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Coding in Marble

Rico Marianis Performance Tidbits, February 3, 2012
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I wish I could remember where I first read it because perhaps it deserves attribution.  But many years ago I read about the two world views of physicists and they resonated with me.  One wor...

CodeMash 2012 Sessions

Steven Smith, January 16, 2012
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Last week I presented two half-day workshops at CodeMashs PreCompiler on Wednesday (with Brendan Enrick), and a session on ASP.NET MVC 4 on Thursday.  CodeMash 2012 was an amazing conference and ...

CodeMash 2012 Sessions

Steven Smith, January 16, 2012
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Last week I presented two half-day workshops at CodeMashs PreCompiler on Wednesday (with Brendan Enrick), and a session on ASP.NET MVC 4 on Thursday.  CodeMash 2012 was an amazing conference and ...

JustCode Release History : Q3 2011 SP1 (v2011.3.1221)

Telerik News RSS Feed, December 21, 2011
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JustCode Q3 2011 SP1 (v2011.3.1221) Major highlights Improved performance Reduced memory footprint Improved code templates Improvements New warning "Type does not match file name" for nested ty...

How to present PowerPoint slides with a WinForms Tiles App

The ASPx Blog, December 15, 2011
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Check out this slick little application I built using the new DevExpress WinForms Tile controls for my touch webinar: Quick & fun This app took me about 15 minutes to create. And I wrote it fo...

.NET Unit Testing Webinar Series - Free Webinars on ASP.NET and .NET Unit Testing

ASP.NET Announcements, December 1, 2011
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Typemock is hosting a special series of webinars to help you begin the new year with improved software quality. There are webinars appropriate for every level. Reducing Bugs Faster: Introduction to U...

Roslyn Syntax Visualizers

C# Frequently Asked Questions, November 19, 2011
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Hi All! A few weeks ago, we announced the Microsoft "Roslyn" CTP. I hope many of you have had a chance to download the CTP and take it for a spin :) If you haven’t, do give it a try. To recap ...

Roslyn Syntax Visualizers

The Visual Basic Team, November 19, 2011
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Hi All! A few weeks ago, we announced the Microsoft "Roslyn" CTP. I hope many of you have had a chance to download the CTP and take it for a spin :) If you haven’t, do give it a try. To recap ...

JustCode Release History : Q3 2011 (v2011.3.1116)

Telerik News RSS Feed, November 17, 2011
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JustCode Q3 2011 (v2011.3.1116) Major highlights CSS support Razor support Visual Studio 11 support Key Mappings window Improvements Visual Studio 11 support CSS support: Solution-wide analy...

CodeSmith Generator 6.0Status, Website and Future

Eric J. Smiths Weblog, November 10, 2011
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We are on the home stretch of Generator 6.0 and things have come together really nicely.  This is going to be a great release!  We have been mostly working on performance, memory utilization...

JustCode Release History : Q2 2011 SP1 (v2011.2.916)

Telerik News RSS Feed, September 16, 2011
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JustCode Q2 2011 SP1 Release Notes (v2011.2.916) Major highlights Support for the new Async CTP in C# and VB.NET Test Runner: MbUnit3 and Gallio support Test Runner: Updated MSpec C# Formatter: Imp...

TDD in .NET Day 3 Learnings

ISerializable, August 12, 2011
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3rd day of TDD in .net in Oslo is over, and here are some of the subjects covered: Moq FakeitEasy Extract & Override refactoring Typemock Doing Test Reviews on other people's tests Approaching Le...

TDD course in Oslo - August 2011

ISerializable, August 2, 2011
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I will be starting a 3 day TDD in .NET course in Oslo next week (wed.). The course covers everything from zero - so I assume you have no unit testing experience whatsoever. Then it gets you al the way...

JustCode Release History : Q2 2011 (version 2011.2.713)

Telerik News RSS Feed, July 13, 2011
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JustCode Q2 2011 Improvements New in Formatters: Improved wrapping formatters Improved new line formatters Introduced settings for min & max empty lines after fields and auto-implemented p...

Regional Differences

Steven Smith, June 20, 2011
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Last week I ran a poll (that maxed out at 400 responses on twtpoll) asking how developers recommend using regions in C# (or not).  You can see the results here: About 15% of the respondents ch...

Submitting a drive-by commit to a GitHub project in under 5 minutes

JonGalloway.ToString(), June 17, 2011
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I recently mentioned how I contributed C# syntax for CodeMirror; what I didn't talk about was how incredibly easy it was. I think the biggest obstacles to open source contribution are: I'm not sur...

