General Development In DotNet

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Thread-safe collection classes in .Net 4

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Greg talks about how we've forced our customers to work with data when they're naturally behavior-centric.

How to setup Murcurial on IIS7. Complete step by step guide

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"This topic describes patterns that you can use to load related entities. Entity types can define navigation properties that represent associations in the data model. You can use these properties to load entities that are related to the returned entity by the defined association. When entities are generated based on the data model, navigation properties are generated for entities at both ends of an association. These navigation properties return either a reference on the "one" end of a one-to-one or many-to-one relationship or a collection on the "many" end of a one-to-many or many-to-many relationship. For more information, see Navigation Properties and Defining and Managing Relationships. "

A blog post asking some of our CQRS questions with links to videos claiming to give answers

"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 "

"There can be a great difference in the performance of a particular routine in a test database, and in a fully loaded production system. When you hit performance problems in a database under load, and there is excessive locking and blocking, how can you determine exactly where the problems lie, in order to fix them? Read on..."

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"Sass makes CSS fun again. Sass is an extension of CSS3, adding nested rules, variables, mixins, selector inheritance, and more. It's translated to well-formatted, standard CSS using the command line tool or a web-framework plugin."

"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."

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"In case you are not aware, a developer preview version of Visual Studio vNext has been released yesterday. I just played an hour with it and it seems that performances are finally here! The same way I skipped Vista to jump from XP to Wnd7 that I love, I am (as much as I can) skipping VS2010 and I'll jump from VS2008 to VS2012 that I'll hopefully love. A few random notes:"

"A simple user interface to automate the batch processing of comparing Sql Server table data using the tablediff.exe utility that comes with Sql Server 2005/2008. "

"The tablediff utility is used to compare the data in two tables for non-convergence, and is particularly useful for troubleshooting non-convergence in a replication topology. This utility can be used from the command prompt or in a batch file to perform the following tasks:"

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