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Access REST Resources Secured By UAG from Mobile Device

by Daron Cox

If you're trying to integrate with UAG from a mobile device, this tip is for you!

ASP.NET C# Tutorial - Development with Nido Framework for Dummies

by Nirosh

This tutorial is designed for .NET programmers who need to understand ‘Nido’ framework and its application.

Auto Generate Code (CRUD) for 3 Layered architecture

by Suresh Dasari's

Auto Generate Code (CRUD) for 3 Layered architecture (Entity, Data Access & Business Layer) with Stored Procedures based on table design.

Programmer's Guide to Starting a Software Company and Building an Enterprise Application - Article 4

by Paul Rony

Programmer's Guide to Starting a Software Company and Building an Enterprise Application

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This tutorial is designed for .NET programmers who need to understand ‘Nido’ framework and its application.

Auto Generate Code (CRUD) for 3 Layered architecture

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Auto Generate Code (CRUD) for 3 Layered architecture (Entity, Data Access & Business Layer) with Stored Procedures based on table design.

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.NET 4.0 MemoryCache with SqlChangeMonitor

by Rick Bassham

How to use the SqlChangeMonitor with the new MemoryCache class in .NET 4.0.

.NET TDD (Test Driven Development) by example - Part 1

by AssemblySoft

A trivial business logic layer from scratch with a TDD approach.

10 Things to Make Your Desktop Database Apps Better

by JasonShort

Here are 10 things to make your desktop database apps better

12 Attributes of a Good Web Application Architecture

by Stephen C Young

12 Attributes of a good web application architecture

13 Steps To Make TDD Actually Work

by Bobby Lough

Listed here are 13 steps to make TDD actually work

19 Must-Know Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcuts – Part 1

by Anton Angelov

A short list of keyboard shortcuts for things you probably do often in Visual Studio

19 Must-Know Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcuts – Part 2

by Anton Angelov

A short list of keyboard shortcuts for things you probably do often in Visual Studio

A Bug in Custom ISAPI Filter Related to Keep-Alive

by Zhuyun Dai

I once implemented my own Basic authentication logic in a custom ISAPI filter on IIS 6 and IIS 7.5 (classic mode).

A Few Thoughts About Method Implementation

by Keyhole Software

Practices in development that, while they don’t explicitly violate any standards (whether unwritten or not), they leave behind a "stench" of inexperience or lack of discipline.

A Less Evil Singleton

by jgauffin

Wrap a singleton in a facade to make it less evil.

A Lot About Nothing (or null)

by Matthew Dennis

A lot about nothing (or null)

A Perspective on Programming Problems and Challenges

by Mukit, Ataul

This blog is actually a reply to a tweet which asked "What's an example of a programming problem, in your perspective".

A Recipe For Password Security

by Bob McGowan

Using strong cryptography with entropy to secure user passwords.

A simple guide to setting up home server using IIS and ASP.NET

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

In this post, I am writing about the procedure to set up a home server using IIS and ASP.NET; IIS as the web server, ASP.NET as web scripting framework.

A Synchronization Context Based on the TPL Dataflow Library

by Paulo Morgado

Sometimes, for demo or testing purposes, I need a synchronization context that behaves like the user interface ones but doesn’t force me to build applications with a user interface and the TPL Dataflow Library seemed like a good option to implement such synchronization context.

A Tip for Ajax Developers in ASP.NET MVC Framework

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This blog post shares a tip for Ajax developers in ASP.NET MVC framework.

Abstracting WCF Service Calls in Silverlight 3

by Jeremy Likness

A method for abstracting WCF service calls in Silverlight to facilitate reuse and easy re-targeting of services.

Adapt to Changes With Dynamic Behaviors

by Gary H Guo

Discuss adding functionality at runtime using Component-Based Object Extender with static typing

Adplus: Handling Managed Exceptions

by Sebastian Solnica

Managed exceptions and the ways we can handle them using Adplus

Advanced Observer Design Pattern via IObservable and IObserver in Automation Testing

by Anton Angelov

Create an extendable test execution in automation tests via Observer Design Pattern. Explains an implementation in C# via .NET IObserver interfaces.

Advantages of the Domain Model

by Adrian Alexander

Confining object/relational mapping logic to a clearly demarcated Data Access Layer (DAL) within your application facilitates the creation of a single, coherent, object-oriented Domain Model to represent your application’s business objects.

Agile estimation, Algorithm analysis, and Relativity…

by Mark Vinod Sinnathamby

What else do we knowingly or unknowingly measure in relative terms in our day to day work?

Agile Meetings

by Betclic Tech

Finding the proper level of meetings is always a bit tricky.

AJAX... Why the Rush?

by David W. Young

Don't use it just because it's "trendy" or because it can help you crank out quick interfaces for your sites and web based apps.

Always Encrypted Feature in SQL Server 2016

by Manjuke Fernando

Always encrypted feature in SQL Server 2016

AMQP Provider RabbitMQ

by Ruben Rotteveel

AMQP provider RabbitMQ

An Idea of a Three Tier Application using IoC (Inversion of Control), DI (Dependency Injection), and Perfectly Decoupled Layers

by RizviHasan

A very basic concept in developing a three tier application

Anemic data models (ADM) VS Rich Data Models (RDM) in C#

by Shivprasad koirala

Anemic data Models (RDM) VS Rich Data Models ( RDM) in C#

AOP – Aspect Orient Programming in .NET

by Diego Resnik

Use AOP principals to centralize application policy

Appending Items to a Unity Container at Runtime via Configuration

by Sean Hart

Appending Items to a Unity Container at Runtime via Configuration edit

Applying MVC Architecture to Titanium Mobile Apps

by Phil Sweeney

Applying MVC architecture to Titanium mobile apps

Architecture of Web Applications

by Arian Celina

Architecture of web applications

Architectures for the Web of Things

by Gerd Wagner

Architectures for the Web of Things

ASO – App Store Optimization for Beginners

by Isaac RF

ASO – App Store Optimization for Beginners

ASP.NET - Dynamic Control Mapping

by Nuno M. F. Gomes

ASP.NET - Dynamic Control Mapping

ASP.NET - Health Monitoring and EventLogWebEventProvider - Part 1

by Nuno M. F. Gomes

The ASP.NET health monitoring enables you to add instrumentation to Web applications by using the so called Web Events. These Web events give us information about health status.

ASP.NET Controls – CommunityServer Captcha ControlAdapter, a practical case

by Nuno M. F. Gomes

The ControlAdapter is available since .NET framework version 2.0 and his main goal is to adapt and customize a control render in order to achieve a specific behavior or layout.

ASP.NET Controls – Validators Problem (NetFx 1.1 versus NetFx 2.0 or Higher)

by Nuno M. F. Gomes

ASP.NET controls - validators problem

ASP.NET date picker control - Part 2

by Salmanzz

In this post, I will explain you how I have embedded JavaScript, images and stylesheet to my previous article.

ASP.NET Health Monitoring - Building an EventLogWebEventProvider - Part 2

by Nuno M. F. Gomes

In the first post of this series I've manage to find the correct eventId for each Web Event type, and by this time the major problem has been solved, but I cannot yet write a correct entry into the EventLog.I still have to decided the best severity type and category to apply.SeverityIf you

ASP.NET Health Monitoring - Building an EventLogWebEventProvider - Part 3

by Nuno M. F. Gomes

ASP.NET Health Monitoring - Building an EventLogWebEventProvider

ASP.NET MVC – Conditional Rendering

by Rajeesh.C.V

How we could write a conditional rendering HTML helper in ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET Website Project – External Assembly References

by Mohit1110

In this blog, we would learn how an ASP.NET Website project keeps the references maintained as Website project does not have any Project file to maintain the same.

Aspects to Object vs. Aspects to Class

by Gary H Guo

Discusses aspects to object and aspects to class

Authentication Against CRM Contact using Custom STS

by Manoj.Kumar12

Authentication against CRM contact using custom STS

Azure AD Secured Serverless Cosmos DB from Blazor WebAssembly

by Jeremy Likness

How can you connect securely without storing credentials in the client and hosting your own identity service? The solution is to use Azure Active Directory for authentication and communicate securely with a serverless Azure Function.

Azure Diagnostics in the Cloud

by AssemblySoft

Azure Diagnostics in the Cloud

Azure Functions Tutorial – SQL Database

by Sarmaad Amin

Often a service is required to connect to a database to perform some operations. In this post, we are going to look at having an Azure Function connect and insert a record in database table. We will showcase the usage on nuget packages and usage in Azure Function to automate package management.

