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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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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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...

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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...

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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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Learning SQL Server - Efficient Query Writing Strategy - Gift Book(blog.sqlauthority.com)

submitted by pinaldave(9662) 9 months, 22 days ago

Some people may push back on this next technique or misunderstand until getting to the very end. The goal is to have fewer errors as you write complex queries more quickly by making sure the easy stuff works first. read more...

2 comments |category: Database |Views: 80

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Find Nth Record Quickest Way in SQL Server(blog.sqlauthority.com)

submitted by pinaldave(9662) 9 months, 29 days ago

A Very simple tutorial to find Nth Record. A Quick Tutorial. 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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