General Development In DotNet

"Cat.prototype.haveABaby=function(){ var theKitten = this.parent.haveABaby.call(this); alert("mew!"); return theKitten; }"

jLinq is a 100% JavaScript library that allows you to perform complex queries on arrays of JSON data.

"I've compiled a small list (or rant) of some very basic and fundamental rules that all webmasters must learn and respect when developing a website that needs to make actual money. This list can also be used by companies looking to hire a web development firm or to evaluate an already deployed website project."

"The basic texts for developing SQL code tend to leave unsaid the basic techniques for building routines such as stored procedures in TSQL. Phil is well-known for his more lengthy and complex stored procedures, so we asked him to explain in more detail how he goes about developing things like that without the comfort of Visual Studio "

" Reflection, like it or not, it is inevitable that eventually you will have to write some code that involves looking at the members of a type at runtime (rather than at compile time). Maybe you are trying to write utility validation / serialization / ORM code, or maybe the interesting property / method is specified at runtime in a configuration file or from the database. Whatever the cause, it is likely that at some point you've written code involving GetType() - something like:"

"The CTP includes some work called the Productivity Improvements for EF which aims to provide a simpler and more productive experience writing data access code with EF. Along with a bunch of conventions that take care of a lot of common tasks the Productivity Improvements also include some more subtle improvements over the core EF API. One of these is the introduction of an Include method that uses a lambda rather than strings to specify the include path."

"What really blew me away about Rx is how it allows you to handle complex async interactions declaratively. No need to chain callbacks together or worry about race conditions. With Rx, you can easily compose multiple async operations together. It's powerful."

" When the browser makes a request for a static image and sends cookies together with the request, the server doesn't have any use for those cookies. So they only create network traffic for no good reason. You should make sure static components are requested with cookie-free requests. Create a subdomain and host all your static components there. "

"Visual Studio 2012 comes with a lot of enhancements. One of the significant one is the Solution Explorer enhancement and it has many. Solution Explorer looks like a build from scratch. The new Solution Explorer is the combination of Object Browser, Class View, Find All References etc. Ideally you do not need to go to any other Window to work"

"Learn how to use log4net without fear. Stop copying config files and figure out how to make log4net do exactly what you want."

We abandoned Log4Net in favour of NLog a couple of months ago. Ran into some issues where we just couldn't get it running in production under some circumstances. Can't remeber exactly what the issue was. NLog worked perfectly.

"Mighty Moose is from this point forward free. Not "free in beta" or "free with a bunch of functionality turned off" but free (license is being updated as I write this). We announced this rather quietly at NDC."

Some interesting thoughts, although his TDD view smells a bit off. interesting comments though.

Online Regex Tester

All about using POCOs only

"Quartz.NET is a port of very propular open source Java job scheduling framework, Quartz . This project owes very much to original Java project, it's father James House and the project contributors. Quartz.NET is a pure .NET library written in C# which currently targets Framework version 1.1 and above. Quartz.NET is feature-wise equal to Quartz Java 1.6 excluding Java specifics. Quartz.NET is already running in production systems and has received good feedback. "

Weird behaviour of project files that may catch you out.

Article that shows how to use objects as MOQ parameters and not just simple values like all the others do.

How to turn off an option that prevents you from saving table changes in SSMS

" We have got new chrome experiments to showcase again! Always look forward for this post to show you what have been happening in HTML 5 and javascript development. Make sure you check out each of the experiment here, pretty sure they will blow you away! "

"I've long looked at JavaScript as a second-class citizen in the programming world. Early on, it was the source of numerous security problems; it was a nice bit of glue to patch together HTML applications with a bit of styling, but nobody would use it for serious code; and so forth. Java, Ruby, Python, they were the languages for doing real work. "