I finished up my talks at ASP.NET Connections yesterday and wanted to get the code posted as well as links for the additional topics covered in the Silverlight animation session.  Here they are: Building N-Tier ASP.NET Applications with LINQ Code Silverlight 2 Animations Code SilverlightFX Farseer...

In using my new sync wrapper to clean up a bunch of older code, I came across the need to be able to upgrade from a reader to a writer for certain operations. One example of this it to clean up expired items in my my implementation of a Cache. protected Synchronized<Dictionary<string, ICacheItem>>...

After a few more unit tests, I have fixed an issue with the GetSyncEnumerator method. The origional had 2 issues. was that the lock was being released too soon. was that a write in the middle of a long enumeration would cause a race and/or a deadlock. The fix was to 'write' lock for enumeration, and...

Here is a synchronization wrapper that I wrote to wrap any object, and an implementation of a SynchronizedDictionary to show how to use it. I offer this code as-is without any waranty to fitness, to the public domain, for any purpose you see fit. Get a text version of this code here. On with the show...

Microsoft just released the SP1 beta for Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 and it includes a huge number of new features and enhancements.  Check out Scott Guthrie's blog for details but here's a quick list of what's included: ASP.NET Data Scaffolding Support (ASP.NET Dynamic Data) ASP...

I recently needed to select a few products from a database where the product ID matched up with a list of IDs.  That's easy to do with a normal SQL statement since you can use the "WHERE IN (Value1,Value2)" clause to find what you need.  However, I wanted to do it with LINQ in this...

I'm in Orlando this week speaking at the DevConnections conference on 3 different topics.  It's my personal favorite as far as conferences go and features a lot of cool technologies, people and events.  This week I'm covering custom ASP.NET AJAX controls, building N-Layer applications that...

Update: I refactored some of the code and also did a better job ensuring Dispose() is called everywhere so that the DataContext object gets cleaned up properly. Download the Application Here .NET 3.5 has a lot of great new features that can significantly enhance developer productivity. I've been spending...

Thanks to everyone who attended the Maximizing Productivity with LINQ Webinar today and to ROI for putting it on.  We had a great turnout and covered a bunch of technologies in an hour.  I didn’t have time to go through the more detailed examples I had of using LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework...

I had a great time speaking at DevConnections in Orlando this year.  A lot of fun people were there and I had the opportunity to talk with several of them about some of the applications they were building.  As promised, here’s the code and slides for my talks. Getting Started with Silverlight...