Developer Productivity Tools and Visual Studio Extensions(www.mehdi-khalili.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 6 days, 5 hours ago

Mehdi Khalili shares what's in his toolbox for Visual Studio. It's a curated list of some of the best productivity boosters available. read more...

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C#/.NET Little Wonders: Select() and Where() with Indexes(www.blackrabbitcoder.net)

submitted by BlackRabbitCoder(661) 9 days, 18 hours ago

We’ve talked about the Select() and Where() LINQ extension methods before. The Select() method lets you project from the source type to a new type, and the Where() method lets you filter the list of items to the ones you are interested in. Most people know of these methods in their simplest form, where they simply take a projection and predicate respectively that operates on just an element. However, there are overloads for both of these methods that take a delegate that operates on both the element and the index of the element. read more...

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Ten features I like about Coffeescript(openmymind.net)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 11 days, 5 hours ago

Karl Seguin shares ten features he likes in Coffeescript. A great list for anyone learning Coffeescript, or anyone who isn't yet familiar with Coffeescript. read more...

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Creating Type Aliases in C#(www.blackwasp.co.uk)

submitted by BlackWasp(4212) 11 days, 20 hours ago

The using directive of the C# programming language is often used to create namespace aliases, allowing types with matching names that appear in separate namespaces to be easily accessed. A lesser known use of the directive is to create aliases for types. read more...

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Visual Studio 11 User Interface Updates Coming in RC(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by tom103(161) 18 days, 20 hours ago

The Visual Studio team has taken into account some of the feedback about the beta, and presents the changes in the user interface of VS 11 RC read more...

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C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Enumerable.Repeat() Static Method(www.blackrabbitcoder.net)

submitted by BlackRabbitCoder(661) 23 days, 18 hours ago

The Enumerable.Repeat() method performs the simple task of creating a sequence by repeating an element a specific number of times. While this is, in of itself, a trivial need, it can also be used to drive more useful results such as repeating a generator delegate, or creating sequences out of single items. read more...

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String Matching in LINQ(blogs.telerik.com)

submitted by jnpetrov(95) 1 month, 3 days ago

Performing simple string equality tests is often not enough when application user convenience is key. Often only a fragment of a string is known to the user, or many of them. Sometimes there is a need to search for a fragment in multiple columns. Which options does OpenAccess and LINQ provide to perform string matching? Into which SQL is the LINQ expression translated? read more...

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Lazy Programming for Smarties(blogs.dotnetkicks.com)

submitted by bsenoff(1583) 1 month, 7 days ago

As a programmer, I can honestly say that I am lazy. Forget the menial job of repeating tasks… if it takes me an hour to complete an iteration, I would rather spend 3 hours automating the process. You never know when you might need to do it again, and the click of a button is much more satisfying than an hour of processing data. I know I’m not the only one who feels this way either, otherwise Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas wouldn’t have codified the DRY principle in The Pragmatic Programmer…. Don’t Repeat Yourself. read more...

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What's new in Razor v2?(vibrantcode.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 1 month, 16 days ago

Check out some of the new features and changes in the upcoming Razor view engine v2.0. Don't forget the source code is also now available on Codeplex! read more...

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5 1/2 Features every C# programmer should lust after(www.mindscapehq.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 1 month, 29 days ago

Ivan Towlson at Mindscape shares 5 1/2 features in F# that every C# programmer should be drooling over. Particularly interesting are Object Expressions and Partial Applications. read more...

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Features NO ONE NOTICED in Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Web(www.hanselman.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 2 months, 5 days ago

Scott Hanselman takes us through new features in VS11 Express for Web that most people probably didn't notice. read more...

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What else is new in C# 5?(www.mindscapehq.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 2 months, 5 days ago

Ivan Towlson shows us some of the neat new features in C# 5 that aren't getting as much press: method caller information and loop variables in lambdas. read more...

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Weak Events in .Net, the easy way(blog.functionalfun.net)

submitted by tom103(161) 2 months, 8 days ago

A simple way to subscribe weakly to an event using Rx read more...

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.NET Regex Lesson 5: Optimization(regexhero.net)

submitted by BucketSoft(324) 2 months, 9 days ago

Starting with a poorly written regular expression, I make a series of optimizations to make it 3 million times faster. I hope to demonstrate several things to look out for in the process. And I encourage you to benchmark your regular expressions before putting them into production code. read more...

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Replace Switch Statements with Dictionary and Func<>(www.chrissurfleet.co.uk)

submitted by csurfleet(211) 2 months, 18 days ago

Continuing with the general theme of Func<>, Action<> and generics here is a nice little trick to replace long but simple switch statements with a generic dictionary and a Func statement. read more...

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What’s new in WCF 4.5? WebSocket support (Part 1 of 2)(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

submitted by idof(307) 2 months, 20 days ago

This is the 11th post in the WCF 4.5 series. The previous post was about the new UDP transport support, and this new post is also about new transports – the WebSocket transport. This post is part 1 of 2. This post will be about the WebSocket support between .NET apps using WCF (SOAP-based), and the next post will be about using WebSockets between browsers and WCF (non-SOAP). read more...

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