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Interested in a book on NHibernate with ASP.NET?

There are a few Java/Hibernate books out there, a couple chapters here and there on .NET/NHibernate, but a glaring vacuum for published material concerning the development of ASP.NET/NHibernate applications, specifically. ASP.NET certainly has plenty...

Posted to Billy McCafferty by Billy McCafferty on 11-28-2006

Filed under: ASP.NET, NHibernate

Modifying collection while foreach'ing? Why not?!

Finally we have a very simple way to get rid of the annoying 'InvalidOperationException' after removing collection elements in the 'foreach' loop. Have a look ;))...

Posted to Michal Grzegorzewski by Michal Grzegorzewski on 11-26-2006

Filed under: foreach

Iterators for admins

Sometimes you need to do something with your files. Iterators are very helpful in this task....

Posted to Michal Grzegorzewski by Michal Grzegorzewski on 11-23-2006

Filed under: Iterators

Refactor It! Challenge 2

If you're not familiar with the Refactor It! challenges, please read this post . (Yes, this one is a little late in being published...but it's worth it!) Now on to challenge 2... Welcome back to another refactoring challenge! I'm excited about this week...

Posted to Billy McCafferty by Billy McCafferty on 11-23-2006

Filed under: Architecture, C#, .NET, Refactoring, Contests

Murphy’s Laws of .NET

Wednesdays break with a bit of smile. Some time ago, a few months in fact, Firoz Ansari has written on his blog Murphy's Laws of .NET. I think it is worth to remember if someone didn't see that already (like me). There will be six ways to do same thing...

Posted to Lazy Developer by Jimmy on 11-22-2006

Filed under: A bit of smile

Atlas Extenders Crash Course - Part 3 – The Page Integration

Welcome again in the last part of this series. So far we made the extender with bunch of features and then we had migrated to the new ASP.NET AJAX framework. So there only one left to do in order to get fully functional extender. As a current state our...

Posted to Lazy Developer by Jimmy on 11-21-2006

Filed under: ASP.NET, C#, AJAX, Extender Project

HowTo: How to use the PowerStatus in System.Windows.Forms.SystemInformation

One of the new cool new classes in .net 2.0 is the PowerStatus class ( http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.systeminformation.powerstatus(VS.80).aspx ). You can use this class to get information about the battery life of your...

Posted to Derik Whittaker by Derik Whittaker on 11-20-2006

Filed under: Development, .Net, WinForms

Refactor It! Challenge 1 Results

Congratulations to Rune Rystad who is the winner of Challenge 1 ! Rune has won a copy of Framework Design Guidelines by Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams along with a 3-user license pack for CodeIt.Once Refactoring . (The winner was randomly selected...

Posted to Billy McCafferty by Billy McCafferty on 11-20-2006

Filed under: C#, .NET, Refactoring, Contests

HowTo: Determine Wireless Strength in .Net

So, have you ever wondered how to get the information about the strength of your wireless signal using .Net? It is actually pretty easy through .net. The .Net framework actually provides the ManagementObjectSearcher object which is part of the System...

Posted to Derik Whittaker by Derik Whittaker on 11-17-2006

Filed under: Development, .Net

A Modified Snapshot Pattern

I thought I'd share a solution and ideas around a problem that seems to come up from time to time in past systems I've built. I'll walk you through the implementation of a modified Snapshot Pattern in C#. First off, what is the Snapshot pattern, and why...

Posted to Jeff Perrin - Sexier Than You Are by Jeff Perrin on 11-16-2006

Filed under: C#, .Net, Patterns

Must-have Typed DataSet extensions

Of course if you are using them. Currently almost none is using standard data access methods in bigger projects. All the Data Access Layer (DAL) methods become very popular nowadays, just look at the most popular such as NHibernate, Sooda or the incoming...

Posted to Lazy Developer by Jimmy on 11-16-2006

Filed under: C#

Refactor It! Challenge 1 -- Up, Up and away

All, If you have not had a chance to work on Challenge1 by Billy, I would suggest you give it a go. I did, and I am smarter because of it. Good luck everyone and may the best one win (as long as it is me :-) ) P.S. I finished this in just at 1 hour, how...

Posted to Derik Whittaker by Derik Whittaker on 11-14-2006

Refactor It! Challenge 1

For an overview of this contest, read this opening introduction . Now, onto this week's refactoring challenge... As Fowler's subtitle describes, refactoring is about "improving the design of existing code"; an introduction to the subject can be found...

Posted to Billy McCafferty by Billy McCafferty on 11-14-2006

Filed under: C#, .NET, Refactoring, Contests

Refactor It! The Weekly Book Giveaway

Each week, refactor my smelly project and win a free book along with a CodeIt.Once Refactoring tool 3-User license pack! Here's how it'll work ... Each week, beginning tomorrow, Nov. 13, a VS 2005 project will be provided which contains one or more specified...

Posted to Billy McCafferty by Billy McCafferty on 11-13-2006

Filed under: C#, .NET, Refactoring, Contests

Response to 'WPF, What am I missing...Am I slow?'

Derik Whittaker , a very experienced WinForms developer, has written a post about his initial frustrations with WPF since its recent release. He brings up some very valid points and asks why he should bother with it anymore. I would like to address some...

Posted to .NET & Funky Fresh by Rob Eisenberg on 11-13-2006

Filed under: WPF, .NET 3.0, Xaml

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