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Your Software Can Learn A Lot From ATMs

Sat, 25 Sep 2010 03:45:52 GMT

When it comes to ATMs, failure isn't really an option. But how do they accomplish their high reliability? And how can you leverage that in order to make your software better?

Going Out Of Browser w/ Silverlight

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:30:52 GMT

Taking a look at how we can use the take our in-browser silverlight application and allow it to run Out of Browser (OOB). We will take a look at how we can let silverlight perform the lifting as well as how we can provide coding to create the OOB application.

Going Lazy<T> with System.Lazy

Tue, 25 May 2010 19:30:52 GMT

Taking a look at the how to use the System.Lazy namespace in .Net 4.0. One of the pretty cool new nuggets inside the .Net 4.0 framework is System.Lazy and System.Lazy. What System.Lazy brings to the table is a way to create objects which may need to perform intensive operations and defer the execution of the operation until it is 100% absolutely needed.

ANTS Profiler Saves Me From A Sordid Fate

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:15:52 GMT

"It's an ancient story of doing something dumb in haste, forgetting about it, and then regretting it at leisure." Carl Niedner recounts how he found his latest and greatest creation suddenly plagued with long loading times. He explains how he eventually achieved a 120x speed increase, fifteen minutes after downloading ANTS Performance Profiler. Read the full story.

Say Goodbye to NAnt and MSBuild With IronRuby

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:45:52 GMT

Tired of writing tons of XML in order to create automated .NET builds? Well, look no further... IronRuby, Rake, and Albacore are here to rescue you!

Write Crappy Code

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:25:22 GMT

I do a lot of work with large companies that usually have many development efforts going on simultaneously. A lot of these are maintenance projects, which are basically bug fixes or enhancements to systems that have been around awhile and have already spent a good deal of time in production. Then there are the new development efforts...

No-SQL - MongoDB - From introduction to high level usage in C#

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:45:52 GMT

A good introduction to using MongoDB from C#

Exploring how to use List Binding in MVC2

Sat, 24 Apr 2010 21:27:49 GMT

Exploring how create an editable Lists of data in MVC 2. We will show you how to create this list by using the enhanced binding features which are part of MVC 2. Having the ability to easily bind your model to your view will provide great flexibility and convince.

Deep Fried Bytes 52: Learning Dark Arts of Debugging from Scott Walker

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:04:26 GMT

Have you always wanted to learn more about debugging your software? Or just really want to know what your software is doing especially when it has bugs? We have a treat for you. In this episode, Keith and Woody sat down with Scott Walker to get some tips and tricks for setting up a debugging environment first and then how to use the tools properly to fix those nasty errors your customers and users keep having.

Moles: Mocking the Un-Mockable

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:00:00 GMT

Taking at how to use Pex/Moles for .Net. Unit testing is great, but most free isolation frameworks require that your mocks implement an interface. But what do you do when the class you are trying to mock is static or sealed with no interface. If you can't modify the class then your unit testing efforts are usually stuck. Moles, the new free isolation framework from Microsoft, supports mocking almost any CLR based class (including sealed and static classes)

Hello World, I am Win Phone 7

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:00:03 GMT

Take a first look at Windows Phone 7 Development. We will walk through creating a simple hello world application as well as give a quick tour of how to use the emulator.

Behind the Scenes of the .NET Languages with Luca Bolognes

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:55:16 GMT

Ever wonder how your favorite features from C#, VB.NET and F# get selected, implemented and finally reach your fingers? We did too and we found a great person to get the behind the scenes story from Building 41 in Redmond. In this episode, Keith and Woody sat down with Luca Bolognese, former Group Program Manager at Microsoft, to discuss how the languages team decides which features to include in the .NET languages. We learn also what is coming in NET 4. Join us for this episode as we uncover some hints on what may be coming in the .NET future, something you don't want to miss!

What's new in IIS 7.5

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:53:52 GMT

What's new in IIS 7.5 for administrators and developers

5 Steps Toward jQuery Mastery

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:30:00 GMT

Five quick tips that I found valuable while learning jQuery in depth. I learned them the hard way so you don't have to!

Bundler Now Supports Css And .less

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:00:02 GMT

New version of (recently renamed) Bundler combines your javascript or CSS to save on server requests. Also adds support for .less!

A Visual Look At The LINQ SelectMany Operator

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:00:00 GMT

An inside look at how SelectMany works, along with visuals to help you more easily understand it.

Setting Up Fluent NHibernate for your project

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:15:00 GMT

Taking a look at how to use setup and configure Fluent NHibernate for usage. We will focus on how to setup your database settings as well as how to get your Fluent NHibernate mappings registered into the system.

Tekpub: Mercurial with Codeplex

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:45:02 GMT

A free TekPub episode about working with Codeplex and Mercurial.

An Overview Of System.Collections.Generic

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:19:03 GMT

A look at the different collection types in the System.Collections.Generic namespace.

ASMX ScriptService mistake: Installation and configuration

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:30:00 GMT

Continuing my series of posts about ASMX services and JSON, this post will cover two common mistakes that plague the process of getting a project's first ASMX ScriptService working: Installing System.Web.Extensions into the GAC and configuring your web.config.

Automatic Sequential Postbacks

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:29:51 GMT

Dave ward explains how to do automatic sequential postbacks

MEF will not get easier, it's cool as ICE

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:15:03 GMT

Over the past few weeks, several people asked me to show them how to use MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework), some of them seemed to have some difficulties with the concept of MEF. I tried explaining that it will not get easier than it is currently, hence the title of this blog post. MEF is based on 3 keywords: export, import, compose. Since these 3 words all start with a letter that can be combined to a word, and MEF is cool, here's a hint on how to remember it: MEF is cool as ICE!

ASMX and JSON - Common mistakes and misconceptions

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:00:02 GMT

The first in a series of posts dealing with common misconceptions and mistakes when it comes to using ASMX services as a backend for AJAX.

.NET 4.0 And Our Parallel Future

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:00:00 GMT

A look at .NET 4.0 Parallel features, and how we can use LINQ to make them even easier to use.

Ninject 2.0 Released!

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:45:01 GMT

Nate Kohari announces the release of Ninject 2.0, and welcomes Ian Davis as co-maintainer of the project.