Strings and performance(reducingcomplexity.blogspot.com)

submitted by edind(95) 2 years, 9 months ago

I really cannot stress enough importance of using StringBuilder class for string concatenation. The reason is obvious: PERFORMANCE! I know that most programmers are aware of the possible string concatenations performance problems but somehow this issue is still being overlooked and many make the mistake... read more...

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Replace Comments With Code(blog.torresdal.net)

submitted by jonny2055(15) 2 years, 9 months ago

It's tempting to just leave this blog post with that statement only :-) I will however explain this a bit further for those of you who either are forced to write comments (like by your boss or a policy at your company), or actually believe a lot of comments in code increase readability and ease maintenance. read more...

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.NET - IP Address Location In ASP.NET(dotnetcurry.com)

submitted by schalkvanwyk(1335) 2 years, 11 months ago

Get client's ip address from a free online web query. read more...

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Alt.NET Podcast Episode 9: The State of IronRuby(altnetpodcast.com)

submitted by javery(5523) 3 years, 8 months ago

Learn about Ruby, why you should check it out, and what the status is on the IronRuby project, read more...

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Top 10 Things That Annoy Programmers(kevinwilliampang.com)

submitted by kpanghmc(2055) 3 years, 8 months ago

Programmers all have their personal pet peeves. Whether it's scope creep, Hungarian notation, or smelly coworkers, there are certain nuisances that we must put up with in our line of work. The following is a list of the top 10 things that annoy programmers, compiled from the results of my recent question on StackOverflow along with some of my own experiences as a programmer: read more...

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Scraping, or Programatically Accessing, a Secure Webpage(ryanfarley.com)

submitted by StanJackson(395) 3 years, 9 months ago

There are many secure websites out there that provide useful information but do not have a public API to access it's data. A prime example of this is the LinkedIn website. You might love to gather some info from LinkedIn, but their promise to deliver a public API has yet to come to fruition. The problem is, the pages with all the good data are secure, requiring the user to log in before accessing these pages. Let's say we want to scrape this data from these pages programatically? We need to authenticate to access these pages. We can do that by reusing the authentication cookie from the site that we receive when we log in with a browser. read more...

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TimeZone vs. TimeZoneInfo in .Net(danrigsby.com)

submitted by DanRigsby(1880) 3 years, 9 months ago

Understanding the TimeZoneInfo classin .Net 3.5 and how it compares to the standard TimeZone class. read more...

1 comment |category: C# |Views: 665

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DateTime vs. DateTimeOffset in .Net(danrigsby.com)

submitted by DanRigsby(1880) 3 years, 9 months ago

Understanding the DateTimeOffset struct in .Net 3.5 and how it compares to the standard DateTime struct. read more...

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ASP.NET Dynamic Data - Simple 5 Table Northwind Example(mattberseth.com)

submitted by Dexign(170) 3 years, 9 months ago

Excellent summary of what you can do with Dynamic Data - a huge timesaver for most common CRUD-style sites read more...

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Organize Usings Across Your Entire Solution(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by wisemx(8074) 3 years, 9 months ago

One of the features I worked on for the Visual Studio 2008 release was the new "Organize Usings" feature. This feature allows you to: Remove Unused Usings - Determines which using directives are not used in the current file and deletes them. Sort Usings - Sorts the using directives in a file. read more...

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The Complete Reference for Any jQuery Developer(effectize.com)

submitted by Yura(995) 3 years, 9 months ago

If you ever to do something with jQuery, you should find it in this extensive list. read more...

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New Webcast: Creating Snippets in Visual Studio(danrigsby.com)

submitted by rtipton12(15) 3 years, 11 months ago

I have a new 4 min 47 sec training webcast out over creating code snippets in Visual Studio 2005 and 2008. read more...

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Creating Templates in Visual Studio(dimecasts.net)

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

Creating Templates read more...

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Chad Meyers: Some Consulting Wisdom I Picked Up(lostechies.com)

submitted by andrewbadera(105) 3 years, 11 months ago

FTA: "I did a consulting gig for a few years at a very large government institution and I picked up some wisdom about how to best serve the customer (even sometimes in spite of themselves), how to remain sane, and how to maintain your scruples while doing it all. I typed these up on Twitter awhile back and then forgot about 'em." read more...

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Some Improved LINQ Operators(lostechies.com)

submitted by rtipton12(15) 3 years, 11 months ago

Good explanation of how improved LINQ operators provides cleaner implement ions. read more...

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DZone PlugIn for Windows Live Writer(johnpapa.net)

submitted by dzone(95) 3 years, 11 months ago

John Papa has written an excellent new plugin for Windows Live Writer that makes it super-easy to include a DZone widget in every posting you write! Want more traffic? Use this in combination with his dotNetKicks plugin, and watch your numbers climb! read more...

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