http://dzone.com/links/tag/.net.html DZone: fresh links for developers en-us Copyright (c) 2006 DZone, Inc. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:22:50 GMT The DZone community 2008-08-29T22:22:50Z en-us Copyright (c) 2006 DZone, Inc. http://dzone.com/links/feed/frontpage/.net/rss.xml http://www.dzone.com/images/std/dzone.com_258x55.gif http://www.dzone.com/links/ http://dzone.com/links/rss/250_net_interview_faqs_for_developers.html A comprehensive list of ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET and .NET Framework questions for beginners and experienced people. Also a good read for people who want to refresh their memory with .NET concepts or take interviews on a regular basis. .net ajax how-to research Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:10:56 GMT http://dzone.com/links/108370.html ScottG 2008-08-29T21:10:56Z A comprehensive list of ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET and .NET Framework questions for beginners and experienced people. Also a good read for people who want to refresh their memory with .NET concepts or take interviews on a regular basis.]]> 108370 2008-08-29T08:12:49Z 2008-08-29T21:10:56Z 5 0 32 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/108370.jpg ScottG http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/282821.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/get_a_list_of_installed_applications_using_linq_a.html To get a list of installed applications we need to look into registry. Microsoft.Win32 namespace contains objects which can be used to work with Windows Registry. In this post I will show you some code where I use the power of LINQ to retrieve and display a list of all applications installed on a machine. .net Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:03:58 GMT http://dzone.com/links/108463.html deepakkapoor 2008-08-29T21:03:58Z To get a list of installed applications we need to look into registry. Microsoft.Win32 namespace contains objects which can be used to work with Windows Registry. In this post I will show you some code where I use the power of LINQ to retrieve and display a list of all applications installed on a machine.]]> 108463 2008-08-29T13:10:34Z 2008-08-29T21:03:58Z 7 0 17 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/108463.jpg deepakkapoor http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/309672.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/aspnet_mvc_preview_5_released.html Keeping on with the 6 weeks release plan, the ASP.NET MVC team quietly release P5 of ASP.NET MVC on Codeplex. Some changes happened... .net announcement frameworks microsoft Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:53:30 GMT http://dzone.com/links/108429.html AlvinAshcraft 2008-08-29T16:53:30Z Keeping on with the 6 weeks release plan, the ASP.NET MVC team quietly release P5 of ASP.NET MVC on Codeplex. Some changes happened...]]> 108429 2008-08-29T11:45:34Z 2008-08-29T16:53:30Z 7 0 54 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/108429.jpg alashcraft http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/285573.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/dear_aspnet_developers_stop_making_our_technology.html I run Firefox pretty much all the time. I like the plug ins and other features it has but there are times when I am forced, yes forced to open Internet Explorer. That pretty much ruins my whole day to have to start another browser to do something. It isn’t that I despise IE, if the opposite were true and I was running IE and had to open Firefox to do something well that would ruin my day. .net reviews web design Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:34:25 GMT http://dzone.com/links/108306.html mswatcher 2008-08-29T15:34:25Z I run Firefox pretty much all the time. I like the plug ins and other features it has but there are times when I am forced, yes forced to open Internet Explorer. That pretty much ruins my whole day to have to start another browser to do something. It isn’t that I despise IE, if the opposite were true and I was running IE and had to open Firefox to do something well that would ruin my day.]]> 108306 2008-08-29T03:01:39Z 2008-08-29T15:34:25Z 8 0 141 1 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/108306.jpg mswatcher http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/225256.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/list_and_objectoriented_design_principles.html When it comes to designing software, general principles of object-oriented design as well as basic and fundamental principles such as low coupling and high cohesion are always valid and should always be taken into due consideration. However, when you step inside the design, at some point you meet the technology. When this happens, you may need to review the way you apply principles and aim at them in the context of the specific technology or platform you’re using. This is called idiomatic design. Simply put, it is design when you conceptually envision a class and its attribute .net frameworks Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:00:28 GMT http://dzone.com/links/108107.html mswatcher 2008-08-29T15:00:28Z When it comes to designing software, general principles of object-oriented design as well as basic and fundamental principles such as low coupling and high cohesion are always valid and should always be taken into due consideration. However, when you step inside the design, at some point you meet the technology. When this happens, you may need to review the way you apply principles and aim at them in the context of the specific technology or platform you’re using. This is called idiomatic design. Simply put, it is design when you conceptually envision a class and its attribute]]> 108107 2008-08-28T14:24:16Z 2008-08-29T15:00:28Z 6 0 184 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/108107.jpg mswatcher http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/225256.