New in .NET 4: Don’t Forget to Dispose() your SmtpClient Instances(leedumond.com)

submitted by leedumond(2144) 2 years, 3 months ago

It seems the System.Net.Mail.SmptClient class has gotten a bit of a facelift in .NET 4. read more...

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Smarten up your UI with Task Dialogs(developerfusion.com)

submitted by james.crowley(1212) 2 years, 5 months ago

Put your message boxes on steroids. Take advantage of the new-look dialogs in Windows Vista and Windows 7 in your applications and smarten up your UI. read more...

1 comment |category: Windows Forms |Views: 603

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Free .NET Profilers and Some Paid Ones Too(devcurry.com)

submitted by mopen(3596) 2 years, 5 months ago

Profiling is an important part of your software development process and allows you to determine improvements in your applications. In simple words, it is tuning your application to increase its performance. Here are some free and paid .NET profilers to do the job for you read more...

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Strive for Functional Cohesion(kodefuguru.com)

submitted by KodefuGuru(2818) 2 years, 7 months ago

Today, I came across a random class at the bottom of a file (you do have one class per file, don’t you?). This class had one static, readonly member on it, which was a regular expression used to determine whether or not an address was a post office box. read more...

4 comments |category: C# |Views: 280

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Check Uncheck all CheckBoxes in an ASP.NET GridView using jQuery(devcurry.com)

submitted by samsert(2159) 2 years, 9 months ago

Kewl code that shows how to Check Uncheck all CheckBoxes in an ASP.NET GridView using jQuery read more...

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Implementing a simple genetic algorithm(improve.dk)

submitted by orca(820) 3 years ago

In this blog post I'll give a quick introduction to what genetic algorithms are and what they can be used for. We'll implement a genetic algorithm that attempts to guess an RGB color by evolving upon a random set of initial guesses, until it at some point evolves into the correct RGB value. read more...

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Creating Visual Studio Templates from your Web Projects(west-wind.com)

submitted by rstrahl(7226) 3 years ago

Visual Studio has the nice capability to create project templates from existing projects and with a little bit of work it's real easy to create a project environment that's ready to roll without having to dig for related components first. This applies to Web projects more than anything for me as I have a fair bit of generic utility code that is project specific and needs to be added to just about all projects. Templates make this real quick and easy. Here's how. read more...

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Cleaning Up Your C# Closet, Making Messy C# Code More Readable(keithelder.net)

submitted by keithelder(450) 3 years, 5 months ago

Struggling with an existing code base and want to tidy things up? This article gives some great tips on how to do this along with a real world example. The end result is much more readable code that is easier to maintain. read more...

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Not doing TDD is worst than doing it wrong in the beggining.(codebetter.com)

submitted by stefanescu.dragos(150) 3 years, 8 months ago

Check this out, and make a learn from it. read more...

2 comments |category: Unit Testing |Views: 574

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Getting rid of strings (2): use lambda expressions(blog.andreloker.de)

submitted by aloker(1810) 3 years, 11 months ago

In the first article of this series I talked about the problems with strings in code. This article will show you how you can use lambda expressions and expression trees as another tool to avoid strings read more...

1 comment |category: C# |Views: 644

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Nice VS 2008 Code Editing Improvements(weblogs.asp.net)

submitted by expresso(465) 3 years, 11 months ago

Good improvements to take notice of when utilizing VS 2008 read more...

1 comment |category: Visual Studio |Views: 738

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7 tricks to simplify your programs with LINQ(igoro.com)

submitted by igoro(815) 4 years ago

Ever since I learned about LINQ, I keep discovering new ways to use it to improve my code. Every trick makes my code a little bit faster to write, and a little bit easier to read. This posting summarizes some of the tricks that I came across. I will show you how to use LINQ to: initialize an array, iterate over multiple arrays in a single loop, generate a random sequence, ... read more...

1 comment |category: C# |Views: 669

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11 More Visual Studio Shortcuts You Should Know (dev102.com)

submitted by razamit(4566) 4 years ago

Following our First Visual Studio Shortcuts post here is another batch of shortcuts. read more...

2 comments |category: Visual Studio |Views: 73

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Being a “nice” programmer(objectreference.net)

submitted by Vort3X(1335) 4 years, 1 month ago

Being a C# developer by trade, I naturally spend a lot of my working life programming computers. Whilst I by no-means profess to be a “guru” of any kind, I do notice that there is one aspect of software development that is often neglected from discussion, and most programmers will hopefully agree with me as I explain. read more...

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Do You Really Want to Be a Development Team Leader?(andrewtokeley.net)

submitted by tokes(1085) 4 years, 1 month ago

Ask any up and coming developer what they would like to do in the next year or so and you'll invariably hear, "I'd like to become a Development Team Leader". Hopefully most will have actually considered the change of role and be looking for new challenges and ways to contribute more to their chosen profession. However, for some this is an automatic response to a question that is particularly difficult to answer in an industry with no clear career path. For others it's simply a way to move up the pay scale. read more...

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Empty try blocks(blog.somecreativity.com)

submitted by dnksid(355) 4 years, 1 month ago

The article explains why you might see functions that do nothing in the "try" block. read more...

1 comment |category: Architecture |Views: 26

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