Code Contracts: Learning to use Interface Contracts(www.dimecasts.net)

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Taking a look at how to utilize some additional features in the Code Contracts library to validate the state of our application. We are going to focus this episode on the feature of adding contracts to interfaces via buddy classes. This is a powerful feature as it allows us to inherit our contracts from interfaces. read more...

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Understanding Navigation on Windows Phone 7(www.dimecasts.net)

submitted by dwhittaker(13.1k) 2 years ago

Taking a look at the Windows Phone 7 Api and understanding how to navigate between pages. In this episode we are going to focus on learning about the various ways you can navigate from page to page within your application. Because WP7 is based off of Silverlight 3.x you are able to utilize all the native silverlight navigation techniques such as static routing (hard wiring the .xaml path), using routes and using the NavigationService. read more...

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CQRS with Async Controllers in ASP.NET MVC 2 and NServiceBus (www.mattfreeman.co.uk)

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Exploring async using nservicebus and non pure cqrs from asp.net mvc 2 and nservicebus read more...

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Multi-Touch in WPF and Silverlight(attachedwpf.com)

submitted by KodefuGuru(2818) 2 years ago

We had a great time at the Columbia Code Camp this year. A lot of great speakers and volunteers to help with the event. We had I think around 150 people show up which was amazing since it was snowing, raining and freezing temperatures . I did my multi-touch presentation for the first time and I think it went very well. Had some great feedback and questions afterwards. So as promised I am posting up the materials and a quick explanation of what is available to use for Multi-Touch in WPF and Silverlight. read more...

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Creating and using the Application Bar w/ Windows Phone 7(www.dimecasts.net)

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Taking a look at how to create the Application Bar for Windows Phone 7 When creating an application with Win Phone 7 you may need to create an application bar which contains menus or icons. In this episode we will show you how to create both global app bars as well as local app bar read more...

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Announcing: Jobping URL Shortener. Open source MVC.NET 2 C#(markkemper1.blogspot.com)

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Open source MVC.NET 2 C# Url Shortener read more...

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Setting Up Basic Mappings w/ Fluent NHibernate(www.dimecasts.net)

submitted by dwhittaker(13.1k) 2 years, 2 months ago

We continue to take a look at Fluent Nhibernate. We are going to focus this episode on setting up basic mappings for NHibernate. We will focus on setting up Many-to-One (References) and One-To-Many (HasMany) references as these are the most common mappings you will need to setup. read more...

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Learning how to use Manual Mocks for Testing(www.dimecasts.net)

submitted by dwhittaker(13.1k) 2 years, 3 months ago

Taking a look at how to use manual mocks for testing Often times when creating unit tests we need to work in isolation in order to cover the paths we are attempting to test. When we want to test in isolation you can use a testing technique where you mock out your dependencies. When using Mocks you can either do it manually (what we are looking at) or you can use a mocking framework like Rhino Mocks. Either way you achieve the same results. read more...

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Larning how to use the Extract Interface Technique(www.dimecasts.net)

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Taking a look at another refactoring technique, the Extract Interface technique. This technique allows you to extract an interface from a class in order to break your concrete dependencies. By doing this you can provide yourself with better testing support as well as a better layer of abstractions. read more...

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A deeper look into AutoMapper: Projection and Flattening Objects(www.dimecasts.net)

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Continue our look at the AutoMapper framework. AutoMapper is a framework which uses a convention-based matching algorithm to match up source to destination values. In this episode we are going to take a deeper look at how you can flatten your model during transformation or perform projection during transformation. read more...

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.NET 4.0 and System.Threading.Tasks(www.codethinked.com)

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Quick look at threading in .NET 4.0 and the new System.Threading.Tasks. read more...

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Working with Partials in Spark: Part 2(www.dimecasts.net)

submitted by dwhittaker(13.1k) 2 years, 4 months ago

We continue to take look at how to use Partials within the Spark View Engine. In this episode we will take a deeper look at partials and learn more about their _undocumented_ features. We will also be learning how partials will allow us to create clean, compartmentalized and well organized code. read more...

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Exploring Operator Overloading in C#(www.dimecasts.net)

submitted by dwhittaker(13.1k) 2 years, 4 months ago

Taking a look at how create overloaded operators for your objects. Operator overloading permits user-defined operator implementations to be specified for operations where one or both of the operands are of a user-defined class or struct type. When creating your own operators there are many different operators which can be overloaded. +, -, *, /, %, &, |, <<, >> All C# binary operators can be overloaded +, -, !, ~, ++, –, true, false All C# unary operators can be overloaded ==, !=, <, >, <= , >= All relational operators can be overloaded, but only as pairs. read more...

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Learning how to use Named Content Areas w/ Spark(dimecasts.net)

submitted by dwhittaker(13.1k) 2 years, 4 months ago

Taking a look at the how to setup and use Named Content Areas w/ the Spark view Engine. Named Content areas allow for an easy and simple way to organize the content or structure of you website. read more...

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How to host a WCF Service inside your Windows Service(dimecasts.net)

submitted by dwhittaker(13.1k) 2 years, 5 months ago

Taking a look how to host your WCF service inside your Windows Service. In many situations hosting WCF inside of IIS may not be the best solution for you or your team. When this is the case hosting inside a windows service may be the best solution and in this episode we will take a look at how you can accomplish this. read more...

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MultiTouch Capabilities in Windows 7(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by zhiming(1135) 2 years, 5 months ago

Yochay Kiriaty, Technical Evangelist at Microsoft, in this MSDN article provides a great overview of multitouch capabilities of Windows 7 from the perspective of both user interface and programming models. Though containing some C++ code snippets, is is a great article to read if you want to understand, without spending much time, what the Windows 7 multitouch platform is and how it works. read more...

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