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Creating a Dynamic Extensible Expando Object

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:46:54 GMT

Rick Strahl takes us on a tour of the wonderful ExpandoObject in C# and shows us how to use it to create extensible objects with ease.

Dynamic CSS with Razor (part 2)

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:21:32 GMT

In PART ONE we saw how to create a gradient programmatically in order automate a CSS stylesheet using the Razor engine. We started from a base color in the RGB space and converted it to the HSL space. Given its Lightness we could easily build shades and highlights of the starting color.

Regular Expressions in CoffeeScript are Awesome!

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:02:47 GMT

Let's face it, regular expressions aren't for everyone. It takes a special breed of developer to actually enjoy writing regular expressions. Although I enjoy them, the developer that comes after me may find that they are cryptic and hard to read ... One of the very cool things I like about CoffeeScript is that you can annotate your regular expressions!

C# Needs Seqs

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:42:20 GMT

A proposition for a new keyword in C# to support IEnumberable<T>.

Basic Raven DB Indexing and Querying with Lucene

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:39:59 GMT

We've got up and running with Raven DB for our new project, which has been a delight to use from a code perspective, but one of the big gaps for me is figuring out how to do SQL like queries. I'm not too bad at putting a SQL query together as something I do semi-regularly as part of my job, so I thought it shouldn't be too much of a stretch to start pulling some statistics. I was wrong.

A list of useful link for Team Foundation Server

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:30:11 GMT

A list of useful link for Team Foundation Server, if you use TFS you probably will find these useful.

Implementing Undo/Redo with Lambda expressions

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:29:50 GMT

How to implement multiple levels of Undo (and Redo) in a .NET application using Lambda expressions.

Why is RAID So Important for Databases?

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:32:36 GMT

A good server design has no, or very few, single points of failure. One of the most common server component that fails, are disks. So data redundancy becomes essential to recoverability. Redundant Array of Independent/Inexpensive Disks (RAID) is a disk system that provides better fault-tolerance by making use of redundancy of disk(s).

Casting just a little faster

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:50:21 GMT

This is a tip for the micro-optimizers in the crowd. Got a tight loop and need a little more performance. This may help.

Running your TeamCity builds from PowerShell for any Git branch

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:46:55 GMT

I love TeamCity and use it since a while to automate my build/release processes. As human we should never do the work a machine can do, we have certainly better and more interesting things to do. The habit I saw in the different projects I worked for is to create new TeamCity builds for the branches you work on. It take quite some work to do, even with templates. So I came with another way of doing it. It is leverage Git, PowerShell and the possibility to run TeamCity builds by "Accessing Server by HTTP"

NCrunch, The Incredible TDD Tool!

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:46:55 GMT

A review of the TDD tool 'NCrunch'.

Differences Between jQuery .bind() vs .live() vs .delegate() vs .on()

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:17:11 GMT

I've seen quite a bit of confusion from developers about what the real different is between the .bind(), .live(), .delegate(), and .on() methods are jQuery and when they should be used.

New tools for your TDD arsenal

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:42:19 GMT

Alexander Beletsky shares a list of sweet new TDD tools to retrofit into your current load-out, including a tool to automatically re-run tests as you make changes to source code, a replacement for Moq, and some awesome fluent assertions.

Lucene.net - Ultra-fast search for MVC or Webforms

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:44:03 GMT

Mikhail T. has put together an article showing how you can integrate the Java-based Apache Lucene project with your .Net based MVC or WebForms sites, giving you ultra-fast and slick search capabilities.

Debugging Windows Service

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:24:04 GMT

In this post we can see the process of debugging windows services

Testing DI bootstrappers

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:10:13 GMT

While your Dependency Injection bootstrappers - being responsible for gluing your application together - are a vital part of your application, they are seldom put under test. I don't see any reason why they shouldn't be though. The cost of these tests is negligible, definitely if you compare it to the cost of the often catastrophical outcome of bugs in your bootstrappers.

Add a visual Linq expression builder to your app today!

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:44:34 GMT

Rabb Moshe Plotkin has created and open-sourced a control for creating Linq queries visually. Using this control, you can give your users the power to query data, rather than writing canned reports or queries.

Ease jQuery UI web development with the fluent Fluqi library

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:53:03 GMT

Fluqi is library for helping configure jQuery UI widgets with a fluent(ish) interface and rendering the control. Details and demos at http://fluqi.apphb.com/

Kinect for Windows Now Available

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:07:01 GMT

On January 9th, Steve Ballmer announced at CES that Microsoft would be shipping Kinect for Windows on February 1st. Today version 1.0 of the SDK and runtime were made available for download, and distribution partners in twelve launch countries are starting to ship Kinect for Windows hardware.

Writing ASP.NET MVC bootstrapper with AutoBox

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:26:50 GMT

This will post will show how you can use AutoBox to easily write a bootstrapper for ASP.NET MVC. I have used the latest version of AutoBox (available from nuget, this version also includes Castle.Windsor internally for managing dependencies rather using its own resolver and does not require interface to type naming convention [IAccountRepository -> AccountRepository]) .

A few principles for writing blazing fast code in .NET

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:45:33 GMT

Just a few tips to write code that requires higher performance demands

The Pre-emptively active Activator

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:59:24 GMT

This is a nice pattern to help offset the cost of object construction

Write to a console window from a Windows application

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:22:57 GMT

Ever wondered how you could write out to a separate console window from your Windows application rather than writing to a log file? You might need to do that for a number of reasons - mostly related to debugging. Here's how you do it...

How to Access jQuery's Internal Data

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:31:04 GMT

One used to be able to access the internal events data and investiate what events are registered on any given element, but recently this internal information has been hidden... Thankfully, if you still need access to the internal data it is still accessible.

Rx - DistinctUntilChanged

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:23:27 GMT

Rx - DistinctUntilChanged this post will focus on the simple yet very useful DistinctUntilChanged operator. sometimes a datum stream may produce the same value for a while, you can see it in stock exchange stream the value of specific stock may be steady for a while. the observer can reduce its computation level by ignoring a repeatable value (sequential repeatable value, for none sequential you can use the Distinct operator). the DistinctUntilChanged is having the follow...