workaround for wcf netmsmqbinding bug

keithelder.net — There is an extremely nasty bug in WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) that I have discovered as of late. I know it is a bug because after several weeks with an open support call into Microsoft it was confirmed as a bug. It was so perplexing because it was hard to replicate. It even took the .Net Framework developers a week or more to track it down. read more...

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Balancing Readability and New Syntax Sugar in C# 3.0

keithelder.net — For those that are writing in C# 3.0 and using the latest and greatest language features have you actually stepped back to look at some of the code you wrote? Is it easier or harder to read? Is it truly more understandable for someone else to maintain later on or is it just a lot of syntactic noise? Let's explore this with a few samples and see which way comes out on top. read more...

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Convenience Kills, or the Case Against RAD Tools

kohari.org — A rather heated discussion erupted last week on Twitter and IRC concerning so-called “drag-and-drop demos” — point-and-click demonstrations of “software development” that just involve dragging controls around on a graphical designer without a lot of actual coding involved. Being entirely unable to resist joining in on debates, I had to chime in and give my two cents. read more...

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Behind the Scenes at Microsoft.com

deepfriedbytes.com — Learn how the Microsoft.com operations team meets the demands for one of the top 5 websites on the Internet today. The team supports the server product teams at Microsoft by "dogfooding" products such as Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and IIS7 years before being released to customers. Keith and Woody sit down with Brad LeRoss and Jim Dobbin of the MSCOM team discuss the Microsoft.com architecture and infrastructure, history of the team, the process of content delivery and a few funny stories. read more...

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Specification Pattern and Lambdas

ang3lfir3.wordpress.com — While working on my current project I decided that I had a need to use the Specification Pattern . After finding a clean implementation by Jeff Perrin I set to work creating the specifications that I needed. I quickly realized that we were going to end up having a ton of specifications and sometimes they would only apply to very special cases. Other times they would be very broad cases and they needed to be even more composable than even the fluid interface implemented in Jeff’s implementation wasn’t going to be enough. It after all still required me to create a concrete implementation for each specification, no matter how minuscule it might be. This is the part where I thought to my self that since i was really only creating implementations for a single method that I could just write a LambdaSpecification and be able to use this for all the special cases I had. read more...

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Some best practices for NHibernate by Ayende

ayende.com — A few hours ago I completed a code review of an application using NHibernate. This is not the first time I am doing such a thing, of course, and I noticed that there are quite a few areas where I tend to have comments in such code reviews. The following is based on several such code bases that I went through, and contains a partial list of things that you need to watch for. read more...

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ASP.NET MVC UserControls Start to Finish

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blog.matthidinger.com — The ASP.NET MVC framework ships with a number of Visual Studio project and item templates to ease our development tasks. One of these templates is a UserControl built specifically for the MVC framework. We are going to walkthrough building a re-usable Header control that can be added to the top of related pages (in this specific case, this Control will be added to all Account pages). read more...

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Introduction on how to use Reflector

dimecasts.net — In this episode we will walk you though how to use the .Net tool Reflector. Reflector is the class browser, explorer, analyzer and documentation viewer for .NET. Reflector allows to easily view, navigate, search, decompile and analyze .NET assemblies in C#, Visual Basic and IL. read more...

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