- Performance Tuning Visual Studio Builds | James Lewis – blog – I’d been hearing a lot of complaints recently about slow build times from all the guys on our team so I took a day out of development to try and speed up their local builds. I started with a solution with about 32 projects and a build time of just over a minute. I then experimented with the following tips and tweaks and got the build time down to 12s flat. The following documents my findings – really hope it helps someone!
- Rockify.TV – Music to your eyes – Rockify.TV is a music video app that makes it easy and fun to discover new music and share that music with your friends!
- The Floppy Disk means Save, and 14 other old people Icons that don’t make sense anymore – Scott Hanselman – What happens when all the things we based our icons on don't exist anymore? Do they just become, ahem, iconic glyphs whose origins are shrouded in mystery?
- Helvetica Meets Super Heroes – For all you Helvetica lovers out there (myself included, although we are taking a break), French design student and illustrator René Mambembe has managed to turn the Helvetica alphabet into iconic super heroes and villains, while still keeping with the original characters (pun intended).
- Hoe hou jij je smartphone schoon? Enkele tips! – The Mobile Revolution | The Mobile Revolution – De Smaakpolitie is een programma op VT4 dat nog maar eens aantoont dat sommige mensen het helaas niet zo nauw nemen met hun hygiëne. Ook onze gadgets ontsnappen er niet aan. 16% van de smartphones hebben sporen van uitwerpselen! Wellicht even nadenken voordat je de iPad leent van je buurman?
- SQL VIEW Basics – SQL Views are essential for the database developer. However, it is common to see them misued, or neglected. Joe Celko tackles an introduction to the subject, but there is something about the topic that makes it likely that even the experienced developer will find out something new from reading it.
- Handling Deadlocks in SQL Server – In this excerpt from his book Troubleshooting SQL Server: A Guide for the Accidental DBA, Jonathan Kehayias provides a guide to identifying the causes, reacting to, and ultimately preventing the dreaded deadlock.
- The Nerd Parent’s Guide: When and how to introduce your kids to Star Wars – Scott Hanselman – Let me start by saying I'm not a big Star Wars guy. I enjoyed the films when I was growing up (I think I saw the original (Ep. 4 ANH) in 1980 along with Empire Strikes Back in 1980) but I haven't thought much about them since. That said, I appreciate the films and I like movies in general. Watching movies with my kids (usually Pixar movies) have brought us a lot of shared joy as a family. However, Star Wars are fun and classics and we wanted to share them with our kids in a way that worked for everyone given their age and our parenting style.
- Besparen op je dataverbruik met Onavo Extend – The Mobile Revolution | The Mobile Revolution –
- Using delegates, func and lambdas: a tutorial with soldiers « Timdams’s Blog – In this tutorial, written for beginning programmers, I’d like to show a little demonstration on the usage of delegates and how we can go all crazy by refactoring and magically see all our duplicate code disappear.
- C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Enumerable.Repeat() Static Method – Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. The index of all my past little wonders posts can be found here.
So last week we covered the Enumerable.Range() method in the System.Linq namespace, which gives us a handy way to generate a sequence of integers to either use directly, or to feed into a more complex expression. Today we’re going to look at another static method called Enumerable.Repeat() that allows us to repeat an element the specified number of times.
- Creating Parallel Tasks with TaskFactory :: BlackWasp Software Development – The Task Parallel Library provides a number of ways in which parallel tasks can be instantiated. This article describes the use of the TaskFactory class, which uses the factory method design pattern to generate and start tasks with a single method call.
- Forms Can Be Beautiful Too – Like all structural elements built into HTML, forms aren’t inherently beautiful. In fact, forms on their own are quite ugly and dull, which is exactly why it’s usually a good idea not to leave form styling up to the browser and OS. Sadly, this happens all the time.
The good news is, it’s not hard at all for designers, developers and dabblers to get a pretty and usable form up and running with little effort (HTML5Rocks and NetTuts both provide great guides), some CSS, and sometimes a bit of JavaScript. Forms can and should be beautiful, this way you’ll know you’re providing the right experience for everyone.
