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Apr
2008
VS2008 Power Commands
If you don’t have it, go get it … I would elaborate, but Guy Burstein did a good job here.
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Apr
2008
Asp.Net MVC new release
The Asp.Net MVC team just released a new version of the Asp.Net MVC framework — with source code — and the unit tests. http://www.codeplex.com/aspnet Please check out Jeffrey Palermo’s blog for more information on what has changed.
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Apr
2008
Setting Control Focus when AJAX is involved
Here is an annoying problem I just ran into. I have a web form that has been working just fine for a long time…until I introduced it to the Microsoft Ajax library and starting doing some partial loading. Nothing overly fancy, just using the value of one control to load values into another control. Problem […]
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Apr
2008
Book review: The Pragmatic Programmer
I think I’m going to be brief about this one. Everything you ever heard or read about this book is true. If you don’t have this book already, then go get it right now because you are missing out on a lot of essential stuff. Although most of its content has been scattered around in […]
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Apr
2008
Dynamic LINQ
Something I just saw for the first time is a Microsoft C# sample application called DynamicQuery. This allows you to enter part of a LINQ query as a string. If you have Visual Studio 2008 installed, you can find the samples in this directory: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Samples\1033. Then extract the file CSharpSamples.zip. The […]
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Apr
2008
NHibernate 2.0 and Cascading Deletes
The first alpha version of NHibernate 2.0 has been released some time ago. Oren has put a nice overview of the new features and the bugs that are solved for this first drop. In spite the fact that they put the word ‘alpha’ in the version name, it is actually RTM quality! One of the […]
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Apr
2008
Modeling Wars. Great.
I read a nice article in Information Week today. IBM And Microsoft Have Dueling Visions For Software Modeling This short article gets to the heart of the Oslo matter, which is Microsoft’s full court press initiative to provide modeling as a mechanism of building software and managing operations. I predict the most controversial part of […]
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