Barcodes, Document Flow and 100 Points Identification on MS Dynamics CRM 2011

by Pavel Korsukov

Barcodes, Document Flow and 100 Points Identification on MS Dynamics CRM 2011

BDD with DSL: "Aubergine", a ruby/cucumber like alternative for .NET - Download Available

by Tom Janssens

In this article, you can download the very first alpha version of Aubergine; a BDD /DSL framework for .NET, initially based on Machine.Specifications, but later on heavily inspired by Cucumber.

Begin/End Asynchronous Methods vs the New Async Methods

by jgauffin

An article helping you choose which asynchronous model you should use in your .NET project.

Best Practice in Writing a COM-Visible Assembly (C#)

by Zhuyun Dai

I summarized some best practice rules in writing a COM-visible assembly according to my recent work.

Book Review: Building Mobile Applications Using Kendo UI Mobile and ASP.NET Web API

by Sampath Lokuge

This is a book review about Building Mobile Applications Using Kendo UI Mobile and ASP.NET Web API.

Build Metrics with Distributed Teams and Large Organizations

by eric hexter

The first and most important metric is having a Working build, in terms of continuous integration, that means: compiling software and passing unit tests. It is pretty simple but with distributed teams these becomes even more important.

Builder Pattern

by David Corne

The idea behind the builder pattern is to abstract away the construction of an object so that many implementations can use the same builder.

C# 4.0: Alternative To Optional Arguments

by Paulo Morgado

C# 4.0: Alternative To Optional Arguments

C# 4.0: Covariance And Contravariance In Generics

by Paulo Morgado

C# 4.0: Covariance And Contravariance In Generics

C# 4.0: Dynamic Programming

by Paulo Morgado

The major feature of C# 4.0 is dynamic programming - not just dynamic typing, but dynamic in a broader sense, which means talking to anything that is not statically typed to be a .NET object.

C# 4.0: Named And Optional Arguments

by Paulo Morgado

As part of the co-evolution effort of C# and Visual Basic, C# 4.0 introduces Named and Optional Arguments.

C# 6.0 New Features

by Madhur Kapoor

New features of C# 6.0

C# Proposal: Compile Time Static Checking Of Dynamic Objects

by Paulo Morgado

C# Proposal: Compile Time Static Checking Of Dynamic Objects

C#: Scope Your Global State Changes with IDisposable and the Using Statement

by Pragmateek

How to scope your global state changes with IDisposable and the using statement

C++: Template Meta-Programming 2.0

by Paul M Watt

C++: Template Meta-Programming 2.0

CacheItemRemovedCallback Example in ASP.NET

by Dinesh K Mandal

Exploring the CacheItemRemovedCallback delegate provided by ASP.NET

Calling WCF Services with jQuery…Stripped Down

by Steve Wellens

Years ago, when I created my first ASMX Web Service and called it from an application, it was easy and it was fun. I was able to call functions on a server, from a client, with little effort.

Calling Web Service Functions Asynchronously from a Web Page

by Steve Wellens

A user had a problem calling a Web Service from a web page asynchronously. I tried his code on my machine and was able to reproduce the problem. I was able to solve his problem, but only after taking the long scenic route through some of the more perplexing nuances of Web Services and Proxies.

Canonical Data Source

by TechMyTalk

SOA creates an environment where different types of data must work together.

Cassandra Chapter 4: Data Partitioning With Random and Byte-Ordered Partitioners

by mumera

Data partitioning with random and byte-ordered partitioners in Cassandra

Class Programming Where Possible, Object Programming When Needed

by Gary H Guo

Discuss unifying static programming and dynamic programming in application development

CLR Versions

by Girish J Jain

Lets learn different CLR versions which exist and did we miss one between v2.0 and v4.0?

CLR Versions Compatibility

by Girish J Jain

Let's learn the compatibility between multiple CLR versions which exist and how we can use the supportedRuntime element in an application's configuration file.

Code Analyzing and NDepend

by Morshed Anwar

Code analyzing and NDepend

Code Management on a budget

by Ritesh Ramesh

Code Management on a budget

Coded UI Tests: Executing a Test Case While Desktop is Not Active

by joinsaad

Coded UI Tests: Executing a test case while desktop is not active

CodeIt.Right Code File Header Template For StyleCop Rules

by Paulo Morgado

CodeIt.Right Code File Header Template For StyleCop Rules

Cohesion and Coupling: Principles of Orthogonal, Scalable Design

by Arthur Minduca

Cohesion and coupling: Principles of orthogonal, scalable design

Common Mistakes When Working with Exceptions

by jgauffin

There are a few mistakes that's really common when it comes to exception handling and I thought that I should write a small entry about them. Continue reading →

Common Problems in Xamarin.Android and their Solutions

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

In this article, I cover the most widely faced problems in Xamarin installation and setup for Android application development.

Compiling .NET 1.1 Projects In Visual Studio 2008

by Paulo Morgado

How to compile .NET 1.1 projects in Visual Studio 2008

Complex Queries With Repository Pattern and the Entity Framework

by Ben Kotvis

Complex queries with Repository Pattern and the Entity Framework.

Component-Based Object Extender

by Gary H Guo

A component-based object extensibility framework for .NET

Configure Git with Visual Studio Code

by Mohit1110

How to configure Git with Visual Studio code

Configuring ASP session state on SQL server

by Ritesh Ramesh

This is a brief to the point note on how to setup ASP session state to use SQL server to store session information.

Constrained C#

by Paulo Zemek

What if C# evolved differently?

Continuous Delivery to Azure App Services with VSTS

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

In this article, I provide an overview of using Visual Studio Team Services to automatically deploy the ASP.NET Core web application to Azure App Services.

Continuous Thinking: CQRS Explained to a 10-year Old

by Tom Janssens

The concept behind CQRS is to detach your domain implementation completely from your representation requirements.

Continuous Thinking: Nerdbeers Continued - We All Win !!

by Tom Janssens

A short overview of the key things that happened in the past two weeks in the Nerdbeers project.

Controlling Collation Order On DB2/400

by Joe Rattz

How to control collation order on DB2/400

Create Parallel Task in State Machine Workflow in SharePoint 2010

by Rohit Shrivastava

Create Parallel Task in State Machine Workflow in SharePoint 2010

Creating a Data Access layer using Unity

by Martin Hinshelwood

I am always pulling out the Unity assemblies. Maybe it is just because I am lazy, but I really can’t be bothered rolling my own dependency injection and mapping framework!

Database Driven Unit Testing Using VSTS

by Mahmudul Haque Azad

Database driven unit testing using VSTS

Data-binding Among Complex Expressions in C#

by Adrian Alexander

Data-binding among complex expressions in C#

Decorator Design Pattern in .NET

by Dinesh K Mandal

Decorator Design Pattern in .NET

Decoupled ChildWindow Dialogs with Prism in Silverlight 3

by Jeremy Likness

Decoupled ChildWindow Dialogs with Prism in Silverlight 3

Define Your Own Dialog Box in Winform

by Md. Rashim Uddin

How to define your own dialog box

Delegates 101 - Part IV: Event Handling

by MBigglesworth79

Event Handling

Dependency Injected Singletons… What?

by Dev Leader

About dependency injected singletons

Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC4 and webapi using Ninject

by Bhupindra Singh

Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC4 and webapi using Ninject

Dependency Inversion in Java

by Grzegorz @ tidyjava.com

Beginner guide to using the power of Dependency Inversion with examples in Java. Covers dependency injection, using abstractions and adapter pattern.

Dependency Inversion principle (DIP)

by loki2302

Depend explicitly, require explicitly, but only require what you really need.

Design and Document Your RESTful API Using RAML

by Bryan O'Connell

Design and document your RESTful API using RAML

Design and Implementation Mistakes - Mostly .NET

by Paulo Zemek

Design and implementation mistakes - mostly .NET

Design and Implementation Mistakes - Part 2

by Paulo Zemek

Design and implementation mistakes - Part 2

Detecting User Regional Settings In The Web Browser

by Paulo Morgado

Detecting User Regional Settings In The Web Browser

Developing for .NET 2.0 in 2012

by Michael Banzon

Developing for .NET 2.0 in 2012

Digging Into "Fail Fast, Fail Often"

by Zac Gery

The concept of embracing failure put under the microscope.

Distance Sensor in Robotics

by Nitin Singh India

Distance sensor in robotics.

