Creating Type Aliases in C#(www.blackwasp.co.uk)

submitted by BlackWasp(4212) 11 days, 23 hours ago

The using directive of the C# programming language is often used to create namespace aliases, allowing types with matching names that appear in separate namespaces to be easily accessed. A lesser known use of the directive is to create aliases for types. read more...

2 comments |category: C# |Views: 267

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Configuring WebClient Timeout and ConnectionLimit(www.tomdupont.net)

submitted by tdupont(1259) 17 days, 16 hours ago

It is great how simple the WebClient class is to use, but unfortunately it does not natively support configuring it's timeout or connection limit. Good news, both of these issues are very easy to fix by simply extending the WebClient class. read more...

1 comment |category: Tips & Tricks |Views: 109

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Introducing: Workspace Reloader by Scott Hansleman(www.hanselman.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 24 days, 7 hours ago

Scott Hansleman has thrown together a nifty Visual Studio extension that allows you to reload your workspace without losing all your open windows. Very handy for anyone using distributed version control with Visual Studio. read more...

1 comment |category: Visual Studio |Views: 174

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Comparing Microsoft Moles in VS2010 to Microsoft Fakes in VS11(www.richonsoftware.com)

submitted by czyzer(55) 1 month, 5 days ago

Provides a detailed comparison between Microsoft Moles in VS10 and Microsoft Fakes in VS11 in regards to using Moles for “future proofing” new testing initiatives and perhaps to bridge the gap between today’s testing and tomorrow’s tools. read more...

1 comment |category: Unit Testing |Views: 158

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10 illustrated examples of Visual Studio 11(www.troyhunt.com)

submitted by troyhunt(831) 1 month, 8 days ago

Visual Studio 11: it’s new and it’s grey but there’s more to it than just a dour monotone veneer. Here are 10 things that make it a step forward from the old. read more...

2 comments |category: Visual Studio |Views: 487

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What's new in Razor v2?(vibrantcode.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 1 month, 16 days ago

Check out some of the new features and changes in the upcoming Razor view engine v2.0. Don't forget the source code is also now available on Codeplex! read more...

1 comment |category: ASP.NET |Views: 621

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67% of ASP.NET websites have serious config related vulnerabilities(www.troyhunt.com)

submitted by troyhunt(831) 1 month, 24 days ago

Actually, it’s even worse than that – it’s really 67.37%. It’s an alarmingly high number for what amounts to very simple configuration vulnerabilities. The numbers come courtesy of ASafaWeb, the Automated Security Analyser for ASP.NET Websites which is a free online scanner at asafaweb.com. Let me walk you through these results and offer a bit of insight as to where things are going wrong when ASP.NET web sites are published. Hopefully this will be a bit of a “call to action” which helps developers understand where they might need to do a bit of tweaking in their apps. read more...

1 comment |category: ASP.NET |Views: 396

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Configuring Bundles in MVC 4(www.tomdupont.net)

submitted by tdupont(1259) 1 month, 26 days ago

The bundling, compression, and minification of JavaScript is important to the speed and performance of modern websites. This is why I was so excited to hear that such features were (finally) coming built in to ASP.NET MVC 4. Introducing MvcBundleConfig: a project that adds configuration and debugging features to MVC 4's bundling framework, and meets the needs and wants of a good minification framework. read more...

2 comments |category: ASP.NET |Views: 156

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ASP.NET MVC4, WebAPI, and Razor are now all open source!(www.hanselman.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 1 month, 29 days ago

Microsoft just announced today that they are open sourcing ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET Web API, ASP.NET Web Pages v2 (Razor) all with contributions under the Apache 2.0 license. The source code is available on codeplex. This is great news for ASP.NET developers! read more...

2 comments |category: ASP.NET |Views: 214

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My Top 5 VS11 Designer Improvements for ASP.NET 4.5 Development(blogs.telerik.com)

submitted by Telerik(388) 2 months, 1 day ago

A couple of weeks ago Microsoft released a beta version of the latest iteration of our favorite IDE - Visual Studio. This latest version, Visual Studio 11, contains quite a lot of improvements over Visual Studio 2010. With this release we also get to see all of the latest additions to ASP.NET 4.5 and of course the integration with VS11! I've been tinkering with both ASP.NET 4.5 and VS11 quite a bit lately, and I wanted to give a quick list of my top favorite features in the new Visual Studio's Designer interface. read more...

1 comment |category: ASP.NET |Views: 256

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Features NO ONE NOTICED in Visual Studio 11 Express Beta for Web(www.hanselman.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 2 months, 5 days ago

Scott Hanselman takes us through new features in VS11 Express for Web that most people probably didn't notice. read more...

add a comment |category: Visual Studio |Views: 236

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Test-Driven and Test-First Development » Noam Kfir(noam.kfir.cc)

submitted by yuvmaz(44) 2 months, 15 days ago

A description of the essence of TDD, and why you can write tests after code and still call it TDD. read more...

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WCF or ASP.NET Web APIs? My two cents on the subject (blogs.microsoft.co.il)

submitted by idof(307) 2 months, 20 days ago

A couple of weeks ago (around Feb. 16) the WCF WebAPIs - a framework for building RESTful/Hypermedia/HTTP services, which was in development over the past 1.5 years as a side-project on CodePlex, has been formally integrated into ASP.NET and its name changed to the ASP.NET Web API. These past two weeks, there has been a lot of questions among WCF developers: What does it mean that the Web APIs are no longer a part of WCF – is WCF dead? Has SOAP gone bankrupted? is HTTP the new way to go for interoperability? This post will try to answer those questions. read more...

add a comment |category: WCF |Views: 336

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A Do() Extension Method to Replace Wordy For Loops(www.chrissurfleet.co.uk)

submitted by csurfleet(211) 2 months, 20 days ago

I'm fast starting to view the foreach loop as a code smell - here is a little extension method to get rid of lots of those pesky loops! read more...

1 comment |category: C# |Views: 345

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Micro ORM Data Mapping with PetaPoco and ASP.NET MVC 4(www.arroyocode.com)

submitted by Arroyocode(101) 2 months, 21 days ago

Wrap your database objects with PetaPoco, a micro ORM for use with non-dynamic POCO objects in your ASP.NET MVC application. Tiny, fast and easily run on .NET 3.5 or greater without the overhead of more mainstream ORMs. read more...

2 comments |category: ASP.NET |Views: 176

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Metro apps – a lot of icons are available out of the box !(www.jonathanantoine.com)

submitted by jmix90(570) 2 months, 22 days ago

In Metro apps, the Metro design is everywhere and that’s pretty cool ! When you start an application, you want and need it to be compliant with this theme and one main part of it are icons. What you may not know is that there is already a lot of icons available for you out of the box in any Metro app. Let’s discover them ! read more...

1 comment |category: Windows 8 |Views: 289

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