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Kona: Continuous Integration and Better Unit Testing

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:01:02 GMT

In this screencast Rob Conery and Brad Wilson talk about continuous integration with TeamCity, Unit Testing with xUnit and TDD in general. "This screencast went from a simple idea - talking to Brad Wilson about better Unit Testing - to some pretty broad topics such as source control, unit testing, and continuous integration. I seriously could have written a whole book based on the stuff flying through my mind. I reigned it in a bit and decided to focus on two things that I don't think get enough press: writing a good Unit Test coupled with Continuous Integration."

Exploring C# Boxing

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:16:05 GMT

Boxing in C# has little to do with Saturday night television and quite a bit more however with that part-time job at the warehouse you had as a student. It is an important concept in C# that is related to how the compiler handles different kinds of variables in memory. Knowing how the compiler handles the various types allows you to avoid unexpected side effects in your code. This article explains what boxing is, how it works and how it can negatively effect your code if you don't pay attention to it.

12+ open source projects for .NET you probably didn't know about.

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:01:02 GMT

Here's a few of the better .NET open source projects which are making a difference to .NET developers worldwide, and it just shows that the open source .NET community is alive and well.

Improve your jQuery - 25 excellent tips

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:01:14 GMT

jQuery is awesome. I've been using it for about a year now and although I was impressed to begin with I'm liking it more and more the longer I use it and the more I find out about it's inner workings. I'd call myself an "intermediate" jQuery user and I thought some others out there could benefit from all the little tips, tricks and techniques I've learned over the past year. The article also ended up being a lot longer than I thought it was going to be so I'll start with a table of contents so you can skip to the bits you're interested in.

The Ten Most Asked SQL Server Questions And Their Answers

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:01:14 GMT

Then 10 most asked SQL Server Programming questions and their answer

99.99% available ASP.NET and SQL Server SaaS Production Architecture

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:46:58 GMT

Best practices for designing production architecture for a highly available ASP.NET website running on SQL Server. Guarantees 99.99% availability for Level 3 SaaS.

Using Active Directory to authenticate users to your ASP.NET Web Site

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:16:02 GMT

ASP.NET membership provides the ability to authenticate users to your web application using forms based authentication against a database of users or directory services. This article explains the steps required to provide authentication against Active Directory, either for new sites with no authentication, or for existing sites using database authentication.

Generic Variance in C# 4.0

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:46:12 GMT

A simple description of the new variance support for generics in the yet-to-be-released C# 4.0.

.NET - Some Common Operations using LINQ To XML - Part I

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:46:02 GMT

Very good overview of how to query using LINQ to XML

ScottGu: ASP.NET MVC Beta

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:46:03 GMT

One of ScottGu´s monster blogposts

ASP.NET website Continuous Integration+Deployment using CruiseControl.

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:31:04 GMT

You can setup continuous integration and automated deployment for your web application using CruiseControl.NET, Subversion, MSBuild and Robocopy. I will show you how you can automatically build the entire solution, email build report to developers and QA, deploy latest code in IIS all using CruiseControl.NET every N minutes.

Best practices for creating websites in IIS 6

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:46:02 GMT

A list of steps that I always take while creating ASP.NET websites in IIS 6. It ensures better performance maintainability, and scalability of your application.

Access JavaScript variables on PostBack using ASP.NET Code

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:31:02 GMT

In this article, we will see how to pass javascript values on postback and then access these values in your server side code. This article will primarily showcase two techniques of doing so. One using Hidden variables and the other using the __doPostBack() javascript method.

Simulate a Windows Service Using ASP.NET to Run Scheduled Jobs

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:46:02 GMT

Back in 2005 Omar Al Zabir (Co-founder and CTO of PageFlakes) posted an article on the CodeProject web site Simulate a Windows Service using ASP.NET to run scheduled jobs that many of you have probably seen. If you liked the idea at the time but didn't do anything with it, you may want to take another look now. In the comments, dselkirk provided an alternative that really cleans things up that Erichero then improved upon slightly and converted to C#.

Sending Email in a Development Environment without an SMTP Server

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:46:02 GMT

Very handy... I'm forever looking this stuff up :-|

The Complete Reference for Any jQuery Developer

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:31:02 GMT

If you ever to do something with jQuery, you should find it in this extensive list.

55 Free High Quality Icon Sets

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:01:02 GMT

A lot of freebie icons. Another great article from Smashing Magazine

39 Free Microsoft eLearning Courses

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:46:02 GMT

39 Free Microsoft eLearning Courses

Most Useful 50 CSS Tips

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:31:02 GMT

A useful page that provides a nice listing of various CSS tips, tricks and tools.

UI design patterns library

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:46:02 GMT

Very cool site which shows give you ideas about visual presentation for misc elements of user interface

Windows Communication Foundation - 65 Links to make you an expert!

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:31:02 GMT

Windows Communication Foundation - 65 Links to make you an expert!

stylizedweb.com - Most used CSS tricks

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:01:02 GMT

Earlier before I have written an article about current best CSS hacks which you can see here And now here's the list of today's most used CSS tricks - tips. I have added image examples for most of them because of critics on CSS hacks article. If you think I have missed any please let me know.

Three levels of extension methods

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:46:02 GMT

Some tips for building up C# 3.0 extension methods to solve problems, from wrapping static framework classes, to creating missing methods, to performing business logic validation.

Building a LinkedIn Style Address Book with the ListView and LinqDataS

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:16:02 GMT

Another great article from Matt Berseth about building a LinkedIn style address book

Find stored procedure parameters - SqlCommandBuilder.DeriveParameters

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:11:53 GMT

Next time you want to find the parameters used by a stored procedure, check out the use of SqlCommandBuilder.DeriveParameters.