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5 Minute Tutorial on Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:01:04 GMT

A quick, to the point tutorial on exposing and consuming a plugin architecture created with MEF.

Jeff Atwood Finally Jumps the Shark

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:46:04 GMT

Well, we all knew it had to happen eventually. After years of great blog posts and insightful commentary on the programming world, Jeff Atwood has finally jumped the shark in his latest post which essentially says "programming is hard, let's go shopping!"

A better, easier way to make sure you've globalized everything

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:46:18 GMT

A better, easier way to make sure you've globalized everything in your application

Re-index your database

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:46:12 GMT

FTA: "As our production database gets more and more data in it, we noticed that things were slowing down. I ran SQL Profiler trying to figure out if we needed to ad more indexes, better arrange the data, or anything we could do to improve the performance. After about an hour of running queries, creating indexes, profiling, and looking at execution plans; I had gotten barely anything for performance gains."

Calculating the distance between two Zip Codes in C#

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:52:24 GMT

Code for calculating distances between zip codes using downloaded U.S. Gazetteer files and the Haversine formula.

Visual Studio 2010 == Visual Studio 2008 + ReSharper

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:31:04 GMT

o you want the next gen of next-gen applications? Get the Visual Studio 2010 CTP! Which is - according to Microsoft itself - really just Visual Studio 2008 with ReSharper installed.

Live Framework Triggers

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:01:02 GMT

"The Live Framework has the ability to add triggers to resources. There is some documentation on triggers here and here (pgs. 14-15), but after reading it I was left with more questions than answers. So I took a deep dive exploring the nooks and crannies of triggers and this blog post is the result."

How to get remote debugging to work successfully

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:01:02 GMT

FTA:"After much time, trial and error, I was finally able to get Visual Studio's remote debugging features to work. In my travels around the Internet, no one seems to have compiled all the steps to make the process work successfully and seemlessly into one page, this is my attempt."

Extensible Storage Engine

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:53:53 GMT

Did you know that Windows came with an embedded database?

Fluent LiveFX Resource Scripts

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:55:17 GMT

Oran Dennison posts some of his latest work with creating a helper library for Live Framework Resource Scripts. His focus this time is on keeping your scripts strongly typed and enabling a more concise fluent interface syntax. The enhancements he has made let Intellisense help you out quite a bit more, resulting in greater discoverability and productivity.

Live Framework CTP #4 - .NET: LOE and data basics

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:16:42 GMT

This blog post gives you some information about connecting to your mesh through the Live Operating Environment,receiving information of mesh objects, data feeds and data entries and going through the normal CRUD process. It also covers some issues when you want to query hierarchical data. This topic will be investigated in another article later on...

Live Framework CTP #3: the developer's Resource Model

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:22:47 GMT

This article gives some introductionary information about the Live Framework Resource Model from a developer's poitn of view. Thus it's something nearer on the class diagram behind the scenes than other blog posts on this topic.

Silverlight 3 - What we Know So Far & What We Can Predict (Part 1of2)

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 06:44:29 GMT

Part 1 of 2 summarizes what information Microsoft has made public about Silverlight 3. This article includes information from a variety of sources and provides visual information about the upcoming Silverlight 3 release.

How to ALWAYS run Visual Studio as Administrator

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 05:13:48 GMT

Sure you can right-click and "Run as Administrator" but wouldn't it be better if simply double-clicking VS or any VS file (.sln, .csproj, .cs, etc.) would automatically run Visual Studio as an Administrator? Here's how.

Live Framework CTP #2 - Silverlight: Hello Mesh

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:18:26 GMT

This blog post gives some of my experiences I've made while developing and deploying my first mesh-enabled Silverlight web application and my opinions/thoughts about this with relevance to Windows Azure. Stay tuned for more mesh-enabled applications in .NET and Silverlight...

Live Framework CTP #1: Start!

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:58:57 GMT

This article gives some first experiences when starting with the Live Framework CTP. It gives solution to some issues, too and contains first thoughts about the whole "Mesh thing". It's the first post in an upcoming series of articles which I'm going to write while playing around with the Live Framework.

Live Mesh + Flash == Adobe AIR

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 06:43:30 GMT

Live Mesh apps officially support Silverlight and DHTML. But they also support Flash! Check out how easy it is to build a Flash Mesh app.

What a developer needs from their manager

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:16:03 GMT

I've a read a lot of articles talking about what it takes to be a good development manager. There are also articles about what makes a good developer. I thought it would be a good idea to describe what a developer needs from their manager.

Is the ADO.NET Team Abandoning LINQ to SQL?

Fri, 23 May 2008 23:46:07 GMT

Roger Jennings, eagle-eyed reporter of all things LINQ/ADO.NET/EF, describes why LINQ to SQL appears to be approaching legacy product status, with promised features unlikely to ever ship.

Entities, Value Objects, Aggregates and Roots

Thu, 22 May 2008 05:46:02 GMT

Basics of DDD

Entity Framework: Our Albatross

Tue, 20 May 2008 18:31:04 GMT

ADO.NET Entity Framework. All I needed to know is that there are three different designer-generated XML files. But Dave Laribee rips it a new one here.

More on how Entity Framework's single-model goal is flawed

Tue, 20 May 2008 15:31:07 GMT

Greg takes point with the long-term goal of EF as defining the one true model can't possibly appropriate.

Jimmy Bogard on Entity Framework being OR mapper mapper

Tue, 20 May 2008 06:24:38 GMT

Jimmy details how EF breaks encapsulation and abstraction by trying to be everything to everyone, but EF misses a few very important aspects.

Frans Bourma comparing OR mappers to Entity Framework.

Tue, 20 May 2008 20:01:03 GMT

Frans Bourma details what an OR mapper is about and how that compares to Entity Framework.

Feedback on Danny Simmons' Why use Entity Framework

Tue, 20 May 2008 11:46:07 GMT

Useful feedback on Danny Simmons' "Why use Entity Framework"