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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 1:12 PM

Refactor Request

Not sure if it's already there, but the folks at DevExpress or JetBrains (or Microsoft, but I don't want to wait for another VS) should have a refactoring for CodeRush/Refactor! or Resharper that will convert verbose properties into C# 3.5 short properties,
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Sunday, March 30, 2008 12:51 PM

Tweak web.config To Set Compilation Debug False

ASP.NET applications should never run with <compilation debug="true"> in production. It can have drastic performance implications (of the negative kind). Obviously, in a perfect world, developers would always remember to verify this setting whenever
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008 11:26 AM

Trends in Programming Languages

Al Pascual wrote about some trends he noticed using Google Trend , with regard to different programming languages. It's an interesting tool, since it can be used to gauge general interest in particular keywords and search terms, as well as news, going
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007 2:45 AM

ASP.NET Provider Source Code Install Path

Some months ago, ScottGu announced the availability of source code for the ASP.NET providers . This was great news and a great many comments followed. In preparation for a talk I'm giving this week at DevConnections , I went out to grab the source again
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 5:35 PM

Check if Unique Constraint will be violated before Insert with LLBLGen

I needed to determine if a unique constraint would be violated so that I could programmatically update the Name of a business object to make it unique today. I use LLBLGen for this project's database layer, and I have a unique constraint (actually a unique
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 3:30 PM

Limit Rows In DataTable or DataSet

I wrote some quick and dirty ADO.NET code to go against an RSS feed instead of a flat XML file today. In the process I had to figure a way to limit the number of rows returned by the function, which returns a DataTable. The simplest method I found was
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Friday, October 19, 2007 1:27 PM

Render User Control as String Template

Scott Guthrie has a great example of how to use an ASP.NET user control as a template which one can dynamically bind to data and then pull the results out as a string . One place this is useful is in AJAX scenarios in which you want to replace the contents
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Monday, October 01, 2007 2:49 PM

Nice Products for Developers

We have a new intern starting with us at Lake Quincy Media today, and in the course of getting him set up, I thought I would mention of a few products we're using that work quite well for us here. The first one relates to training new interns with limited
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Friday, August 03, 2007 11:56 AM

Real World ASP.NET Performance Tuning Experience

I'm in the midst of wrapping up a multi-year long project to replace the advertising engine used to host sponsored ads on a few dozen .NET web sites . This system traces its "lineage" back to an old ASP application written in 2001 (it served
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Sunday, July 22, 2007 11:54 AM

Fixed: CCNET + MSBUILD Logger Error

Ran into a snag this weekend with my build server - it started throwing errors related to the path to a folder, like this: .MSBUILD : error MSB4015: The build was aborted because the "MsBuildToCCNetLogger" logger failed unexpectedly during shutdown. System.ArgumentException:
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Sunday, June 17, 2007 1:12 AM

Sort Generic List of T

Plenty of others have written about this so I'll keep it brief. I needed to sort some objects based on a string property. Some quick searching led me to this post which got me close to what I wanted. My final code was this: myThings.Sort( delegate
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007 3:42 PM

Display Current Bin Folder Content Information

As part of my automated build and test process, I wanted to be able to confirm that my third party components were the proper version and, more importantly, that they were fully licensed. For some components, I can create a new instance of the control
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006 2:44 PM

Microsoft Robotics Studio Released

Officially this morning, Robotics Studio was released. With Microsoft Robotics Studio, robotic applications can be developed using Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Visual Studio Express C# and VB as well as Microsoft IronPython. Read the Press Release
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Wednesday, December 06, 2006 2:44 PM

C# 3.0 Feature Notes

Anders Heljsberg has been giving us an overview of new C# 3.0 features this morning. I’ve made a few notes. Most of this info is available elsewhere, and I’m not re-typing the code from his demos, but there might be some useful tidbits here
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Monday, October 02, 2006 5:52 PM

CSharp C# Feeds Help Wanted

CSharpFeeds is a simple community site dedicated to keeping up with the latest goings-on in the C# world, while eliminating the noise and personal/social posts from the various C# blogs out there. This task involves individually touching each post to
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