Edward Charbeneau Rapid Prototyping, the MVC Working Model If you've ever had to build a working model from scratch, or produce a quick prototype for something, you know... 16 August 2012 10 min read
Dino Esposito Simulating Web API – JSON Formatters in ASP.NET MVC The Web API framework is a useful tool for building RESTful ASP.NET MVC4 applications, but it's not essential. Dino Esposito... 23 July 2012 10 min read
Nick Harrison jQuery Fast Food Cook Book Anyone in IT should be aware of jQuery. This free, open-source JavaScript library has become amost essential to anyone creating... 11 July 2012 17 min read
Chris Farrell .NET Memory Management Basics .NET memory management is designed so that the programmer is freed from the chore of consciously having to allocate and... 11 July 2012 19 min read
Edward Charbeneau Responsive design using Foundation with ASP.Net MVC There are several frameworks that take away the hard work of implementing a responsive design for a website, that will... 26 June 2012 22 min read
Dino Esposito The Three Models of ASP.NET MVC Apps We've inherited from the original MVC pattern a rather simplistic idea of what should be in the Model. In fact,... 12 June 2012 12 min read
Michael Sorens TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 7: Managing Revisions Here are recipes to manage Subversion source control revisions effectively, such as managing revisions, working out the current revision, whether... 30 May 2012 19 min read
Edward Charbeneau A Foundation for the Web Because we can now run browsers on devices of a wide range of screen-sizes, content publishers have had to find... 28 May 2012 8 min read
Clive Tong C# Async: What is it, and how does it work? The biggest new feature in C#5 is Async, and its associated Await (contextual) keyword. Anybody who is faced with creating... 15 May 2012 20 min read
Simon Cooper Subterranean IL: The ThreadLocal type I came across ThreadLocal<T> while I was researching ConcurrentBag. To look at it, it doesn’t really make much sense. What’s... 03 May 2012 5 min read
Jean-Philippe Gouigoux .NET Memory Management and Finalization In this excerpt from his new book, Practical Performance Profiling: Improving the Efficiency of .NET Code, Jean-Phillipe Gouigoux discusses the... 02 May 2012 12 min read
Matt Wrock Towards the Perfect Build An automated build and deployment system is no longer a dream. Now that PowerShell has matured as a product, and... 30 April 2012 28 min read
Dino Esposito ASP.NET MVC: Resolve or Inject? That's the Issue… Classes should have dependencies only on abstract, rather then concrete, classes. To get around this, you can choose between Service... 23 April 2012 11 min read
Michael Sorens Practical PowerShell: Pruning File Trees and Extending Cmdlets One of the most radical features of PowerShell is amongst the least known. It is possible to extend the buit-in... 23 April 2012 21 min read
Richard Morris No More Disconnected SQL Development in Visual Studio Some types of development work are much more effectively accomplished if the developer can work directly on SQL Server Databases... 12 April 2012 7 min read
Jeremy Jarrell MongoDB Basics for .NET by Example MongoDB is one of the more intriguing 'NoSQL' databases to emerge from 'Cloud' computing. Sometimes, the best way of understanding... 26 March 2012 11 min read
Michael Sorens TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 6: Snapshots Moving backwards in time in Subversion is like time travel in science fiction. It's fine to look around, but If... 19 March 2012 14 min read
Dino Esposito A Generic ASP.NET MVC Template When you start an ASP.NET MVC project, you choose one of a number of project templates or starter kits. The... 19 March 2012 11 min read
Patrick Smacchia On Writing Unit Tests for C# Is it realistic to keep to principles of 'Test-First' and 100% coverage for unit tests when in the heat of... 08 March 2012 14 min read
Michael Sorens TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 5: Instrumenting Files with Version Information Subversion lets you embed, and automatically update, information within source-controlled files to make it easy to see who did what,... 21 February 2012 19 min read