Log Method Name Helper

Steven Smith, May 29, 2011
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Sometimes its handy to see the order in which methods are firing, or how long theyre taking, without having to attach a debugger.  Typically, you might write some code like this: public ...

Creating a Bot for the Rock Paper Azure Contest

Steven Smith, April 18, 2011
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The Windows Azure team is holding a contest, and The Code Project is helping to support it.  As part of this contest, you can get free Azure compute time by signing up with the code CP001 here.&#...

How to automatically track events with Google Analytics async snippet and jQuery

Run Tings Proper, March 17, 2011
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This article examines a way to use a feature of Google Analytics called Event Tracking. By using jQuery and the Google Analytics JavaScript API we will automatically track events on your site not seen...

Code Analysis Using Atomiq

ASPAlliance.com - The #1 ASP.NET Community, March 8, 2011
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Code analysis is one way you can keep your code clean and your technical debt low. One of the simplest ways to achieve this is to minimize blocks of duplicate code, usually the result of cut-and-past...

Generate your Fluent NHibernate POCO and mapping classes automagically.

Clarity Blogs: ASP.NET, March 7, 2011
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At our current client, we”re refactoring some legacy data access logic to use Fluent NHibernate. We chose NHibernate because of its large community and previous success on other projects at Clarity. W...

Winner: Free seat in my TDD Class

ISerializable, March 2, 2011
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Tim Barber gets a free seat for my two day TDD class in London for his post about his dedication to learning this subject. Tim, I’ll see you there!  Tim gets in free to learn the following ...

Default parameters in C#

Eric Gunnersons C# Compendium, February 23, 2011
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From an internal discussion we're having on the advisability of using default parameters in C#: Currently, the pain and limitation of doing overloads forces you to rethink how a method should work. Co...

Introducing FeedTso, a social news reader for Windows Phone 7

Code Climber, February 10, 2011
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In the last few months you have probably noticed a few posts about Windows Phone 7, about my experience using it and about some little problems I found using the web browser. The reason is that, tog...

The Value of Symmetry

K. Scott Allen, February 7, 2011
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Symmetry in code is valuable, and often subtle. When I find symmetry in code, I feel it's a positive sign that the design is working well. I like temporal symmetry. When something opens at the very ...

Database Refactoring

Simple Talk, February 1, 2011
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Although the methodology of refactoring code has been adopted enthusiastically, the same has not really been the case with databases. Nick argues that the reason could lie in the extent of the task o...

Elegant Image Mouse-Overs with jQuery

MS-Joe, February 1, 2011
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You can do a lot with CSS but sometimes the usage scenario just calls for the use of an image and changing the image when the user drags the mouse over the image. Ive been doing some refactoring on a ...

ASP.NET MVC GridView Video - Data Bind, Refactor And Combo Box Column

The ASPx Blog, January 31, 2011
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Check out the "MVC GridView Extension" webinar video and learn how some great techniques to work with it and it's feature set: Agenda Topics I recommend watching this video because y...

It's Design

K. Scott Allen, January 26, 2011
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If I come across this code: if (widget.Price < 10.0m && widget.UnitsInStock > 100) { // ... } Then the first thing I'll suggest is refactoring to: if (widget.IsElig...

The Refactoring Curve

K. Scott Allen, January 25, 2011
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Empirical studies on software refactoring are hard to find, but I believe refactoring follows the 80/20 rule - 80% of the possible benefit comes by applying just the first 20% of effort. Like most wor...

IntelliJ IDEA for Android Development

K. Scott Allen, January 10, 2011
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I really like IntelliJ IDEA - and the free community edition now supports Google Android development. Part of the reason I like this IDE is because it feels familiar. I've learned the JetBrains sense...

Test First Development Course Online

K. Scott Allen, January 3, 2011
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David Starr and I recorded a test first development course for Pluralsight's On-Demand! library (subscription required). This is the first course in a series, and we designed the course for someone wh...

Videos: Lets Play TDD with James Shore

ISerializable, November 19, 2010
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during my speaking at Oredev Conference, I got to meet James Shore, author of The Art of Agile book. I’ve known him only through reputation and his book, so when he offered to pair with him for ...

How To Create A Google Like Captcha Control In ASP.NET

The ASPx Blog, November 10, 2010
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Want to get that same great look that Googles Captcha has? Check out how easy it is to set up the ASPxCaptcha control to get that same look and feel: How? Heres 3 easy steps for the ASPxCaptcha: ...

