Dynamic Sort With LINQ To SQL

onedotnetway.com — Sometime ago I wrote a post showing how to do dynamic sort with LINQ. That approach worked well with LINQ To Objects. Today I spotted a question on the forums where Levi asked a question about doing dynamic sorts with LINQ To SQL. My earlier approach will work once all the data is retrieved on the client side. This of course is not an ideal way. A better option is to do sorting on database. read more...

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Writing Visual Studio 2010 Shell In WPF Reflects Confidence

onedotnetway.com — Since its inception as Avalon I have dedicated countless hours to the technology we now know as WPF. I can probably say that I am one of the few people who have worked on WPF at a commercial level at least in Australia. This is because the number of projects using WPF have been scarce. And I was fortunate to get involved because of my community work around WPF. I have also tried to convince clients to go with WPF as the preferred choice over Windows Forms. I will admit that I have not been very successful in doing this. The main reason I believe is that WPF has suffered with lack of confidence. While the push has been there from Microsoft, somehow it has not come across very well. We all know about demos about spinning text boxes and playing videos in buttons. These I must say have not conveyed the benefits of WPF to business gracefully. Even though Microsoft has used WPF for their Expression products, it just has not been enough. read more...

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Microsoft Web Platform Installer Beta

submitted by mdopp 1 month, 16 days ago

co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com — Making the Microsoft Web Platform Install like Microsoft Office Suite, More... read more...

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View T-SQL Query Generated By LINQ To SQL

onedotnetway.com — While working with LINQ To SQL there are times when you are interested in looking at the query which will be executed on the database. This post will cover different ways you can capture the query generated by LINQ To SQL. read more...

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A Dynamic Menu For Your Dynamic Data

submitted by mdopp 3 months, 3 days ago

mattberseth.com — I thought it would be interesting to see what it would take to create a menu for navigating the tables in the site. I was particularly interested in seeing if I could get some grouping or categorization to the metadata so I could create a multi-leveled menu. more... read more...

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Program File Editor An Oldie but a Goodie

submitted by mdopp 3 months, 19 days ago

mikedopp.com — When I started at my first true getting paid to write complex batch, command files, inf scripts as well as long html/xhtml/xml scripting. I was using notepad and had many syntax errors due to lack of syntax outlining like a great IDE that I couldn’t afford. That is when my boss pointed me to a great little application call Program File Editor. I was amazed by the ability of this robust little application. more.. read more...

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An Open Letter to Scott Guthrie

elegantcode.com — Thank you for your team’s contributions to the software development industry. ASP.Net, the CLR, and your other significant additions to the .Net platform have genuinely advanced the state of software development. Although it may seem that you are damned if you do and damned if you don’t, most of us developers out here do appreciate your work. read more...

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Refactoring In Visual Studio 2008 | One .Net Way

onedotnetway.com — While there is a lot of talk about refactoring tools such as Resharper and Refactor Pro, not much is said about refactoring features available in Visual Studio 2008 straight out of the box. I think Resharper and Refactor Pro are fantastic tools but they cost money and most of the time our refactoring needs are simple or you maybe in an environment where such tools are not available. So what do you do? Worry not, Visual Studio comes with excellent refactoring support. In this post I will show different refactoring features of Visual Studio. read more...

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