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Benefits of F#

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:41:11 GMT

The Visual F# programming language has a variety of technical benefits that can reduce development costs, reduce time-to-market and improve quality. This post enumerates some of these benefits in the context of different application domains.

Compare Visual Studio 11 Beta editions, Features Chart

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:48:52 GMT

See which features and other benefits are included in Visual Studio 11 Ultimate, Premium, Professional, and Test Professional

MS WebAPI in ASP.NET MVC 4 - HTTP Communication got a whole lot easier

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:32:10 GMT

In this article, we will see what it takes to use the newly launched WebAPI in an existing MVC 3 application by upgrading it to ASP.NET MVC 4 and extending it to provide http services using the WebAPI

Redis 2.4.6 has been released

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:11:44 GMT

Redis 2.4.6 has been release,it fixes a critical replication bug and adds a minor feature

New Cassandra/CQL reference cards ready for download

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:34:17 GMT

If you're like me and sometimes struggle to remember the particular syntax for a CQL or Cassandra nodetool or CLI command, we've got something for you that might help. You can now download reference cards for CQL, along with the Cassandra CLI and nodetool. They're free and pretty darn attractive if I do say so myself. Download them now and let us know what you think.

Essential guide to ASP.NET MVC3 performance

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:16:43 GMT

The .NET CLR can give your web application a significant performance boost compared to other platforms such as PHP due to it's compiled nature. Not only does your .NET code perform better because it's more low-level, it also comes with good support for parallel programming. This guide will not explain the basics of a responsive and fast web application by talking about CSS minifying, sprites, content delivery networks, etc. Instead this guide will be an essential guide for making sure you don't miss any features that can enhance the performance of your ASP.NET MVC3 application.

NHibernate: Collections of components - an alternative

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:33:28 GMT

When we have a model where an entity has some properties collections used for displaying it to the customer and we are not querying our data by these properties at all, it may seem right to map these collections in NHibernate as collections of components. Component in NHibernate is an object without its own identity, being a part of its parent entity. Our collections sounds similiar in terms of lifetime and ownership, but different in terms of relationship - these are one-to-many. In complex scenarios, additional queries became a serious issue. We've decided to try another solution - it's so simple that it can't go wrong.

Ruby Rake Files And Directories manipulation tasks

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:15:36 GMT

Collection of Ruby Rake code snippets for manipulating files and directories during continuous integration process

The CQRS Dilemma and Related Random Thoughts

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 04:16:32 GMT

Anoop Madhusudanan writes about CQRS and why he is no longer a skeptic, and answers the question "Do I need CQRS?"

Assault by GC

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:12:33 GMT

Well-known .NET developer Marc Gravell details how he eliminated some performance problems through clever use of structures, and explains how the CLR garbage collector behaves.

Using Node.js in an ASP.NET MVC application with iisnode

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:43:25 GMT

iisnode makes it easy to run Node.js on Windows, and since it's an HTTP Handler you can integrate it directly into an ASP.NET application. Neat, huh?

Tidy your HTML with Asp.Net TidyManaged vs Tidy.net

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:37:34 GMT

I recently stumbled upon a small bug which had to do with a part of C# code that cleans up an HTML string which came from a database. This string is used as output on the web and therefore needs to be w3c and tidy! I always used Tidy.Net for it. Really liked it and decided to check for a new version of that library while I was doing some code maintenance. That library's latest release date is from June 2005! that's over 6 years old! So I decided to go and look for a better solution. I found the TidyManaged project from June 2010. I wasn't directly motivated to migrate to this library so my next step was a showdown between the two.

Global.asax? Use HttpModules Instead!

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:39:29 GMT

Explanation of using HttpModules instead of using gobal.asax

Silverlight 2 Released

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:16:25 GMT

Today we shipped the final release of Silverlight 2. You can download Silverlight 2, as well the Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend 2 tool support to target it,

Silverlight 2 out with plans for development support on Mac and Linux

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:59:54 GMT

Today Microsoft delivered on the Rich Internet Platform promise and made public its official release of Silverlight 2.0 along with a set of Open Source initiatives that not only will allow us access to a big set of controls source but also the ability to build Silverlight apps outside Visual Studio and even outside of the Windows Platform.

The Cloud OS

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:38:02 GMT

Surely, Microsoft doesn't expect developers to write a web app\service and connect to SSDS over the tubes even with SSL. The missing link is a cloud based application development platform. This has to be coming and I predict it to be announced at PDC.

C# 3.0 Query Expression Translation Cheat Sheet

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:26:15 GMT

Excellent guide which we are expanding to cover all Expressions.

The DataGrid Column types

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:40:07 GMT

This is my third article about the DataGrid control in Silverlight 2. The first one was a brief introduction to the control and the second one was focused on some basic customizations of it. This one will discuss the column types that are present in the DataGrid control. There are three column types - TextColumn, CheckBoxColumn and a TemplateColumn.

WPF iPhone Checkbox

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:26:39 GMT

a control developed in WPF

Disabling/Enabling asp.net checkboxlist items using javascritp

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:59:31 GMT

Disabling / Enablin Asp.net net list box items using javascript.....

Javascript Closures

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:16:22 GMT

One of the features of Javascript is closures , Javascript closures keep the local variables of a function even after it returns.

Dojo Toolkit Series

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:31:43 GMT

A starting point on using the DojoToolkit.

What Goes In Must Come Out

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:12:12 GMT

In essence all computer systems are about I/O, data is send against the system and data is sent back. Splitting logic into Business rules and ETL.

Measuring Programming Progress By Lines Of Code

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:46:02 GMT

Software Managers all around the globe, need to have some metric to estimate their workers. Sometimes the management event wants to create a precise and measurable way to know the programming progress and the developers productivity and performance. One of those methods is called SLOC - Source Lines Of Code. This metric is used measure the size of the software by counting...

How much should I expect my end-user to know?

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:16:12 GMT

From a software support perspective, the question is, how much should I expect my end-user to know? If someone asks me a basic question about our product, then I answer it without hesitation. But what if someone asks me a basic programming question? For example, how to create a for-loop?