Distributed Cache - Simplified

by Diego Resnik

Cache mechanism is one of the basic infrastructures in every medium & above project, either web application or winForm application.

Do NOT Catch That Exception!

by jgauffin

Do NOT catch that exception

Do You Really Need An ORM?

by garymcleanhall

You would save a lot of effort by starting with the simplest thing that works.

DOCTYPE (Document Type) Explored

by Mohit1110

In this blog, we will explore how does a browser comes to know which version of HTML has been used in a Web Page. How Quirks mode & Standard mode affect the page rendering.

Don't Agile Your Way Back To Waterfall

by Zac Gery

There are two potential pitfalls to avoid.

Drag and Drop between Multiple Trees in Jquery using jstree

by Chris A. Johnson

Drag and Drop between Multiple Trees in Jquery using jstree

Duplex Service in WCF

by Md. Rashim Uddin

Duplex service in WCF

Dynamic Behaviors Or Dynamic Typing

by Gary H Guo

Dynamic behaviors with dynamic typing or dynamic decorating

Dynamic Behaviors With Static Typing

by Gary H Guo

Add dynamic behaviors using static typing

Easily Expose Metadata Information From Web API

by Bryan O'Connell

How to easily expose metadata information from Web API

Easy and Perfomant Client/Server Communication with Protobuf-net & Griffin.Framework

by jgauffin

Easy and perfomant client/server communication with protobuf-net & Griffin.Framework

E-mail queues in MS Dynamics CRM 2011 Online using Exchange Online and Windows Azure

by Pavel Korsukov

E-mail queues in MS Dynamics CRM 2011 Online using Exchange Online and Windows Azure.

Embedding Font To Resources

by Ernest Poletaev

How to load and use custom font, embedded in assembly resources

Embrace Reflection and Export Any List Collection to Excel

by Shahriar Iqbal Chowdhury/Galib

The purpose of this blog post is to provide a generic solution using .NET Reflation and Generics so the same export function can be reused through the entire application regardless of the object type and save us a lot of effort.

Enhanced Selenium WebDriver Page Objects through Partial Classes

by Anton Angelov

Find how to create more refined and more maintainable page objects in WebDriver. These page objects will follow more closely the Single Responsibility Principle.

Enterprise Architect Automation – Save/Export All Diagrams as Pictures

by Sabarinathan A

Enterprise architect automation - save/export all diagrams as pictures

Enterprise Solution for Logging

by Ruben Rotteveel

In conclusion, logging needs to be a managed process, that is standardized, secured, and monitored and decoupled from the primary application, leaving it do what it needs to do without having to worry about something that is not central to its task.

Entity Framework Context Per Request

by Radu Pascal

The way to use Entity Framework with Unit Of Work pattern in order to use only one context per HTTP request

Error Handling and Diagnostic in Eneter.Messaging.Framework

by Ondrej_Uzovic

The article describes the error handling behavior of Eneter.Messaging.Framework and shows how to use Debug View for the diagnostic.

Error Handling Concepts (Again)

by John M. Dlugosz

“Whither exception handling?” We have come full circle.

ESWC 2008 Day 1

by Anna-Jayne Metcalfe

Last night's reception at Maximilian's restaurant on Friedrichstraße was great fun. Good food, great beer (I particularly liked the Berliner Weiß) and fantastic company. After breakfast we set up our stand in the sponsor's area (complete with the usual last minute presentation edits).

ESWC 2008 Day 2

by Anna-Jayne Metcalfe

Last night we descended en-masse on Berliner Republik, a quirky bar where the beer prices go up and down according to demand (they even have a mini stock exchange - watch for the crashes and run for the bar!). Really good food, too.

Event Streams on Azure - Wrapping Events in Identity and Context

by Duncan Edwards Jones

How to wrap the business meaningful events in an event store with identity and context information, stored according to the backing technology

Exception Handling

by S Leistikow

Leaving an end user with the ability to do more damage is never the way to go.

Exception Handling in ASP.NET Web API - Part 2

by Imran Abdul Ghani

Exception handling in ASP.NET Web API - Part 2

Exception Handling In Micro Focus Managed COBOL

by alex turner

Exception Handling In Micro Focus Managed COBOL

Exception Handling in WCF

by Dinesh K Mandal

Exception Handling in WCF

Exception Smells

by mrcellux

Exception smells

Execute SQL Query on Mutiple SQL Servers or Databases Simultaneously

by Mohit1110

In this blog we would learn how to execute a SQL Query on multiple databases of single DB Server or on a single Database on multiple DB Servers.

Experimenting with C# 7’s New Features

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This post talks about the most important improvements to the C# language in its 7th version, provides some IL overview, as well as my own personal opinions on the features and improvements.

Exploiting Managed Memory

by CdnSecurityEngineer

Exploiting managed memory

Exploring TypeScript and What Makes It Sweet

by Bryan O'Connell

Exploring TypeScript and what makes it sweet

Extending ICSharpCode.TextEditor Syntax Highlighting Schemas

by Ernest Poletaev

How to use ICSharpCode.TextEditor, free, easy to use, extendable and good quality syntax highlighting control for .NET program.

Finding Lost Time in Software Development

by Zac Gery

Finding lost time in software development.

Fluent Page Object Pattern in Automation Testing

by Anton Angelov

Overview how to achieve better readability of page objects via fluent page object pattern. Use chaining methods to access the business test logic.

Fragments: Creating a Tabbed Android User Interface

by Dev Leader

Creating a tabbed Android User Interface.

Framework Coupling

by Grzegorz @ tidyjava.com

Are you using frameworks the right way? Are you using frameworks for business purposes or the other way around? Are your business classes dependent on frameworks?

GEDCOM Data Model in C# using BrightstarDB for Persistence

by gramoore

GEDCOM Data Model in C# using BrightstarDB for persistence

Generic Repositories – A Silly Abstraction Layer

by jgauffin

Let’s look at what generic repositories give you

Get Ready to Learn SQL: 10. Database Second Normal Form Explained in Simple English

by essentialSQL

Database Second Normal Form explained in simple English

Get Ready to Learn SQL: 9. Database First Normal Form Explained in Simple English

by essentialSQL

Database First Normal Form explained in simple English

Getting Exact Location of Exception in C# Code

by Pranay Rana

How to get exact location of exception in C# code

Getting SignalR-Ready in Visual Studio 2010

by Rion Williams

This post will cover how to get yourself up and running using SignalR within Visual Studio 2010 in a jiffy.

Give your tests mutant powers with PIT [Part 1]

by Bobby Lough

Mutation Testing is amazing. Start doing it with PIT to test your tests. The cost of poor quality is too great to ignore.

Give Your Tests Mutant Powers with PIT [Part 2]

by Bobby Lough

Give your tests mutant powers with PIT [Part 2]

Global Exceptions Handling in WPF

by EngineerSpock

Global exceptions handling in WPF

Google and Bing Map APIs Compared

by Steve Wellens

At one of the local golf courses I frequent, there is an open grass field next to the course. It is about eight acres in size and mowed regularly. It is permissible to hit golf balls there—you bring and shag our own balls.

Google’s gtest Not Handling Friend Tests Correctly

by VentsyV

You can’t properly friend test methods that are in a different namespace than the class being tested.

Grails Design Best Practices

by TechMyTalk

This article explains the usage and best practices around Grails.

Griffin.Container: Introducing the Command Support

by jgauffin

Griffin.Container: Introducing the Command Support

Griffin.Framework – Performant Networking in .NET

by jgauffin

Griffin.Framework – Performant networking in .NET

Griffin.Yo – Easy SPA Library Written in TypeScript

by jgauffin

A minimal SPA library written in TypeScript that has no dependencies at all.

Grokking the CLI - Part 1: Meta Mayhem

by Allen C. Copeland Jr

Grokking the CLI - Part 1: Meta Mayhem

Guide for building C# apps on Ubuntu: Graphical applications using Windows Forms

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

In this episode I am going to talk about using graphical applications in Mono. The graphical framework to use would be Windows Forms.

Guide for Building C# Apps on Ubuntu: Language Quickies

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This is the second part of the series of articles for Ubuntu programming using C#. In this, I am talking about the quick tools and helpful features provided by MonoDevelop for C# programmers.

Guide For Building C# Apps on Ubuntu: NuGet Packages

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

In this post version, I have talked about NuGet packages and their management in Mono environment.

