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IQueryable Can Kill Your Dog, Steal Your Wife, Kill Your Will To Live,

Wed, 12 May 2010 19:30:52 GMT

If you take a quick detour over to StackOverflow, you'll realize very, very quickly that, when it comes to wholly and full-heartedly screwing up your Linq to SQL statements, the screw-up almost always involves a misunderstanding of the purpose and...

Free eBook: .NET Performance Testing and Optimization

Fri, 14 May 2010 09:45:52 GMT

Get your free copy of the Complete Guide to .NET Performance Testing and Optimization: Paul Glavich and Chris Farrell walk you through everything you need to know to set up a test environment and suggest steps you can take to get fast performance gains. Don't miss the good advice and recommendations on keeping your applications lean, mean, and fast!

Running .NET CF applications and code on Symbian based Phones

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:45:24 GMT

How run .net code on Nokia Series 60 Phones ( E61, E71, 6680)

Introducing Fluent MetadataProvider for ASP.NET MVC - Kazi

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:15:02 GMT

I have just included a Fluent Metadata provider in my open source System.Web.Mvc.Extensibility project. Currently it contains all of the features of the Built-in DataAnnotations Metadata provider that comes with the ASP.NET MVC 2 framework. Consider it as a holiday special from me for the ASP.NET MVC community :-). The main reason I am no...

More on Fluent MetadataProvider for ASP.NET MVC - Kazi Manzur Rashid

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:00:01 GMT

In my last post, one of the thing you complained about the maintaining view model meta data configuration in two separate place and I admit this becomes a pain when you skim through the codes. I have changed the implementation, so now you will be able to configure the meta data very much like the Fluent NHibernate or Entity Framework 4.0 Code ...

Free EBook for Developing High Quality Applications using .NET

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:30:00 GMT

The Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, 2nd Edition is a Must Have EBook for Developers and Solution Architects

Serializing Web Service Requests to run Load Tests

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 06:48:28 GMT

How to record web service requests and play them later on to emulate use cases and then run in multi threads to simulate stress in a real life scenario.

Visual Studio 2010: Multiple web.config versions

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:30:00 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 has support for multiple web.config files. It is one feature of new web application packaging and deployment system. We can create now separate web.config files for each configuration we have for application.

Executing Powershell Scripts in the Same Execution Context

Sat, 23 May 2009 17:39:20 GMT

How to executes scripts and retains variables and functions written in the script even after the script executes.

Code Generation Should be the Nuclear Option

Wed, 06 May 2009 07:16:02 GMT

So let me first just start off by saying: I do not like code generation. In certain cases I think it can help greatly, but many people are far too eager to jump to this solution. I don't think that there is anything particularly evil about the process of generating code, but I do feel like using code generation as a day to day tool is a very bad practice. Code generation should be the tool of last resort when there is no good way to cleanly implement a solution which doesn't require code to be spread out everywhere.

Top 5 SQL System stored procedures every developer should know

Wed, 13 May 2009 15:31:02 GMT

There are a number of documented and undocumented system stored procedures in MS SQL Server that are helpful for every web developer working with databases. From the developer's perspective, here's a list of 5 System stored procedures that are my favorite.

Hiding Thread.CurrentPrincipal from your code

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:28:26 GMT

You can get information about the current user who is logged in using Thread.CurrentPrincipal. The problem with this is that it's difficult to work with it in tests. It forces you to set the current principal in your test setup so that your code will work correctly, and this can be difficult if not impossible in situations where you're using Windows Authentication (if you're using Forms Authentication, it's not quite as painful, but it's still a pain).

InterOp: Using .NET COM in non .NET platform with Isolated Application

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:58:14 GMT

How to use a .NET based COM component in a non .NET environment without registering the application by using Registry Free COM

The Open Source Projects on ASP.NET MVC - Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:16:02 GMT

Last night the forehead four head has released the 1st chapter of their upcoming Wrox book along with a sample project NerdDinner and I think this is the best application to check if anyone is trying to lean the new ASP.NET MVC framework. And this is the list of currently available Open Source Projects developed in ASP.NET MVC. I am ordering it based ...

WPF Kid Stuff: Extracting a Control Template

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 10:47:59 GMT

How to extract a controls template

Which Open Source License to select -"With Comparison Chart!"

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:06:55 GMT

A simple comparison of different open source licenses. Lets you have an idea on thier features and have preview for selection of a license for your open source project.

A very simple C# interview question that most developer fails

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:29:39 GMT

This is a very simple C# question that most developer fails in the interview. Do you know the answer?

Get started JQuery by example in 15 mins : Reduce Your Javascript Size

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:43:53 GMT

A 15 minute startup tutorial that will enable you do things that you could not imagine doing in a day in regular Javascript

Late Binding in C# using Dynamic Compilation

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:16:02 GMT

Steve goes through his approach to using reflection, making the code easier to read, making it easier to maintain, discusses the "middle-class multiple inheritance", and provides a zipped project of the AdapterCompiler.

Extend WPF: Add your own keywords and functionality to XAML with Custo

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:51:58 GMT

Shows how you can add custom keywords into Xaml by writing a markup extension. A sample such extension is written and demonstrated.

Google Chrome: I liked it at first but . its memory usage is ABSURD!.

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:08:17 GMT

I was going to replace Flock with Google Chrome, but I had refrained from doing because huge memory usage of the Chrome browser

A developers quest to select a good Antivirus for the year 2008

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:53:09 GMT

As a developer I am busy and I am also sure that the whole community is busy as well and like me everyone is keen on security. I wanted to share my experience to find a good antivirus for the current year as the top 3 antivirus position changes dramatically each year. This is not a coding related post, but I want to help out my fellow developers to spend less time in their search as well.

Memory control : Use GCHandle to pin down the objects

Wed, 21 May 2008 20:19:45 GMT

Shows how can you pin down an object in memory and described how pinning down works with GC

Selected posts on CLR, threading, Internationalization and WPF

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:56:10 GMT

Links to some previous posts on CLR, threading, Internationalization and WPF

Developer And His or Her Chair

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:04:55 GMT

Being a software developer you write a lot of code. That is obvious, but one of the overlooked essential is the medium which lets the code flow. Yes it is your brain which is connected to your fingers which are connected to your body of which rear-end is an essential part. And this post is about the rear-end.