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Using the Bing Maps Silverlight control on the Windows Phone 7

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:58:50 GMT

Learn how to overcome some of the challenges to get the Bing Maps Silverlight control to work on the Windows Phone 7 phone. Source code is included with the article.

T4MVC Add-In to auto run template

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:17:04 GMT

T4MVC is a fantastic solution to avoid 'Magic Strings' in ASP.NET MVC. Thanks to David Ebbo for this contribution which has made its way to MVCContrib. Must keep T4 template open and save it once. This has been the only negative thing about the template. I thought about writing an Add-In for VS to do this and even taked to David about doing it. Well, his latest post has inspired me to write one. I took my dot net less plug in and ripped nearly everything out of it, threw in about 5 lines of new code and it is done. Configuration There isn't any. Just install the add-in and it should work. It watches for any save, add, or remove event to the solution and runs the T4 template at that time. As long as you have the T4MVC.tt file in your project it will run.

Free ASP.NET MVC eBook Tutorial - ScottGu

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:16:02 GMT

There has been a lot of excitement in the community about the new ASP.NET MVC framework that is about to ship (literally any day now - announcement coming soon). As with anything new, people are also asking for more tutorials/samples/documentation that cover how to get started and build applications with it. Over the last few months I've been helping to contribute to an ASP.NET MVC book that Scott Hanselman, Rob Conery, and Phil Haack have been writing for Wrox. The book is now in production, and will be available to buy in stores soon

Moonlight 1.0 Release

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:16:03 GMT

Now Linux lovers can enjoy Silverlight streaming media with Moonlight 1.0. Read what Scott Guthrie tells us about this open source implementation of Silverlight.

Correct event invocation

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:05:18 GMT

Be aware that if there are no subscribers a .NET event will be null. Therefore when raising the event from C# test it for null first.

ScottGu: First Look at Using Expression Blend with Silverlight 2

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:16:02 GMT

In this first set of Silverlight tutorials I didn't use a visual design tool to build the UI, and instead focused on showing the underlying XAML UI markup (which I think helps to explain the core programming concepts better). Now that we've finished covering the basics - let's explore some of the tools we can use to be even more productive.

How to check email works with no SMTP

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:01:02 GMT

Testing code that sends email has always been a pain. You had to set up a SMTP service just to test that your .NET application sends the e-mail correctly...

Use DebuggerBrowsable attribute to clean up class view in a debugger

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:01:02 GMT

How to exclude extraneous class members from view in the debugger.

Scott Guthrie: Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Released

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:16:03 GMT

Scott's announcement on the release of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5.

Speed up inserting records into database with SqlBulkCopy class

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:31:02 GMT

When you need to insert a great deal of rows into database...

ASP.Net MVC Framework Part 1

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:31:02 GMT

Scott Guthrie provides some great insight into the upcoming ASP.Net MVC framework.

Create elegant code with Action delegate and List.ForEach method

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:46:02 GMT

Small example of how to use Action delegate to perform some action on all elements of a collection.

Building a File Path with Path.Combine (.NET)

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:46:02 GMT

When using a variety of input methods to accept a file path and file name, the format of the results can vary. To avoid the problems of checking for path separator characters and adding or removing them as required, .NET provides a method to provide this.

ScottGu VS.net performance tips for machine

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:16:02 GMT

Specifically - "what type of machine do you recommend I get for doing development with Visual Studio?"

ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Roles, Forms Authentication, and Security Reso

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:55:13 GMT

A very good resources from ScottGu's Blog.

Handling errors at the method level

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:52:41 GMT

[Use a combination of try.Catch blocks as a retry mechanism for error handling. ] If you were going to retry something ,you better use conventioal error handling and keep the throw...catch for exceptional cases only. Try/catch is known to be slow.

How to determine whether a property or a method is more appropriate

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:31:03 GMT

Guidelines for choosing between implementing a class member as a property or a method.

How to resolve relative url's without ResolveUrl

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:31:02 GMT

string absoluteUrl = VirtualPathUtility.ToAbsolute(relativeUrl);

Speed up Visual Studio 2005

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:46:12 GMT

Nice tricks to speed up Visual Studio 2005

Validate integer value before casting it to an Enum type

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 02:40:34 GMT

There is one thing you should watch out for when using enumerations. You can cast any integer to an Enum type and you will not get an exception message.

The C# ?? Operator

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:31:01 GMT

The C# ?? Operator

How to perform DateTime calculations in a right way

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:01:02 GMT

When coding, be careful if you need to perform DateTime calculations (add/subtract) on values representing time zones that practice daylight savings time.

Use DebuggerDisplay attribute for Easier Debugging

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:31:02 GMT

Did you know that you can appply DebuggerDisplay attribute to a class or member to determine how it is displayed in the watch window. It's quick, it's easy, and it really works!

Tips: Using Strong Typed DataSets with Web Services

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:16:01 GMT

The articles covers several tips to increase performance when using datasets with web services.