Handle Exception Carefully

by Pranay Rana

How to handle exception carefully

Handling a “Microservices” Project

by Gaston Verelst

Handling a Microservices project

Handling Ajax Errors in ASP.NET

by n.podbielski

How to handle Ajax errors in ASP.NET

Handling Casing Issues though Extension Methods in C# and Visual Basic

by Rion Williams

Handling casing issues though Extension Methods in C# and Visual Basic.

Handling Casing Issues though Extension Methods in C# and Visual Basic

by Rion Williams

How to handle casing issues through extension methods in C# and Visual Basic

Handling Errors and Exceptions. Part 1 – Intro.

by EngineerSpock

Have you ever seen that recommendation to avoid exception handling like this: Well, indeed, I agree that this kind of code looks pretty bad. But is it helpful to know only that? No, it is not. The problem of proper error\exceptions handling is very far from being popular.

Handling Exceptions in Plugins Hosted in an AppDomain

by Ivan Krivyakov

How to handle exceptions in plugins hosted in an AppDomain

Handling Transaction in WCF

by Imran Abdul Ghani

Handling transaction in WCF

Hands on Lab for Key Features Used in Silverlight/WPF Projects

by ManojKumar19

Hands on Lab for MVVM, Value Converter, XAML Binding, Delegate Command pattern, INotifyPropertyChange, Lambda Expression, LINQ etc. in Silverlight/WPF project

Hashing Passwords in .NET Core with Tips

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

In this post, I talk about hashing the passwords in .NET Core.

HoloLens Development using Visual Studio 2015 and Unity HoloLens Technical Preview

by Mark Vinod Sinnathamby

This post is a tutorial that is complimentary to the session I did, demonstrating the steps of how a simple holographic application can be built and deployed in the HoloLens emulator.

Host WCF as Windows Service without Installing

by Jeremy Likness

Learn how to host WCF as a Windows service (without using a web project) and how to code it so that you can test interactively without installing the service.

How Do You Structure Your Singletons?

by Dev Leader

How to structure your Singletons.

How Good Programmers Get It Done

by Zac Gery

The difference between an average and good developer is time management.

How Intelligent is Your Business Intelligence?

by JasonDove

This is the number one recurring mistake I have seen consulting and pops its ugly head up time and again across all business sectors, reporting software, and methodologies.

How speedy.js is Your Web Site?

by Cybermaxs

How speedy.js is your web site?

How to Add PostSharp to Your C# Project in 60 Seconds (a Simple AOP Introduction)

by StevenHollidge

Simple and brief introduction to PostSharp and AOP style logging and monitoring

How to Avoid 26 API Requests On Your Page?

by Cybermaxs

How to avoid 26 API requests on your page

How to Balance Project Agility and Predicitability

by Dynms

Balancing project agility and predicitability.

How to build a .NET binding in C# for a web API

by Pragmateek

This article will give you more concrete information, mainly source code, if you need to implement a web API binding in .NET using the C# language.

How to build a Java binding for a web API

by Pragmateek

This article will give you more concrete information, mainly source code, if you need to implement a web API binding in Java.

How to build a language binding for a web API

by Pragmateek

This article describes the general principles, without diving too deeply into technical details that would be specific to a given platform.

How to Choose between IDisposable, IComponent, Component, MarshalByValueComponent and Control while Implementing a Class

by atverma

Criteria behind choosing IDisposable, IComponent, Component, MarshalByValueComponent and base Control classes(System.Windows.Form.Control and System.Web.UI.Control) while implementing a Class

How to configure and use Entity Framework

by Libish Varghese Jacob

Configuring and using Entity Framework 4.1 for my Open Source project.

How to Connect ASP.NET Website to Remote Database for CRUD Operations

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

An overview for connecting an ASP.NET website or a web application to a remote SQL Server database

How to enable HTTPCompression in IIS6

by Brij

Enabling HTTPCompression in IIS6

How to Fix Orphaned SQL Users

by Tharaka MTR

This post will show you how to fix orphaned SQL users.

How to Handle Transactions in ASP.NET MVC3

by jgauffin

How to handle transactions in ASP.NET MVC3

How to host multiple isolated WCF services within a single Windows service with zero App.config

by StevenHollidge

How to host multiple isolated WCF services within a single Windows service with zero App.config

How to Multicast messages with SQL Server Service Broker

by rusanu

How to Multicast messages with SQL Server Service Broker

How to Solve SSIS Error Code 0xC020801C/0xC004700C/0xC0047017

by Shahriar Iqbal Chowdhury/Galib

This post shows you how to solve SSIS Error Code 0xC020801C/0xC004700C/0xC0047017

How to use a MVC area in multiple applications

by Arun Endapally

ASP.NET MVC Areas can be very useful not only for organizing code or separating an application into smaller modules but also we can reuse the same area in multiple applications.

How to Use CORS Requests in Internet Explorer 9 and Below

by jgauffin

This article explains how you can automatically proxy CORS requests in jQuery without changing your existing code.

How to: Create a Date Picker Composite Control in ASP.NET (C#)

by Salmanzz

How to create a Date Picker Composite Control in ASP.NET (C#)

How To: Make XAML Content Globalizable When Using Value Converters

by Paulo Morgado

How to make XAML Content Globalizable when using value converters

HTTPS Communication in WCF using Self-sign Certificate

by Md. Rashim Uddin

HTTPS Communication in WCF

Human Brain vs. Robotic Brain

by Nitin Singh India

As IT's capabilities grow, so our own brain's capability and singularity would never arrive.

Identifying Loss Aversion in Software Design

by Zac Gery

Understanding the reason behind a decision is vital in making the right decision the first time.

IIFE – Immediately Invoked Function Expressions

by Dheeraj Kumar Kesri

An in-depth guide on Immediately invoked function expressions in JavaScript.

Implement Facebook Login with OpenID Selector in MVC3

by S Ravi Kumar (TechieRathore)

How to use the OpenId selector tool in an ASP.NET MVC3 application

Implementing a Document Database Engine using #liveDB in Less than 30 Minutes?

by Robert Friberg

Implementing a Document Database Engine using #liveDB in less than 30 minutes

Implementing the GeoCoordinateWatcher as a Reactive Service

by Paulo Morgado

With Rx, events are first class citizens that can be passed around and composed as needed in a very simple way.

Improve Code Clarity with Typedef

by Paul M Watt

How to improve code clarity with Typedef

Interface Segregation Principle (ISP)

by loki2302

The smaller an interface is, the better it is.

Interfaces

by deostroll

A trivial demonstration of Interface Usage

Internals of Exception Handling

by Abhishek Sur

Internals of Exception Handling

Introducing .NET C# Inversion Of Control and Microsoft Unity Hands-On Lab

by voloda2

Introducing .NET C# inversion of control and Microsoft Unity hands on lab

Introducing Advanced Messaging

by Ruben Rotteveel

Advanced messaging is taking off, judging by the list of large companies embracing this technology, I'd say that AMQP is here to stay and it's time to get familiar with it.

Introducing Expert Systems and Distributed Architecure

by Ruben Rotteveel

Introducing Expert Systems and Distributed Architecure

Introducing Hiro, the World's Fastest IOC Container, Part I: Design Diary

by Philip Laureano

A look into the design of a statically precompiled IOC container that performs as fast as an application without an IOC container.

Introduction to Branching by Quality [Branching-Merging Techniques]

by Tarun_Arora

Branch by Quality is one of the most popular branching patterns used, and can serve as a base pattern for more complex branch strategies.

Introduction to Munq IOC Container for ASP.NET

by Matthew Dennis

This is the first in a series of articles about using the Munq DI IOC Container and IOC containers in general.

InvalidOperationException: “Exception” in Disguise? Or Just the New ApplicationException?

by jgauffin

Is InvalidOperationException: “Exception” in disguise? Or just the new ApplicationException?

Inversion of Control Containers – Best Practices

by jgauffin

A set of best practices helping you to get the most out of your container

Invoke Command/Queries in the Browser, Execute Them in your App

by jgauffin

I've created a small sample project which demonstrates how you can invoke a query using JavaScript (and execute them in your server).

Is NoSQL the SQL Sequel?

by Keyhole Software

I expect that most people with skin in the game will not be serious NoSQL users for a while. This should not discourage developers and architects from experimenting with various NoSQL DBMS now, so as to make choices based on knowledge.

Is there value in attending TechEd?

by Zac Gery

The short answer is, "Yes."

IT vs Business: SharePoint Permissions Strategy

by Pavel Korsukov

How to set up business process of Microsoft SharePoint permissions management to reduce IT Help Desk requests, speed up an access granting and increase collaborative value of MOSS corporate portal.