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/flash_and_silverlight_3d_image_rotation.html This is not a very impressive effect since there are dozen of free source codes for making the image rotation. However, it’s good to have a brief comparison on the differences of AS3 and C .net flash-flex frameworks Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:58:59 GMT http://dzone.com/links/108216.html bloid 2008-08-29T13:58:59Z This is not a very impressive effect since there are dozen of free source codes for making the image rotation. However, it’s good to have a brief comparison on the differences of AS3 and C]]> 108216 2008-08-28T21:46:34Z 2008-08-29T13:58:59Z 4 0 261 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/108216.jpg bloid http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/111696.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/building_a_generic_ioc_wrapper.html IoC containers are great at reducing complex dependencies in an application and the Dependency Injection design pattern has existed for quite some time. Although IoC containers are quite popular in the Java world but it’s taken some time for good IoC containers to emerge for .Net. Even MS has jumped on the bandwagon and is showing some love for IoC by giving us Unity as an IoC container. .net frameworks Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:48:13 GMT http://dzone.com/links/107714.html bloid 2008-08-29T02:48:13Z IoC containers are great at reducing complex dependencies in an application and the Dependency Injection design pattern has existed for quite some time. Although IoC containers are quite popular in the Java world but it’s taken some time for good IoC containers to emerge for .Net. Even MS has jumped on the bandwagon and is showing some love for IoC by giving us Unity as an IoC container.]]> 107714 2008-08-27T16:34:47Z 2008-08-29T02:48:13Z 6 0 195 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/107714.jpg bloid http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/111696.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/visual_studio_2008_and_net_35_training_and_certs.html I was trolling around the Visual Studio 2008 learning site and found all kinds of goodies. Thought I'd share for anyone who has not been to the site lately. Here are some cool free or deeply discounted things to check out if you want to learn more about the newest release of our Visual Studio tools .net microsoft Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:08:59 GMT http://dzone.com/links/108053.html AlvinAshcraft 2008-08-29T01:08:59Z I was trolling around the Visual Studio 2008 learning site and found all kinds of goodies. Thought I'd share for anyone who has not been to the site lately. Here are some cool free or deeply discounted things to check out if you want to learn more about the newest release of our Visual Studio tools]]> 108053 2008-08-28T11:27:34Z 2008-08-29T01:08:59Z 5 0 399 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/108053.jpg alashcraft http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/285573.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/ten_commandments_for_developers_damieng.html In order that applications and operating system shall not drive users insane thou shall: .net opinion standards Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:29:14 GMT http://dzone.com/links/108016.html rivethead_ 2008-08-28T15:29:14Z In order that applications and operating system shall not drive users insane thou shall:]]> 108016 2008-08-28T08:23:41Z 2008-08-28T15:29:14Z 15 0 598 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/108016.jpg rivethead_ http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/258197.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/flash_and_silverlight_3d_text_space.html This is one of the most stunning effect I experienced many years ago. The code is very simple, but yet astonishing. Both of the applications are made as identical as possible (even the function name, comments, position are identical) for the ease of comparison. .net flash-flex frameworks Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:26:09 GMT http://dzone.com/links/107865.html bloid 2008-08-28T11:26:09Z This is one of the most stunning effect I experienced many years ago. The code is very simple, but yet astonishing. Both of the applications are made as identical as possible (even the function name, comments, position are identical) for the ease of comparison.]]> 107865 2008-08-27T21:08:49Z 2008-08-28T11:26:09Z 7 0 384 3 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/107865.jpg bloid http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/111696.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/neal_ford_on_programming_languages_and_platforms.html "Neal Ford talks about the tendency of having multiple languages running on one of the two major platforms existing today: Java and .NET. He also presents the advantages offered by Ruby compared to static languages like Java or C#." .net java other languages ruby Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:05:59 GMT http://dzone.com/links/107541.html Nielsomat 2008-08-28T03:05:59Z "Neal Ford talks about the tendency of having multiple languages running on one of the two major platforms existing today: Java and .NET. He also presents the advantages offered by Ruby compared to static languages like Java or C#."]]> 107541 2008-08-27T09:33:30Z 2008-08-28T03:05:59Z 10 0 306 5 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/107541.jpg Nielsomat http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/328405.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/aspnet_myths_busted.html Having read a great variety of forum and blog posts, I met a lot of misconceptions about ASP.NET that definitely made people to turn away from ASP.NET. I won't argue whether ASP.NET is better than PHP (or Ruby on Rails) or not, instead I'll try to bust those myths. .net microsoft opinion web 2.0 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:13:16 GMT http://dzone.com/links/107718.html mikeborozdin 2008-08-28T01:13:16Z Having read a great variety of forum and blog posts, I met a lot of misconceptions about ASP.NET that definitely made people to turn away from ASP.NET. I won't argue whether ASP.NET is better than PHP (or Ruby on Rails) or not, instead I'll try to bust those myths.]]> 107718 2008-08-27T16:38:42Z 2008-08-28T01:13:16Z 12 0 398 4 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/107718.jpg mikeborozdin http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/306561.