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Have you ever wondered why CodePlex is so slow?

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:31:21 GMT

Taking a look at one feature on CodePlex that is much slower than it needs to be, due to indiscriminate use of UpdatePanels and bloated ViewState, and then comparing it to similar functionality on Stack Overflow to illustrate how much more efficiently the same feature can be implemented.

How I've put my wife into SVN

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:31:14 GMT

SVN and TortoiseSVN are really great tools. It is a shame that these tools are used only by developers. I believe that every home should use SVN to keep track of it's files. The problem is that these tools are planned for developers. Using the file-system in windows is not a trivial task for everyone. In fact, sometimes people tend to be afraid of it. Not only using the file-system, but also using some client application that does not even have a window? And where do I get an SVN server anyway?!? Keep reading. you might find it useful.

Virtual file.... from IStream

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:16:07 GMT

The blogpost shows how to create a virtual file if you have implementation of IStream. The article includes a C# implemenation of IStream and a few samples. So you can create a virtual file with any behavior! Hope it can be interesting for .net developers :)

Writing Testable Time Dependent Code

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:46:06 GMT

In this post, Tuna shares his ideas on how to write testable time dependent code.

Thoughts on IronRuby and .Net Testing

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:46:57 GMT

Today it's very clear to me that the same thing is going to happen: IronRuby or IronPython will be used for most of the daily code, while C# will gradually serve as an infrastructure.

Back to Basics: Delegates, Anonymous Methods and Lambda Expressions

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:46:10 GMT

Great article on .NET basics

Next-Generation Rich Client with Vidyano

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:16:14 GMT

The Vidyano team just made the release candidate version of their next-generation in rich client software available. Applications build with Vidyano take advantage of technologies such as WPF, Workflow, LINQ to SQL, Entity Framework, Add-Ins, etc. Vidyano drastically reduces the complexity of these technologies by adding wizards, designers and custom tool generators to the Visual Studio environment.

Stupid NUnit Tricks #3 Foiled!

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:16:12 GMT

Revelation of a CLR bug.

Windows 7 Developer Guide

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:31:02 GMT

"Build applications on a solid foundation; enable richer application experiences; and integrate the best of Windows and web services. The features and technologies of the Windows 7 operating system enable you to build the next generation of software applications. Download this guide to read descriptions of those features and see vivid screen shots from the pre-Beta version of Windows 7 released at PDC. " [docx and xps -download]

12 Years old boy is Explaining about JQuery

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:45:39 GMT

12 Years old boy is Explaining about JQuery

Using the CCR to Provide Robust Interaction With WCF Services

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:12:10 GMT

This post provides a complete implementation of a WinForms client calling a WCF service using Microsoft Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR). We were able to write clean code that correctly interacted with the UI thread giving us a fully-responsive UI, were able to cache the service requests by posting them into the wrapper's input port, we NEVER blocked a thread while waiting for asynchronous I/O, and handled all failure conditions cleanly.

Windows Live Writer Makes Blogging Less of a Hassle

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:27:57 GMT

The blog CMS we use is great in a lot of ways but it's built in editor is really, really bad. Initially, I had used Microsoft Word to fill the gap, with disastrous results. Since then I have moved to using our blog software's horribly antiquated text editing system but that has limited my formatting options quite considerably. Now, after a recommendation from a friend, I am giving Windows Live Writer a shot. This blog post is a recursive review of my experience writing this blog post in Windows Live Writer.

Using Lucene .Net to index and search website content

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:48:17 GMT

An elegant solution for adding content indexing and search in a .Net application.

Functional .NET 4.0 - Tuples and Zip

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:46:02 GMT

F# vs .NET 4.0

Testing is hard but debugging just sucks A$$

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:31:02 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)."

Breaking changes to the String class in .NET 4.0

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:31:13 GMT

This change will affect the behavior of the String.StartsWith, String.EndsWith, String.IndexOf and String.LastIndexOf methods by changing them to perform an ordinal (byte-for-byte) comparison by default instead of a culture-sensitive comparison using CultureInfo.CurrentCulture. In addition, the default overloads of String.ToUpper, String.ToLower, Char.ToUpper and Char.ToLower will be changed to use CultureInfo.InvariantCulture instead of CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.

RadControls for Silverlight Official Release

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:46:03 GMT

Telerik announced the official edition of their RadControls for Silverlight

Writing Tests to Catch Memory Leaks in .NET

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:16:02 GMT

Although Microsoft will claim that it is "not possible to have a memory leak in managed code", most seasoned .NET developers will laugh at that statement. It turns out that it is very easy to leak memory -- just keep a referencing object around longer than the referenced object, and you can leak. Here is a way to write tests to catch leaks.

Cloud Computing (and Azure) - Right for your site?

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:16:02 GMT

A quick overview of cloud computing options and benefits from a web hosting standpoint.

XNA Game Studio 3.0

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:01:20 GMT

The good folks who put together our gaming tools have released XNA Game Studio 3.0.

Vista DWM Hacking - Capture and Stream D3D/WPF Windows Real-Time

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:16:09 GMT

This prototype project uses undocumented Vista DWM calls to get reference to a Direct3D surface the Vista DWM uses to paint windows. The D3D surface is then able to be rendered in a WPF application like a "VisualBrush". Because this is done in the GPU, it is very efficient. The sample application will also let you stream a high quality, high fps capture of your video to Silverlight or Windows Media Player.

Suspicious DNK Accounts

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:31:29 GMT

Conclusion There is an incentive for publishers that use DNK to setup phony accounts that will help get stories from certain domains on the front page. So guess what happens ... it would appear that a certain number of people are doing this.

WPF Themes Released

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:16:05 GMT

A collection of 8 free themes to be used in WPF!

C# Structs

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:16:02 GMT

What are the benefit of structs in C#? When can they improve performance and memory use? See examples and benchmarks as well as screens from CLRProfiler and the Visual Studio debugger. Is this is the best struct article in the world? Maybe!

Windows Azure and NOT Using SQL Express

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:15:11 GMT

Shows a way to run Windows Azure and use SQL Dev, rather than SQL Express