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ReSharper 4.5 gone gold

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:16:11 GMT

JetBrains has released version 4.5 of their multi purpose productivity plugin for Visual Studio, ReSharper. This updates contains some pretty cool features. For example, solution wide analysis now checks for members that can be made internal. Also, JetBrains promises to have improved performance and memory use. All in all certainly an update that is worth installing, especially because updating from licenses for version 4.0 and above is free

How Do I: Learn to use LINQ to Entities?

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:12:15 GMT

Nice 10 minute video on using LINQ to Entities (from MSDN).

Novell's Mono brings SIMD support to C#

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:31:21 GMT

Parallel programming is not just about multi-threading and multi-core. There's also a lot of power in the SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) extended instruction set available in most modern microprocessors from Intel and AMD. From Dr Dobb's Go Parallel blog.

Walkthrough: full example of using MvcContrib grid w/jQuery datatable.

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:46:02 GMT

How to create a grid layout in ASP.NET MVC using the MvcContrib extensions and jQuery.

Optimize ASP.NET Membership Stored Procedures for greater speed and sc

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:16:02 GMT

ASP.NET Membership stored proc are not fine tuned for high load. So, under heavy load - the major tables like aspnet_Users and aspnet_Membership produces lock contention and transaction deadlocks. Learn how to solve this.

jQuery

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:31:03 GMT

This post looks into client side grid implentation using jTemplate to achieve high performance grid. It also talks about how to add additional features like paging, sorting and filtering to this client side grid. Its a highly detailed post.

Better string.IsNullOrEmpty()

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:20:50 GMT

Handy shortcut to check string for non-empty values

jQuery 1.3.2 Released

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:23:38 GMT

jQuery 1.3.2 new Release is out.

15 Helpful .NET Extension Methods to Increase Productivity

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:01:17 GMT

Alright folks, this is my arsenal of useful Extension Methods for .NET 3.0+ mostly written by me to help with development productivity. Some real time-savers in here such as .ToInt() and .ToDateTime() (with and without a default fallback value), plus...

Getting Mono and Visual Studio to play nice together

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:16:12 GMT

The goal was to get some Mono project templates working with Mono assemblies and the Mono compiler in Visual Studio. The trick was to do it in a way that would be able to survive upgrades of Mono installations.

Structuremap 2.5.3 released.

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:57:05 GMT

A refresh to popular DI framework.

jQuery 1.3 Released

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:31:02 GMT

"The jQuery team is pleased to release the latest major release of the jQuery JavaScript library! A lot of coding, testing, and documenting has gone in to this release and we're really quite proud of it. "

Beyond SoundEx - Fuzzy Searching in MS SQL Server

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:01:20 GMT

In this post see how you can perform fuzzy deduping operations and fuzzy string matching by bringing the power of an open source string metric library (SimMetrics) into sql server

Using Adobe Flex in Visual Studio

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:16:08 GMT

You can now take advantage of the Flex framework from right within Visual Studio to build Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). We get you up to speed on what Flex is and a basic application talking to a web service.

IoC libraries compared

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:01:06 GMT

A comparison of how to initialize various IoC libraries. Including AutoFac, Ninject, Spring.Net, StructureMap, Unity, and Windsor.

Microsoft kills Linq to SQL

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:01:13 GMT

Ayende (aka Oren) expresses disbelief at Microsoft's decision to effectively kill off LINQ to SQL.

Code review - The meaningless ritual

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:46:02 GMT

Most of the time code reviews are a meaningless ritual. Everybody pays lip service to the importance of code reviews and a lot of people, especially in the management, are convinced that code reviews very effectively reduce the number of shipped bugs. The problem is. most developers hate code reviews and avoid them like the plague. If they can't avoid them, then they show up and act their part like in a play at the theater of the absurd.

WPF Meets the iPhone

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:19:26 GMT

Nice and step by step article about WPF development

Irony - .NET Compiler Construction Kit. - Home

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:51:25 GMT

The fantastic DSL empowering engine used by the domain.dot.net team for our DSL work in addition to custom Linq provider dev and fluent interfaces into that via extension methods, etc. This project is major heavy lifting... Damon

XAML

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:36:30 GMT

XAML (short for Extensible Application Markup Language, and pronounced "zammel") is a markup language used to instantiate .NET objects. Although XAML is a technology that can be applied to many different problem domains, its primary role in life is to construct WPF user interfaces. In other words, XAML documents define the arrangement of panels, buttons, and controls that make up the windows in a WPF application.

Adding OpenID to your web site in conjunction with ASP.NET Membership

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:31:13 GMT

Describes what is needed to add OpenID login as an option to traditional ASP.NET Membership and integrating both.

Don't be clever 2 - The cost of cleverness

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:46:03 GMT

In the modern world of programming we need to be more cognizant of making our code readable and grokkable than to make it clever or sneaky. For 99% of the developers out there, no one is ever going to pat you on the back for being sneaky. You're probably more likely to get punched in the face for it when the team has to spend the weekend debugging a piece of your clever code.

Implement MetaWeblog API in ASP.NET

Sun, 11 May 2008 00:31:03 GMT

There is no doubt that MetaWeblog API is one of the very helpful and popular inventions around online publishing especially for blog engines and services. Of course MetaWeblog API has not been a tool only for blogs because it's used as a general publishing service for others sites as well.

Why I'm a better software developer than you

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:46:03 GMT

What makes one developer better than another? Shouldn't we all be performing at the same level? Of course not, we're not sewing buttons on an assembly line. We're using every bit of our intelligence to create something that we can only being to understand.

SEO Page Manager For ASP.Net

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:46:10 GMT

manage all your meta tags and sitemap urls in one convenient place