MVC Strongly-Typed Action Helpers - They're Back!(chriscavanagh.wordpress.com)

submitted by BobStrogg(1033) 4 days, 10 hours ago

Way back in 2009, the MVC Futures assembly introduced “strongly-typed action helpers”. They allowed you to render links using lambda expressions pointing directly to the actions on your controller, rather than using strings. Here's an alternative implementation that aims to resolve some of the performance issues they had. read more...

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Expression Trees + Generic Static Constructors(chriscavanagh.wordpress.com)

submitted by BobStrogg(1033) 29 days, 19 hours ago

A great thing about .NET Expression Trees is you can compile them at runtime, and they’ll execute as fast as any .NET code. However, while building and compiling a tree is pretty quick, it’s best if you only need to do it once. Here's a way to do that with a generic class and static constructor. read more...

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LOLCode Parser(chriscavanagh.wordpress.com)

submitted by BobStrogg(1033) 2 months, 7 days ago

LOLCode parser and compiler. Now your cat can code for you. read more...

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How to help yourself when NuGet goes down(www.xavierdecoster.com)

submitted by johnrummell(1321) 2 months, 17 days ago

Today will be remembered as the day that NuGet.org went down and broke quite some builds. While many people would love to see the NuGet team wearing a pink sombrero, there is something to say about wearing it yourself if you did not manage to work around this. Let me explain… read more...

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Rant about Rant: Stop the Madness(futureofcoding.com)

submitted by rafi(87) 3 months, 2 days ago

Have you caught yourself bashing some “anonymous” developer’s code? Of course, you have – don’t deny it, and I bet you enjoyed it too! I, for one, am tired of this madness. I see this happening way too much. In company after company, in team after team. Mirror Mirror When you are doing it for fun, perhaps you can justify read more...

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Web Essentials and CSSCop for Visual Studio 2010 (www.techbubbles.com)

submitted by kalyanms1(1789) 3 months, 21 days ago

This post discuss about new features in Web Essentials extension and Image optimizer which helps developers to write web applications faster. A new extension CSSCop which is a FXCop for style sheets. You can download the Web Essentials for Visual Studio 2010 here. The CSSCop can be download from here. Download link for Image Optimizer is here. You can read my previous post on Web Standards update here to refresh your memories. read more...

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Two Things to Make Testing Fun(futureofcoding.com)

submitted by rafi(87) 5 months, 26 days ago

How many of you actually enjoy writing tests, probably not a lot, right? Even though you know testing is important. For some of us, it just doesn’t feel right to spend time on creating tests than working on our world class application. I will not argue the merits of testing here, but I will tell you two things that will make testing fun: read more...

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Using the ToggleSwitch in WinRT/Metro (for C#) (devlicio.us)

submitted by rcash(4149) 7 months ago

One of the new user controls being released with WinRT/Metro is the ToggleSwitch which can be found in the Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls namespace. This post provides some good info on the new control and how to set its parameters. read more...

2 comments |category: C# |Views: 37

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From the Cloud to the Client(www.bradygaster.com)

submitted by bradygaster(4897) 7 months, 10 days ago

That title sums up what this blog post will summarize and explain; how to get data instantly from the cloud – in this case, the Azure cloud platform – all the way down to an HTML 5.0 browser. The point of this exercise is to take a slightly deeper dive into using SignalR. Secondary to the SignalR deep dive, this article will explain how to use the Azure Service Bus. read more...

1 comment |category: Azure |Views: 74

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Stock Market Technical Analysis(www.simple-talk.com)

submitted by bsenoff(1583) 7 months, 14 days ago

A terrific example of how to use the .Net framework in an intensive financial application. read more...

1 comment |category: ASP.NET |Views: 139

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SolrNet to the Rescue – Why Use SolrNet?(futureofcoding.com)

submitted by rafi(87) 7 months, 16 days ago

Instead of SolrSharp or other libraries why not use SolrNet. It is easy to use and extremely flexible. read more...

4 comments |category: ASP.NET |Views: 362

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[WPF 4.5] Subscribing to an event using a markup extension(tomlev2.wordpress.com)

submitted by tom103(161) 8 months, 4 days ago

This article presents a new feature of WPF 4.5 : the support of markup extensions for events read more...

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Automatic web deployment from TFS build(softscenario.blogspot.com)

submitted by snaits(197) 8 months, 11 days ago

A walkthrough of how to set up a web application for automatic deployment through TFS 2010 build server. read more...

1 comment |category: Team System |Views: 105

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

submitted by dwhittaker(13.1k) 8 months, 18 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...

add a comment |category: C# |Views: 10

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