How I Would Design a Programming Degree(www.kodefuguru.com)

submitted by KodefuGuru(2818) 2 days, 3 hours ago

Yesterday, I attended ECPI Columbia’s Spring Advisory Board meeting. I was involved in the panel discussion regarding their IT degrees, and I viewed it as an opportunity to explain what I consider lacking in developer education. read more...

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Post-increment Operator and Precedence(www.kodefuguru.com)

submitted by KodefuGuru(2818) 11 days ago

int i = 0; i = i++ + i--; Console.Write(i); What is written to the console? read more...

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Telerik Report Designer Review(blog.falafel.com)

submitted by KodefuGuru(2818) 1 month, 18 days ago

Users in the Telerik Reporting Forums have been clamoring for a Stand-Alone Report Designer for a long time now. I’ve been working with Telerik Reporting for the past few years, which means I have spent my share of time researching issues in the forum. I have seen several posts by users asking for a Report Designer that doesn’t require Vi... read more...

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From Legacy to Dependency Injection(blogs.telerik.com)

submitted by KodefuGuru(2818) 1 month, 22 days ago

We’ve all encountered tightly-bound code, and our first instinct is to correct it. However, there are only so many hours in a sprint, and it’s not always convenient to go on a large refactoring spree when the backlog is filling up. With JustMock, you can still ensure the code works, and it will set you up for the cleaning that will take place at a ... read more...

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Refactoring PagedResult(www.kodefuguru.com)

submitted by KodefuGuru(2818) 1 month, 24 days ago

One of my favorite frameworks to tinker with is Kigg. Inside it, I found a generic PagedResult class that appeared as though it could use a little touching up... read more...

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A recipe for Dev to Production with ASP.NET MVC and RavenDB(devdirective.com)

submitted by RobertTheGrey(447) 1 month, 25 days ago

Been meaning to spend time looking into a NOSQL solution, but don't have time to do the research? Now is your chance! We've broken it down for you so you can get at this topic from dev to production. So, don't be tentative and let procrastination hold you back. Learn this stuff! You'll be happy you gave it the time it deserves... read more...

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Telerik JustCode Extension Improvements(blogs.telerik.com)

submitted by KodefuGuru(2818) 1 month, 25 days ago

The Telerik JustCode 2012 Q1 service pack has been released, and with it comes improvements to help you begin writing JustCode extensions. read more...

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Agile is a Sham(williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com)

submitted by pwhe23(972) 1 month, 27 days ago

Agile is a Sham. Thats SCRUM and TDD and all the rest; it is all those new ways of managing development projects and being super-productive and modern and buzzword-compliant; all the sprints, scrums, playing cards crass commercial nonsense. read more...

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Agile is a Sham(williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com)

submitted by pwhe23(972) 1 month, 27 days ago

Agile is a Sham. Thats SCRUM and TDD and all the rest; it is all those new ways of managing development projects and being super-productive and modern and buzzword-compliant; all the sprints, scrums, playing cards crass commercial nonsense. read more...

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Telerik XAML Controls and the VS11 Beta Release (blogs.telerik.com)

submitted by KodefuGuru(2818) 2 months, 6 days ago

Here’s a quick update on everything related to the Visual Studio 11 Beta Release. For those eager to use our controls in VS11 Beta, we have good news for you – coming on March 21st, 2012 we officially roll out Service Pack 1 for Silverlight and WPF which will include limited support for VS11 Beta. Like many Beta products, we have discovered an issue with our XAML controls being automatically added to the ToolBox. We have alerted Microsoft of the issue and they are working to resolve them in the Visual Studio 11 RC. But for the time-being, we have a work-around included below for those of you eager to get a head start on VS11. read more...

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Performance best practices for Metro style apps using JavaScript(msdn.microsoft.com)

submitted by KodefuGuru(2818) 2 months, 18 days ago

An app's performance has a huge impact on the user's experience. Smooth scrolling and panning, efficient animations, fast launch times, and general responsiveness help create a good user experience. Given its impact and the variety of areas it affects, we recommend that you design for performance early to avoid issues down the road. Here we explain how to design for common problem areas within apps. read more...

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JustCode Visual Studio 11 Beta Support(blogs.telerik.com)

submitted by KodefuGuru(2818) 2 months, 18 days ago

Microsoft recently released the new Visual Studio 11 Beta. The JustCode team has been working hard, and we have already published an internal build with support for Visual Studio 11. You can download it directly from your account. Feel free to give it a try, and please keep in mind that VS11 is in beta and JustCode support is still experimental. Some glitches are to be expected. read more...

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Windows 8 Consumer Preview Roundup(blogs.dotnetkicks.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 2 months, 18 days ago

In case you’ve been living under a rock, you should probably know that Microsoft released a Consumer Preview version of Windows 8 this week. We've dug through some of the more interesting links and digested them for you here. Check out the build and let us know what you think of it! read more...

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Replace Switch Statements with Dictionary and Func<>(www.chrissurfleet.co.uk)

submitted by csurfleet(211) 2 months, 18 days ago

Continuing with the general theme of Func<>, Action<> and generics here is a nice little trick to replace long but simple switch statements with a generic dictionary and a Func statement. read more...

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Creating a Telerik JustCode Code Marker Extension(www.kodefuguru.com)

submitted by KodefuGuru(2818) 2 months, 19 days ago

Telerik JustCode, a code analysis and productivity tool, has opened its API for developers to create their own extensions. In this article, I am going to describe how to write an extension that will display a warning if there are too many variables in the class. The common language runtime stores values in a process registers rather than memory through a process known as enregistering. However, there is a limit of 64 variables to enable this optimization. read more...

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Simplify Session and ViewState Access With a Helper Method and Func<>(www.chrissurfleet.co.uk)

submitted by csurfleet(211) 2 months, 19 days ago

I started thinking of the many uses I’ve found for Action and Func. Cue a mini-series of posts on easy tricks you can do with them! First up – using generics and Func to reduce endless lines of viewstate and session code. read more...

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