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Is Nick Stakenburg Bullying His Open-Source 'Competitor'

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:16:02 GMT

This is obviously a scare tactic used by a vendor to frighten a 'competitor' who is encroachinig on his sales. Nick (the vendor) is jarred by the fact that someone has released a comparable (better?) product that his and it is free. It behaves somewhat the same, so obviously it was copied... This is a serious issue, we can't let companies push around open-source with threats like this.

Hidden Features of C#

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:01:02 GMT

In this article, I'll just link to a pretty great StackOverFlow Question about Hidden Features of C#. Most of C# Features are obscure for us and need some explanations, the following list and explain how to use it.

C# Design Patterns - An Overview

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:31:03 GMT

Over the next number of posts I am going to be exploring the world of design patterns. We'll look at some of the most commonly used patterns and how they look in C#.

Virtual file.... from IStream

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:16:07 GMT

The blogpost shows how to create a virtual file if you have implementation of IStream. The article includes a C# implemenation of IStream and a few samples. So you can create a virtual file with any behavior! Hope it can be interesting for .net developers :)

Filtering You Data Using Predicates

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:01:12 GMT

A while back I wrote an article about How to sort data by manipulating the view only, This article will handle filtering the data without changing it.

Who Called Me?

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:16:08 GMT

Sometimes it is important to understand what method called other method. In ths post I will show you an easy way to do that.

Back to Basics: Delegates, Anonymous Methods and Lambda Expressions

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:46:10 GMT

Great article on .NET basics

10 Ways To Programaticly Shoot Yourself In The Foot - Part B

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:46:13 GMT

This is part B of the 10 Ways To Programaticly Shoot Yourself In The Foot article. In this article I will talk about another 5 issues that even the best developers have to be aware of. In other words, I will try to prevent you from programaticly shooting yourself in the foot.

4 Steps To Ensure You're The Worst Developer Ever!

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:46:05 GMT

There are lots of articles about improving your skills as a developer. Everyone likes to talk about how to strengthen their skills and produce really good software. But, what if you want to be the worst developer ever? Nobody seems to want to share those secrets.

Emergent Complexity

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:31:04 GMT

Why is it that our well designed systems seem to fall into chaos so easily?

ScottG:Styling a Silverlight Twitter Application with Expression Blend

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:31:02 GMT

"One of the things that makes Silverlight so powerful is the ease with which developers and designers can collaborate together on projects. Developers can use Visual Studio to open and edit Silverlight 2 projects and get a powerful code-focused .NET development environment, and designers can use Expression Blend 2 SP1 to open and edit the exact same project and use a creative tool to sculpt and create optimal user experience designs."

Writing Tests to Catch Memory Leaks in .NET

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:16:02 GMT

Although Microsoft will claim that it is "not possible to have a memory leak in managed code", most seasoned .NET developers will laugh at that statement. It turns out that it is very easy to leak memory -- just keep a referencing object around longer than the referenced object, and you can leak. Here is a way to write tests to catch leaks.

Using HoverMenuExtender with ListView to Update, Delete & Insert

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:01:02 GMT

Explore how to associate a HoverMenuExtender with a ListView control to update and delete records. The Listview control in this sample will also contain the functionality to add new records.

C# vs Ruby

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:31:15 GMT

Interesting observation

Documents 2.0 - Consumable Documents

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:46:02 GMT

Sidar discussing the need for more agile documents in business environments.

Jump between braces in Visual Studio.

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:01:09 GMT

Move fast between open and close braces. No more scrolling to find beginning of that illusive if statement.

Being Smart Does Not a Good Developer Make

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:31:08 GMT

Not every programmer needs to be a crazy mathematical genius who knows every algorithm and data structure known to man (although I think Steve Yegge would argue differently).

A C# fluent repeater

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:01:03 GMT

A fully-featured fluent class used for repeating method calls, handle exceptions, callbacks and more... Just plug-and-play and start repeating stuff!

The static Keyword

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:31:05 GMT

We all use the static keyword, but do we really know what the possibilities are?

Great Little Silverlight Tool Every .Net Developer Need

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:31:02 GMT

A light and handy Silverlight utility which allows you to select through all the possible String.Format options. And provides you with a code snippet to paste into your code.

Using the Observer Pattern

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:01:04 GMT

This article walks through a C# example of implementing the Observer design pattern using an interesting video game example

ASP.NET Google Charts Implementation

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:01:02 GMT

Implementation of Google Charts wrapped in server controls for easy consumption by asp.net developers.

How to grayout an image in .Net

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:31:02 GMT

This article shows how to gray out an image in .net programmatically. This can be useful for making "Disabled" versions of images, etc.

inline asp.net tags... sorting them all out (<%$, <%=, <%, <%#, etc.)

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:46:02 GMT

There are all sorts of different inline tags, and I haven't found a place that explains them all in one place, so here is the quick and dirty...

.NET Event Techniques

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:31:02 GMT

A very simple technique to avoid the need for a null check prior to raising an event