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What if Visual Studio had Achievements?

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:29:33 GMT

Maybe in Visual Studio 2012 with XBox Live integration?

7 Freely available E-Books/Guides I found essential for .NET Programme

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:00:52 GMT

Freely available E-Books/Guides I found essential for .NET Programme

Find the Most Time Consuming Code in your SQL Server Database

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:30:52 GMT

This post will demonstrate how to find T-SQL code (SQL Server 2005/2008) that takes the most time to execute. Note that a time consuming code may not necessarily be inefficient; it also depends on the volume of data being processed.

Popular .NET Web Content Management Systems (CMS) - Open Source

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:15:52 GMT

Here are some good Open Source ASP.NET Web CMS that are popular in the community

Google Storage API with C#. SharpGs

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 12:45:52 GMT

On May 18 whole world has screamed about google announcement of new storage. By that time I have subscribed to take part in beta closed testing of this product. And now I'd like to share the C# library to work with Google Storage API.

Visual Studio 2010 Keyboard Shortcuts Poster

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:00:00 GMT

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

Distance Calculation using Latitude and Longitude in C#

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 03:30:01 GMT

ZIPCodeWorld.com provides this routine to calculate the distance between two points (given the latitude/longitude of those points) in C#. It is being used to calculate distance between two points lat1, long1 and lat2, long2 and uses radius of earth in kilometers or miles as an arguments using our ZIPCodeWorld(TM) and PostalCodeWorld(TM) products which offer the United States ZIP codes, Canadian Postal Codes, Mexican Postal Codes and North American Area Codes database subscription and solution services.

Stored Procedure Optimization Tips - Best Practices

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:45:06 GMT

Key Points discussed in the articles are : 1. Include SET NOCOUNT ON statement 2. Use schema name with object name 3. Do not use the prefix "sp_" in the stored procedure name 4. Use IF EXISTS (SELECT 1) instead of (SELECT *) 5. Try to avoid using SQL Server cursors whenever possible 6. Keep the Transaction as short as possible 7. Use TRY-Catch for error handling

60+ .Net libraries every developer should know about

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:45:03 GMT

Every good developer knows never to re-invent the wheel, especially if there is software out there that has been tested by others, and has an established track record. As a developer using the .NET framework I've found some of these libraries invaluable, so I'm sharing them for some of the other dev's out there with a brief outline of how to use.

Composition versus Inheritance

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:45:00 GMT

Discusses the benefit of Composition versus Inheritance. Touches on IoC Containers and how they can help you achieve more granular bits of code that make your applications more flexible and easier to maintain.

xVal v1.0 is now released

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:00:00 GMT

In case you're not aware, xVal is a validation helper for ASP.NET MVC that lets you use your own choice of server-side validation framework (e.g., Microsoft's DataAnnotations attributes, or Castle Validator, or NHibernate Validaion) and dynamically generates client-side validation code from your rules. Version 1.0 adds new features including dynamic client-side validation summaries and remote (ajax) validation rules.

Top 5 SQL System stored procedures every developer should know

Wed, 13 May 2009 15:31:02 GMT

There are a number of documented and undocumented system stored procedures in MS SQL Server that are helpful for every web developer working with databases. From the developer's perspective, here's a list of 5 System stored procedures that are my favorite.

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.

23 amazing JQuery Photo/Gallery Plugins

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 05:01:03 GMT

A collection of 23 JQuery Plugins to prepare your site for the use of photos.

Sending Domain Objects Across the Wire

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:31:03 GMT

or Using NHibernate and WCF

How to Calculate Network Utilization in .NET

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:16:24 GMT

How to calculate utilization of a particular network interface in .NET using performance counters and a bit of math.

Monitoring HTTP Output with Fiddler in .NET HTTP Clients and WCF Proxi

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:01:18 GMT

Http debugging is immensely useful and Fiddler is a nice tool that provides many options and an easy to use interface to monitor HTTP requests to get maximum information about each request. In order to monitor requests of .NET clients like WebClient, HttpWebRequest or WCF or Web Service proxies you need a little additional configuration to get Fiddler to monitor these requests.

Beyond SoundEx - Fuzzy Searching in MS SQL Server

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:01:20 GMT

In this post see how you can perform fuzzy deduping operations and fuzzy string matching by bringing the power of an open source string metric library (SimMetrics) into sql server

Why you should not use the ADO.NET Entity Framework

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:01:12 GMT

Reasons to why the ADO.NET Entity Framework is not mature enough for real business application.

Most Interesting .NET StackOverFlow Questions

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:46:02 GMT

Today a short list of My Personal Most Interesting .NET Questions to me asked on StackOverFlow I founded.

Suspicious DNK Accounts

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:31:29 GMT

Conclusion There is an incentive for publishers that use DNK to setup phony accounts that will help get stories from certain domains on the front page. So guess what happens ... it would appear that a certain number of people are doing this.

Development Tools I Use & Recommend

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:16:03 GMT

Eventually I will get to some technical code Posts. But for now, I'm a bit delayed with some other things at work lately. I will be blogging about Code Generation, OOP, and other topics very soon though. In the meantime, I wanted to share a list of tools I regularly use now or have used in the past as a C# / ASP.NET Engineer listed below:

Top 10 Things That Annoy Programmers

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:46:03 GMT

Programmers all have their personal pet peeves. Whether it's scope creep, Hungarian notation, or smelly coworkers, there are certain nuisances that we must put up with in our line of work. The following is a list of the top 10 things that annoy programmers, compiled from the results of my recent question on StackOverflow along with some of my own experiences as a programmer:

ASP.NET gets no Respect

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:16:11 GMT

Poor ASP.NET! Is it really that bad? I say No!

How to run a software development company (INTO THE GROUND)

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:31:02 GMT

The series will cover the things you *shouldn't* do if you hold some sort of managerial stake in a software project. Sadly these tales will be from my own personal experience working for companies that have drifted into disarray. These examples will be embellished somewhat to drive the points home, but by and large, everything you will read in these posts will be true.