Combining ASP.NET MVC and new ASP.NET Charting Controls

submitted by Jemm 5 days, 20 hours ago

weblogs.asp.net — "As ScottGu recently posted on his blog, Microsoft have recently released a set of charting components. Several people followed up with comments on his post asking whether it was possible to use them with ASP.NET MVC. The good news is that it certainly is, if you are using ASP.NET as the View engine (the default). And there's actually relatively little that you have to do. This post outlines the steps you'll need to take to get it up and running." read more...

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WCF REST Services and AJAX Callbacks

submitted by rstrahl 6 days, 10 hours ago

west-wind.com — I've been getting a lot of questions in response to my WCF REST session in regards of whether I'd recommend switching to WCF from ASMX services for AJAX functionality recently. WCF provides a host of new REST features, but when it comes to AJAX functionality and especially ASP.NET AJAX compatible functionality there's really nothing compelling there to require changes. In this post I look at what WCF provides for AJAX and some of the things you might watch out for. read more...

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LINQ Reference Documentation

blogs.msdn.com — The LINQ documentation created by Microsoft is available both inside Visual Studio, and for free via the MSDN library found on the WEB. Here are some important pages from that documentation that can help you navigate through the online reference material that Microsoft has prepared for LINQ developers. I would not suggest using these references materials as a primary means of learning LINQ. However, if you have a book or other guide to LINQ development, then this reference material can be a useful addendum to that text. If you understand in a general way how LINQ works, but need answers to detailed questions, the links provided here may sometimes help you find answers to your questions. read more...

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Pair Programming - Marketing FAIL

published 7 days ago, submitted by gavinjoyce 13 days, 11 hours ago

blog.magenic.com — When people talk about lack of adoption of "XP" (aka Extreme Programming) practices, one of the chief problems people have with it is the idea of "Pair Programming" read more...

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Creating Streamlined, Simplified, yet Scalable WCF Connectivity

submitted by Jemm 15 days ago

netfxharmonics.com — "One of the most awesome things about WCF is that the concepts scale extremely well. If you understand the ABCs of WCF, then you can do anything from creating a simple Hello World to a complex sales processing service. It's all based on having an address, a binding, and a contract. All the other concepts like behaviors, validators, and service factories are simply supplemental to the core of the system. When you understand the basics, you have the general essence of all of WCF." read more...

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Testing is hard but debugging just sucks A$$

published 15 days, 13 hours ago, submitted by Jemm 17 days, 22 hours ago

devlicio.us — "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)." read more...

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Silverlight: Live Mesh Integration, Surviving the Olympics and Futures

submitted by craigshoemaker 19 days, 10 hours ago

weblogs.asp.net — Scott Guthrie and Craig Shoemaker take some time out of PDC 2008 to discuss Silverlight and highlights from the keynote address. Scott shares about current-day Silverlight integrations with Live Mesh, living through the Olympics and what might be expected from Silverlight in the future. read more...

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Best Practices for Integrated Full Text Search (iFTS) in SQL 2008

submitted by Jemm 20 days, 19 hours ago

blogs.msdn.com — "This blog [post] is a result of lessons learned while working with the new Integrated Full Text Search in SQL Server 2008. It is not intended to be an in-depth tutorial on how to implement it. Instead, it will concentrate on best practices." read more...

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