Rant about Rant: Stop the Madness(futureofcoding.com)

submitted by rafi(87) 3 months, 3 days ago

Have you caught yourself bashing some “anonymous” developer’s code? Of course, you have – don’t deny it, and I bet you enjoyed it too! I, for one, am tired of this madness. I see this happening way too much. In company after company, in team after team. Mirror Mirror When you are doing it for fun, perhaps you can justify read more...

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Two Things to Make Testing Fun(futureofcoding.com)

submitted by rafi(87) 5 months, 26 days ago

How many of you actually enjoy writing tests, probably not a lot, right? Even though you know testing is important. For some of us, it just doesn’t feel right to spend time on creating tests than working on our world class application. I will not argue the merits of testing here, but I will tell you two things that will make testing fun: read more...

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SolrNet to the Rescue – Why Use SolrNet?(futureofcoding.com)

submitted by rafi(87) 7 months, 17 days ago

Instead of SolrSharp or other libraries why not use SolrNet. It is easy to use and extremely flexible. read more...

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A Simple way to run Tests with Actual Parameters(www.futureofcoding.com)

submitted by rafi(87) 1 year, 5 months ago

Without further ado then: the idea is to just record actual parameters from you application in JSON form, and then use that in a simple Integration/ Unit Test. There are simply three steps to this: 1. Create a generic method to write to an xml file some string values. 2. Access the xml file in your test. 3. De-serialize and Use. read more...

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Is it time to go from XML to JSON?(www.futureofcoding.com)

submitted by rafi(87) 1 year, 5 months ago

The answer is a qualified yes. Qualified because, of course, there is a place for XML; however, I think it is time for an exodus towards JSON. More specifically, we need this exodus for storing simple data files for settings, etc, in a web application. read more...

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wcf.codeplex.com is now live(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by siphilp(919) 1 year, 6 months ago

The WCF Team have been busy building a variety of projects which bring better support for HTTP based services, and better support for JavaScript/jQuery based clients. These projects have all been collected together and are being hosted on CodePlex. read more...

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When you are Stuck with Ugly Code (www.futureofcoding.com)

submitted by rafi(87) 1 year, 6 months ago

If you are lucky you spend most of your time coding new application, but if you are anything like me, you would be reading/maintaining somebody else’s code, or worse your own. You swear on your beloved Obi Wan statue that you did not write that code, but yes you did and now you have to deal with it. For such situations here is some advice: read more...

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Refactoring Code with Complexity Analysis: Visual Studio Code Analysis(www.futureofcoding.com)

submitted by rafi(87) 1 year, 10 months ago

An idea for refactoring your code with complexity analysis. Using Visual Studio or source monitor. read more...

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Dynamic Data, oData, and WCF Data Services a Killer Combination (www.futureofcoding.com)

submitted by rafi(87) 1 year, 10 months ago

This article shows how to build a powerful web application using Dynamic Data, WCF Data Service, oData, jQuery template. read more...

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SQL Server 2008 R2 Express Database Size Limit Increased to 10GB!(beyondrelational.com)

submitted by jacobsebastian(3639) 2 years, 1 month ago

So what is so exciting about the SQL Server 2008 R2 Release? Well, along with plenty of BI features and enhancements, there is a tiny cute feature that I am sure all of us will appreciate a lot. The product team has increased the Database Size limit for SQL Server 2008 R2 Express from 4 GB to 10 GB. So if you have got a growing SQL Server Express database that is close to the 4 GB Limit, hurry, upgrade to R2 Express. read more...

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How to run, ON THE CHEAP, an IIS7 hosted website on Amazon EC2(learn.iis.net)

submitted by yesthatmcgurk(4063) 2 years, 1 month ago

Its beautiful.... This article shows step by step, with clear instructions and lots of images, how to host your asp.net website on Amazon's EC2. I'm shocked at how easy it is. 1) Create account 2) Select image 3) do a little dance 4) publish your website to the cloud read more...

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The black arts of custom Type conversion in c#(www.diaryofaninja.com)

submitted by wiredone(917) 2 years, 2 months ago

One of the little used features of c#, is user written implicit and explicit type conversion. Put simply: sometimes you have a object (custom or built-in .Net framework) and want to convert it to another type of object. While you can easily write left to right style code to accomplish this every time, there is a lot cleaner way of doing this by empowering your objects to cast themselves as another type. read more...

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ASP.Net and Custom Error Pages, an SEO nightmare?(martinondotnet.blogspot.com)

submitted by martin.c.jarvis(114) 2 years, 2 months ago

How to avoid custom error pages impacting on your SEO. read more...

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ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2 Released(haacked.com)

submitted by TroyMG(2670) 2 years, 7 months ago

Today we just released ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (and ASP.NET 3.5 SP1), which builds on top of the work we did in Preview 1 released two months ago. Some of the cool new features we’ve added to Preview 2 include... read more...

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Is Silverlight the new WebForms?(encosia.com)

submitted by gt1329a(7849) 2 years, 8 months ago

Is Silverlight becoming the same crutch that WebForms was nearly a decade ago? read more...

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C# Identify Crisis, You Have To Know Your Identity(devcomponents.com)

submitted by devexpert(260) 2 years, 8 months ago

Marking the beginning of the end of C# as language and its ongoing identity crisis. read more...

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