My Year With TDD(brian.genisio.org)

submitted by BrianGenisio(1000) 3 years, 7 months ago

It's been over a year now since I have been developing using TDD (Test Driven Development) as my primary development practice. I wanted to reflect on what it has done for me professionally. In reality, the past year has been great for my professional career in many ways. read more...

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ScottG:October 22nd Links: ASP.NET, Visual Studio, WPF and Silverlight(weblogs.asp.net)

submitted by Jemm(9604) 3 years, 7 months ago

Latest quality link collection by Scott read more...

1 comment |category: ASP.NET |Views: 365

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Handycons - a free, hand drawn social media icon set, By Janco(jankoatwarpspeed.com)

submitted by mosessaur(5424) 3 years, 7 months ago

Handycons is a free, hand drawn social media icon set that contains 12 icons. Package contains icons for del.icio.us, Digg, Mixx, DesignBump, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Developer Zone, DesignFloat, Technorati, Twitter and RSS feed and Email icon, of course. All icons are available in four sizes: 16x16, 24x24, 32x32 and 48x48 pixels read more...

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Essential Visual Studio Tips & Tricks that Every Developer Should Know(weblogs.asp.net)

submitted by swalther(975) 3 years, 7 months ago

In this blog entry, Stephen Walther lists the essential tips and tricks that every developer who uses Visual Studio 2008 should know. The list is kept brief. The list focuses on only those tips and tricks that can be used on a daily basis. Almost all of these tips and tricks are just as useful regardless of whether you are building an ASP.NET Web Forms or ASP.NET MVC application. read more...

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XAML to PNG with server-side WPF(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by frank12345(2809) 3 years, 7 months ago

XAML to PNG with server-side WPF sample read more...

2 comments |category: Windows Presentation Foundation |Views: 204

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Accessing all the opened forms(nirandas.com)

submitted by redcap(420) 3 years, 8 months ago

Code snippet showing how to access all currently opened forms read more...

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Automate SQL Server Express Backups (gatekiller.co.uk)

submitted by gatekiller(265) 3 years, 8 months ago

This is a very handy little guide on how to automate backups or any other job using SQL Server Express 2005. read more...

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Services: Receive Configuration Updates without Restarting the Service(ferventcoder.com)

submitted by robz(15) 3 years, 8 months ago

Services: How to Receive Configuration Updates without Restarting the Service : When using the configuration watcher, when you change the config file, it will refresh the sections that you passed into the constructor to refresh. You can actually dispose your inversion of control container and rebuild it after receiving notification of changes to your config file without having to restart the service. read more...

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[.NET] C# 'is' operator(dotnetbutchering.blogspot.com)

submitted by John_Idol(390) 3 years, 8 months ago

The C# 'is' operator looks like a boring little fella at first, but once you get to know it you will eventually appreciate it - it checks if you can safely cast an instance of an object to a type read more...

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Batching in ADO.NET Data Services(blogs.microsoft.co.il)

submitted by gilf(2139) 3 years, 8 months ago

In the post the author explains how to batch operations into one HTTP request in order to increase performance in ADO.NET data services. read more...

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Data structure zoo: 6 ways of implementing an ordered set(igoro.com)

submitted by igoro(815) 3 years, 8 months ago

This article compares six different ways of implementing an ordered set: AVL tree, red-black tree, treap, splay tree, skip list, and a pre-balanced tree. The different data structures make different trade offs and ultimately arrive at curiously different solutions that fit a variety of real-world use cases. read more...

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Google Chrome – Finally a Web2.0 browser(xtremeheights.com)

submitted by khushal999p(275) 3 years, 8 months ago

Google has silently released its own browser named Google Chrome. Their logo colors are very googlish and they have incorporated security features that we have only seen so far in the beta releases of IE8. read more...

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Improve CollectionView Sorting Performance in WPF(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by jemts(591) 3 years, 8 months ago

A simple technique to minimize the number of refreshes to a collection view by using the DeferRefresh method. read more...

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Automating CRUD Operations with LINQ to SQL Part I(nerdmotivation101.com)

submitted by joflow(35) 3 years, 8 months ago

Can automated CRUD with LINQ to SQL improve your data access. This series takes a look at one strategy that eliminates repetitve LINQ queries by generating them on the fly! Part I features gives us an overview of the architecture which makes use of Fowler's Repository and Query Object patterns. read more...

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Alert - Don't register domains at Yahoo!(thebrainparasite.com)

submitted by UnicornNinja(465) 3 years, 8 months ago

The renewal cost for domains registered at Yahoo! have gone up 251% to $34.95 (or higher!) per year after the initial registration. read more...

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Visual Studio Next Wish List(professionalaspnet.com)

submitted by docluv(1575) 3 years, 8 months ago

This is a list of things I hope to see added or improved in the next version of Visual Studio. read more...

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