JustCode Release History : Q3 2010 (version 2010.3.1109)

Telerik News RSS Feed, November 10, 2010
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Unit Test Runner: Added MSpec support for the JustCode Unit Test Runner. Improved Unit Test Runner speed. Improved Nunit support for the JustCode Unit Test Runner. New Refactorings (All of them wor...

Subtext 2.5.2: now works 100% in Medium Trust

Code Climber, November 4, 2010
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In June this year we released an important version of Subtext that included lots of refactoring and was the first step to being ASP.NET MVC based. Then after a few weeks we released a bug fix version...

Two Cool Resources for Visual Studio DevelopersVSSnippets and VSTemplates on CodePlex

MS-Joe, October 20, 2010
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Doug Holland has released an updated code snippets set for C# developers using Visual Studio 2010 on CodePlex. The project was formerly known as CodePlex.Snippets and the version for VS2008 had nearl...

Announcing Isolator++, and closing a TDD circle

ISerializable, October 14, 2010
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Last week I closed one little circle in my consulting life: The company I work at released Isolator++ a truly powerful, and yet simple, Isolation framework for C++, that makes unit testing in C++ fee...

Announcing Isolator++, and closing a TDD circle

ISerializable, October 14, 2010
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Last week I closed one little circle in my consulting life: The company I work at released Isolator++ a truly powerful, and yet simple, Isolation framework for C++, that makes unit testing in C++ fee...

New Webinars - GTD and Mobile Web Best Practices with Woody Pewitt

The ASPx Blog, October 12, 2010
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Sign up for these 2 interesting Webinars presented by our new evangelist, Woody Pewitt: Im a big fan of David Allens GTD book and system. I recommend watching this webinar. Also check out Woodys s...

5 (more) Easy Tips to Reduce and Refactoring your Code with Resharper (Tips 6-10)

JohnPapa.net, October 3, 2010
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This weekend I posted 5 simple ways to reduce your code using Resharper (tips 1-5). I decided to follow that up with another set of 5 quick and easy tips, so ere they go. Hopefully these tips will sho...

5 Easy Tips to Reduce and Refactor Your Code with Resharper

JohnPapa.net, October 3, 2010
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Ive talked a lot about Resharper such as the Find Usages, live templates, and the instant code analysis. But I have not talked about some of the features that are not as prominent but I find especiall...

JustCode is a development add-in for Visual Studio 2005, 2008 and 2010 that enhances .NET development productivity by providing fast solution-wide, on-the-fly code analysis and error checking, smart c

EggHeadCafe.com New Articles, October 1, 2010
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A free license could be yours by visiting EggHeadCafe and entering the free drawing for JustCode, a development add-in for Visual Studio 2005, 2008 and 2010 that enhances .NET development productivity...

A customer switches to MOQ and Im happy

ISerializable, September 29, 2010
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a few days ago, we got into an interesting email conversation with a person in a large company, who had purchased isolator a while ago. Our customer lieason sent me this persons recent response to the...

A customer switches to MOQ and Im happy

ISerializable, September 29, 2010
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a few days ago, we got into an interesting email conversation with a person in a large company, who had purchased isolator a while ago. Our customer lieason sent me this persons recent response to the...

Video: Microsoft Evangelist Drew Robbins on OData @ #HDC10

The ASPx Blog, September 20, 2010
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Check out this video interview with Microsoft Evangelist, Drew Robbins. I met Drew at the recent Heartland Developers Conference 2010 in Omaha, Nebraska. Click and watch the 13 minute video interview:...

Applying Interface Segregation to Configuration Files

Steven Smith, September 1, 2010
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In .NET, its very easy to set up custom configuration section handlers to handle your application or components configuration needs.  As my previous post shows, its also very easy to configure th...

A Cool / Unexpected Refactoring around .Net C# Locking Issue

peterkellner.net, July 29, 2010
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Im constantly amazed by the insightfulness of ReSharpers suggested refactorings (ReSharper is a Visual Studio Addin from JetBrains I use with C#). Today, Ive been working on a threading problem... Th...

A Cool / Unexpected Refactoring around .Net C# Locking Issue

peterkellner.net, July 29, 2010
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Im constantly amazed by the insightfulness of ReSharpers suggested refactorings (ReSharper is a Visual Studio Addin from JetBrains I use with C#). Today, Ive been working on a threading problem where ...

Notes from a TDD masterclass

ISerializable, July 24, 2010
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another TDD masterclass is done, and this time it was Munich! Lovely people, and smart programmers :) made a few changes this time had an excersice about doing automated builds and CI, removed rhino...