General Development In DotNet

"Security Vulnerability Assessments are an important step in ensuring your server does not get hacked. Why use HackerTarget.com?"

"This article describes an All-In-One Code Framework sample that is available for download. This code sample demonstrates how to use complex type, which is one of the new features of Entity Framework 4.0 (EF4). This code sample shows how to add complex type properties to entities, how to map complex type properties to table columns, and how to map a Function Import to a complex type."

"Visual Studio 2010 Web Deploy alleviates most of the manual aspects of application deployment by adding a few UI based configuration pages and context menu integrations in Solution Explorer. Upon opening the project's properties, navigate to the Package/Publish Web tab on the left to display deployment options on the right."

"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 "

" I first saw Yahoo's 13 Simple Rules for Speeding Up Your Web Site referenced in a post on Rich Skrenta's blog in May. It looks like there were originally 14 rules; one must have fallen off the list somewhere along the way. "

Modernizr is an open-source JavaScript library that helps you build the next generation of HTML5 and CSS3-powered websites.

Dapper - a simple object mapper for .NetOfficial Github clone: https://github.com/SamSaffron/dapper-dot-net FeaturesDapper is a single file you can drop in to your project that will extend your IDbConnection interface. It provides 3 helpers: Execute a query and map the results to a strongly typed Listpublic static IEnumerable Query(this IDbConnection cnn, string sql, object param = null, SqlTransaction transaction = null, bool buffered = true)

"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. "

"In SQL Server 2008 Microsoft has introduced a number of new date and time data types. One of these is the datetimeoffset data type. This data type includes an offset from UTC time as well as the datetime value and ensures that the datetime can be retrieved in UTC or a particular timezone based on this offset. There are also new functions to allow for conversions between different time zones using the new function SWITCHOFFSET(). "

"The Microsoft Ajax Content Delivery Network (CDN) enables you to easily add popular JavaScript libraries such as jQuery to your Web applications. For example, you can start using jQuery simply by adding a

" Russ Miles discusses how to nurture the skill of learning by understanding it, valuing it and enhancing it in order to achieve an agile transformation within the organization. "

" April 2011 saw the release of a new version of Entity Framework 4.1; this blog article and samples of code contained in it have been correspondingly updated to match the new features that are now available."

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"I am using the Reporting Services Web Service because the Reporting Server is behind the firewall and not visible to the outside. Only my ASP.NET MVC web application front-end is visible to the outside world."

"The Crimson Consulting Group has just published a white paper worth reading: Comparing the Business Value of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 and Oracle Database 11g, Perceptions vs. reality in the RDBMS marketplace (April, 2011). The traditional user-friendliness of a mid-tier product has matured in terms of scalability. Today, you will find SQL Server 2008R2 installations running on 256 core machines -- scalability is no longer an issue. Unfortunately, the traditional scalability product has not grown significantly friendlier to developers and users; this leaves SQL Server 2008R2 the clear value winner for both lowest development expense and total cost of ownership for operations."

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"SQL Server 2008 introduces two tracking features that enable applications to determine the DML changes (insert, update, and delete operations) that were made to user tables in a database. Before these features were available, custom tracking mechanisms had to be implemented in applications. These custom mechanisms often required schema changes to the tracked table or the use of triggers. Neither change data capture nor change tracking requires any schema changes at the source or the use of triggers."

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

"I was writing a web application and wanted to find a regular expression to validate user's e-mail addresses, but when I searched for one I found dozens of slightly different variations of the same expression. Almost all of the posts were followed by comments describing examples of false-positives or false-negatives. But dispite all the criticism, I couldn't find a definitive "best" expression. So, I setup arrays of some of the most promising ones as well as a (hopefully) complete sampling of valid and invalid addresses. I think that it's better to accept a few invalid addresses than reject any valid ones, so I'm shooting for 0 false-positives and as few false-negatives as possible."

" HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications. It is particularly suited for web sites crawling under very high loads while needing persistence or Layer7 processing. Supporting tens of thousands of connections is clearly realistic with todays hardware. Its mode of operation makes its integration into existing architectures very easy and riskless, while still offering the possibility not to expose fragile web servers to the Net, such as below :"