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Little deception of List.ForEach(Action action)

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:55:46 GMT

I use foreach statement really often. It is useful and more compact than for. (This way is fast in same case but in same case it is slowly for performance. But I want say not about that). List<T> class has ForEach(Action action) method I thought that its implementation (and behaviour) is like foreach statement (I make this conclusion, based on the name of method) but I was confused. I have looked to Net. Reflector and saw next code:

Using Firebug extension - Ran Wahle's blog

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:05:15 GMT

Before Visual Studio 2008 there wasn't many decent client debugging tools. One of the tools that were already (and for free) was the Firebug extension Firefox for Firefox.

The next 8 years with Technology.

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:03:37 GMT

Today I watched a Google Talk today about Technology. The president nominee spoke about ideas on free Internet, Public opinion, technology within bills that get passed in the house and senate, Public knowledge of bills, and more.

Is it important to write good code?

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:09:38 GMT

Its not only important, its vital.

Sharing Code Between .NET and Silverlight Platforms

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:13:50 GMT

Quite often, I hear people asking if they can use .NET assemblies compiled for the full .NET runtime in Silverlight. Unfortunately, this just isn't possible, the Silverlight runtime is a subset of the full .NET runtime and for code to run correctly under the Silverlight runtime, there are various dependencies that must be linked and verified at compile time. But (there is always a but), there is one technique that you can use that effectively allows you to write your code once and have it work in both Silverlight and regular .NET applications.

Big News about Silverlight coming this Monday and some open source too

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:44:34 GMT

Big news about Silverlight coming this Monday (ideas on what it could be) and two open source tools you may not have heard of but could prove very useful (an open source integration server and an open source search server).

Bind CheckBoxList to DataSet

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:36:57 GMT

Here's a code sample that might come in handy. This is a CheckBoxList for a fictitious Real Estate broker who wishes to maintain a list of features for each property listing entered in the system. Typically, you would create a form to add a listing and another to edit an existing listing.

EntitySpaces 2009 - Running under Visual Studio

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:10:40 GMT

EntitySpaces 2009 will plug right into Visual Studio and it will use its own internal code generator. This means that Visual Studio users will never have to leave Visual Studio to work on or generate their EntitySpaces architecture. The image below shows how EntitySpaces 2009 looks embedded within Visual Studio. While it is likely to change a little before our first beta this should provide you with a feel for ES2009. The nice thing is that ES2009 is a dockable window just like any other window within Visual Studio, you can even generate your EntitySpaces classes directly into your solution and the folders/files will be created automatically for you.

WPF Elliptical Layout Control II - 3D Carousel anyone?

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:22:13 GMT

A follow up post to my elliptical layout control which takes it in to the third dimension. The result is a FrameworkElement derived control which takes a collection of UIElements as its content and internally wraps them in Viewport2DVisual3D objects, displaying them in a Viewport3DVisual. Using the elliptical layout code with a few enhancements we essentially have a 3D carousel control where the parameters used to define the imaginary layout ellipse are fully configurable. Source code and a demonstration app are included and free to use for whatever.

Free ASP.NET Web Hosting Providers

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:29:58 GMT

Here is a list of Free ASP.NET Web hosting providers. These are serious web hosts, no forced ads,SQL Database support, ASP.NET 3.5 and much more

D9 - yet another .net tools project

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:09:12 GMT

Useful common libraries for .NET projects. Mainly around making the usage of Castle project, NHibernate and other OSS projects easier

Anders Hejlsberg: The future of programming languages

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:39:31 GMT

In this video Anders Hejlsberg takes a look at the future of programming languages and sees the trends; declarative, dynamic and concurrent. As the chief designer of the C# programming language and a key participant in the development of the .NET Framework Anders Hejlsberg has a lot to say about this development - not just as a wish but also as something that can be realized.

Some Thoughts on Oslo

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:26:02 GMT

The concept of modelling software in an abstract manner to ease the process of creating the real thing has been around for a while. And in all that time it's never really taken off in the mainstream. So it's pretty exciting to hear Microsoft has decided to give it a go - Microsoft have always been clever when it comes to examining the landscape, taking out the best bits, and building something that stands out from the rest. Let's hope they learn the lessons of others and produce something that's really different.

OSS Licensing - Terms and Concepts

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:19:38 GMT

The first post in a series on OSS Licensing This post is about explaining some terms and concepts that will be used in following posts

On open source licensing

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:18:22 GMT

A primer to a series of posts on popular open sources licenses

Page navigation and browser history in Silverlight

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:58:31 GMT

An article about the Telerik's RadPageNavigation used to create a web site in Silverlight 2.

Common IoC denominator for Autofac, Castle and Unity .NET Containers

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:36:18 GMT

What's the common denominator for the Autofac, Castle, Unity and other popular .NET containers? Some think, that it is the CommonServiceLocator - an interface that will allow library developers to abstract from the specific Container or Service Locator implementation.

Dynamic Data Custom Pages: Dynamic/Templated FromView

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:44:21 GMT

Nice!

Gary on Advertising ROI (Devs...Show this to your boss!)

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:05:11 GMT

ROI. I am talking about Return on the Investment of your advertising dollar. Traditional media advertising is incredibly expensive and doesn't provide nearly the rate of return you can derive from intelligent web-based marketing campaigns in 2008 and beyond.

WPF Elliptical Layout Control

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:50:31 GMT

My first post on my new dev / WPF blog. It talks about the method and design of a 2D content control that positions any child objects as if they were evenly spaced around the edge of an ellipse. The parameters of the ellipse are fully configurable. Source code and a demonstration app are included and free to use for whatever.

Add Your Twitter Status To Your Blog

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:24:08 GMT

For the longest time I have been wanting to add my Twitter status to my blog in place of my quote right under my blogs name in the header. (see above) Today I sat down and figured out what I needed to do to accomplish this and to my surprise it only took all of 10 minutes to complete.

Risk and Software Development's Conceptual Phases

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:00:34 GMT

Risk is a major issue in software development. A software project's intellectual phases help to reveal why.

Generating Random Numbers in C#

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:15:41 GMT

There are many uses for pseudo-random numbers in software, including generating temporary passwords for web sites or networked software or positioning enemies in a game. The .NET framework permits the creation of random numbers using the Random class.

Quick Tip: Invoke A URL From SQL Server Agent

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:06:06 GMT

Perform batch jobs from a web context.

Quick Tip: Use ASP.NET Templating To Generate E-mail Bodies Or Other T

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:57:12 GMT

ASP.NET already exists for the purpose of templating. Make the most of it.