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 features are the “Func<>” delegate and the...

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 the performance would be like. Even though the...

The second day of DevDays and 5 more interesting sessions to follow. At 9:15 the first session of this day started it called “Functional Programming in C#” from Oliver Sturm . In this session we dived deep in to C# with a lot of C# 3.5 LINQ and lambda expressions. The question was, why would we use functional...

This post is supposed to introduce the so-called WebOS – http://www.CoolWebOS.com/ , as well as to have your important feedback. WebOS 0.2 has been released quietly for some time. It is an OS-like personal Web portal, implementing the desktop OS experience in the Web pages. Features The current features...

First day of DevDays 2010, I was looking forward to DevDays to see all the new things like VS2010, .NET4.0, MVC2. The lineup for this year is again better than the year before, there are 100+ session of all kind of topics like Cloud, Database, Mobile, SharePoint, User experience, Visual Studio, Web....

A couple of days ago I got to know about LINQ to JavaScript plug-in. LINQ itself has been like – the more I play with it, the more I want to play with it and the more there is to learn about it. So this LINQJS comes as a new geography for me to explore. Here’s what I’ve learnt till now. Codeplex.com...

I quote one of my professors when I say: “We Share – We Improve”. It is through blogging that I’ve learned quite a bit. The ‘R&D’ done to learn and perfect a technology and the comments by other experts adds towards skill-set building. Below are some of the articles that I’m glad I blogged about...

Say you want to generate your own tag-cloud from a list of categories or tags you pull from an RSS-feed or similar. This is one way to do it. I’m using ASP.NET MVC for this sample which creates a simple tag-cloud in a Razor-view with HTML looking something like this: The controller-code to start out...

I did a primer on using WCF Data Services in my last post . One of the things I’m seeing about the posts regarding WCF Data Services using OData is that they used Entity Framework to do the DAL work. So a lot of underlying work gets hidden by using EF. Here is a post that allows you to connect to any...

As Web technologies continue to evolve developers are required to learn new technologies in order to build successful web-based applications that stand above the crowd. This can be a challenging proposition especially for developers moving from desktop or Rich Internet Application (RIA) development frameworks...