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Brad Abrams - Program Manager .NET Framework On Silverlight And .Net

Volume4 — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:59:33 -0400

Brad Abrams, Program Manager on the .NET Framework team at Microsoft discusses Silverlight and the .NET Framework.

MSMQ, WCF and IIS: Getting them to play nice - Part 1

tomhollander — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:27:28 -0400

A few weeks ago I posted an article describing how my current team built a publish/subscribe message bus using WCF and MSMQ. At that time we had only deployed the application in a single-server test environment. While there were a few tricks to getting that working, once we tried deploying to a multiple server environment we found a whole lot of new challenges. In the end they were all...

Silverlight 2 Control Unit Tests

Volume4 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:41:46 -0400

This video introduces the control source and unit test announcement from MIX, and then walks you through:

.NET-Fu: Zero Delay Signing Of An Unsigned Assembly

Volume4 — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:14:03 -0400

The code-base that I am currently working with consists of a large set of binaries that are all signed. The savvy .NET devs out there will know that any assembly that’s used/referenced by a signed assembly must also be signed.

We're Not "Resources"

markturansky — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:53:02 -0400

Resources. It’s a dehumanizing term that is also flat-out wrong for nearly every profession I can think of.

The Undercover Adventure (Part 1): Being a user is hard!

AnneBotha — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:39:41 -0400

After 3 years of being part of an open source software development team (amongst other things) I decided to do something unusual. I decided it was time to experience life on the other side of the fence. I wanted to gain a deeper understanding of the, at times, chaos and conflict I was experiencing as a test analyst (and later manager) when dealing with the business. I realized, after many...

.NET Parallel Extension Like Functionality Added To The Dizzy - Functional List Library

justin_etheredge — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:49:46 -0400

I have added an "AsParallel()" method to Dizzy which mimics the way that the Parallel Extensions to the .net framework works. So, if you want to call a parallel map function you simply need to do this:list.AsParallel().Map(n => n.ToUpper());The AsParallel() method just looks like this:

ASP.NET - Client Side State Management - Hidden Fields

gilf — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:08:02 -0400

In the previous posts in this series I introduced the client side state management and one of its techniques - the ViewState. Today I'm going to drill down into the hidden fields technique.

PHPLinq As Cool As Real LINQ?

mikeborozdin — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:00:56 -0400

I read about the PHP Implementation of LINQ called PHPLinq. Frankly, I was sceptical about it. Finally, I gave it a try. I still remain sceptical... Let me explain why. Take a look at this fairly simple example, where we extract all the numbers greater than 5:

yFiles WPF 1.0 Graph Library Release Candidate Available

yGuy — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:49:33 -0400

yWorks is proud to announce availability of yFiles WPF 1.0 RC1, the first release candidate of the upcoming new diagramming class library for the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) that provides first-class analysis, automatic layout, and visualization of diagrams, networks, and graphs.

Coverity™ Introduces New Static Analysis Solution for C#

Steve martin — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:41:12 -0400

Coverity Prevent™ to Help Developers Eliminate Quality and Security Defects from Applications Built on Microsoft .NET Framework Coverity™, Inc. announced Coverity Prevent™ for C#. The product utilizes a new analysis engine developed by Coverity’s research and development lab that is designed specifically for detecting defects in applications built on Microsoft’s .NET framework. Prevent...

jQuery Goodness and ASP.NET AJAX - Take II

Volume4 — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:25:22 -0400

So clearly I am obsessing about getting jQuery features into my WebForm applications. I would seriously love to see the following added ...

Kill Your Users Table

Volume4 — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:30:33 -0400

It's time to rethink how we store user information. You don't need as much as you think you do. Consider...Reddit's database was stolen a little over a year ago (yes, I know, old news. There's a point here). This, from the team blog (emphasis mine).

Beauty vs. Usability - a Tale of Two Masters

sarajo — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:29:54 -0400

We as passionate developers (or managers, CTO’s, help desk jockeys…etc) have one thing in common, we are attracted like moths to a flame towards the latest and greatest. If something new is coming out we are all talking about it, reading up on it, we could probably tell you five things it lacks before it’s even released. That’s one of the main reasons we are in this, all the cool sh*t we...