Java: Checked Exceptions, Revisited (or, a closer examination of a flawed mechanism)

by John Atten

This post is a re-examination of some topics I discuss in an older post.

Java: Checked Exceptions, Revisited Part II

by John Atten

Checked exceptions in Java.

JavaScript and Server Controls 101

by Jeremy Likness

A brief discussion of how to bind JavaScript to custom server/ASP.NET Controls using the AJAX client control model.

JavaScript and User Controls 101

by Jeremy Likness

Learn how to best embed/associate JavaScript with ASP.NET user controls

JavaScript Frameworks and Resources

by Tharaka MTR

JavaScript frameworks and resources

Jenkins Get Source Code By Specific TFS Changeset

by Anton Angelov

Shows how to create a Jenkins Job that gets the source code by specific changeset number. Uses a parameter to run the job in two modes.

jQuery – Handling Click Events

by Arun Ramachandran India

jQuery - handling click events

jQuery Selector Tester and Cheat Sheet

by Steve Wellens

I've always appreciated these tools: Expresso and XPath Builder. They make designing regular expressions and XPath selectors almost fun! Did I say fun? I meant less painful.

Kanban for support

by Nathan Gloyn

A discussion about how Kanban can be used for support

Keep Your Fields Private

by Dev Leader

Ever since I can remember, I've always been told to keep fields private.

Keep Your Website Alive (Don’t Let IIS Recycle Your Website)!

by webdev_hb

IIS can be a bully to your poor web application and when you're in a hosted environment you have even less control. In this post we discuss how we can keep your website from being recycled and do it without needing external code!

Lambda Expression in C# 3.0

by Shakeel Iqbal

Lambda Expression is one of the best features of C# 3.0

Lambdas: An Example in Refactoring Code

by Dev Leader

An example in refactoring code.

Learning SQLite databases in Xamarin for Android

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

In this article I will give you a complete overview of SQLite databases in Android and how to consume them using Xamarin APIs.

Learning The S.O.L.I.D Programming Principles: Overview [Part - I]

by Gaurav Aroraa

Earlier, I was thinking that learning of Object Oriented Programming (OOPs) is enough to write robust, scalable and re-usable application/program.

Leaving Solution Land

by AlexTatiyants

There is a big difference between figuring out what to do and why to do something.

Leverage the .NET framework classes from VBA

by Pragmateek

Introduction Following my previous article on a similar subject, Extend your VBA code with C#, VB.Net or C++/CLI, I’ve received an interesting feedback from a VBA developer who wanted to leverage the advanced support of the .Net framework for regular … Continue reading →

Lightweight Task Scheduling for .NET / Silverlight

by Philipp Sumi

A lightweight task scheduling library that allows you to easily schedule the invocation of callback methods at specified times or intervals. Supports .NET 3.5 and Silverlight.

LINQ: Enhancing Distinct With The PredicateEqualityComparer

by Paulo Morgado

LINQ: Enhancing Distinct With The PredicateEqualityComparer

LINQ: Enhancing Distinct with the SelectorEqualityComparer

by Paulo Morgado

LINQ: Enhancing Distinct with the SelectorEqualityComparer

LINQ: Introducing The Skip Last Operators

by Paulo Morgado

LINQ: Introducing The Skip Last Operators

Liskovs Substitution Principle

by jgauffin

This post is all about LSP.

Load And Use Custom Font Without Installing It

by Ernest Poletaev

How to load and use font, not installed in the system?

Log Elmah errors in Team Foundation Server

by Martin Hinshelwood

I am not sure if this is a good idea, but I was bored one day and decided to add a TFS Error Log provider for Elmah. There are 2 ways you can do this.

Logging and Tracing WCF Soap Messages

by Md. Rashim Uddin

How to log and trace WCF Soap messages?

Logging is the new Exception Swallowing

by Martin Jarvis

Logging is the new Exception Swallowing

Look Behind the IQueryable Curtain

by Jeremy Likness

Learn how to parse complex expression trees, and even modify them to alter IQueryable results.

Magic of JQuery in ASP.NET, Simplifying AJAX

by Mahmudul Haque Azad

Magic of JQuery in ASP.NET, simplifying AJAX

Magic Wand: Object-relational mapping

by Himanshu DS

What are the options available?

Massively Parallel RNG using CUDA C, Thrust and C#

by Adnan Boz

Massively Parallel Random Nunber Generation using CUDA C, Thrust and C#

Merge Smarter with Semantic Merge

by Rion Williams

How to merge smarter with Semantic Merge.

Mobile Website Expansion Offers Businesses Unlimited Potential

by Won Dong

Mobile website expansion offers business unlimited potential

Modal dialogs in cross-platform WPF/Silverlight applications

by Colin Eberhardt

This blog post looks at the problem of showing modal dialog windows in applications that target both the Silverlight and WPF platforms. A solution is provided which allows modal dialogs to be written that work well for both technologies.

Moving to xUnit.net

by Cybermaxs

Moving to xUnit.net

Multi Language / Multicultural Exception Handling In WCF Using FaultReason

by jebarson

Multi Language / Multicultural Exception Handling In WCF Using FaultReason

Multi Language Programming: How to Manage Objects

by li9705

How to manage objects in multi language programming

Multi-datacenter container orchestration with Nomad and Consul

by Sander Knape

Nomad is a distributed, multi-datacenter scheduler for containers, virtual machines and more. It’s a tool from Hashicorp, the company that also brings us Consul, a service-discovery tool that allows you to register and discover services. With the latest big release of Nomad (version 0.4), inte

Multi-Language Programming: Accessing Interface Objects Defined In Other Language_4

by li9705

Accessing interface objects defined in another language

Munq IOC Container – Creating a Thread Local Storage Lifetime Manager

by Matthew Dennis

Munq IOC Container – Creating a Thread Local Storage Lifetime Manager

Munq IocContainer V2 - Overview

by Matthew Dennis

Table of Contents Downloading the code Overview What is Munq IocContainer Using Munq IocContainer Registering Factory Methods Obtaining an Instance from the IocContainer Initializing the IocContainer Lifetime Management Downloading the Code The code is maintained at CodePlex.

MVVM - Creating ViewModel: Wrap your business object (Solution 1 of n)

by jmix90

When you create WPF applications, you may (or you should !) use the M-V-VM pattern and so have to use/create ViewModel.The viewModel job is mainly to expose properties of your businessObjects to your views, ready for binding. Here is a first solution to create ViewModel from your model.

MVVM using POCOs with .NET 4.0 and the DynamicViewModel Class

by Nikos Baxevanis

This post aims to provide a way to implement the Model View ViewModel (MVVM) architectural pattern using Plain Old CLR Objects (POCOs) while taking full advantage of .NET 4.0 DynamicObject Class.

My first exception caused solely by .Net Native

by BC3Tech

In a current project we’re developing a UWP application which, as you may or may not know, *requires* you to compile to .Net Native in order to submit to the store. No biggie, that hasn’t been a problem. Until now.

My Understanding of ArcNet Protocol

by johnniealan

ArcNet Protocol basics

Namespace Design Technique, Structuring Your Libraries Using Test Driven Development

by Esteban Alvarez

Structuring your libraries using Test Driven Development

New HTTP Support for Command/Queries in Griffin Framework

by jgauffin

New HTTP support for Command/Queries in Griffin Framework

NHibernate and Complex Types for Native Keys

by Jeremy Likness

Learn how to use complex classes as primary (not composite!) keys with NHibernate

Object Decoration is Functional Programming

by Gary H Guo

Discuss object decoration, functional programming and dynamic behaviors

Observer Design Pattern- Design Patterns Automated Testing

by Anton Angelov

A detailed overview with examples how to utilize the Observer Design Pattern in automated tests to create an extendable test execution.

One More Time About Resource vs. EmbeddedResource

by Ivan Krivyakov

Difference between 'Resource' and 'Embedded Resource' Build Actions described

OneTrueError and the WCF Integration

by jgauffin

OneTrueError and the WCF Integration

OOP, AOP and OP

by Gary H Guo

Discuss object-oriented programming, aspect-oriented programming and object programming

OOP, FP and OD

by Gary H Guo

How Object-Oriented Programming is benefited from Functional Programming and Object Decoration

Optional passed by reference parameters with C# for VBA COM APIs

by Pragmateek

Introduction If you've already developed COM APIs with .Net, typically in C# with VBA as the consuming language, you've probably leveraged two powerful features: by-reference parameter passing that allows the API to change the input object itself, not only its ... Continue reading ...

