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MVVM for Tarded Folks Like Me

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:45:00 GMT

MVVM for 'tards, not dummies.

Back to Basics: Delegates, Anonymous Methods and Lambda Expressions

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:46:10 GMT

Great article on .NET basics

27 Free Must-have Online Collaboration Tools

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:46:12 GMT

hese days teams can be dispersed all over the globe. With outsourcing, telecommuting, distance learning and complex project collaboration, it's often helpful to have tools that can assist with the various collaborative tasks need to be done by dispersed teams. I've put together a great list of 27 free...

Microsoft kills Linq to SQL

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:01:13 GMT

Ayende (aka Oren) expresses disbelief at Microsoft's decision to effectively kill off LINQ to SQL.

LINQ To SQL Gets Kicked to the Curb... Needs A Good Home!

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:16:02 GMT

Great post on why L2S needs to be supported by the community and why a L2S targeted at the community is a good idea.

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:

Overriding ToString() Makes Debugging Easier

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:46:02 GMT

Make your life easier while debugging in Visual Studio, see your objects in thier full glory using ToString.

Software I can't work without

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:46:10 GMT

I'm about to configure a new development machine this week. It's going to be my 3rd install from scratch in the last 12 months, which I know is not all that much, but certainly more than I wish I had to.

Best ASP.NET Performance Winner For Data Binding

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:46:02 GMT

To achieve best performance you need to make decisions based on trade-off between coolness, coding productivity, and personal engineering values. I never thought I would be recommending my customer considering using old fashion Response.Write() in his Internet facing ASP.NET web application in order to significantly improve the application's performance. Customer Case Study...

StringBuilder Secrets

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:31:02 GMT

Article goes beyond the basics and looks at some more detail of StringBuilder in C#, and a benchmark that can help you improve your code that already uses StringBuilder. With graph

Jump between braces in Visual Studio.

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:01:09 GMT

Move fast between open and close braces. No more scrolling to find beginning of that illusive if statement.

How To Write Testable ASP.NET WebForms

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:16:15 GMT

Microsoft's upcoming ASP.NET MCV framework makes it easy to write tests for your application layer logic. But what about those of us who are stuck with ASP.NET WebForms? You can still write highly testable ASP.NET WebForms with only a little bit of extra effort. But that extra effort really pays off in the long run. In this post, i'll give a detailed description of one approach that has worked for me really well.

Tree Surgeon 2.0 Release

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:16:04 GMT

A tool to automatically generate Visual Studio solutions with proper directory structure

Psake a- Powershell based build tool

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:31:10 GMT

James Kovacs debuts a Rake inspired build tool based on powershell. The sweetspot here is that it could bring the functionality already in powershell into the build process. Still at almost a POC stage, but worth looking at.

ASP.NET Performance Tips

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:31:03 GMT

The article lists few of some of the many performance tweaks that can be implement to boost up ASP.NET performance.

Software Development and Programming Podcasts

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:46:03 GMT

I couldn't find a good list of software development and programming podcasts so I created my own. Feel free to chime in with any you recommend!

15 Tools to Help You Develop Faster Web Pages

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:16:14 GMT

Response times, availability, and stability are vital factors to bear in mind when creating and maintaining a web application. If you're concerned about your web pages' speed or want to make sure you're in tip-top shape before starting or launching a project, here's a few useful, free tools to help you create and sustain high-performance web applications.

.NET Database Migration Tool Roundup

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:46:17 GMT

A overview of all the available DB Migration tools available on the .NET platform

Envy Code R coding font update released

Tue, 27 May 2008 03:50:14 GMT

Latest version of my monospaced scalable progamming font now with 550 glyphs over man codepages, bold, italics and extensive hinting for that crisp-clear experience and distinguishable characters. Also includes a special hack to let you get italic syntax highlighting within Visual Studio!

A good coding font makes a difference. Envy Code R, better than ever!

Wed, 28 May 2008 02:46:12 GMT

Am I the only one who believes a great programming font can boost your productivity and increase your coding joy? Check out Damien Guard's superb new release of Envy Code R, my favorite coding font.

CSS Message Boxes for different message types

Thu, 22 May 2008 23:01:04 GMT

Can you believe this: Few days ago I went to my bank to check my credit score with the Credit Bureau. The bank official typed in my personal data and sent a request. Web application responded by displaying a yellow message box with an exclamation icon saying that data processing is still in progress. He checked several more times, but he didn't notice that at one moment the message changed to "Account available". But the message box hasn't changed. He continued to check a few more times and eventually he realized that the request was successful. I don't know what was in the minds of developers and designers who created this application, but it certainly wasn't the user. This poor bank official was really frustrated. I can't imagine what the rest of the application looks like.

Entities, Value Objects, Aggregates and Roots

Thu, 22 May 2008 05:46:02 GMT

Basics of DDD

AddItem Extension Method for CheckBoxList, DropDownList, ListBox

Mon, 12 May 2008 16:16:02 GMT

Just 1 AddItem extension method which works for 5 controls to make the code a lot simpler and cleaner :-) Cheers to object inheritance and cheers to Extension Methods ;-)

Day-to-day with Subversion

Wed, 07 May 2008 20:46:03 GMT

A good post that highlights some of the functionality of Subversion

Why Should You Wrap Your ASP.NET Session Object

Wed, 07 May 2008 19:16:03 GMT

ASP.NET provides mechanisms for storing information for a single user session or across multiple sessions. This is done using the HttpSessionState and HttpApplicationState classes. The Page class has Application and Session attributes to provide access to current objects. The simple way to access them is as following: