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Scott Guthrie presents at NDDNUG
Scott gave a whirlwind presentation to a standing room only crowd at the North Dallas Dot Net User Group tonight. A wide range of topics were covered from IDE tips and tricks to ASP.NET tips to MS AJAX to LINQ and DLINQ (I still like to call it DLINQ...
Using IronPython for Dynamic Expressions.
We recently had this question posted to our forums over at LVS : Dear Forum Experts: I am looking for very specialized solution: I have various Items which I store into a table in a Relational DB. I would like to do a custom calculation, specific for...
Suggestions for distributing CTPs as VirtualPC images
I finally got around to trying the Sept. CTP of Orcas. I loaded up the VPC images on VPC7 Beta (which seems to perform much better than VPC2004). If this is going to be the way that MS is going to release CTPs in the future here are a few suggestions...
ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 (excitement builds)
I just downloaded beta 1 of ASP.NET AJAX today. Wow! Lots and lots of changes. The type system has been greatly simplified. I like this. The move to prototypes over closures was a good decision. The core scripts are much easier to read and comprehend...
What's in a name? The developer vs programmer non-issue.
I remember seeing the "Developers vs Programmers" article on digg recently. I did think at the time that it was a bit over the top. Mike has managed to capture my exact feelings on this subject in this post: http://weblogs.asp.net/miked/archive...
Problems with RewritePath and Search Engines.
We just recently launched the new version of LearnVisualStudio.NET. The implementation uses the RewritePath method to serve up dynamic pages based on templates. All of our pre deployment testing showed that this was all working without a hitch. Once we...
New version of LearnVisualStudio.NET launched
It took us a while but the new version of LearnVisualStudio.NET is live. We've packed a lot into this redesign and we hope that you enjoy the improvements. I'll start with those items that you might not find all that interesting, but are a HUGE improvement...
Remote workers and Agile/SCRUM/XP
Andrew raises the question: What is the impact of the remote worker on Agile approaches? A couple of months ago I started working with Bob on LearnVisualstudio.NET . We are just about ready to launch a major redesign of the site. The development process...
Posted: Aug 03 2006, 09:12 AM by findleyd | with 1 comment(s)
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Can we get a generic Parse method on Enum in the next version of .NET?
I have one tiny pet peeve about Enum.Parse. It's so verbose with the typeing (both meanings of the word). Here's what you have to do today: 1: public enum MyEnum 2: { 3: One, 4: Two 5: } 6: 7: MyEnum me = (MyEnum)Enum.Parse( typeof (MyEnum), "One" );...
Posted: Jul 05 2006, 05:29 PM by findleyd | with 4 comment(s)
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A great article on functional programming...
http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/fp.html This article was a great overview of many of the aspects of functional programming. With what Micosoft is doing to the CLR and C# and VB it would seem that functional programming is making advances into the main...
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