New tools for your TDD arsenal

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:42:19 GMT

Alexander Beletsky shares a list of sweet new TDD tools to retrofit into your current load-out, including a tool to automatically re-run tests as you make changes to source code, a replacement for Moq, and some awesome fluent assertions.

Stay out of the JIT's way

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:42:24 GMT

This is a nice reminder on how to let the JIT make your code just a little faster.

.Net's Sort Is Not Secure. Don't Use It. Here's a better one.

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:57:26 GMT

.Net's Array.Sort (up to at least version 4.0) has serious weaknesses

Attaching Continuation Tasks to the UI Thread

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:30:27 GMT

Parallel tasks can be used in Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation applications to run slow processes without blocking the user interface thread. However, this presents a problem, as both systems prevent other threads from updating controls.

Simple Producer Consumer with Tasks and .Net 4

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:30:57 GMT

Alois Kraus walks us through implementing a producer/consumer pattern using Tasks in .Net 4

I, Interface

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:45:32 GMT

The wonderful things that decorating a trivial interface can produce.

.Net Client profile annoyance, and how to get rid of it

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:26:34 GMT

How to change project templates so it defaults to the full .Net framwork instead of .Net Client Profile

5 Tips and Techniques for Avoiding Automatic Garbage Collections

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:51:31 GMT

We've seen a few articles lately on ensuring that your memory is properly cleaned up during garbage collection, but today Michael McLaughlin comes in with tips to avoid automatic collection of your objects. Generally speaking, this is for performance reasons. Garbage collection in .Net 4 and earlier happens automatically and blocks program execution, which can be disastrous for certain types of applications (games, real-time analysis, etc).

Three .NET "tools" that I use every day and you want to know about

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:07:18 GMT

Dror Helper introduces us to three handy pieces of software that he uses in his daily .NET software development. He explains the utility of these three tools, which many .NET developers may not be aware of.

What's new in .Net Framework 4.5

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:01:16 GMT

MSDN article on what's new in .Net 4.5

Remote Debugging with Pastebin and Automatic Logging of Errors

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:57:51 GMT

Learn about using the Pastebin web service to assist with remote debugging. We'll include a simple code sample for accessing the Pastebin API and posting output. When integrated debugging and file system output is not available, remote debugging with a text-based web service may be just what you need.

The Top 5 WPF and Silverlight Gotchas

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:09:23 GMT

As WPF and Silverlight sit on the .NET framework, they're subject to the rules of the Garbage Collector. That means there are a few unique ways in which WPF will cause your application to leak memory, and Chris Farrell points out the most prominent culprits.

Dependency Injection Framework Speedtest

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 17:38:23 GMT

Philip Mateescu shares with us an in-depth and well documented speed test of Autofac v2.4.5.724, Castle.Windsor v2.5.3, Ninject v2.2.0.0, Spring.Net v1.3.1, StructureMap v2.6.1, and Microsoft Unity v2.1.0.0. Spoiler alert, Unity loses big time ;-)

C#/.NET Little Pitfalls: Default Parameters are Compile-Time Substitut

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:55:24 GMT

This is the fifth post pointing out the pitfalls that come with C#. Although C# is a very powerful programming language, it's easy for developers to lose sight of what's really going on behind the scenes. Some awareness concerning this can avoid these pitfalls.

A Bunch of link for TFS ecosystem

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:47:03 GMT

A list of links to useful third party tools for Team Foundation Server.

Rx release

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 04:46:33 GMT

Rx was started as in process technology, but with the addition of the IQbservable (the Rx complementary of IQueryable), Rx is breaking the process boundary.

DryadLINQ Tutorial: Part 1 - Distributed Storage Catalog (DSC) Basics

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 07:11:35 GMT

One of the most exciting additions to Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 SP2 (currently in beta) is the support for DryadLINQ. DryadLINQ is an API that allows the creation and execution of large scale, data-parallel compute tasks. One of the core capabilities of Dryad (the underlying framework used by DryaLINQ) is the ability to distribute the data over the cluster and maintain data locality by executing the code on the node storing the data. In order to do both, Dryad utilizes a mechanism called The Distributed Storage Catalog (DSC) which I will cover in this post.

DynamicObject: AOP for the poor

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 10:22:47 GMT

Use of AOP without help of third-party frameworks is difficult and often all of their functionality is not needed. In this post I want to share an interesting example of how I replaced AOP in its typical problem for a dynamic type.

Using StaticResources in WPF

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 05:55:28 GMT

Here I describe Resource markup extensions.

Troubleshoot Deadlocks using SQL Server Profiler 2005/2008

Wed, 25 May 2011 11:44:59 GMT

In this article, we will see how to capture deadlocks while modifying data using SQL Server Profiler in SQL Server 2005/2008.

Targeting multiple environments and machines - part 1/2

Tue, 24 May 2011 14:59:58 GMT

How do you as a developer work seamlessly across multiple environments machines? In this article I describe one possible solution.

Using Protocol Buffers on .Net platform (Part I)

Thu, 19 May 2011 13:37:25 GMT

Today we will talk about using Protocol Buffers on .Net platform. I will tell and show you what it is and why it is needed .Net developer. A format of the post is different from the usual format and it is designed as a discussion. What I think should improve the understanding of the material by readers.

Speed up Visual Studio Builds - Arik Poznanski's Blog

Mon, 16 May 2011 23:20:34 GMT

Recently I got involved in a big project where we had a single solution with approximately 100 projects.

Prepare Your Site For IE9 With Pinify

Wed, 18 May 2011 18:16:18 GMT

Start pinning your site with this new jQuery plugin with IE9.