A look at Dependency Injection and Inversion(devdirective.com)

submitted by RobertTheGrey(447) 7 months, 7 days ago

There seems to be a fair amount of confusion around this topic, a particularly useful tool in the SOLID toolbox, but in the wrong hands can go horribly wrong. Let's try and set the record straight now... read more...

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Lighthouse – Silverlight Unit Test Runner Project released(blog.roboblob.com)

submitted by spavkov(1713) 1 year, 2 months ago

Since the initial release of Silverlight i was really annoyed by the fact that Unit Testing had very slim support. Even later when Silverlight Unit Testing Framework was introduced by Microsoft things became little better but still it was far from good. You could create Unit Tests, but you had to start your Visual Studio in order to run them – eventually looking at the results of tests in your favorite Web Browser... read more...

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Microsoft Silverlight 4 Certification, is it worth the ride?(blog.roboblob.com)

submitted by spavkov(1713) 1 year, 3 months ago

Now some good news folks: I received the confirmation that I successfully passed the Silverlight 4 Microsoft Certification. I was too busy to immediately brag about it and write a show-off post so I will here just quickly share my thoughts on how all this went before my brain moves these impressions to non-accessible-memory-banks-prepared-for-deletion. read more...

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Design Patterns Series: The Decorator Pattern(blog.image0.com)

submitted by image0(189) 1 year, 3 months ago

The Decorator Pattern explained using C# and real-world examples. read more...

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Lucene.Net needs your help (or it will die)(codeclimber.net.nz)

submitted by simonech(10.1k) 1 year, 6 months ago

The Apache Foundation wants to kill Lucene.net. If you use it please chime in and help. This post explains a bit more in detail why this is happening read more...

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Introducing the Prism Navigation Framework for Silverlight MVVM Apps(blog.roboblob.com)

submitted by spavkov(1713) 1 year, 7 months ago

After receiving a lot of positive feedback and requests for source code for my previous post on Prism navigation i decided to release the code i had as open source project. This is how Prism Navigation Framework project was born. My intention was to create simple-to-use but powerful-and-feature-full Navigation Framework for building Silverlight MVVM applications with Prism... read more...

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Practical jQuery Mobile with ASP.NET MVC(yobriefcase.posterous.com)

submitted by kouphax(345) 1 year, 7 months ago

I wanted to write a post about creating a basic jQuery Mobile app but as I started putting the code together MVC became more and more involved so I combined the 2. read more...

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Using ModelMetaData in MVC 2 to wire up sweet jQuery awesomeness(www.lostechies.com)

submitted by misbaharefin(845) 1 year, 7 months ago

I recently came up with an approach to wiring up some jquery plugins that modify the behavior of standard input text boxes. The approach is not original by any means.I got the idea from the built in client side validation for MVC2, which was inspired by Steve Sanderson's xVal framework. read more...

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NoSql No Problem - NoRM and MongoDB Tutorial - Querying(codefather.pl)

submitted by codefather(70) 1 year, 7 months ago

MongoDB offers a rich query environment with lots of features. Queries in MongoDB are represented as JSON-style objects, very much like the documents we actually store in the database. If you’re moving to MongoDB from a relational databases, you’ll find that many SQL queries translate easily to MongoDB’s document-based query language. This tutorial is based on MongoDB’s documentation and its goal is to show how easy is querying MongoDB database using NoRM. read more...

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jQuery Mobile alpha and jQuery 1.4.3 released(www.devcurry.com)

submitted by bunglebooz(1132) 1 year, 7 months ago

A quick preview of the releases by the jQuery Team read more...

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Config management with Rake for .net projects.(webpangea.blogspot.com)

submitted by SlartyBartfast(95) 1 year, 7 months ago

Managing configuration for multiple environments in .net projects with Rake and Configatron read more...

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Create a Build File for a Visual Studio Solution - MsBuild Series(markkemper1.blogspot.com)

submitted by mkemper(518) 1 year, 7 months ago

A build file automates the process of building, testing, analyzing, packaging, & deploying your project. Build files can be used to give you a single click solution to perform mundane tasks in a consistent way. read more...

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Free Continuous Integration Toolkit(web2asp.net)

submitted by sedgey(1728) 1 year, 7 months ago

continuous integration (CI) implements continuous processes of applying quality control - small pieces of effort, applied frequently. Continuous integration aims to improve the quality of software, and to reduce the time taken to deliver it, by replacing the traditional practice of applying quality control after completing all development. My personal definition is: “Giving a damn that the code you write is not breaking the app considering that other developers are working on the code base at the same time and realizing that you are not infallible.” read more...

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Combining Silverlight Navigation Framework & Prism to create MVVM Apps(blog.roboblob.com)

submitted by spavkov(1713) 1 year, 7 months ago

This is introductory post for a series of posts where i will try to tackle the holy grail of MVVM applications – Navigation. To do this I will be using Prism from Microsoft’s Patterns and Practices team (Silverlight version – latest drop) combined with Silverlight Navigation Framework and i will build small navigation framework on top of that... read more...

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Adding reCAPTCHA to asp.net MVC(eglasius.blogspot.com)

submitted by eglasius(91) 1 year, 7 months ago

How to add reCAPTCHA to your asp.net MVC site read more...

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ASP.NET MVC 2 Fundamentals(www.charlieblog.net)

submitted by mattatsallys(130) 1 year, 7 months ago

I did a presentation at work today on ASP.NET MVC 2 fundamentals. I covered the basics of creating an ASP.NET MVC 2 website. Here is what I covered: 1.) Entity Framework for our data access layer 2.) POCO entities 3.) Repository pattern with abstract and concrete classes 4.) Creating our first controller 5.) Creating our first view (modifying to use partials) 6.) Altering the default route 7.) Discussing differences between GET and POST 8.) Creating our own controller factory utilizing Unity read more...

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