- The key to AddOrUpdate | One Unicorn – The DbSet.Find method provides an easy way to lookup an entity given its primary key. One place this can be useful is in an AddOrUpdate method when loading an entity which can then be updated with values from another application tier—for example, updating an entity with values from a client in a web application.
However, it isn’t so easy to do this in a generic way on any entity type without specific knowledge of which properties make up the primary key. This is something we will make easier in a future release of EF, but for now this blog post shows how to write some extension methods that make this process easier.
- 7 Apps for Mastering Your Mobile Data Usage – Data is power, as the saying goes. But when it comes to mobile data plans, that power lies squarely in the hands of wireless network providers. Consumers pay too much for too little: AT&T;’s cheapest data plan option is $20 a month for 300MB, and Verizon’s is $30 for 2GB.
There’s also the risk of overage charges: Watch too many YouTube videos on your smartphone, and you’ll pay extra for exceeding your monthly data allotment. And data management is even an issue for people lucky enough to be grandfathered into now-defunct unlimited data plans. These folks suffer reduced bandwidth speeds as they explore the limits of what “unlimited” really means.
Nonetheless, with the help of a few crafty apps, you can wrestle a bit of data power back into your hands. The following seven downloads will help manage your data usage, track and compare data speeds, and help you get more out of the limited data you have.
Category Archives: Links
Links van 11/04/2012 tot 2/05/2012
- Bundler.NET – An API for combining, minifying, compressing, and caching CSS and JavaScript for .NET websites.
- 10 quick Android hacks any user can try – Want to try hacking your Android phone but don’t know where to begin? These 10 quick hacks are the perfect place to start, and can be done by everyone!
- Houd je series in de gaten – Lifehacking – Één van de weinige frustratiemomentjes die ik heb in de week is dinsdagochtend, als ik denk dat er een nieuwe aflevering is van How I Met Your Mother. Ik download dan de aflevering via een torrent (awwrr) en kom er vervolgens achter dat het een neppe torrent is. Blijkbaar is de avond ervoor geen aflevering geweest van How I Met Your Mother..
Deze serie heeft een redelijk onregelmatig schema, zo onregelmatig in ieder geval dat ik het allemaal niet bij kan houden. Ik kijk namelijk nog vier andere series. Gelukkig zijn daarvoor websites gemaakt, die in de gaten houden of jij al de nieuwe aflevering kan downloaden/bekijken! We zetten er drie op een rijtje. - Visual Studio 11 – Awesome New Features for Web Developers – The Visual Studio 11 Beta along with the latest .NET framework 4.5 has been out for about two months now and there are a slew of really good features that aligns with Microsoft’s goal of ‘Developer Happiness and Productivity’. In this article we will focus on the Web Developer specific functions in the release that promise to make day to day developer life much easier.
- Back to Basics: Moving beyond for, if and switch – Scott Hanselman – I visit a lot of customers and look at a lot of code. I also worked with a number of large production code bases in my previous jobs and I see a lot of ifs, fors and switches. I see loops inside of loops with ifs inside them, all doing various transformations of data from one form to another. I see strings getting parsed to pull bits of data out in ways that are easy to say in English but take 100 lines to say in code.
Should they? When we are just getting started programming we learn about if first, then for, then the much abused switch statement.
- Lorem Ipsum – All the facts – Lipsum generator –
- String Matching in LINQ – Performing simple string equality tests is often not enough when application user convenience is key. Often only a fragment of a string is known to the user, or many of them. Sometimes there is a need to search for a fragment in multiple columns.
- Create a great mobile experience for your website today. Please. – Scott Hanselman – People are fascinating with making mobile web sites. It's amazing that we're not impressed with the fact we carry tiny supercomputers in our pockets but we're amazed when a website looks decent on our phones.
- Facebook-tip: download uw persoonlijke data – PC-Active – Het is nu mogelijk om vanuit Facebook alle informatie omtrent uw geschiedenis, vriendenverzoeken, bezochte websites en chatgesprekken te downloaden. In dit artikel leest u hoe u deze gegevens kunt opvragen en downloaden.
