A Cheat Sheet for Blend(blog.nitriq.com)

submitted by viggity(1124) 1 year, 8 months ago

A cheat sheet for developers that are new to Expression Blend read more...

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Code Analysis Techniques(stevesmithblog.com)

submitted by viggity(1124) 1 year, 9 months ago

Discusses a few different metrics for measuring your code and how you can use them to improve your code. read more...

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Ruby and .Net Developers Solve Two Different Kinds of Problems(blog.nitriq.com)

submitted by viggity(1124) 1 year, 10 months ago

Explains that a lot of Ruby's criticism of .Net's use of an IDE stems from the differences in the kinds of projects that are solved with each platform. read more...

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Getting started with bing map in silver-light(beyondrelational.com)

submitted by sdinesh(610) 1 year, 11 months ago

This post explains how to get started with Bing Map and Silverlight. This is first of a series of posts which explains how to build geo-spatial solutions using silverlight, bing maps based on the data stored in a SQL Server database. read more...

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Simplify, Shorten and Speed Up Your LINQ Statements with "Let"(blog.nitriq.com)

submitted by viggity(1124) 2 years ago

Details how using the "let" keyword can make your LINQ statements shorter and faster. read more...

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Poll: IoC containers for .NET(www.sturmnet.org)

submitted by olivers(95) 2 years, 2 months ago

Trying to find out which IoC containers people use on .NET, or even if they use any. Put your vote in and kick it! read more...

2 comments |category: Patterns |Views: 761

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Ninject 2.0 Released!(kohari.org)

submitted by nkohari(1310) 2 years, 3 months ago

Nate Kohari announces the release of Ninject 2.0, and welcomes Ian Davis as co-maintainer of the project. read more...

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Selective Unit Testing – Costs and Benefits(blog.codeville.net)

submitted by desmond(2014) 2 years, 6 months ago

Test Driven Development is widely regarded as a hallmark technique of professional software development, but should you really do it all the time? Steve Sanderson argues that unit tests yield significant practical business value only for certain kinds of code. This blog post suggests what might be the underlying forces that determine whether unit tests will justify the long-term expense of creating and maintaining them. These ideas are then applied to structuring an ASP.NET MVC application. read more...

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How to Create a Linq Statement from a String(blog.nitriq.com)

submitted by viggity(1124) 2 years, 6 months ago

Some useful extension methods off of IEnumerable<T> that let you create dynamic Linq statements from a string, including "Where" and "OrderBy". Especially useful if you're letting your users create their own filters. Code is in C# but it should be easy to convert to VB. read more...

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Free Code Similarity Finder - CopyPasteKiller(blog.nitriq.com)

submitted by viggity(1124) 2 years, 7 months ago

Free tool helps C# and VB.NET developers find large chunks of similar code so they can be refactored. read more...

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Two WPF features I wish were coming in 4.0(vonsharp.net)

submitted by viggity(1124) 2 years, 11 months ago

Why is ObservableCollection<T> and INotifyCollectionChanged in WindowsBase.dll and not System.dll? read more...

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The Greatest Exception Handling WTF?!? of All Time(leedumond.com)

submitted by leedumond(2144) 3 years ago

The Exception object has ONE purpose and ONE purpose only – to represent a runtime error, nothing more. Exceptions should never be used for purposes for which they were not intended -- or you could end up with this monstrosity... read more...

4 comments |category: Patterns |Views: 1395

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Much Faster Browsing For MSDN(vonsharp.net)

submitted by viggity(1124) 3 years, 1 month ago

There is a new MSDN Low Bandwidth Beta, that isn't cluttered with junk. read more...

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Updated WPFPerf Performance Profiling Tools for WPF(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by wisemx(8074) 3 years, 8 months ago

The WPFPerf tool comprises of a suite of performance profiling tools that allow you to analyze the run-time behavior of your WPF application and point to potential performance bottlenecks. We now added some new functionality as well as given the tool a major facelift. Below are highlights for some of the exciting improvements that are included in this update. read more...

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A Programming Job Interview Challenge - The End (dev102.com)

submitted by shaharyr(4325) 3 years, 9 months ago

I think that this is the end of our series. I have no questions left in the bank… if you have any ideas for new questions and you want them to be published here at www.Dev102.com, don’t hesitate to contact us. read more...

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A Programming Job Interview Challenge #14 - 2D Geometry (dev102.com)

submitted by shaharyr(4325) 3 years, 9 months ago

The fourteenth post of the series of programming job interview challenge is out, 83 readers provided an answer to job interview challenge #13. Your input is a list of points in a 2D space. If you draw lines between one point to the next one, a closed polygon is created (can be either concave or convex)... read more...

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