Damon Armstrong A Complete Guide to Writing Timer Jobs in SharePoint 2010 Sharepoint allows you to run recurring processes in background on a schedule. These are Timer Jobs. It is easy to... 20 February 2012 28 min read
Andy Brown 10 Reasons Why Visual Basic is Better Than C# After having converted a whole lot of training materials based on VB.NET into C#, Andy 'Wise Owl' Brown decided to... 14 February 2012 8 min read
Dino Esposito A Testing Perspective of Controllers and Orchestrators The neat separation between processing and rendering in ASP.NET MVC guarantees you an application design that is inherently teastable. It... 14 February 2012 9 min read
Michael Sorens TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 4: Sharing Common Code Michael Sorens continues his series on source control with Subversion and TortoiseSVN by describing several ways one can use to... 13 February 2012 15 min read
Damon Armstrong Managing ItemUpdating and ItemUpdated Events Firing Twice in a SharePoint Item Event Receiver Developing a Sharepoint application would have all the fun of a video game, if only you had infinite lives. Dangers... 17 January 2012 13 min read
Michael Sorens TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 3: In, Out, and Around Subversion doesn't have to be difficult, especially if you have Michael Sorens's guide at hand. After dealing in previous articles... 16 January 2012 15 min read
Tom Fischer Unit Testing Myths and Practices We all understand the value of Unit Testing, but how come so few organisations maintain unit tests for their in-house... 05 January 2012 9 min read
Simon Cooper Subterranean IL: Explicit overrides Normally, virtual method overrides in .NET are done implicitly; if a subclass has a virtual method with the same name... 12 December 2011 6 min read
Simone Chiaretta ASP.NET MVC Routing Extensibility You develop an ASP.NET MVC application by extending it; customising any default logic that you wish to change with your... 09 December 2011 13 min read
Michael Sorens TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 2: File Operations and Subversion Filtering The second part of Michael's series of articles gives more recipes for Subversion Source Control. This time he explains how... 21 November 2011 21 min read
Michael McLaughlin 5 Tips for Understanding Managed-Unmanaged Interoperability in .NET Interop doesn't have to be taxing. Interoperability between managed and unmanaged code happens under the hood in .NET. When you... 14 November 2011 23 min read
Michael Sorens Subversion and TortoiseSVN Cookbook Part 1- The Basics If you have more than zero developers in your team, then you need Source Control. In this article Michael starts... 03 November 2011 23 min read
Michael McLaughlin 5 Tips and Techniques for Avoiding Automatic GC Collections Automatic memory management isn't new, but it's a wonderful thing for programmers. We bring you some tips and techniques to... 31 October 2011 21 min read
Dino Esposito Never Mind the Controller, Here is the Orchestrator The Model-View-Controller pattern of the ASP.NET MVC allows the separation of the business logic from the input and presentation logic.... 11 October 2011 11 min read
Jonathan Medd Adding a Graphical Front End to your PowerShell Scripts Even if you know PowerShell inside and out, there will be those times where you won't be the end user... 10 October 2011 20 min read
Matteo Slaviero TLS/SSL and .NET Framework 4.0 The Secure Socket Layer is now essential for the secure exchange of digital data, and is most generally used within... 28 September 2011 26 min read
Simone Chiaretta An Introduction to ASP.NET MVC Extensibility Because ASP.NET MVC has been designed with extensibility as its design principle; almost every logical step of the processing pipeline... 21 September 2011 12 min read
Clay Burch Stock Market Technical Analysis Although the technical approach to stock market analysis has been around since the 1800s, some improvements have obviously been made... 07 September 2011 15 min read
Michael Williamson Writing Maintainable Code Writing maintainable code is hard. It must be understandable, testable and readable. Any one of these can be tricky, and... 06 September 2011 11 min read
Michael Sorens Further Down the Rabbit Hole: PowerShell Modules and Encapsulation Modules allow you to use standard libraries that extend PowerShell's functionality. They are easier to use than to create, but... 24 August 2011 24 min read
