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...

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...