David Berry Designing C# Software With Interfaces The best way to understand how interfaces improve software design is to see a familiar problem solved using interfaces. First,... 24 August 2011 30 min read
Phil Factor Making HTML tables easier on the eye- CSS Structural Pseudo-classes We asked Phil why his PowerShell tabular reports looked so nice. 'CSS structural pseudo-classes' he muttered mystically. Later on, without... 11 August 2011 22 min read
Chris Farrell The Top 5 WPF and Silverlight Gotchas As WPF and Silverlight sit on the .NET framework, they're subject to the rules of the Garbage Collector. That means... 10 August 2011 13 min read
Clive Tong The Top 5 .NET Memory Management Misconceptions .NET Memory management is an impressive and comprehensive system, but it's not flawless, and it's occasionally a little anti-intuitive. As... 27 July 2011 26 min read
Hima Bindu Vejella Entity Framework 4.0 – Learn to Create Databases from the Model For application developers focusing on the needs of their code, rather than worrying about the complexities of data representation, the... 14 July 2011 13 min read
Michael Sorens Down the Rabbit Hole- A Study in PowerShell Pipelines, Functions, and Parameters For an experienced programmer to learn a new language can be a journey quite like Alice's in wonderland. Paradoxes, unexpected... 14 July 2011 22 min read
Dino Esposito ASP.NET MVC Action Results and PDF Content The Action Result in ASP.NET MVC provides a simple and versatile means of returning different types of response to the... 06 July 2011 13 min read
Michael Sorens Harnessing PowerShell’s String Comparison and List-Filtering Features When you are first learning PowerShell, it often seems to be an 'Alice through the looking-glass' world. Just the simple... 07 June 2011 4 min read
Bert Jan van der Steeg Database Management for SharePoint 2010 With each revision, SharePoint becomes more a SQL Server Database application, with everything that implies for planning and deployment. There... 10 May 2011 13 min read
Clive Tong Remote Debugging in Visual Studio: Squashing Bugs in their Native Environment There are already third-party applications that help you to debug .NET applications remotely, or at least get enough information to... 05 May 2011 7 min read
Michael Sorens XPath, CSS, DOM and Selenium: The Rosetta Stone Some programming conventions are best represented in a chart. Nobody will claim that XPath or CSS are entirely intuitive, as... 04 April 2011 2 min read
Matteo Slaviero Authentication and Authorization with Windows Accounts in ASP.NET If you are providing web-based information for a closed group of users, such as a company or similar organisation with... 30 March 2011 19 min read
Patrick Smacchia Defining .NET Components with Namespaces A .NET software component is a compiled set of classes that provide a programmable interface that is used by consumer... 14 March 2011 14 min read
Joydip Kanjilal EntityDataSource Control Basics The Entity Framework can be easily used to create websites based on ASP.NET. The EntityDataSource control, which is one of... 03 March 2011 8 min read
Jonathan Evans Capturing Screenshots for Automated Error-Reporting So often, a screendump will explain a great deal about a bug, and prevent much frustration in the process of... 01 March 2011 6 min read
Simon Cooper Subterranean IL: Exception handler semantics In my blog posts on fault and filter exception handlers, I said that the same behaviour could be replicated using... 21 February 2011 3 min read
Simon Cooper Subterranean IL: Filter exception handlers Filter handlers are the second type of exception handler that aren’t accessible from C#. Unlike the other handler types, which... 14 February 2011 3 min read
Richard Costall Silverlight Beyond the Browser: The Basics Silverlight can now be used to write a complete business application that can be run outside the browser. Such an... 14 February 2011 12 min read
Patrick Smacchia Partitioning Your Code Base Through .NET Assemblies and Visual Studio Projects Should every Visual Studio project really be in its own assembly? And what does 'Copy Local=True' really mean? Patrick Smacchia... 10 February 2011 14 min read
Simon Cooper Subterranean IL: Fault exception handlers Fault event handlers are one of the two handler types that aren’t available in C#. It behaves exactly like a... 09 February 2011 3 min read