Out of Memory Exception: A simple string.Split Can Become Fatal If Not Used Properly

by Vipin Kumarr

Out of Memory Exception: A simple string.Split can become fatal if not used properly

Page Objects with Partial Classes and Properties- WebDriver C#

by Anton Angelov

Find how to create more refined and more maintainable page objects in WebDriver. These page objects will follow the Single Responsibility Principle more closely.

Patch For ASP.NET Vulnerability Available

by Paulo Morgado

Patch For ASP.NET Vulnerability Available

Pex & Moles - Testing Business Layer

by hoonzis

Pex is a tool which helps generate inputs for unit test. Moles is a stub framework used to isolate the unit tests from code which is not being tested. In this post, I will try to describe an attempt to use Pex and Moles to test a typical business layer.

Pipeline and Yield in C#

by Jeremy Likness

The pipeline pattern (sometimes also referred to as pipes and filters) has many useful applications. C# makes implementation even easier with the yield keyword.

Practical Applications of the Adaptive Interface Pattern: The Fluent Builder Context

by User 6724513

Fluent builder context

Processing SQL Server FILESTREAM Data - Part 1

by Bob McGowan

Processing SQL Server FILESTREAM Data - Part 1

Processing SQL Server FILESTREAM Data: Part 2 - The Setup

by Bob McGowan

Utilizing SQL Server FILESTREAM capabilities from .NET

Processing SQL Server FILESTREAM Data: Part 3 - Creating Tables

by Bob McGowan

Utilizing SQL Server FILESTREAM capabilities from .NET

Programming C# on Mac — One post guide

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This is an introductory post for Mac developers to get started using C# programming language on Mac environments using Mono Project!

Progress Bar in Cell – Excel

by johnniealan

This article describes about adding progress bar in cell.

Python, Visual Studio, and C#… So. Sweet.

by Dev Leader

Python, Visual Studio, and C#

Real-time scheduling

by Gert Boddaert

Real-time scheduling in operating systems.

Recovering your application from unhandled exception in .NET

by jebarson

Recovering your application from unhandled exception in .NET

Reduce the Size of MongoDB Documents Generated from .NET/C#

by Pragmateek

How to reduce the size of MongoDB documents generated from .NET/C#

Refactoring: Extract a Method, When It’s Meaningful

by EngineerSpock

Turn on your brain and extract when its meaningful

Remove Slow Startups and Enjoy Less “Suspense” through .NET 4.5.1′s App Suspend Feature

by Rion Williams

This article covers one of the switches that you might be interested in flipping, the App Suspend feature, which is available in .NET 4.5.1 on Windows Server 2012 R2.

Repository Generator

by jgauffin

Griffin DAL Generator – Take 2

Repository Pattern

by adityaswami89

This blog post discusses the Repository Pattern

Repository Pattern, Done Right

by jgauffin

This post aims to explain why the Repository Pattern can still be a great choice.

Resource Acquisition is Initialization (RAII)

by David Corne

This post will be about the Resource Acquisition is Initialization (RAII) pattern which is a creational pattern.

Resource: Brad's Sure Guide to SQL Server Maintenance Plans

by Bryan O'Connell

Review of the ebook: Brad's Sure Guide to SQL Server Maintenance Plans.

REST in WebApi

by tranthanhtu.vn

In "REST - Overview" article, I were introduced the basic rules in RESTful, Can you show me how to implement in WebApi?Ok, in this article, we will learn how to implement those rules in WebApi using C#.Where could I get sourcode was used in this article?Please checkout the code at https://github.com

Rethrow exception and InnerException property in .NET

by Dinesh K Mandal

Rethrow exception and InnerException property in .NET

Rules Design Pattern in Automation Testing

by Anton Angelov

A detailed overview with examples of how to utilize the Rules Design Pattern in automated tests to separate individual rules from rules processing logic. The post Rules Design Pattern in Automation Testing appeared first on Automate The Planet.

Running Services in Long Lived Applications in .NET

by jgauffin

Running services in long lived applications in .NET

Safe Guarding from NoMethodError Exception in Ruby

by zenwalker1985

Safe guarding from NoMethodError exception in Ruby

salient.Delegate - a non-DOM JavaScript Delegate Implementation

by Sky Sanders

salient.Delegate is a class that enables the implementation of numerous software design patterns that can accelerate design and development and improve the architecture of your JavaScript code by enabling reliable loose coupling of JavaScript code.

Scaling Agile at a company level

by Betclic Tech

Scaling Agile at a company level.

Scenarios of MS Dynamics CRM 2011 Online Usage in Windows Azure Hosted Applications and Silverlight Applications with Cross Domain Access

by Pavel Korsukov

Usage of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Online data in external applications

Separating layers and components with constructor injection and Unity

by Giorgio Bozio

Separating layers and components with constructor injection and Unity

Serialize and Encrypt an Object using C#

by hans.hinnekint

How to serialize and encrypt an Object using C#

Serverless Computing with Azure Functions

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This article primarily focuses on the basics of serverless computing and how they emerged. It also talks about other changes such as NoOps. Finally, a sample Azure Function is shown as an example. This is just the introduction post. In future posts, I will give more explanation for Functions.

Service locator is not an anti pattern

by jgauffin

I'm getting really tired of all blog posts that states that service locator is an anti pattern. It's not.

Setting up XCode 3.0 with SVN

by User 1556233

codeproject Everyone knows SVN (Subversions) is the best version control tool on the planet. XCode, though, might not be as great as eclipse or Visual Studio, it offers one of the best integration with open platforms than both eclipse and Visual Studio.

Seven Virtues of Test-Driven Development

by Artem Smirnov

The advantages of using TDD

SignalR – Handling Browser Connection Limits

by Member 11794279

How to handle browser connection limits in SignalR

Silverlight Behaviors and Triggers: Storyboard Trigger Example

by Jeremy Likness

One of the most powerful benefits of Silverlight is that it uses the DependencyProperty model. Using this model, you can have great attached properties to describe reusable behaviors and attach those behaviors to certain elements.

Silverlight Behaviors and Triggers: TextBox Magic

by Jeremy Likness

The TextBox control is popular in Silverlight, but comes with a few nuances. Learn how to filter textboxes and force databinding with attached behaviors.

Silverlight Captcha Example

by Jeremy Likness

Silverlight, with its powerful text and graphics manipulation capabilities and strong interaction with the scripting DOM, seems to be the perfect engine for a Captcha challenge.

Silverlight DataContext Changed Event

by Jeremy Likness

One known issue with Silverlight is that the DataContext bound to a control may change, but there is no readily available change event. Unlike WPF, you don't have an explicit event to register with in order to track changes.

Silverlight MEF: Custom ExportProvider for Attached XAML Exports

by Jeremy Likness

Use the Managed Extensibility Framework to export dictionary resources using custom ExportProvider in Silverlight

Silverlight: Reflection Image Button

by Jeremy Likness

A simple Silverlight control that creates an image button with zoom and reflection

Simple External Templates With jQuery

by webdev_hb

Some simple external templates with jQuery

Simple Way to Structure Threads for Control

by Dev Leader

I'd like to share the pattern I commonly use when creating threads in C# and discuss some of the highlights.

Single Responsibility Principle

by jgauffin

Single responsibility principle

SingleInstance(Of T) Class for Windows Phone 7

by Nikos Baxevanis

This post aims to provide a way to implement lazy initialization in a multi threaded environment using the SingleInstance(Of T) Class.

Singletons: Why Are They “Bad”?

by Dev Leader

In this post, I’m going to focus on why singletons are “bad”, because for me it means acknowledging one of the two main perspectives–that they are the best thing since cat videos met The Internet or they are the worst thing since Justin Bieber.

SMTP Exception: 550 5.7.1 Unable to Relay

by MJ Ferdous

How to solve "SMTP Exception: 550 5.7.1 Unable to relay"

So Where Do We Go From Here?

by Pete O'Hanlon

Well, Microsoft has finally unveiled what is commonly known as Windows 8. The Metro UI represents a dramatic step forward for Windows applications.

Software Architect Conference 2012

by Chris_Green

I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to attend the Software Architect Conference this year in London. This is the same group which puts on DevWeek. It was short and sweet, just 2 days without the additional sessions before and after.