- 10 illustrated examples of Visual Studio 11 – Troy Hunt –
- Know Your Gmail Stats using Gmail Meter | Official Gmail Blog – One day I was looking at how many messages I have in my sent mail, and realized there are a lot of things I wanted to know about my email habits. How much of my emails do I read, and do I reply fast enough? As luck would have it, Romain Vialard, a Google Apps Script Top Contributor, developed a tool called Gmail Meter powered by Google Apps Script.
- AfterFocus – Android-apps op Google Play – With AfterFocus, you can create DSLR-style background blurred photo by simply selecting focus area. Also, various filter effects offer you to create the most natural and realistic photo.
Selecting a focus area more precisely, you can achieve more natural and professional image.
Just mark the areas you want, AfterFocus automatically recognizes the focus area precisely even for an object with complex shapes.
This auto function allows you to work faster on smart phones with small screen.
Also, background blur effect of AfterFocus gives a photo the realistic look between the edge of the background and the focus area. - Batterij HD – Android-apps op Google Play –
- 10 Great ifttt Recipes To Automate Your Web Life – A list of 10 of the best Recipes that are currently available. With more than 5,000 public Recipes to browse through, here are the gems (in no particular order)
- Phonedeck – The cloud dashboard for your mobile phone – Discover a new way of managing your phone calls, text messages and contacts remotely from the browser.
- 13 New Apps & Resources for Web Designers – Given the fast pace of anything remotely related to the Internet, it’s no surprise that Web designers are constantly creating something new. Sometimes the results are absolutely hilarious, while others are innovative and highly useful. Today, we’re going to focus on the latter, with an assortment of new tools and resources discovered by our readers.
Links van 9/04/2012 tot 10/04/2012
- Snapster: An Instagram Alternative That Lets You Create Custom Filters – In the wake of Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram, there’s been the inevitable backlash from loyal users, with at least 41% of The Next Web’s readers saying that they’re going to stop using the app. We’ve already got a list of 8 Instagram alternatives, and we can now add one more - Snapster.
Snapster is a free photography app which allows you not only to add filters to photos, it also lets you create your own custom filters.
- How big is our own solar system? – BBC – Future – Infographic – We hoeven u vast niet te vertellen dat de ruimte groot is.
Toch maakt de Space Race-infographic op de site van de BBC de afmetingen van het heelal pas écht duidelijk: hoe meer u naar beneden scrolt – eerst met tien kilometer per centimeter, later met miljoenen kilometers tegelijk – hoe verder u van de aarde, de hoogste parachutesprong en de onfortuinlijke hoogste hond wegvliegt. - Leaving Instagram? Here’s how to do it and save all your pictures | Android Central –
- Instagram Alternatives: 8 Great Choices – You’ve probably heard something about Facebook acquiring Instagram? As we have seen, some Instagram users can be a little picky about the company they keep. So, here’s a few options for filtered photos on your phone.
- Als je single bent, is wakker worden met je Android-toestel in bed best fijn » The Mobile Revolution – De vogeltjes fluiten, de ochtendzon schijnt je vertrouwde slaapkamerraam binnen en streelt je gezicht. Je bent half wakker en je rekt je nog eens uit terwijl je twijfelt tussen opstaan of nog even blijven liggen. En plots.. begint je gsm een luid en irritant geluid te maken. Je alarmsignaal om je vrolijke Pasen in te luiden. Er bestaan talloze Android-apps om je ‘s ochtends beter uit bed te krijgen. We bespreken er vandaag enkele.
- This Android Alarm Only Deactivates When You are Out of Bed – We’ve all been there. The monotonous repetition of your mobile phone first thing in the morning, just as you were dreaming of munching a giant marshmallow. It may not be the best start to the day, but it’s necessary…otherwise you’d miss work and not get paid.
But how many times does that 7.30am alarm call, timed to facilitate a quick cup of tea and toast with marmalade, translate into an actual 8.15am rise and smoke-from-your-heels sprint to the train station? More often than you’d care to admit, probably.
Well, here is one simple solution that promises to help you out. Tapping the WiFi signal strength in your home to determine your position, this Android app will only switch off when you are close enough to your router.
