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Seven Pillars of Pretty Code(developerfusion.co.uk)

submitted by james_crowleyjames_crowley(315) 6 years, 2 months ago

The essence of pretty code is that one can infer much about the code's structure from a glance, without completely reading it. I call this "visual parsing": discerning the flow and relative importance of code from its shape. Engineering such code requires a certain amount of artifice to transform otherwise working code into working, readable code, making the extra step to leave visual cues for the user, not the compiler. read more...

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Using WMI From Managed Code(developerfusion.co.uk)

submitted by james_crowleyjames_crowley(315) 6 years, 2 months ago

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is Microsoft's implementation of Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) and the Common Information Model (CIM). Although WMI is COM-based, Andriy Klyuchevskyy shows you how you can access it from C# and VB.NET through System.Management, thanks to COM Inter-Op. read more...

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Hacker Protection for Your Web Applications(developerfusion.co.uk)

submitted by james_crowleyjames_crowley(315) 6 years, 3 months ago

Your Web applications can be the most important and most vulnerable entry point into your organization, and, as such, ensuring adequate hacker protection in your Web applications can be critical. This article discusses some of the issues. read more...

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Aspect Oriented Programming using .NET(developerfusion.co.uk)

submitted by james_crowleyjames_crowley(315) 6 years, 3 months ago

Till now we were talking about non-mainstream languages to use Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP). Learn what exactly AOP is, and how you can go about getting this functionality in C#. read more...

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Url Rewriting with Regex for ASP.NET 2.0(developerfusion.co.uk)

submitted by james_crowleyjames_crowley(315) 6 years, 3 months ago

A new feature in ASP.NET 2.0 is it's built-in url rewriting support. When i looked into this new feature I found that it lacked regular expressions support, which is really the point of an Url Mapper. So, this code demonstrates how to create a Url Rewriting Module with Regex support in ASP.NET. read more...

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DataGrid Paging and Sorting Using A DataReader(developerfusion.co.uk)

submitted by james_crowleyjames_crowley(315) 6 years, 3 months ago

This article will demonstrate two ways one could implement the DataReader to bind a DataGrid, that includes caching, paging and persistent bi-directional sorting, all without the use of a DataAdapter/DataSet at all! read more...

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Using .NET to make your Application Scriptable(developerfusion.co.uk)

submitted by james_crowleyjames_crowley(315) 6 years, 4 months ago

Shows how to use the built-in compilers in the .NET framework to allow users of your product to write script to control and hook in to the application. read more...

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Printing Reports in .NET(developerfusion.co.uk)

submitted by james_crowleyjames_crowley(315) 6 years, 4 months ago

Learn how to print reports from C# and other .NET languages using the open source library presented here. Features include Printing DataTables, printing paragraphs of text using style classes, customizable page headers and footers, boxes, lines, graphics and much more. read more...

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MSDN Beta Search(lab.msdn.microsoft.com)

submitted by james_crowleyjames_crowley(315) 6 years, 4 months ago

Check out this new community search (beta) from Microsoft, which allows you to search Visual Studio and SQL Server 2005 docs, MDSN Forums, and Community sites around the web dedicated to developing with Microsoft technologies. Also, it adds the ability to filter your search by product or technology. read more...

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Using ADO.NET with SQL Server(developerfusion.co.uk)

submitted by james_crowleyjames_crowley(315) 6 years, 4 months ago

An extensive examination of using ADO.NET to access SQL Server databases, from establishing connections and executing stored procedures, to connection pools, data readers and data sets. read more...

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To SP or not to SP in SQL Server(developerfusion.co.uk)

submitted by james_crowleyjames_crowley(315) 6 years, 4 months ago

The topic of using or not using stored procedures reaches the level of religious fervor in many quarters. Douglas Reilly, a Microsoft MVP, weighs in on the topic with an in-depth analysis. read more...

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