DNK Community Guidelines - Suggestions welcome!

published 28 days, 10 hours ago, submitted by gavinjoyce 28 days, 10 hours ago

groups.google.com — Lets come up with some much needed community guidelines for DNK. Please post your suggestions and comments below, I'll update the community guidelines page on the Google group once we have reached a consensus. read more...

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The Magic Behind MVP / MVC Frameworks

csharptocsharp.com — One of the things I learned at DevConnections 08 is the magic behind ASP.NET MVC... read more...

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Pair Programming - Marketing FAIL

published 1 month, 12 days ago, submitted by gavinjoyce 1 month, 19 days ago

blog.magenic.com — When people talk about lack of adoption of "XP" (aka Extreme Programming) practices, one of the chief problems people have with it is the idea of "Pair Programming" read more...

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VEToolkit: Virtual Earth Toolkit Open Source Project

submitted by crpietschmann 2 months, 6 days ago

pietschsoft.com — A couple weeks ago I started the new VEToolkit (Virtual Earth Toolkit) Open Source project. This project spawns out of the need for more helpers to make Virtual Earth Map development much simpler, and follows inspiration from the Ajax Control Toolkit. This is a JavaScript library, so it's all client-side code; just like the Virtual Earth AJAX API itself. The project is also meant to play nicely with any client-side, JavaScript library you want to use within your application (such as jQuery, Prototype, etc.) read more...

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Difference between NULL and DBNull

submitted by crpietschmann 2 months, 8 days ago

bhaidar.net — I have always misunderstood the difference between NULL and DBNULL until recently while I was working on ASP.NET web application, and was talking to a Webservice and I found an exception coming from one of the web methods inside the Webservice which is using the SqlCommand.ExecuteScalar() method. read more...

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Silverlight Progress Bar

submitted by crpietschmann 2 months, 8 days ago

jason.whitehorn.ws — One such puzzling absence from the Silverlight tool chest is a progress bar control. WPF has a progress bar, WinForms has a progress bar, but not Silverlight. Fortunately implementing one is not that hard and provided a great introduction to Silverlight's layout model. read more...

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WPF Toolkit adds Ribbon Control to .NET 3.5 SP1

published 2 months, 8 days ago, submitted by crpietschmann 2 months, 10 days ago

pietschsoft.com — The first release of the new WPF Toolkit was released today. This toolkit includes a new Ribbon control as well as the following: new WPF DataGrid, DatePicker/Calendar, and VisualStateManger. The coolest feature of this Toolkit (IMO) is the new Ribbon control. In .NET 4.0 there will be a ribbon control baked in, but thanks to the WPF Toolkit we have access to utilize the new Ribbon control today in WPF with .NET 3.5 SP1! read more...

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ASP.NET MVC Beta released - Coolness

submitted by crpietschmann 2 months, 22 days ago

hanselman.com — ASP.NET MVC is now officially in Beta. Go get it! ScottGu has all the juicy details in his usually Epic style. In a nutshell, this is called Beta (and not Preview 1138) because the quality and the amount of testing gone into it was higher than the Previews and source drops you may have gotten off of CodePlex. It's API surface is pretty stable now. read more...

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