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Building Functions vs. Building Expressions: Performance Comparison by fdumlao

Yesterday I posted an entry describing a method for building functions as opposed to building expressions to get a more succinct syntax, and in general a more functional approach. There was a touch of reflection in there though, so I wasn’t too sure what...
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C# Dynamic Function Factory by fdumlao

Building functions instead of expression trees. The functional programming features of the latest versions of C# allow developers to harness a very expressive programming paradigm to solve challenges in new, elegant ways. Two of the very interesting new...
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Silverlight Adaptive Streaming: How it works by fdumlao

Recently an announcement was made by Akamai that it was partnering with Microsoft to provide an Adaptive Streaming solution for Silverlight and IIS 7.0. Since I work in the online video industry I found the announcement very interesting, especially considering...
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LINQ to Concurrency Problems by fdumlao

LINQ to SQL is fascinating - the more I work with it, the more I hate it, and then love it again all at the same time. Recently we had an issue while using it in a slightly older version of our N-Tier WCF application which uses LINQ to SQL as it's primary...
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Troubleshooting ASP.NET MVC Routing by fdumlao

One thing I absolutely love about the ASP.NET MVC framework is that there isn't too much "magic". Magic can be nice if you are able to adhere to a framework's "Golden Path", but as soon as some customization becomes necessary you find that the magic can...
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Thinking In Rest - Part 2 by fdumlao

So last time I covered the concept of resources (if you haven't read it yet, you should check that out here first) and the idea that when browsing the web you aren't looking at "pages" but instead you are looking at resources that happen to...
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Thinking in REST by fdumlao

I've been reading blogs around the .NET community lately and there seems to be some serious confusion about what exactly REST is. Is it a SOAP replacement? Is it a definition of how to prepare data for consumption by AJAX clients? And what does it have...
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