C# - Singleton Pattern vs. Static Classes

smallenDNP — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:03:41 -0400

Problem: Store some common data in a singleton or static class about your program in an object array, which you store in a class. It saves state between usages and stores some caches, and must be initialized only once and shared in many code locations. Making a new object each time would be expensive.

ASP.NET - ViewState - Client Side State Management

gilf — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:22:43 -0400

The ASP.NET ViewState is a client side state management technique which enables web pages to persist their state during postbacks. In the life cycle of a page, the current state of the page is hashed to a string and is saved into a hidden field. When opening a page with the View Source operation you can find the ViewState's hidden field by searching __VIEWSTATE keyword. An example of a ViewState...

26 Not To Be Missed .NET Articles - June 2008 - .NET Zone

Volume4 — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:24:48 -0400

This month we have even more then in May in fact, we have almost tripple, we cover topics such as Deliver Next-Generation SOA Apps with Microsoft Robotics Development Studio, Get Started Building Silverlight 2 Applications, TypeTransmogrifier, Windows Mobile: Communicating with the Outside World and many more. Enjoy!

BBC Dumps Microsoft For Adobe AIR

BenForta — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:05:36 -0400

The BBC has been using Microsoft technologies for widgets that are used by "hundreds of thousands of users". And they have just publicly stated that they have dumped the Microsoft solution for an Adobe AIR one. paidContent has posted details, too.

ASP.NET Client Side State Management

gilf — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:43:36 -0400

There are two types of state management - server side and client side. In this post I'm going to introduce the client side state management and explain when to choose client side or server side state management. Client Side State Management TechniquesClient side state management include the following techniques:

ASP.NET Design Patterns, Test Driven Development and Agile Development Book List

Stephen.Walther — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:41:47 -0400

I've been collecting book recommendations on software design principles and patterns, test-driven development, and agile development. I wanted to share my current reading list with you in case you are interested in learning more about these topics. If you have any additional book recommendations -- please share! Here's my current list of books: Software Design Principles and Patterns Books

Gunther Lenz on "Practical Software Factories with .NET"

aslamkhn — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:14:30 -0400

In the recent article An Introduction to Software Factories, Gunther Lenz discussed the motivation for Software Factories, the basic building blocks, and how Software Factories can be realized. He showed the potential benefits this approach has for smaller software development projects.

Silverlight 2 Refcard Available - Download Now

jill — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:00:00 -0400

DZone has the very first quick reference card for Silverlight 2. Light up the web! Silverlight is Microsoft’s offering for designing, developing, and delivering rich interactive applications over the internet.

jQuery for Asp.net MVC preview 3

alley — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:37:25 -0400

So, I finally got a chance to sit down and finish up the jQuery for Asp.net Mvc preview 3. If you haven’t already read Scott’s post about preview 3, you should definitely do so before reading this one.

A Cross-Language Generics Trick - Java, Scala and C#

rickyclarkson — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:05:14 -0400

Given a Pair<T, U> type in Java, Scala or C#, such as Map.Entry, Tuple2 or KeyValuePair respectively, you can construct type-checked variadic heterogenous containers that you can write general methods to operate on. Let's write a Pair interface for Java and C#:interface Pair<T, U> { T _1(); U _2(); }Java:Pair<String, Integer> pair = Pairs.pair("hello", 5);Scala:

Composite Rich Internet Applications with Silverlight and PrismAG

guntherlenz — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:19:40 -0400

As Microsoft ISV Architect Evangleists Murray Gordon and I introduced the Composite Rich Internet Application (CRIA) in a webcast. Obviously we introduced another four letter acronym (since all the 3 letter ones were already taken ;-)) and in the webcast we discuss the implementation of such an application using an Image Search Demo Jared Bienz (THANK YOU :-)) provided us with. The sample uses...