Welcome the first episode of the Elegant Code Cast, a new production of ElegantCode.com. We are excited to be branching out into new mediums by augmenting the Elegant Code blog with new an exciting content. The focus of our shows will be on real life techniques and developers in the field, just like us. Although […]
Read MoreIf you program with ASP.Net long enough you will have the following requirement: Display a Grid on the screen with a checkbox in each row. At the bottom of the page have “Check All” button. If you haven’t had that, you will. It is just a matter of time. The traditional way of getting this […]
Read MoreIn addition to overall architecture (let’s not argue about what that means) my role with my current employer involves a lot of higher level operations responsibilities. So I am a stereotypical non-coding architect…who doesn’t even to get to do much architecting! However recently I’ve wormed (forced!) my way onto a couple of projects where I […]
Read MoreI’ve been moonlighting with the ASP.Net MVC framework lately. Not a lot, just enough to get acquainted for right now. Yesterday I had my “Road to Damascus” incident. I don’t know HTML. OK, not completely true, I know lots of html tags, table, ul, div, p, a, etc; and I know how to use them […]
Read MoreI am a ReSharper addict. I admit it. I have this habit of upgrading my ReSharper every time JetBrains releases a new version. Speaking of which: ReSharper 3.1 is out and ready for download. Or you can read the release notes. But, if you are hoping this will add C# 3.0 support…it doesn’t. That is […]
Read MoreI checked in some code earlier today. Naturally I had successfully run all of the unit tests locally first. Nevertheless the CI build still failed. Luckily I had faced this problem before and after some initial frustration I quickly figured out the cause. Here are a couple of tips to help you if you face […]
Read MoreThe reason you have never heard of this sweet technology is explored in this post, Microsoft and XForms, Standards Assassin or Innovator?. “Standards? Why Bother?” asked Bill. XForms is a way of expressing data and business logic into an XML instance that you can embed into an XHTML file and run in your favorite browser […]
Read MoreRosario is Microsoft’s next TFS and TFS client tools that will eventually plug in to VS2008. There are some fantabulous features on the table for this release, and some still on the backlog that I just hope make it. One thing that is absolutely key to easier use of the work item model is hierarchical […]
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