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
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
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
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
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
