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The Problems with NHibernate

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:46:02 GMT

The problems that exist for NHibernate to become better, and have better adoption rates.

ALT.NET Podcast 14: Object Databases

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:16:10 GMT

Rob Conery and James Avery discuss object databases.

Super Simple Ajax with jQuery and ASP.NET MVC

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:17:44 GMT

The simplest way to do ajax with asp.net mvc using your more "standard" way of doing ajax with jQuery.

Introduction to NHibernate: What does NHibernate bring to the table

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:01:02 GMT

A short screencast introduction to NHibernate: In this episode we will talk about what does NHibernate bring to the table

Microsoft Unveils Next Version of Visual Studio and .NET Framework

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:07:14 GMT

"Microsoft Corp. today provided the first look at the next version of its developer tools and platform, which will be named Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0. Microsoft described the next release through the following five focus areas: riding the next-generation platform wave, inspiring developer delight, powering breakthrough departmental applications, enabling emerging trends such as cloud computing, and democratizing application life-cycle management (ALM)."

Request for Help: Need better guidance for beginners

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:01:02 GMT

A call to harms for helping beginners. This time from a pro that realizes the need.

How to Use a Generic List in C#

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:43:27 GMT

Using a Generic List in C# is an efficient method of storing a collection of variables. And probably the best part is that the List is strongly typed and casting (which degrades performance) will no longer be necessary. Your collection of variables should be of the same data type. Generic Lists were first introduced into the .NET Framework 2.0.

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:

OpenID implementation in C# and ASP.NET

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:01:02 GMT

Interested in adding OpenID to your .NET website?

Understanding Single Sign-On in ASP.NET 2.0

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:01:02 GMT

In this article, Masoud discusses the concept of Cross Application Authentication using ASP.NET authentication model consisting of Membership Providers, web.config configuration, encryption, and decryption of configuration files. At the end of the article he also examines the application of the concept using ASP.NET login controls.

New Blog Engine Theme: MarketPlace 1.0

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:46:02 GMT

This is a new BlogEngine.Net Theme by Adam Zastawski.

A good list of opensource apps

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:46:30 GMT

I agree with the list totally

How to Write a Provider Model

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:46:02 GMT

In this article Keyvan teaches you how to write your own data provider for .NET applications using the provider model.

New* .NET 3.5 Feature: AddIn Framework ( Part 1 of 3 )

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:16:02 GMT

Introduction to the addin framework in .NET 3.5

Free Web.config editor

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:31:02 GMT

A free tool that enables editing the Web.config.

C# by Contract - Using Expression Trees

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:31:02 GMT

Using Lambda Expressions to get more bang for my buck! This Article is part of a series exploring the capabilities of .NET 3.5 and how new advances allow the development of a very powerful Design by Contract (or Contract First or Contract Driven Development) system in very few lines. DBC can help you write better code and although the examples in this post are in C#, they will work equally well in VB.NET.

Hello World of Rhino Mocks

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:01:07 GMT

A lot of tutorials on Rhino Mocks are long and complicated. This post gives you just enough basic code to start working with rhino mocks so you can see what is going on.

Waterfall Doesn't Work

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:01:02 GMT

Waterfall Doesn't Work; All Non-Agile Projects Eventually Devolve into Necessary Sub-Standard Agile. The traditional life cycle approach effectively ignores these issues and developers have been forced to consider other methods to overcome these problems.

Write to XML File Using C#

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 06:38:25 GMT

Part one of writing data to an XML file using C#. Is very basic to allow easy understanding and 90% of code is explained.

Why Use Continuous Integration - Beginner's Overview

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:16:02 GMT

Good conceptual overview of why to use Continuous Integration. As a person that didn't understand much at all about it. This article sense me down the right direction of understanding.

ASP.NET MVC (Part 3): Passing ViewData from Controllers to Views

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:46:05 GMT

Passing data from Controller to View

TDD pt2 Pig Latin

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:31:02 GMT

Part 2 in a Test Driven Development series for the extreme beginner

Do we need to teach the basics?

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:16:48 GMT

One mistake that many companies fall into is trying to completely automate certain business processes. Sure there are a lot of business processes that are just screaming to be automated, and some of them seem to have been invented just to be automated, but sometimes a bit of thought should be put into whether or not we should automate them.

TDD Test Driven Development for Beginners pt1

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 04:31:02 GMT

Part 1 in a series on Test Driven Development for the extreme beginners to Test Driven Development

Silverlight 2.0 to Launch Early Next Year

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:40:03 GMT

The next version of Microsoft's browser plug-in will have more relevance for enterprise applications, promises the company.