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Articles in Object Oriented Concepts
What's wrong with one of GetNumberFormat's callers? And what's wrong with GetNumberFormat?
Please read the disclaimer; content of Michael Kaplan's blog not approved by Microsoft! Some of you may recall Igor Levicki, the guy who had 64-bit keyboards working before MSKLC 1.4 was released who I mentio...
From : Sorting It All Out
2008 Mar 10
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 2560; Sentence Count: 53; Grade Level: 12.0
Testing TempData in ASP.NET MVC
Eventually when testing your controllers you will come across an action that sets TempData. If you didn’t know, TempData is a session-backed temporary storage dictionary that is available for on...
From : Ben Scheirman
2008 Jan 30
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 509; Sentence Count: 52; Grade Level: 6.6
Using Inheritance in JavaScript Behaviors
While working on some samples using (different) menubar, I found it helpful to inherit a JavaScript Behavior from a more general JavaScript Behavior. This would give me the chance to implement the common gener...
From : Aspects of AJAX
2008 Jan 05
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 415; Sentence Count: 43; Grade Level: 7.3
Data Layer Testing: Test Inheritance Patterns
I'm preparing for my tutorial on Database and Data Layer unit testing that I will be giving at the Agile Practices Conference next week. It's always nice to have a full 3 hours to get pretty deep into so...
From : ISerializable - Roy Osheroves Blog
2007 Nov 29
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 505; Sentence Count: 24; Grade Level: 10.5
Visual Basic 2008 - Introducing Extension Methods
Note: This article is based on Orcas Beta 2 (Visual Studio 2008). Extension Methods Visual Basic 2008 extension methods enable you to "add" functionality to existing types without creati...
From : mike mcintyres
2007 Sep 21
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 690; Sentence Count: 45; Grade Level: 8.1
Entity Framework - Post 1 of "Many", providing some links
Note: Some of the posts referenced in this post (!) are likely to be more out of date than others but I still feel that they are very much worth reading. Whilst waiting for new Entity Framework bits to experim...
From : Mike Taultys Blog
2007 Aug 09
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 1442; Sentence Count: 81; Grade Level: 8.5
Operator Overloading Considered Insanely Useful
Programming, SelfDocumenting, Sugar, Syntax I am amazed that for all the talk about future Java features, there is hardly any mention of operator overloading. Certainly syntactic sugar is high on the prior...
From : Software As Shes Developed
2007 Aug 03
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 507; Sentence Count: 33; Grade Level: 9.1
BCL Refresher: Converting the Non-Generic Collections [Inbar Gazit]
As you know generics were only introduced to the .NET Framework in version 2.0. Originally we had a lot of collections in the System.Collections namespace that can store objects. In version 2.0 we added the Sy...
From : BCLTeams WebLog
2007 Jun 25
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 1492; Sentence Count: 111; Grade Level: 7.6
LINQ To Objects - Part 3
Although some of the queries we saw at the end of Part 2 are quite impressive - and light years easier than doing it with Loops and If/Then tests - there are still more improvements to come. ...
From : VB & .NET Blogs @ vbCity.com
2007 May 20
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 1938; Sentence Count: 88; Grade Level: 4.1
New "Orcas" Language Feature: Anonymous Types
Over the last two months I've published a series of posts covering some of the new language features that are coming as part of the Visual Studio and .NET Framework "Orcas" release. Here are pointers to...
From : ScottGus Blog
2007 May 15
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 2075; Sentence Count: 62; Grade Level: 12.0
LINQ To Objects - Part 2
Let's Run Some Queries! By the end of Part 1 we set the stage and looked at a couple of new features coming up in Orcas, but hadn't done anything particularly exciting and new with LINQ To O...
From : VB & .NET Blogs @ vbCity.com
2007 May 10
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 2445; Sentence Count: 193; Grade Level: K
LINQ To Objects : Part 1
There's no doubt that LINQ is one of the headline features of Visual Studio Orcas. I've been trying out some LINQ queries; it's a very interesting new area with massive ...
From : VB & .NET Blogs @ vbCity.com
2007 Apr 29
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 3175; Sentence Count: 232; Grade Level: K
Extract Embedded Resources With An Attribute In MbUnit
A long time ago Patrick Cauldwell wrote up a technique for managing external files within unit tests by embedding them as resources and unpacking the resources during the unit test. This is a powerful techniqu...
From : youve been HAACKED
2007 Apr 27
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 478; Sentence Count: 50; Grade Level: 8.4
REST 101: Part 2 - A Million APIs
Last time, I convinced you that the world wide web is a bunch of resources, not web pages. This time we will take another step closer to what REST is all about. Object-Oriented Analysis and D...
From : Softies on Rails
2007 Apr 03
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 687; Sentence Count: 53; Grade Level: 6.4
NDepend 2.1
Patrick, of NDepend, emailed me last week letting me know of a cool new feature in NDepend Professional, the Build Comparison feature. "Demo Build ComparisonExplains how to know precisely what have been ...
From : Gregs Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day
2007 Apr 02
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Readability Stats: Word Count: 624; Sentence Count: 62; Grade Level: 5.0
