11 Things every Software Developer should be doing in 2012.(michaelcrump.net)

submitted by mbcrump(1034) 5 months, 3 days ago

2011 is winding down and 2012 is upon us. Have you set any goals for 2012 both professionally/personally? Regardless of the answer, I’m sure one or two of the items listed below can help. I usually don’t blog many opinion posts, due to the fact that I like to keep my blog technical. This post is an exception. :) read more...

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Do Androids Dream of Modal :Sheep?(blog.wekeroad.com)

submitted by drmohundro(374) 2 years ago

Rob Conery shares his dream of "knowing a new API, not a new IDE" when new versions of the framework come out. It is related to the resurgence of editors such as Vim or Emacs in the .NET space. read more...

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Using HtmlUnit on .NET for Headless Browser Automation(blog.stevensanderson.com)

submitted by desmond(2014) 2 years, 1 month ago

A common way to test web applications is through browser automation. In this article, Steve Sanderson shows how you can convert Java's powerful HtmlUnit library into a .NET assembly and then use it with NUnit, XUnit, etc, as a faster and more powerful way to simulate a browser hitting your application. read more...

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Rx - for beginners (part 10): Concat expression(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

submitted by bnayae(350) 2 years, 2 months ago

the Concat expression is used to concatenate one Observable stream into the end of another Observable stream. once the first Observable stream is completed the the concat stream will be immediate subscribed. read more...

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Rx: Hot Vs. Cold observable(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

submitted by bnayae(350) 2 years, 2 months ago

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? if it do make a sound when nobody observed it, we should mark it as hot, otherwise it should be marked as cold. read more...

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Rx - for beginners (part 8): Combine Latest expression(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

submitted by bnayae(350) 2 years, 2 months ago

What does it do? like the zip expression the Combine Latest expression is used to synchronize 2 IObservable streams into single IObservable stream. unlike the zip expression the Combine Latest doesn't using queue, as it name suggest it only remember the latest value of each stream. read more...

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Rx - for beginners (part 7): Zip expression(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

submitted by bnayae(350) 2 years, 2 months ago

this post is the 7th in a series of posts about the new Reactive Framework (Rx). in this post we will focus on the Zip expression. read more...

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ASMX and JSON – Common mistakes and misconceptions(encosia.com)

submitted by gt1329a(7849) 2 years, 2 months ago

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. read more...

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Rx - for beginners (part 6): Merge expression(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

submitted by bnayae(350) 2 years, 2 months ago

in this post we will focus on the Merge expression. What does it do? the merge expression is used to merge multiple IObservable streams into single IObservable streams. read more...

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Rx - for beginners (part 5): marble diagrams, select and where(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

submitted by bnayae(350) 2 years, 2 months ago

this post will focus on marble diagrams which is used for visualizing IObservable stream. on this post we will visualize the select and where clause, while in the upcoming posts we will discuss other operations that can be used to upon IObservable streams. read more...

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Measuring the Performance of Asynchronous Controllers(blog.codeville.net)

submitted by desmond(2014) 2 years, 4 months ago

It's easy enough to start using Asynchronous Controllers with ASP.NET MVC 2.0. But how do you know whether it's giving you any benefits? You might be surprised to learn that, in many default scenarios, you won't get any benefit unless you also make some crucial configuration changes. In this blog post you'll see a simple way to load test your asynchronous controllers, and find a rundown of important configuration options that will dramatically affect their behavior. read more...

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Integrating OpenID in an ASP.NET MVC Application using DotNetOpenAuth(west-wind.com)

submitted by rstrahl(7226) 2 years, 8 months ago

OpenId is getting more popular and with it requests to integrate it into Web sites as a user authentication mechanism. In this post I'll discuss the OpenId integration on CodePaste.net in an ASP.NET MVC application discussing both high level OpenId concepts, the process and the code implementation. 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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Reflecting Code Is Not A Perfect Science(codethinked.com)

submitted by justin_etheredge(8539) 2 years, 9 months ago

Interesting when .NET Reflector creates code which executes different from the code written. read more...

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Quality Sounds Good...I Think.(codethinked.com)

submitted by pitadev_aj(300) 2 years, 9 months ago

Justin Etheridge muses on software as a tangible product that we should be selling. read more...

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Learning the Decorator Pattern (dimecasts.net)

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

Taking at how we can use the Decorator Pattern in our application. The decorator pattern is a structural pattern which allows you to attach new or additional actions to an object dynamically. Using the decorator pattern provides a very clean and flexible alternative to subclassing (via inheritance) your object and thus creating an unwanted inheritance tree read more...

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