OK, one think I hate is having specific code just to satisfy the gripes of one particular browser. Right now that browser is IE 6. Specifically, IE 6’s (lack) of CSS support. I was trying to have a transparent div that would cover the screen whenever an AJAX transaction was taking too long. No problem, […]
Read MoreOK, this is new for me. I want to tell every .Net developer out there to get the March edition of the MSDN Magazine (available at bookstores last I checked), or download all of the articles. I am considering this edition a must have. Getting started, read the last topic: { End Bracket }: What […]
Read MoreMircea Trofin (from Microsoft) just released the LINQ Framework Design Guidelines. Worth a read. The article gives a rundown of LINQ itself, Extension Methods, and Extending LINQ. More on LINQ coming soon.
Read MoreEDIT: I created a follow up post to this. Microsoft, doing what it knows how to do best, has once again copied a great tool – striving to make the tool Microsoft’s own. Granted, a number of times this has gone badly (the first version of MSUnit is such a case), but I am very […]
Read MoreI’m boning up on my LINQ to SQL skills again for a presentation I’m giving for Boise Code Camp. One cool little tool I’ve been exposed to recently is LINQPad. LINQPad is a great little tool for messing around with LINQ to SQL queries and testing ideas. Point LINQPad at a SQL Server database and […]
Read MoreHere is a bit of interesting news out of Microsoft. They have released their first IoC container named Unity. It is out on CodePlex now: http://www.codeplex.com/unity If you are looking for a similar product with a longer lineage, you could look up: StructureMap, Spring.Net, and Castle Windsor. StructureMap is maintained by Jeremy Miller, who is […]
Read MoreThis is the best news I’ve heard yet today (I have a low barrier for that sort of thing anyway). ReSharper 4.0 EAP has been released. http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/ReSharper/ReSharper+4.0+Nightly+Builds Why am I happy with this: ReSharper 4.0 adds support for C# 3.0. (glee!)
Read MoreOn the front page of DotNetKicks is a nice little article on using source control. And I hate it. Not the article itself, it is a nice read actually, very valid. So before you read why I hate it, please check it out. http://blog.lavablast.com/post/2008/02/I2c-for-one2c-welcome-our-new-revision-control-overlords!.aspx OK, lets start with the basics: Source Control is vitally important […]
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