- Let Your Wifi Know When You Need It With Wifi Timer | xda-developers –
- Instagram for Android still coming soon, so check out these 12 alternative cameras | Android and Me – Android has a number of quality camera apps that have all the features offered by Instragram and even more extras. We gathered up the top 12 camera apps with the highest ratings and the most downloads and listed them below. We think Pixlr-o-matic offers the closest experience to the Instagram camera effects and Lightbox has the best social features.
- Best Camera Apps Screen – Best android ICS apps + widgets | Android Tips & Tricks: Best of How to’s & Apps. –
- Regex Lesson 5: Optimization – I demonstrate how to reduce backtracking and make continuous improvements to your regular expression while benchmarking each change. The big takeaway from this is that you should design your regular expression to terminate early for non-matches.
- What else is new in C# 5? » Mindscape Blog » Blog Archive –
links for 2011-02-11
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The .NET Framework 4.0 contains a plethora of command line tools ranging from build, deployment, debugging, security to Interop tools, and so on. Here’s a list of important command line tools in the .NET Framework 4.0 which can be run using the Visual Studio Command Prompt. The description of these tools has been taken from the MSDN documentation.
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How does one test the user-interface of a web application? Too often, the answer seems to be 'clumsily, slowly, and not very well'. The technology of automated, repeatable, testing of websites is still developing, but it exists; and Michael Sorens is here to describe an even better approach based on Selenium
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Should every Visual Studio project really be in its own assembly? And what does 'Copy Local=True' really mean? Patrick Smacchia is no stranger to large .NET projects, is well placed to lay a few myths to rest, and gives some advice that promises up to a tenfold increase in speed of compilation.
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In this article, we will see how to log the SQL queries that get generated by Entity Framework. We will also some see profiling tools available.
links for 2011-01-07
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In this blog post, I will cover two interesting tools that, when combined, can bring great value and speed at the beginning of any new software project that has to meet standards that are to be re-used for every project. The tools? Templify and NuGet.
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Every project starts the same way:you create a place to put solution artefacts,on one file system, on one computer.Templify helps you work smart, not hardby reducing repetition.
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NuGet (formerly known as NuPack) is a free, open source developer focused package management system for the .NET platform intent on simplifying the process of incorporating third party libraries into a .NET application during development. NuGet is a member of the ASP.NET Gallery in the Outercurve Foundation
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Microsoft's been filling out the Web Stack with more and more right-sized LEGO pieces lately, and today ScottGu announced the developer preview of NuPack. It's a piece of the stack that's been notably missing for years and after using it for a while now, I'm not sure how I lived without it.
NuPack is a package management system for .NET. The goal of NuPack is to make the process of incorporating third party libraries into your solutions as simple as possible.
links for 2011-01-06
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IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE9 preview, IE8, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Windows 7, Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.
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Learn how Umbraco – the fastest growing open source ASP.NET CMS – can help you build amazing websites, without restricting the way you write your markup, or the way you write Controls. In this session you’ll not only get an overview of what Umbraco has to offer and how to build a complete site in less than an hour, but also learn how to extend it. We’ll look at integrating with Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, Azure, and with a little luck, a speaking plastic rabbit too, using nothing but Umbraco, Visual Studio and a few lines of .NET code.
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I hadn’t got around to looking at it before but Neils Hartvig (@umbraco on twitter) gave a great talk about Umbraco Basics at Tech Ed Europe this year and you can watch it here.
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Drop your bags, fix a drink, and grab the Windows CD—it's time for the holiday ritual of fixing up your relatives' computer. Here are some tips and downloads to keep handy while you're cursing all the auto-starting crapware.
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DirSync Pro (Directory Synchronize Pro) is a small, but powerful utility for file and folder synchronization. DirSync Pro can be used to synchronize the content of one or many folders recursively.
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HDGraph helps you to free disk space : it finds for you the largest folders on your drive.
It's a free tool allowing to graphically display the hard disk space usage : it shows all the directories and subdirectories of the hard drive on a single graph, allowing to see the largest directories at a glance.
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OverDisk is a disk usage browser. It can be used to quickly find out how a partition's space is distributed among the file system hierarchy.
