Context and Best Practices(www.lostechies.com)

submitted by ussherm(5285) 2 years, 4 months ago

The Right Way versus the Better Way; Default Architectures; Starting Small read more...

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Using External Configuration File for Enterprise Library Configuration(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

submitted by gilf(2139) 2 years, 6 months ago

One of the things that I always do when I’m using Enterprise Library is to separate its configurations to external configuration file. The reason is very obvious – using Enterprise Library makes configuration files very crowded. Since this is the case, the configuration files become unmanageable and then its time to separate the Enterprise Library’s configurations from other configurations. read more...

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Booting from a VHD(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by CharlieCalvert(7875) 2 years, 8 months ago

Hosting an OS in a virtual machine can be very useful for developers, but sometimes one pays a price in terms of performance. In Windows 7 developers can get improved performance in virtual machines by native booting a VHD. First create a Virtual PC that hosts Windows 7, then restart your computer, and finally boot directly into the VHD that contains the Windows 7 OS. When you native boot a VHD your virtual machine runs very close to the metal; performance is greatly enhanced and you have much better support for OS features that may not be available inside a standard Virtual PC. read more...

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CodeRush Xpress 9.2(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by CharlieCalvert(7875) 2 years, 8 months ago

The free CodeRush Xpress from DevExpress provides C# and VB developers with powerful extensions to Visual Studio. These features include editing and refactoring tools that make it easier for you to quickly produce well designed code. Version 9.2 of CodeRush Xpress, which shipped on August 25, 2009, has greatly improved memory and performance characteristics. read more...

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Fast Add Reference Dialog for VS 2010(devlicio.us)

submitted by tehlike(1000) 2 years, 11 months ago

I have spent a couple of days on implementing a fast add reference dialog box for Visual Studio. The time of adding a reference has been a great time to have some coffee, to have lunch, or even a way to save economy (remember, developer time costs money!). read more...

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CodeRush Plugin - Navigate to Implementation Part 1(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

submitted by kim_major(375) 2 years, 11 months ago

A 3 part series on how to develop CodeRush plugins. This tutorial implements a "navigate to implementation" plugin. read more...

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Microsoft deprecating Oracle client in Dot Net 4(vistadb.net)

submitted by vistadb(879) 2 years, 11 months ago

Microsoft has announced through a blog that the ADO.NET 4 spec will mark the Oracle client as deprecated with plans for removal. They are also recommending that users go to a third party Oracle provider. Stop Helping the Competition? Wow, this will mark the first time an ADO.NET provider has been removed from the .Net framework. Is this a case of Microsoft trimming the fat, or pushing Oracle? I always thought it a bit of a free ride that Microsoft was helping Oracle by building their provider for them... read more...

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Strongly typed include in EF, revisited(mattias-jakobsson.net)

submitted by Jakobsson(485) 2 years, 11 months ago

A few days ago I wrote this post about strongly typed "Include()" method in Entity Framework. However, this approach has a little flaw that I fixed today. The error is that it will not handle nested members. read more...

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Life After Loops(codethinked.com)

submitted by markheath(1485) 2 years, 11 months ago

Eliminating cumbersome looping code using Linq read more...

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High performance import of Xml data into SQL Server(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

submitted by kim_major(375) 2 years, 11 months ago

This post shows how to use SqlBulkCopy to import very large Xml files into Sql Server. read more...

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Strongly typed include in EF(mattias-jakobsson.net)

submitted by Jakobsson(485) 2 years, 11 months ago

The other day I was talking to my old teacher, Jon Wiberg, at "Ljud & Bild skolan". He told me that he had built a extension for the entity framework that enables you to use a strongly typed version of the ".Include()" method in Entity Framework using a lambda expression. I think it´s a lot better approach then just using "magic strings" as a compiletime error is allways better then a runtime error. read more...

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How to Create a Custom Performance Counter(dimecasts.net)

submitted by dwhittaker(13.1k) 2 years, 11 months ago

Taking a look at how to create custom performance counters for usage in your application Part of the core .net framework allows you to create code which can hook into the underlying performance counters which the windows OS has. We will show how you can easily create hooks to take advantage of these counters. read more...

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How .NET Regular Expressions Really Work(moserware.com)

submitted by moserware(1665) 3 years, 2 months ago

A very deep dive into the source code for how .NET Regular Expressions really work read more...

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A response to Validation in a DDD world (devlicio.us)

submitted by jdschwar(365) 3 years, 3 months ago

Jimmy Bogard presented a well written argument for always keeping validation out of entities in a domain driven design except in "the absolute worst case." But, IMO, there is simply no black and white verdict on where validation must live in a DDD application and must be carefully considered at the beginning of any project, taking into consideration the motivations behind validation, the scope of the project, the maturity of the development team, and the balance between philosophical purity and practical maintainability. read more...

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Learn the Basics Before Programming(codeclimber.net.nz)

submitted by keyvan(4086) 3 years, 3 months ago

Simone Chiaretta wraps up the recent discussion on the community about the controversy opinions of building a software that only works versus building the software that has a high quality. After that, the leaves his own opinions on this. read more...

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Patterns, Purists, and Sinkholes(blog.wekeroad.com)

submitted by adminjew(1490) 3 years, 3 months ago

Before I was a geek, I was a Geologist. A Geophysicist to be precise – but mostly I just tell people I was a Geologist. I worked a lot with environmental cleanup, but I also spent a lot of time doing what’s known as “Geotechnical” work – the stuff that happens before buildings are built and holes are dug. It can be kind of boring, but it’s crucially important. One day I was sitting in our lab with some dark Bay Mud in a crucible, slowly adding water in measured doses and then pouring the mud through a screen and weighing out differences. I won’t bore you with the details – I’ll just tell you that I was 23 and cranky that this is what my career amounted to – a bunch of rigorous nonsense where I got to weigh mud. read more...

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