Software Architecture - Examples

by Paulo Zemek

In this post I present how the same application can be created if it is done without any architecture, with an architecture completely bound to a technology and its limitations and with an architecture that I consider to be "unbound" from technologies and their limitations.

Software Build vs. Buy: What's Best for You?

by Dynms

Much like buying a house, choosing whether or not to customize the system to your needs is based on a multitude of factors and needs to be made on a situational basis.

Software Metrics

by Gautham Prabhu K

Software Metrics

SOLID and DRY

by Jeremy Likness

First part of 2 part series on the SOLID and DRY acronyms: Don't Repeat Yourself, Single Responsibility, Open/Closed, and Liskov Substitution in this part.

SOLID and DRY Part 2

by Jeremy Likness

Second part of 2-part article about the SOLID and DRY acronyms for software development. This part covers Interface Segregation and Dependency Injection.

Solve IIS 8 Error: Could not load type ‘System.ServiceModel.Activation.HttpModule’

by Zhuyun Dai

How to solve "Could not load type 'System.ServiceModel.Activation.HttpModule’ IIS 8 error

Solve Mongo DB Element Does Not Match Any Field or Property of Class

by Shahriar Iqbal Chowdhury/Galib

Solve Mongo DB Element does not match any field or property of class

State Design Pattern

by Salmanzz

State Design Pattern

Storing Time Series in Redis

by Cybermaxs

Last time, I explored how to store time series in Microsoft Azure Table Service. This time I’ll do the same but in Redis. It’s is a very popular key-value store (but not only) and I highly encourage you to review it if you still don’t know it.

Strategy Design Pattern - Explained With A Real World Example (C#)

by nirman b doshi

Strategy Design Pattern - Explained with a real world example (C#)

Strategy Design Pattern in Automation Testing

by Anton Angelov

A detailed overview with examples how to utilize the Strategy Design Pattern in automated tests to create an extendable and decoupled Validators.

Strategy Design Pattern in .NET

by Dinesh K Mandal

Strategy Design Pattern in .NET

Structural Design Pattern (Part 4)

by zenwalker1985

An introduction to the Decorator Pattern

Structural Design Pattern (Part 6)

by zenwalker1985

Using the Facade Pattern to simplify application design

Structural Design Pattern (Part 7) – Final

by zenwalker1985

Not only is learning a pattern important or a big deal, it’s also important to know when to choose what.

Struggling with System.IO.Packaging when Creating a CLR Procedure

by Wendelius

System.IO.Packaging namespace in WindowsBase may cause problems when trying to create a CLR procedure.

Swift Error Handling

by Dennis E White

Swift error handling

Synchronization, Memory Visibility and Leaky Abstractions

by Pragmateek

Synchronization, Memory Visibility and Leaky Abstractions

System Validation aka Business Rule

by Girish J Jain

Read this article to understand the cost of validation rules in SDLC and how to decide when to add a new system validation

Tame Application Flexibility By Loose Coupling With Object Decoration

by Gary H Guo

Discuss application flexibility of static typing.

Team Foundation Server 2010 Event Handling with Subscribers

by Martin Hinshelwood

Team Foundation Server 2010 Event Handling with Subscribers

by Martin Hinshelwood

Team Foundation Server 2010 Event handling with subscribers

Team Foundation Server 2010 Event Handling with Subscribers

by Martin Hinshelwood

Team Foundation Server 2010 Event Handling with Subscribers

Technical Debt: In an Agile World

by Zac Gery

What do we do about technical debt? How does it fit within Agile? Does Agile eliminate or encourage technical debt?

Technical Debt: Making the Case

by Zac Gery

Technical debt has been compared to credit card debt. It should not be ignored but is impractical to tackle all at once.

Technical Debt: Strategic vs. Non-Strategic

by Zac Gery

Strategic vs. Non-Strategic technical debt.

Template Method Design Pattern in .NET

by Dinesh K Mandal

Template Method Design Pattern in .NET

Test Driven Development

by Paul M Watt

a brief overview of TDD, which will include a description of the concepts, development process and potential benefits associated with TDD.

Test Your RESTful API using PowerShell

by Bryan O'Connell

Write a functional test script for a REST API using PowerShell.

The "Fancy Proxy" - Having fun with WCF - 6-DynamicDuplexProxy

by Diego Resnik

Using Dynamic Proxy & MSMQ Duplex to create a proxy that switches automatically between online & offline network state

The Absolute Bare Minimum Every Programmer Should Know About Memory Management

by Arthur Minduca

This post tells you about the absolute bare minimum that every programmer should know about memory management.

The Adaptive Interface Pattern

by User 6724513

The Adaptive Interface pattern

The Architect: The Success Key of the Project

by Issam Lahlali

Discover the impact of architect decisions on other actors involved in a project.

The Art of Creating Exceptions

by jgauffin

This will be my final piece on exception handling. It's been fun, but the show must go on, right? Got any suggestion on what I should rant about in this blog? Leave a comment. Continue reading →

The Beature: Is It a Bug Or Feature?

by Zac Gery

"Beatures" fall into a gray area and come from a variety of sources, including customers, sales people, developers, QA analysts, or anyone with a bit of tinkering knowledge.

The bug in MFC tool tip control

by Andrey Permamedov

The bug in MFC tool tip control

The C4 Software Architecture Model

by Petru Faurescu

Is there an easy way to succinctly and unambiguously communicate the architecture of a software system? Something that could highlight the requirements, and still be brief?

The Effects of Agile on Long-Term Focus

by Zac Gery

Agile's short programming cycles often promote a common question. What about the long-term focus of a project or product?

The Entity Framework (v1 and v4) Deal Breaker: TPT Inheritance

by Sam Meacham

So what’s wrong with EF’s TPT inheritance? The SQL that EF generates. With some simple testing (2 or 3 subclasses) everything may appear to be fine. In fact, you may even be impressed that EF manages to fetch all the data you need in a single trip, indeed, in a single query.

The Evolution Of C#

by Paulo Morgado

The Evolution Of C#

The Persistence Layer in SharpMessaging

by jgauffin

The persistence layer in SharpMessaging

The Real Answer to the FizzBuzz Interview Question

by John M. Dlugosz

Here is the real answer to the FizzBuzz interview question

The Right Way to Version Your Assemblies

by StevenLJackson1

How you can structure your solution and project files in Visual Studio to make updating your assemblies' version number much easier

The Type Caught or Thrown Must be Derived from System.Exception

by Gordon Beeming

The type caught or thrown must be derived from System.Exception

Thoughts on Google Music

by Dave C Andrews

A quick review of Google Music

Thread vs. BackgroundWorker

by Dev Leader

Why do we have two different things to accomplish the same end result?

Three Reasons Why You Should Use View Models

by jgauffin

A summary of all my answers focusing on View Models in ASP.NET MVC

Throwing Exceptions

by jgauffin

Throwing exceptions

Tiny UML Sequence Diagram Markup Language for Agile Developer Documentation

by George Mamaladze

Tiny UML Sequence Diagram Markup Language for Agile Developer Documentation

To TDD or Not To TDD?

by Nizar Noorani

To TDD or not to TDD

Tool: Code Metrics Viewer Extension for Visual Studio

by Bryan O'Connell

Keep an eye on your team's software code metrics

Top 5 Ways to Simplify Your SOA

by Erik Westermann

SOA-style solutions can seem complex; however, doing a few easy things can make SOA projects a lot simpler.

Towards a Better Local Caching Strategy

by Cybermaxs

Towards a better local caching strategy

Trace SOAP Request/Response XML with TraceExtension

by Arindam Sinha

SOAP Request/Response XML can be logged with TraceExtension

Transient Exception Handling

by Sacha Barber

Transient Exception Handling

TSQL Recursive Split Function

by Shahriar Iqbal Chowdhury/Galib

TSQL Recursive Split function

TSQL Split a String by Delimiter

by Shahriar Iqbal Chowdhury/Galib

TSQL split a string by delimiter

Tutorial for Building Microservice Applications with Azure Container Apps and Dapr – Part 1

by Taiseer Joudeh

Part 1 of a 10 post tutorial where we will build a full microservices app using Dapr and then deploy it to Azure Container Apps

UIAutomation, Coded UI Tests, AutomationPeer, and WPF/Silverlight Custom Controls

by jmix90

In this post, we will see how to make a custom control fully useable in a Coded UI Tests scenario.