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Mp3tag is a powerful and yet easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of common audio formats where it supports ID3v1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, iTunes MP4, WMA, Vorbis Comments and APE Tags.
It can rename files based on the tag information, replace characters or words in tags and filenames, import/export tag information, create playlists and more.
Mp3tag supports online database lookups from, e.g., Amazon, discogs, or freedb, allowing you to automatically gather proper tags and cover art for your music library.
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Smells Like Teen Spirit van Nirvana blijft op de eerste plaats, voor het vijfde jaar op rij en voor het negende jaar in totaal. De nummers twee en drie verwisselen van plaats. Metallica was twee jaar lang de dichtste belager van Nirvana, maar die rol wordt nu overgekomen door Stairway to Heaven van Led Zeppelin, dat nog nooit zo hoog stond. A Day in the Life van The Beatles is een opmerklijke hoogste stijger. Meer…
links for 2010-12-30
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De medioren en senioren van vandaag zijn niet meer de bejaarden van dertig jaar geleden, maar dat neemt niet weg dat hun eerste kennismaking met moderne technologie en communicatie niet altijd van een leien dakje gaat. Sms'en, bijvoorbeeld, vergt toch enige precisie én kennis van de korteberichtjesetiquette. Op When Parents Text laten jongelui gênante/grappige/cryptische sms'jes van hun ouders ('Me: i want a tattoo for Christmas / Mom: as long as it says i <3 mom!', 'Mom: Hi. What are you doing? / Me: At the library studying for my organic chem exam. / Mom: Homo. / Me: Excuse me? / Mom: I meant to spell GOOD. sorry.' of 'Mom: @(*.*)@ / Me: ??? / Mom: its a monkey lol') achter.
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During the last few weeks, I've had the chance to go more in depth with jQyery and general site performance. I've found some techniques that makes my site go much faster. I don't know if they're all best practice, but this article is meant to at least give you some good ideas.
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Tonido allows you to access and share ALL of your desktop's files, documents, photos, music and videos from anywhere through a web browser or your smartphone. No Uploading,
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Taking a smartphone out of the box for the first time can elicit a wide spectrum of emotions, starting with unadulterated excitement that can quickly devolve into panic, chaos, and confusion: what do you do now? How do you make it awesome? How do you emanate an air of "cool" on the subway by using apps specifically designed to make you look like a badass? Well, fear not, newly-minted Android smartphone owner: as always, we've got your back. Read on for all the apps, accessories, and tips you should be investigating right this very second.
links for 2010-12-16
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Q² or QuickQuery Editor is an editor that helps prototyping queries on complex schema's by automating the writing of queries. No need to type complex queries with join conditions you need to look up, just double-click the relation to use, the columns to show,…
The features of the editor include:
- Support for Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle databases
- Automatically discovers columns; double-click to add them in the query
- Automatically discovers table references and proposes them as joins
- Supports inner and outer joins
- Aliassing of tables and/or columns
- Grouping operators and easy grouping correction/removal
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Let us explore few concepts about Delegates, Anonymous methods, Lambdas and Expression Trees. These code examples are pretty simple, you can fire up a C# Console application in Visual Studio and try these examples if you are interested.
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jQuery is an open source project but in the last couple of years Microsoft has really thrown its weight behind supporting this open source library as a supported component on the Microsoft platform. When I say supported I literally mean supported: Microsoft now offers actual tech support for jQuery as part of their Product Support Services (PSS) as jQuery integration has become part of several of the ASP.NET toolkits and ships in several of the default Web project templates in Visual Studio 2010. The ASP.NET MVC 3 framework (still in Beta) also uses jQuery for a variety of client side support features including client side validation and we can look forward toward more integration of client side functionality via jQuery in both MVC and WebForms in the future. In other words jQuery is becoming an optional but included component of the ASP.NET platform.
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A list of some good Coding Standard Documents. They are useful not just from a review perspective – going through these documents can definitely help you and me to iron out few hidden glitches we might have in the programming portion of our brain.