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/white_paper_on_ironruby_published.html Manning published my white paper — or green paper as they call it — on IronRuby. You can find it here... .net ruby Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:24:48 GMT http://dzone.com/links/107201.html AlvinAshcraft 2008-08-27T22:24:48Z Manning published my white paper — or green paper as they call it — on IronRuby. You can find it here...]]> 107201 2008-08-26T11:27:26Z 2008-08-27T22:24:48Z 8 0 126 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/107201.jpg alashcraft http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/285573.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/curved_scrollbars_using_wpf_3d.html My blog entry Non-Affine Transforms in 2D? posted a year ago is about using WPF 3D to mimic two-dimensional non-affine transforms, which are not otherwise supported in WPF. Recently someone posted a comment asking if a curved slider is possible. .net frameworks gui Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:24:29 GMT http://dzone.com/links/107545.html bloid 2008-08-27T22:24:29Z My blog entry Non-Affine Transforms in 2D? posted a year ago is about using WPF 3D to mimic two-dimensional non-affine transforms, which are not otherwise supported in WPF. Recently someone posted a comment asking if a curved slider is possible.]]> 107545 2008-08-27T10:02:46Z 2008-08-27T22:24:29Z 8 0 187 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/107545.jpg bloid http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/111696.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/quicksort_for_fun.html This is a QuickSort for fun in C# 3 for a list with repeated items. .net Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:07:13 GMT http://dzone.com/links/107265.html ksh2dzone 2008-08-27T20:07:13Z This is a QuickSort for fun in C# 3 for a list with repeated items.]]> 107265 2008-08-26T15:02:29Z 2008-08-27T20:07:13Z 8 0 226 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/107265.jpg ksh2dzone http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/249531.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/microsoft_net_35_sp1_released_more_controls_strea.html The .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) delivers more controls, a streamlined setup, improved start-up performance, and powerful new graphics features for client development and rich data scaffolding, improved AJAX support, and other improvements for Web development. .net announcement web design Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:21:30 GMT http://dzone.com/links/107547.html Volume4 2008-08-27T18:21:30Z The .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) delivers more controls, a streamlined setup, improved start-up performance, and powerful new graphics features for client development and rich data scaffolding, improved AJAX support, and other improvements for Web development.]]> 107547 2008-08-27T10:07:35Z 2008-08-27T18:21:30Z 10 0 236 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/107547.jpg Volume4 http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/71517.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/5_software_build_patterns.html Do you want to help develop build patterns and identify? We have patterns-a-plenty for writing code. How about patterns for building it? .net agile java tools Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:19:14 GMT http://dzone.com/links/107322.html simpsonjulian 2008-08-27T18:19:14Z Do you want to help develop build patterns and identify? We have patterns-a-plenty for writing code. How about patterns for building it?]]> 107322 2008-08-26T17:50:44Z 2008-08-27T18:19:14Z 15 0 698 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/107322.jpg simpsonjulian http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/283919.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/why_xaml_is_powerful.html XAML, Microsoft's eXtensible Application Markup Language, was released with the .NET 3.0 framework and works with the new technologies available in the framework, such as WPF, WCF, Windows CardSpace, and WF. .net microsoft windows xml Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:01:36 GMT http://dzone.com/links/106765.html theunixgeek 2008-08-27T17:01:36Z XAML, Microsoft's eXtensible Application Markup Language, was released with the .NET 3.0 framework and works with the new technologies available in the framework, such as WPF, WCF, Windows CardSpace, and WF.]]> 106765 2008-08-25T09:13:29Z 2008-08-27T17:01:36Z 10 0 407 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/106765.jpg theunixgeek http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/286188.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/youve_caught_an_exception_now_what.html An effective strategy for handling exceptions is to catch them at the boundary of a coarsely-grained "unit of work". Once you've caught an exception, you need to repair application state, notify affected people and ultimately abort the program, retry the operation, or ignore the error. This article provides guidelines for making that decision. .net java opinion php Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:57:32 GMT http://dzone.com/links/107677.html paul_houle 2008-08-27T16:57:32Z An effective strategy for handling exceptions is to catch them at the boundary of a coarsely-grained "unit of work". Once you've caught an exception, you need to repair application state, notify affected people and ultimately abort the program, retry the operation, or ignore the error. This article provides guidelines for making that decision.]]> 107677 2008-08-27T15:39:30Z 2008-08-27T16:57:32Z 45 0 706 1 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/107677.jpg paul_houle http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/281687.