30 Favorite Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcuts(www.devcurry.com)

submitted by mopen(3596) 1 year, 11 months ago

Here is a list of my favorite Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcuts that I use all the time to increase my productivity and perform repetitive tasks with ease. read more...

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The religion of dependency injection(www.lostechies.com)

submitted by markheath(1485) 2 years ago

Disadvantages of using "poor man's dependency injection" read more...

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Simplify, Shorten and Speed Up Your LINQ Statements with "Let"(blog.nitriq.com)

submitted by viggity(1124) 2 years ago

Details how using the "let" keyword can make your LINQ statements shorter and faster. read more...

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IQueryable Can Kill Your Dog, Steal Your Wife, Kill Your Will To Live,(www.weirdlover.com)

submitted by evann(219) 2 years ago

If you take a quick detour over to StackOverflow, you’ll realize very, very quickly that, when it comes to wholly and full-heartedly screwing up your Linq to SQL statements, the screw-up almost always involves a misunderstanding of the purpose and... read more...

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Visual Studio 2010 Keyboard Shortcuts Poster(www.devcurry.com)

submitted by mopen(3596) 2 years, 1 month ago

You can now download the reference cards (available as print ready pdf’s) for the default keybindings in Visual Studio 2010 for Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++ and Visual F# over here read more...

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Any() versus Count()(kodefuguru.com)

submitted by KodefuGuru(2818) 2 years, 5 months ago

Jimmy Bogard brought to my attention today that I had been doing something wrong all along. I’ve been using Count() on my enumerations when I should have been using Any(). I’ve even done this in a presentation I’ve been giving the past few months. This is from Mash Up. read more...

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OMG, Better Rake (for .net)!(stevenharman.net)

submitted by ussherm(5285) 2 years, 6 months ago

If you ask me, when it comes tools for writing automated build scripts nothing packs more bang for the buck than Rake. Until recently, using Rake to build .net solutions required a magic concoction of hacked together scripts which rarely exhibited Ruby’s appreciation for beauty nor Rake’s spirit of simplicity. ... and then came Albacore... read more...

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Reading Code is Key to Writing Good Code(stevenharman.net)

submitted by ussherm(5285) 2 years, 6 months ago

Software product development is a creative activity taking place in the midst of that complex and adaptive world. So let's take a page from other creative professions (musicians, artists, etc.) and study the work of others, both within and outside our field, to help improve our own work. read more...

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What Makes Windows 7 A “Killer” OS(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by zhiming(1135) 2 years, 6 months ago

Randall C. Kennedy at InfoWorld in a recent blog post compares Windows 7 to its predecessors, XP and Vista, and reveals what is Windows 7’s real killer feature. In his words, it is not because Windows 7 fixes Vista's issues, or Windows 7 has a new user interface, or Windows 7 is somewhat lighter than Vista. It is because Windows 7 has better scalability. Click here to find out his explanation in more detail. read more...

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Selective Unit Testing – Costs and Benefits(blog.codeville.net)

submitted by desmond(2014) 2 years, 6 months ago

Test Driven Development is widely regarded as a hallmark technique of professional software development, but should you really do it all the time? Steve Sanderson argues that unit tests yield significant practical business value only for certain kinds of code. This blog post suggests what might be the underlying forces that determine whether unit tests will justify the long-term expense of creating and maintaining them. These ideas are then applied to structuring an ASP.NET MVC application. read more...

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IoC, SRP and DI best practices(blog.vuscode.com)

submitted by malovicn(1590) 2 years, 7 months ago

A blog post summing some of real world IoC experiences in 5 "laws" read more...

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.Net Developers Hear me Out! IronRuby is IN DA HOUSE!(ironshay.com)

submitted by shayfriedman(1411) 2 years, 7 months ago

Everywhere I go and preach about IronRuby I come across .Net devs who don’t understand what’s in it for them. This time I’ve decided to take action and tell you all about what’s in it for you and why you should be as excited as I am about the upcoming IronRuby 1.0. read more...

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A complete Silverlight 3 drag and drop solution(blogs.infosupport.com)

submitted by alexb(268) 2 years, 8 months ago

This post shows you how you can create a complete working drag and drop solution in Silverlight 3. This solution works in every Panel and from anywhere in the application. This solution is inspired by Flex' DragManager class. read more...

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Silverlight 3 new features, pitfalls and oddities(blogs.infosupport.com)

submitted by alexb(268) 2 years, 8 months ago

Some oddities and pitfalls of the new Silverlight 3 features, like WritableBitmap and the Navigation Framework read more...

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Block-level formatting in DirectWrite(nesteruk.org)

submitted by dmitri(408) 2 years, 8 months ago

Having figured out how to render basic text using DirectWrite, I decided to go further and try to figure out how I can apply block-level formatting to paragraphs. Amazingly, it ended up being very easy. Here’s how it goes. read more...

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[Behaviors] TextBox Enter Button Invoke (TargetedTriggerAction)(geekswithblogs.net)

submitted by dzak(210) 2 years, 8 months ago

Few days ago I wrote a small behavior, which I think, can be used in many applications, so I decided to share it with you :) What are behaviors in Silverlight I won't write in this post, because there are many other places where you can find nice tutorial about this.... What I did is a "TargetedTriggerAction" behavior, which simulate button click on targeted button control... read more...

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