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Microsoft .NET Framework version 4 includes a major revision of the Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) with heavy investments in performance. This new revision introduces significant design changes from the previous versions of WF that shipped as part of .NET Framework 3.0 and .NET Framework 3.5. It has been re-architected from the core of the programming model, runtime, and tooling to greatly improve performance and usability. This topic shows the important performance characteristics of these revisions and compares them against those of the previous version.
Individual workflow component performance has increased by orders of magnitude between WF3 and WF4. This leaves the gap between hand-coded Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services and WCF workflow services to be quite small. Workflow latency has been significantly reduced in WF4. Persistence performance has increased by a factor of 2.5 – 3.0. Health monitoring by means of workflow tracking has significantly less overhead.
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Naast sites als Megaupload en Rapidshare om bestanden te delen hebben we gelukkig ook fraaiere sites zoals Wetransfer. Sinds kort is er een nieuwe service actief met een twist, Ge.tt maakt het mogelijk om bestanden al te downloaden of te streamen terwijl je ze nog uploadt.
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Historical Maps
Experience five of the world's most beautiful old maps and discover their secretsDigital Worlds
Find out how we map virtual spaces and understand our world today
links for 2010-10-28
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DataContract versioning requires when some modification has been done to the existing DataContract exposed to the client from the service or vice versa. If either service or client is changing the schema of DataContract exposed then new version of DataContract come into action and both party involved in communication should be able to accommodate the changes done in the DataContract.
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In this article, I am going to show how to enable windows authentication on WCF Data Service.
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Various native .NET framework types include an overloaded version of the ToString method that accepts a format string. This reference sheet provides a list of standard formats and custom format specifiers for numeric types, DateTimes, GUIDs and enums.
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This article is expected to
- Introduce patterns to you in a simple, human readable (?) way
- Train you how to really 'Apply' patterns (you can learn patterns easily, but to apply them to solve a problem, you need real design skills)
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ExtensionMethod.NET is a database of C# 3.0, F# and Visual Basic 2008 extension methods. It contains many user-rated extension methods that will expand your code library immediately.
Extension methods add functionality to existing classes and allow you to expand the .NET framework. This way your favorite functions integrate seamlessly into the framework. For more information about extension methods visit the C# 3.0 and Visual Basic 2008 MSDN Library pages.
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Welcome to our humble abode, we're a new service aiming to bridge the gap between Twitter and Facebook. We're doing this by sending tweets to Facebook and Facebook comments back to Twitter.
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Invited to a party and don’t know what to buy the party animal? We feel you.
Use Wrappp.it to collaborate about gift ideas with friends, family and colleagues. Chip in with others and find the perfect gift.
links for 2010-10-08
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This is a review of the current available collection types in .NET Framework 4.0
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A .NET attribute is an object, that provides a mechanism to associate information (metadata) with an element in your program. The Common Language Runtime (CLR) then uses these attributes and determines how to interact with these elements. You can also create custom attributes and use reflection to read them later.
Here’s a list of important .NET attributes that is commonly used in projects and proves very useful if you about them beforehand. This is just a compilation (arranged alphabetically) and clicking on each attribute will take you to a msdn link which explains its usage with an example.
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This article will give a step by step visual explanation of how to create a REST enabled WCF service.
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I got a mail asking question, “How could we remove .SVC from a WCF REST Service? “
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This article will give step by step walkthrough
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Forms pose a series of usability and accessibility challenges, many of which are made more complex when you need to build a form to fit into a small space. Tightly spaced forms can look great on paper, but they often ignore accessibility issues altogether.
A designer recently handed me a compact-form design that included the oft-seen technique of putting field names directly inside of the text fields themselves.
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If you are looking for some introduction material to Microsoft Workflow Foundation 4.0 then here are a couple of links and tips.
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An interface can be created to define a contract containing members that classes that implement it must provide. Interfaces can define events, sometimes leading to classes that implement several interfaces being required to declare an event name twice.
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Regular expression can be effectively used to get performance benefit in certain cases.
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Your Android is supposed to keep you instantly connected to your digital life. It can do that, but it needs some help. These best-of-class applications make sending files, syncing music, swapping web sites, and other phone-computer hook-ups so much easier.




