C# Design Patterns - Abstract Factory Pattern

published 17 hours, 12 minutes ago, submitted by justinbezanson 1 day, 10 hours ago

geekdaily.net — We’ll be continuing on with our fictional city council that has commissioned us to develop an application that lets them manage their yearly dog registrations. Since the application is all about managing dogs and their owners it makes sense to have a DogFactory class that will create the different breeds of dogs that will be stored in the application. read more...

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Fun With Named Formats, String Parsing, and Edge Cases

published 2 days, 4 hours ago, submitted by johnsheehan 2 days, 11 hours ago

haacked.com — Recently I found myself in a situation where I wanted to format a string using a named format string, rather than a positional one. Ignore for the moment the issue on whether this is a good idea or not, just trust me that I’ll be responsible with it. read more...

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Username Availability Validator AJAX Control, Release Demo

published 2 days, 23 hours ago, submitted by mosessaur 3 days, 6 hours ago

mosesofegypt.net — Back in September last year (2008), I posted a demo about Username Availability Validator Control. This control developed by the community on a contest initiated by Dave Ward on August 2008 as I remember. At that time the control was in beta. On October 2008 the control was released to public on its first version. And finally I wrote a a very simple documentation on the project Wiki. read more...

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Secure ASP.NET MVC Applications

published 3 days, 9 hours ago, submitted by ethilik 4 days, 1 hour ago

weblogs.asp.net — One of the greatest advantages of ASP.NET MVC is that it provides a "Close to the Metal" programming experience and you have full control over the HTML. It aslo means that you should care about the vulnerabilities regards with your HTML. In webform, server controls would be automatically HTML-encoded their outputs. While developing ASP.NET MVC apllications, you should filter your HTML to avoid XSS attacks. Use the following HTML helper methods to avoid vulnerabilities in your ASP.NET MVC applications. read more...

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Hidden Features of C#

published 5 days, 14 hours ago, submitted by ethilik 6 days, 4 hours ago

blog.sb2.fr — In this article, I’ll just link to a pretty great StackOverFlow Question about Hidden Features of C#. Most of C# Features are obscure for us and need some explanations, the following list and explain how to use it. read more...

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What is Microsoft waiting for providing a decent path API?

published 9 days, 7 hours ago, submitted by johnsheehan 9 days, 10 hours ago

codebetter.com — I was recently browsing the code source of Managed Extensibility Framework and realized that this future part of .NET 4, full of tricky and advanced ideas, was naively relying on strings to describe files and directories paths. It seems that the version 4 of .NET will miss the need for a descent path API. There is the class System.IO.Path but it is feature limited, full of flaws and pitfalls (to not say bugs) and it fosters users to encode their paths into raw strings. It seems to me that using strings to encode paths is as primitive as using String.IndexOf("<tag>") to parse some XML. read more...

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Making the Entity Framework Fit Your Domain - Part 1

published 8 days, 9 hours ago, submitted by justin_etheredge 9 days, 13 hours ago

codethinked.com — Need to use the Entity Framework but don't know how to fit it into your domain? Come check out this series on CodeThinked.com where you will learn how to keep your domain entities fairly clean while using the Entity Framework. read more...

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Avoiding Busby SEO Test Comment Spammer For BlogEngine

submitted by ethilik 11 days, 12 hours ago

blog.sb2.fr — Not very sure what is the Busby SEO Test Project, but it seems to be a f***** project for Blog Comment Spamming. I’ve a lot of no sense spam comments on my blog. Here is a simple way to avoid them to post spam comments for BlogEngine. read more...

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