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/getting_and_setting_environment_variables_in_c.html Environment variables are strings that save information about the entire environment in your system. These string values are dynamic and they can affect the way your system will behave on. The following sections demonstrate how to get and set environment variables in C#. .net how-to Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:12:31 GMT http://dzone.com/links/107457.html jamesling 2008-08-27T13:12:31Z Environment variables are strings that save information about the entire environment in your system. These string values are dynamic and they can affect the way your system will behave on. The following sections demonstrate how to get and set environment variables in C#.]]> 107457 2008-08-27T03:13:06Z 2008-08-27T13:12:31Z 6 0 185 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/107457.jpg jamesling http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/290279.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/why_i_love_java_way_more_than_net.html A little insight on the craziness I endured just so I could add a reference to an in-house library in my .NET solution. .net java Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:38:47 GMT http://dzone.com/links/107455.html grumpdogg 2008-08-27T10:38:47Z A little insight on the craziness I endured just so I could add a reference to an in-house library in my .NET solution.]]> 107455 2008-08-27T03:00:38Z 2008-08-27T10:38:47Z 30 0 1324 7 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/107455.jpg grumpdogg http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/255669.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/scraping_or_programatically_accessing_a_secure_we.html There are many secure websites out there that provide useful information but do not have a public API to access it's data. A prime example of this is the LinkedIn website. You might love to gather some info from LinkedIn, but their promise to deliver a public API has yet to come to fruition. The problem is, the pages with all the good data are secure, requiring the user to log in before accessing these pages. Let's say we want to scrape this data from these pages programatically? We need to authenticate to access these pages. We can do that by reusing the authentication cookie from the site that we receive when we log in with a browser. .net how-to trends Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:10:36 GMT http://dzone.com/links/107203.html AlvinAshcraft 2008-08-27T08:10:36Z There are many secure websites out there that provide useful information but do not have a public API to access it's data. A prime example of this is the LinkedIn website. You might love to gather some info from LinkedIn, but their promise to deliver a public API has yet to come to fruition. The problem is, the pages with all the good data are secure, requiring the user to log in before accessing these pages. Let's say we want to scrape this data from these pages programatically? We need to authenticate to access these pages. We can do that by reusing the authentication cookie from the site that we receive when we log in with a browser.]]> 107203 2008-08-26T11:29:14Z 2008-08-27T08:10:36Z 10 0 197 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/107203.jpg alashcraft http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/285573.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/call_server_side_code_from_client_side_using_aspn.html To call server side functions from client side (javascript), on way is to use AJAX, and the easiest way out, is to use the ASP.NET AJAX Extensions. In this article, we will be using PageMethods to call server-side functions using javascript. .net ajax javascript web 2.0 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:40:13 GMT http://dzone.com/links/107125.html ScottG 2008-08-27T07:40:13Z To call server side functions from client side (javascript), on way is to use AJAX, and the easiest way out, is to use the ASP.NET AJAX Extensions. In this article, we will be using PageMethods to call server-side functions using javascript.]]> 107125 2008-08-26T06:23:44Z 2008-08-27T07:40:13Z 8 0 105 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/107125.jpg ScottG http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/282821.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/getting_starting_with_structuremap_simple_setup_s.html A short screencast on getting starting with StructureMap -- Simple Setup Scenarios (v2.5) .net agile how-to methodology Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:24:31 GMT http://dzone.com/links/107216.html Dwhittaker 2008-08-27T07:24:31Z A short screencast on getting starting with StructureMap -- Simple Setup Scenarios (v2.5)]]> 107216 2008-08-26T12:15:18Z 2008-08-27T07:24:31Z 8 0 112 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/107216.jpg Dwhittaker http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/231542.gif http://dzone.com/links/rss/lean_software_development_2.html While working in London for TrafficBroker I had the opportunity to try out Fred George's Lean process. To date, it's absolutely my favorite way to deliver software. I loved the process because we constantly removed waste (effort for zero value items). We didn't need to commit to points per iteration because it didn't gain us anything. We didn't bother tracking actuals, hours, or anything else that wasn't important. We also didn't discuss or estimate anything that wasn't in the next release. We only did what was necessary, and we delivered faster than I've ever delivered before. Every detail is judged by it's ROI. .net agile methodology opinion Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:43:53 GMT http://dzone.com/links/107118.html AnneBotha 2008-08-26T13:43:53Z While working in London for TrafficBroker I had the opportunity to try out Fred George's Lean process. To date, it's absolutely my favorite way to deliver software. I loved the process because we constantly removed waste (effort for zero value items). We didn't need to commit to points per iteration because it didn't gain us anything. We didn't bother tracking actuals, hours, or anything else that wasn't important. We also didn't discuss or estimate anything that wasn't in the next release. We only did what was necessary, and we delivered faster than I've ever delivered before. Every detail is judged by it's ROI.]]> 107118 2008-08-26T05:27:47Z 2008-08-26T13:43:53Z 12 0 312 0 http://dzone.com/links/images/thumbs/120x90/107118.jpg AnneBotha http://dzone.com/links/images/avatars/311818.gif