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A project our team (in my employer) has been working on for a good number of months now makes extensive use of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). WCF is nothing really ground-breaking; its significance is that it unifies the various inter-process communication facilities into one common programming...
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The October 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine features lots of articles about parallelism and concurrency. I guess it's all the rage these days! That's what happens when Moore's Law is no longer directly related to more GHz but more CPU cores instead. Concurrency is one of the big reasons why there's...
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I couldn't believe it: read ScottGu's blog post . Finally, Microsoft is getting *it*. No need to fight it, no need to exhibit their traditional NIH mindset and create their own (as they have demonstrated many times, not only in the .NET platform). They're finally including a useful open source...
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Just in case you haven't seen this yet: http://www.codethinked.com/category/IronRuby-via-C-Series.aspx I'm sure it's a handy tutorial for learning Ruby (using IronRuby for .NET) the language if you've already got C#/.NET background. I personally think the DLR will become a huge thing...
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Of course it's still in Alpha, but get 'em here ! Took it out for a quick spin and it seems still rough around the edges, but hey...no need to build it yourself anymore if you want to try it now.
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Language Integrated Query Language Integrated Query (LINQ, pronounced "link") is a Microsoft .NET Framework component that adds native data querying capabilities to .NET languages using a syntax reminiscent of SQL. Many of the concepts that LINQ has introduced were originally tested in Microsoft's...
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OVERVIEW Microsoft ® Visual Studio ® 2008 delivers on Microsoft’s vision of smart client applications by enabling developers to rapidly create connected applications that deliver the highest quality, rich user experiences. With Visual Studio 2008, organizations will find it easier than...
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Just in case you are studying WCF.. You might want to check out the .NET StockTrader Sample Application. The .NET StockTrader Sample Application is an end-to-end sample application illustrating Windows Communication Foundation and .NET Enterprise Technologies. It is a service-oriented application based...
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Keith Rull
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keithrull
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06-19-2008
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Filed under: ASP.NET, Sample, .NET, Web Services, Trading Application, SOA in .NET, SOA, J2EE, WCF, WebSphere, .NET StockTrader Sample Application
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My former colleague asked me if it is possible to attach an alternating color to a DropDownList control, similar with the GridView’s alternating rows. I found out that you can achieve that, by setting the background-color of the ListItem using “style” attributes. Here is the code. ...
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I really like continuous integration . Having come from a company that didn't practice it at all (this was a time I used to regularly work 12 to 16 hours a day), I was so happy when I got into a company that actually practiced it. I found it to be a really effective mechanism to ensure that developers...
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It was my first time to join a community event in Singapore during yesterday's Heroes Community Launch and it was a blast! It was also cool to see that of nine presentors during the event, three of us are Pinoys. I definitely am looking forward to meeting more of the community people soon. First...
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I will be speaking tomorrow at the Heroes Community Launch 2008 here in Singapore with my favourite (boring?!) topic...Unit Testing! Only this time it's about the testing framework that comes with Silverlight 2's beta release. Kinda excited and nervous at the same time, since it'll be my...
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One of the task that a developer needs to accomplish is to code a module for logging, and creating it from scratch will take some of your precious time. So to be a little more productive, we can use a tested library like Log4Net. I have browsed for some pages and found a lot of variations. So putting...
Posted to
Humprey Evangelista Cogay
by
Comgen
on
04-30-2008
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Filed under: Add-Ons, C#, .Net, Windows Forms, Text, Transaction Log File, Tracing, Log4Net, Logging, Configuration, Step by Step, windows apllication, How To
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Wow, I've been in a black hole for months! The usual excuse -- busy at work on projects. Now that we've gotten our app into production, we're now into firefighting, er... I mean maintenance work for that app. Here are some of the lessons I've learned in optimising and debugging our Windows...
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I have a task that will delete files in a certain directory, specifically a file with “*.csv” and *.log” extensions. Unfortunately System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(string,string) doesn't support multiple search pattern. To be able to achieve my requirement I created a method that accepts...