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Genesis: Bridging The Gap Between Requirements And Code

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:31:03 GMT

About the Genesis methodology and toolkit for software developers, that links unit tests to requirements in the functional analysis document...

Overriding ToString() Makes Debugging Easier

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:46:02 GMT

Make your life easier while debugging in Visual Studio, see your objects in thier full glory using ToString.

Form validation with ASP.NET MVC preview 5

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:31:02 GMT

In earlier ASP.NET MVC previews, form validation was something that should be implemented "by hand". Since the new ASP.NET MVC preview 5, form validation has become more handy. Let me show you how you can add validation in such a ridiculously easy manner.

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.

How To Write Testable ASP.NET WebForms

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:16:15 GMT

Microsoft's upcoming ASP.NET MCV framework makes it easy to write tests for your application layer logic. But what about those of us who are stuck with ASP.NET WebForms? You can still write highly testable ASP.NET WebForms with only a little bit of extra effort. But that extra effort really pays off in the long run. In this post, i'll give a detailed description of one approach that has worked for me really well.

Batching WCF calls

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:01:03 GMT

Great approach to overcome unnecessary roundtrips to a WCF service!

Another Use for C# Using

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:16:02 GMT

If you are a C# developer you're familiar with the using directive. It appears at the top of every one of your class files informing the compiler what namespaces should be looked at while compiling this code page so that you don't have to fully qualify every object. (This isn't the interesting bit)

Keep your .config clean with external config files

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:01:19 GMT

The web.config (or app.config for non-web applications) file is the central place to configure your web application, starting from connection strings, over application settings to ASP.NET specific topics like caching, authentication & authorization, sessions as well as HTTP handlers and modules. Normally the web.config starts as a neat little pet you can easily manage. But as soon as your project grows mature, web.config turns out to be a huge beast. This article shows you a way to tame the beast.

Try-catching in a single line of code

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:01:07 GMT

Just another silly extension method hack :)

Unofficial google shell... awsome

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:16:04 GMT

Web base command shell for google. What else can I say?...

Sysinternals, now easier to get than ever

Sat, 31 May 2008 20:01:07 GMT

The sysinternals team has placed all their tools on a network share... on the internet. Now you can copy and run any of their tools from the command line. Anywhere. With no installs, website googling, unzipping or anything. \\live.sysinternals.com\tools\

ASP.NET MVC framework preview 3 released!

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:16:03 GMT

Don't know how I do it, but I think this blog post is yet again the first one mentioning a new release of the ASP.NET framework (preview 3) The official installation package can be downloaded from the Microsoft site. Source code is also available from CodePlex.

ReSharper 4 approaching beta status

Tue, 20 May 2008 22:16:05 GMT

No official announcement yet, but the ReSharper 4.0 Nightly Build page is showing the first build marked as stable and with the status "Beta Candidate".

Lazy instantiation one-liner with the coalesce operator

Wed, 14 May 2008 15:31:33 GMT

The one-liner for lazy instantiation of instance fields using the coalesce-operator

Using the DescriptionAttribute to prettify your enumerations

Tue, 20 May 2008 00:31:02 GMT

the article details a wrapper that can be used to get a well-formatted string version of an enumeration value by using the DescriptionAttribute to provide the formatted string. The comments includes an extension method version that works for any enum type.

Having fun with project managers! (or: why you should lock your deskto

Thu, 08 May 2008 22:05:06 GMT

Have you ever left your computer unattended? (I do hope that!) Do you lock your desktop when this occurs? (I hope so either!) Not locking your desktop can be a risk. Your data might get stolen, someone might install a trojan, ... My project manager is one of those people who do not lock their computer when away. After having explained that this is a very simple thing he still seems to forget it everytime. Since a few weeks, we are using some more persuasive manners to teach him to press the Windows-key + L whenever he leaves his computer. Some practical jokes...

best programming jokes

Thu, 08 May 2008 23:46:05 GMT

a very big good collection of programming jokes, WOWwwwwwww

Creating user friendly strings for enum values

Thu, 01 May 2008 23:46:02 GMT

I'll show you how to create a custom attribute for enum values to assign extra information to an enum. In this case, we'll be associating a user friendly display name.

A Great Visual Studio Add-on You Must Have

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:01:03 GMT

Recently I found out this great add-on for Visual Studio 2008 called PowerCommands. PowerCommands Extends the functionality of Visual Studio 2008 by adding some features which we all want built into Visual Studio. PowerCommands provides the following...

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.

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.

Real Ultimate Power: Dependency Injection With Ninject

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:01:09 GMT

Using Ninject for Dependency Injection / IoC

How DotNetKicks posts are being ripped off for other sites!

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:01:02 GMT

How posts from DotNetKicks are being copy-and-pasted wholesale into other sites. Is your hard work blogging just being stolen for other companies traffic?

ASP.NET MVC Framework out on CodePlex

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:46:02 GMT

This morning, I was browsing the new projects page on CodePlex and noticed something nice! The ASP.NET MVC team already rumoured around making the ASP.NET MVC framework source code available on CodePlex, but here it is: the ASP.NET MVC project on CodePlex.

.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