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The Magic Behind MVP / MVC Frameworks

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:11:47 GMT

One of the things I learned at DevConnections 08 is the magic behind ASP.NET MVC...

Create a CSV File from a .NET Generic List

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:12:10 GMT

Method for generating a csv file from a generic list.

Nant, MSBuild, and .NET 3.5 Oh My!

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:31:34 GMT

NAnt + MSbuild + .NET 3.5 can be hairy!

Use Visual Studio's Post-Build Events to Automate Testing part 2

Wed, 21 May 2008 01:25:32 GMT

Following up on an earlier post, this code snippet and explanation now incorporates coverage and fxcop into your build process.

Coders versus Project Managers

Wed, 14 May 2008 11:21:14 GMT

Few months back, I got below joke emailed to me by my friend who is also a passionate coder. In my personal (and humble) opinion, below joke hits jackpot with the current state of 9 out of 10 IT companies in India, which are headed by people who have zero or very little technical background. And perhaps this explains why Indian IT companies still have to market themselves as low cost outsourcing destinations to win business any why we still dont have too many Product based IT companies in India :-) Is the story same in your country too? Let me know, I would love to hear :-)

Use Visual Studio's Post-Build Events to Automate Unit Testing Running

Fri, 16 May 2008 01:16:02 GMT

Use Visual Studio's post-build events to make unit testing automation awesome!

You too can be a metrosexual developer: an interview with Justice Gray

Mon, 05 May 2008 21:31:02 GMT

Justice Gray is an Edmonton-based leading .Net developer, .Net convention speaker, influential opinion maker, paradigm-challenger and lady killer. From the outset he has championed the suave, charismatic, virile and pithy route as a fast track the top of the industry, and has largely pulled it off. Read on to learn his tricks of the trade.

WaitN and xUnit.NET Integration testing

Mon, 05 May 2008 08:19:31 GMT

Browser automation testing with xUnit.NET

10 Visual Studio Shortcuts You Must Know

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:31:02 GMT

A great list of 10 Visual Studio Shortcuts any software developer must know and use.

It's the ALT.NET Show!

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:16:04 GMT

Jeremy Miller and David Laribee discuss their work with ALT.NET, a "self-organizing, ad-hoc community of developers bound by a desire to improve ourselves, challenge assumptions, and help each other pursue excellence in the practice of software development." On .NET Rocks!!

The Linq let keyword

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:31:07 GMT

Make your Linq queries more readable using the "let" keyword.

jQuery Skinned Login Control

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:16:01 GMT

Skin an ASP.NET login control with some simple CSS and jQuery for a more dynamic look and feel.

Do You Really Want to Be a Development Team Leader?

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:31:02 GMT

Ask any up and coming developer what they would like to do in the next year or so and you'll invariably hear, "I'd like to become a Development Team Leader". Hopefully most will have actually considered the change of role and be looking for new challenges and ways to contribute more to their chosen profession. However, for some this is an automatic response to a question that is particularly difficult to answer in an industry with no clear career path. For others it's simply a way to move up the pay scale.

Great Little Silverlight Tool Every .Net Developer Need

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:31:02 GMT

A light and handy Silverlight utility which allows you to select through all the possible String.Format options. And provides you with a code snippet to paste into your code.

Webforms is dead. Long live MVC!

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:46:02 GMT

WebForms are now legacy. Enjoy your MVC koolaid!

Minimal requirements for 'Good' Software

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:16:02 GMT

Good software isn't just the code, it's the care and feeding of the code. It's important that the code can be found, built, and deployed repeatably by someone other than the original developer.

Using the Observer Pattern

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:01:04 GMT

This article walks through a C# example of implementing the Observer design pattern using an interesting video game example

ASP.NET Google Charts Implementation

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:01:02 GMT

Implementation of Google Charts wrapped in server controls for easy consumption by asp.net developers.

Regular Expression Generator

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:31:08 GMT

Generate regular expressions from sample text input

How to: Optimize the memory usage with strings

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:16:03 GMT

System.String type is used in any .NET application. We have strings as: names, addresses, descriptions, error messages, warnings or even application settings. Each application has to create, compare or format string data. Considering the immutability and the fact that any object can be converted to a string, all the available memory can be swallowed by a huge amount of unwanted string duplicates or unclaimed string objects. Now let's see how a string object should be handled to preserve memory.

Absolute Positioning inside of a Relative Element with CSS

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:16:03 GMT

Getting elements positioned absolutely inside of a container is not terribly obvious and not very discoverable using CSS. But it can make for a cool effect and is a useful feature for many overlay type operations in Html markup. Here's an example of a hover over delete button that pops up on focus of an element.

What is wrong with the ASP.NET Community

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:16:03 GMT

Dan Hounshell expounds on the state of the ASP.Net community. Weigh in using his commenting system with your own thoughts.

inline asp.net tags... sorting them all out (<%$, <%=, <%, <%#, etc.)

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:46:02 GMT

There are all sorts of different inline tags, and I haven't found a place that explains them all in one place, so here is the quick and dirty...

VisualSVN Server 1.1 Released

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:46:03 GMT

Adds support for Windows Authentication, repository importing and more

How DotNetKicks posts are being ripped off for other sites!

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:01:02 GMT

How posts from DotNetKicks are being copy-and-pasted wholesale into other sites. Is your hard work blogging just being stolen for other companies traffic?