UnCommon C# keywords - A Look

by Abhishek Sur

Some of both Documented and Undocumented Keywords that we dont use often like Check, StackAlloc, Fixed,default,@variables,Nullables, __arglist,__reftype etc are explained with simple examples

Understanding Application Architectures

by Gerd Wagner

We discuss the widely used, but ill-defined MVC architecture metaphor, and point out that the model classes should be decoupled from the storage component.

Understanding ASP.NET MVC using Real World Example, for Beginners and Intermediate Programmers

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This article provides a brief description and overview of ASP.NET's MVC framework, and how developers can covert their real-world objects into MVC framework, to create web applications.

Understanding JOINs in SQL Server

by Manjuke Fernando

It's very important to know what sort of JOINs are available in SQL Server and where exactly we can use them, in order to produce accurate results.

Undo, Redo and Whatever… From A Web Application

by webdev_hb

This post talks about possible ways to implement an Undo feature

Unhandled Exception Handler For WPF Applications

by Abhishek Sur

The article will demonstrate how you could handle Unhandled Exceptions from both UI and NonUI threads for your WPF application.

Unit of Work Design Pattern with Repository and Session

by adityaswami89

This article will guide you if you want to create your own custom ORM or a wrapper over the ORM. This is only for demo towards the Unit of work pattern with Repository and a singleton Session class.

Unit of Work Sample Implementation for ADO.NET

by jgauffin

How to create a Unit Of Work implementation for ADO.NET

Use Visual Studio Conditional Compilation to Manage Development Environment Diversities

by Sohel_Rana

How VS's Conditional Compilation supports team members with different working/deployment environment needs to work together

User Preference using Application Settings

by Arindam Sinha

Saving user preferences while closing the application and loading that while opening next time - implemented through Application Settings

UserControl/Control : How to Get a Reference to an Element of the Template

by jmix90

In this post, we'll discover how to access the template children by using the FindName method even on UserControl.

Using Delegates As Parameters

by webdev_hb

This post goes over a sample scenario where you might use delegates as arguments instead of writing multiple functions to perform different tasks.

Using Facebook Login in ASP.NET Application Without Any Third Party Library

by S Ravi Kumar (TechieRathore)

How to use Facebook login in ASP.NET application without any third party library

Using LINQ To Filter By Object Type and Then Quantify

by Joe Rattz

Using LINQ To Filter By Object Type and Then Quantify

Using LINQ to SQL for ETL projects

by Bryan O'Connell

Using LINQ to SQL for ETL projects.

Using MemoryCache in .NET 4.0

by Dinesh K Mandal

Using MemoryCache in .NET 4.0

Using Monads to manage exception handling

by Fitim Skenderi

In this article I will concentrate on how by using a specific functional structure called monad we can remove a lot of boilerplate code.

Using Munq IOC with ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2

by Matthew Dennis

In this article, I will walk through the modification of the default ASP.NET MVC 2 application to use the Munq IOC container.

Using SoapExtension to manage sessions

by Diego Resnik

If you don't really need a big session management solution that will cost you in performance (no matter what..) and you only want 2-3 parameters that will help you identify some user's preference without all the fuss, consider - soap extension.

Using SQL Server’s Registered Servers Functionality Effectively

by Mohit1110

Using SQL Server’s Registered Servers Functionality Effectively

Using the GeoCoordinateReactiveService

by Paulo Morgado

How it can be used in a simple application

Using the new .NET CLR without recompiling

by Werner van Deventer

In-process side-by-side execution allows applications that were built on an older version of .NET (before 4.0) to use the new features of the updated CLR without even having to recompile your code!

Using WebControls In ASP.NET MVC Views – Part 3

by webdev_hb

This post continues the WebControls In MVC series. In this post we finally get some code that can be downloaded and tested. This post explains how to use the MvcWebForms methods to add WebControls to your Mvc Views -- and make them talk to your Controllers!

Using WebSocket in .NET 4.5 (Part 1)

by Zhuyun Dai

In this serial of articles, I will share some knowledge I learnt recently in using WebSocket in .NET 4.5.

Utility to Generate Word Documents from Templates using Visual Studio 2010 and Open XML 2.0 SDK

by atverma

This utility generates Word documents from templates using Content controls.

Value Object Design Pattern in C#

by Shivprasad koirala

In this blog, we will understand how to implement Value object design pattern in C#.

Visual Studio 2017 – Exception Helper (III)

by Kamran Bilgrami

Exception helper in Visual Studio 2017

Ways of Throwing an Exception in C#

by Abhishek Sur

Here are the ways to throw an exception in C#

WCF Exception Handling

by Nitin Singh India

WCF exception handling.

WCF Global Exception Handling

by Acharya Raja Sekhar

WCF Global Exception Handling

WCF: Loose coupling of WCF Service and Data Contracts

by Sky Sanders

A strategy for implementing maintaining separation of concerns and implementation hiding.

Web Design: The Forgotten Advantage

by Zac Gery

Writing software is a team effort and everyone helps to make it possible.

Web services vs. SOA and Pretty URL vs. REST

by Arian Celina

Web services vs. SOA and Pretty URL vs. REST

WebSocket in WCF

by Md. Rashim Uddin

Getting introduced to WCF WebSocket

Welcome to the Family, One ASP.NET

by Rion Williams

When MVC came along however, the water became a bit muddled and developers had a major choice to make when starting up a new project: Web Forms or MVC?

What are Exceptions?

by jgauffin

This post will discuss what exceptions are.

What is CodeLens?

by Shivprasad koirala

In this blog, we will discuss about CodeLens, a new feature of Visual Studio 2013.

What is package-lock.json file in Node NPM?

by Shivprasad koirala

This technical blog will discuss about package-lock.json file in Node NPM.

What Makes a Good API?

by Dev Leader

A post about what makes a good API

What Windows Runtime Can Teach .NET Developers?

by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

What Windows runtime can teach .NET developers

What’s New in C# 6.0? - Exception Filters

by Kunal Chowdhury «IN»

Exception filters in C# 6.0

Where Is It? Where Brick and Mortar Misses the Mark

by Zac Gery

Happy visitors make happy customers!

Why Are Associations So Difficult to Understand, Not Just for Developers?

by Gerd Wagner

Why are associations so difficult to understand, not just for developers?

Why Do People Think Learn Step by Step PIVOT Transformation is a Good Idea? TIP #125

by Rajat-Indiandotnet

In this post, we will try to implement PIVOT transformation in a few easy steps.

Why Domain Driven Design (DDD) is so great

by jgauffin

This article aims to describe why I think that DDD is so great.

Why Events? Flexibility

by Dev Leader

Flexibility

Why it's not crashing?

by Andrey Permamedov

Why an exception raised in timer callback function doesn't leads to process termination.

Why You Should Be Using Interfaces In Your Code

by Dev Leader

This post discusses why you should be using interfaces in your code

Windows 8 Apps - Create objects from a JSON file

by Gergo Bogdan

Create objects from a JSON file.

Windows Azure Storage Emulator failed to install

by AssemblySoft

Upgrading Windows Azure Storage Emulator fails with error message 'Windows Azure Storage Emulator failed to install'

Windows Workflow Sequential Workflow Unit Testing

by Jeremy Likness

Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF) is a powerful programming model and designer for workflow processes. Using workflow is easier than some may believe.

WPF Master Details MVVM Application

by DevLake

WPF Master Details MVVM Application

Write DOM-less Unit Tests in JavaScript

by Camilo Reyes

Writing JavaScript can be daunting. What begins with fun light scripting, quickly escalates into a tangled mess. I once found myself in an unimaginative hodgepodge of callbacks tight coupled to HTML. But then, I began to believe that there must be a better way.

Writing a .NET debugger (part 2) – Handling events and creating wrappers

by Sebastian Solnica

Writing a .NET debugger (part 2) – Handling events and creating wrappers

Writing Asynchronous HTTP Module in ASP.NET 4.5

by Brij

Asynchronous HTTP Module - one of the new features that got enhanced in ASP.NET 4.5

Writing Simple Odd Even Kata in C#

by Gaurav Aroraa

Writing simple odd even Kata in C#

YAGNI Revisited

by Vladimir Khorikov

YAGNI Revisited

Yield! Reconsidering APIs with Collections

by Dev Leader

In this article, I’d like to go over a couple of different approaches for an API and then explain why the yield keyword might be something you consider next time around.

Zend Framework 2: Error & Exception Handling

by Prava-MFS

Zend Framework 2: Error & Exception Handling

Zip/Unzip using Windows Shell

by Aniruddha Loya

A module for compressing / decompressing files in windows using Windows shell