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A Cheat Sheet for Blend

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:40:12 GMT

A cheat sheet for developers that are new to Expression Blend

Code Analysis Techniques

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:08:31 GMT

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

Ruby and .Net Developers Solve Two Different Kinds of Problems

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:00:52 GMT

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.

Getting started with bing map in silver-light

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:00:52 GMT

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.

Simplify, Shorten and Speed Up Your LINQ Statements with "Let"

Wed, 12 May 2010 18:45:52 GMT

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

Poll: IoC containers for .NET

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:45:00 GMT

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

Ninject 2.0 Released!

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:45:01 GMT

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

Selective Unit Testing - Costs and Benefits

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:30:00 GMT

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.

How to Create a Linq Statement from a String

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:28:33 GMT

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.

Free Code Similarity Finder - CopyPasteKiller

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:30:01 GMT

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

Two WPF features I wish were coming in 4.0

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:23:15 GMT

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

The Greatest Exception Handling WTF?!? of All Time

Thu, 28 May 2009 08:00:00 GMT

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...

Much Faster Browsing For MSDN

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:43:23 GMT

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

Updated WPFPerf Performance Profiling Tools for WPF

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:51:04 GMT

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.

A Programming Job Interview Challenge - The End

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:27:34 GMT

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.

A Programming Job Interview Challenge #14 - 2D Geometry

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:46:09 GMT

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)...

IntelliSense for Expression Blend

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:16:05 GMT

An add-in for Expression Blend 2.5 that adds IntelliSense for editing of XAML files.

Using Regions in Code Files

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 03:31:03 GMT

Recently I have been confronted with a movement that seems to hate using #Regions in source code files. Personally I really like using regions and I absolutely like the ability to collapse sections of code I am not directly working with.

A Programming Job Interview Challenge #10 - The Missing Number

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:46:09 GMT

Here comes the 10th question in our job interview challenge series, the answer to the ninth one is also attached, good luck

A Job Interview Challenge - A Needle in a Haystack

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:46:17 GMT

You are writing a software component that receives a binary record every 20 millisecond. Your component function as a pipe, meaning it can't store the binary records, it should do whatever needed on the current record and than pass it to the next component in the pipeline

Software Startup Lessons (Part 1): The Basics

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:31:02 GMT

A few simple software startup lessons.

What Does It Take To Become A Grandmaster Developer?

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:31:02 GMT

Provides an analogy between chess grandmasters and software developers including some C# examples.

Everything the Immediate Window Can Do the Watch Window Can Do Better

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:56:25 GMT

Details a few differences between the debugger's watch window and the immediate window.

Douchebaggery

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:31:02 GMT

To imply that programmers using Windows "don't care enough about their tools to get the best"? I have a pretty thick skin based on the psychic scars of the thousands of petty internet religious wars I've participated in, and this one even ruffles my feathers a little. I

Quick and Dirty Memory Utility Methods

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:46:03 GMT

Ever curious how much memory that suspect object is hogging on the heap? Find out quickly and easily with a few lines of code.