Don’t Reinvent the Wheel (Part 3) – Silverlight Styles and Themes
It’s time for another installment of .NET Zone’s “Don’t Reinvent the Wheel” series. This week I have aggregated a list of great (and... more »
The difference between 1986 and 2010 - Objective C vs C#
Or, why is Apple sticking to a language that was invented in 1986, and refusing to evolve it into something we would still use today (on... more »
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Searching for a specific open source software
It would be a great idea if you contribute in an existing open source project instead of starting a new one. Before you start such a... more »
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Strategy pattern at work
An example of the strategy design pattern to manage customizations for customers in different countries.
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Hibernate
A common problem with typecasting a lazy loaded Hibernate entity to its child is a ClassCastException. This exception occurs because the... more »
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Practice Software Patterns – Component Patterns
The first time that someone taught me about Software Design Patterns it went something like this:
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Test Lint: A Unit Testing Helper for VS 2010
Recently, Typemock added a new free tool (now in public beta) to their offerings called Test Lint. The company says its the first and... more »
Even with its success, .NET causes some consternation
The .NET Framework has scored many points with developers over its eight years of existence, but it also has created confusion and angst... more »
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Book Review: ASP.NET MVC in Action
This is my favorite book on the ASP.NET MVC Framework so far. The authors thoroughly cover each topic and it is obvious they have a deep... more »
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VS2010 Load Testing for Distributed and Heterogeneous Applications
VS2010 is almost here and comes with an updated Web- and Load-Testing feature. Microsoft extended Visual Studio to allow external... more »
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Versioning REST Services
Scott Seely explains when developers need to create a new endpoint versus just adding data. This higher level, non-language specific... more »
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Measuring ViewState of your Page with a Simple tool
Whenever I come across performance related issues due to the ViewState, I use this simple and free tool to monitor ViewState
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Combining Higher Order Functions in C#
Say I have a higher-order-function, ‘applier’, that takes another function and some arguments, applies the function to the arguments and... more »
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A Few Thoughts on DDD, DTOs, View Models, Repositories and Separation of Concerns
What I've loved most about developing an open-source project is the ideas that I get from others who look at the work and either A)... more »
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Debugging unknown termination of adplusmanager.exe – Windbg
This post talks about debugging unknown termination of adplusmanager from debugging tools for windows. It demonstrates the using of... more »
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A Few Thoughts on DDD, DTOs, View Models, CQS, Repositories and Separation of Concerns
What I've loved most about developing an open-source project is the ideas that I get from others who look at the work and either A)... more »
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Differences Between Visual Basic .NET and Visual C# .Net
Although there are differences between Visual Basic .NET and Visual C# .NET, both are first-class programming languages that are based on... more »
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How Ruby Taught Me To DRY Up My Code With Lambda Blocks
I’ve been working in Ruby for my Albacore project over the last 6 or 8 months, and taking every chance I can find to learn how to really... more »
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Experience Levels for Programmers
Jr. Programmers typically have some training in a computer language or a development tool and less than two years of overall professional... more »
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Programmatically determine if a Windows Service is running and stop it
The ServiceController class makes it easy to retrieve information about a windows service and manipulate it. Here's how.
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Mercurial Is Getting Better for .NET Projects
Recently I've started using Mercurial (distributed version control system, an analogue of Git) more and more for working on various... more »
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Events get a little overhaul in C# 4, Part I: Locks
The cause for alarm, through C# 3, was that when you declared events, the compiler made event accessors that took a lock on the “this”... more »
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ASMX and JSON – Common mistakes and misconceptions
The first in a series of posts dealing with common misconceptions and mistakes when it comes to using ASMX services as a backend for AJAX.
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Identify Performance Bottlenecks in your BizTalk Environment – Part II
In Part I of this blog series I gave a general overview of BizTalk - the components that are involved in message processing and talked... more »
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4 Free WPF Utilities I Use Every Day, that come with source!
Here are 4 WPF utilities I use almost daily, that also have the excellent property of coming with source-code included.
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