I just finished reading a review copy of “ Programming .NET 3.5 ” from O’Reilly. The book, published in August, is an overview of the latest .NET Framework revision. You’ll get an introduction to the topics that have been introduced along the way that include technology from .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, and the...

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...

While taking interviews of .NET developers I often ask this questions. But lots of people don’t know exact difference between this. So, I decided to write a separate blog about this. Here are the few differences. Web services can be hosted in IIS as well as outside of the IIS. While WCF service can be...

Below a list of interesting links that I found this week: Interaction: Fingers are Bigger than Mice - Design Concepts for Mobile Websites 20 Essential Tools and Tips to an Accessible Website Frontend: Don’t Forget About HTML5’s “Little Guys” Development: 10 Differences Between WCF and ASP.NET Web Services...

This is my first attempt at creating HTML5 pages. VS 2010 allows working with HTML5 now (you just need to make a small change after installing SP1 ). So my Razor view is now a HTML5 page. I call this application - 5Commerce – (an over-simplified) HTML5 ECommerce site. So here’s the flow of the application...

I was recently given the opportunity to review the latest NHibernate book, NHibernate 3.0 Cookbook by Jason Dentler . If you do any NHibernate development, you need to have this book in your collection. The content is well thought out as well as organized. I started out with NHibernate in January 2008...

One request we received when NuGet first came out (as NuPack) was for Sharp Architecture to release a package. We all agreed that this would be a good way to deliver updates in the future as it meant the end user did not have to download either the source or a template just to extract the assemblies...

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...

Today we released Silverlight powered web site for innovation business incubator of Chelyabinsk . I hope you find it interesting!