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ASP.NET Connection Session Slides and Samples Posted (Nov 22 2008 22:31 GMT)
I've published my session slides and samples from the Fall 2008 ASP.NET Connections conference. The sessions include: jQuery and ASP.NET, WCF REST and JSON with ASP.
Configure log4net for Excel or LogParser friendly output (Nov 22 2008 21:46 GMT)
log4net is a great logging framework, but parsing the output using standard tools can be difficult. This handy article shows you a few tweaks you can make to your configuration so that your output can be read by most tools.
4 Steps To Ensure You're The Worst Developer Ever! (Nov 21 2008 21:46 GMT)
There are lots of articles about improving your skills as a developer. Everyone likes to talk about how to strengthen their skills and produce really good software. But, what if you want to be the worst developer ever? Nobody seems to want to share those secrets.
Dynamically Loading an assembly at Runtime and calling its methods (Nov 21 2008 17:16 GMT)
This article explains how to load an assembly dynamically and call its method.
jQuery Intellisense in VS 2008 - ScottGu's Blog (Nov 21 2008 16:31 GMT)
Last month I blogged about how Microsoft is extending support for jQuery. Over the last few weeks we've been working with the jQuery team to add great jQuery intellisense support within Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 Express (which is free). This is now available to download and use.
VisualSVN 1.6 Released (Nov 21 2008 09:46 GMT)
VisualSVN team released the new and improved version of the professional Subversion integration for Microsoft Visual Studio - VisualSVN 1.6. This release brings significant usability improvements such as Quick Revert, editor-aware status and Hot Switch features.
Emergent Complexity (Nov 20 2008 19:31 GMT)
Why is it that our well designed systems seem to fall into chaos so easily?
5 Tips for Better jQuery Cod (Nov 20 2008 18:46 GMT)
I've been coding using jQuery since shortly after it came out, and well -- I've been using it almost every work day. Here is a few tips that have saved me time.
MVC: TextBoxFor(u => u.Name) - Unleash the power (Nov 20 2008 18:01 GMT)
I figured I'd share my implementation of something Chad and Jeremy talked about: the TextBoxFor control. Now I don't know exactly how they implemented their version, and mine just provides the necessary basis to get started, but hopefully it'll help people bake some of this goodness within their own code.
Programming Asp.Net MVC by O'Reilly (Nov 20 2008 17:16 GMT)
Well, it is about time we (Tim, Chris and myself) actually made this announcement. We will be doing a MVC book with O'Reilly titled 'Programming MVC'. We are super excited and super pumped to get this out the door. All three of us are huge fans of the MVC framework and know that this is framework going to be smashing success.
Using TDD to create a new Feature for DimeCasts.net (Nov 20 2008 16:31 GMT)
A pairing session where Kyle and Derik use TDD to create a new Feature for DimeCasts.net
Building a Silverlight Line-Of-Business Application - Part 3 (Nov 19 2008 23:16 GMT)
The third part of the great article Chris Anderson wrote about developing a framework for a Line-Of-Business application in Silverlight.
C# 4.0 New Features Part 4 - Generic Contravariance (Nov 19 2008 18:01 GMT)
A simple and easy to follow example of Contravariance in C# 4.0
What Gives? Microsofts Code Generation Tool (Nov 19 2008 01:31 GMT)
In a world of Microsoft and third party applications, out comes t4. t4 is a code generation tool that can compete with CodeSmith, but its FREE and built right into Visual Studio. It has been years since the first edition with very little publication of the actual application. t4 is a free code generation engine from Microsoft that underpins the Domain Specific Languages and Software Factory toolkits.
Learning how to turn an Anonymous object into a Dictionary (Nov 18 2008 16:31 GMT)
Learning how to turn an Anonymous object into a Dictionary via a short screencast
XNA Game Studio 3.0 (Nov 18 2008 15:01 GMT)
The good folks who put together our gaming tools have released XNA Game Studio 3.0.
Some Common Operations using LINQ To XML - Part II (Nov 18 2008 11:16 GMT)
In this article, we will explore some common 'How Do I' kind of examples using LINQ to XML. This article is the Part II of the 3-part LINQ to XML series.
Adobe Flex reaches out to .NET developers (Nov 18 2008 09:01 GMT)
An Adobe partner have today announced a free plug-in to allow .NET developers to write Flex front-ends to their applications entirely within Visual Studio, with full debugging and editing support.
Tips & Tricks when working with jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX (Nov 18 2008 06:01 GMT)
Tips & Tricks when working with jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX: I posted about how to build and extender control using ASP.NET AJAX with jQuery.
Troubleshooting blocking 101 on sql-server (Nov 18 2008 01:31 GMT)
How to find out which process is blickong in SQL-server 2005
XML Documentation File For Your .Net Project - It's Important (Nov 18 2008 00:46 GMT)
No comments appeared in the Visual Studio tooltip. On In this article, I am going to explain why it is so important to generate XML documentation file for each one of your .Net projects.
Testing is hard but debugging just sucks A$$ (Nov 17 2008 19:31 GMT)
"At the users group I asked the question to the group 'who creates automated tests as part of their daily development cycle?'. After I asked this question I followed it up with, and if you don't WHY, WHY, WHY, WHY...... Below are some of the answers I received (btw, not the first time I have heard these reasons).
Functional .NET 4.0 - Tuples and Zip (Nov 17 2008 18:46 GMT)
F# vs .NET 4.0
What if your contact form fails? (Nov 17 2008 17:16 GMT)
Did you ever think about it? Someone types the message, clicks on send and gets the error message like "Something went wrong. Sorry...".
Update on Silverlight 2 - and a glimpse of Silverlight 3 (Nov 17 2008 14:16 GMT)
ScottGu unveils the plans for Silverlight 3, shipping next year
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