October 2007 - Posts
Last night I finished my 30th article on Eels: Creating Custom Configuration Sections In ASP.NET... tell me what you think. It's funny, when I went to www.asp.net this morning I saw that Rob Meade (another author on Eels) got published on the front page as the article of the day. I guess I'm trying to steal his thunder :P
Ooh, also... we're considering moving from a "Category" system to a "Tags" system to open up more article categories... that's the poll of the day on Eels, so if you could vote on that, I'd appreciate your opinions.
Thanks,
-Timothy
One of my biggest passions in the development world has always been networked programs. For the longest time I've had bitter sweet feelings about Remoting in .NET. Basically, remoting is one of the most beautiful and powerful architectures that .NET has pioneered. The one issue that I've had has been that Remoting in .NET was limited to a "one-way" architecture.
I can't even explain how excited I was when I learned about WCF (released in .NET 3.0 about a year ago) and the "duplex" capabilities thereof... take five minutes, read this article: http://www.codeproject.com/WCF/WCF_Duplex_UI_Threads.asp
I've just finished writing and publishing my latest article: Learn The Basics Of LINQ
It usually takes about a month or so to show up on the front of ASP.net, so here's the abstract: "LINQ (Language INtegrated Query) is a powerful but misunderstood new language feature brought to us in the .NET framework version 3.5 (C# 3.0 and VB 9). Even though this is a new feature, it already has some huge misconceptions (such as thinking LINQ is a replacement to SQL). This article will teach you how to use LINQ (the language itself), where LINQ can save you a lot of time and will cover some basic concepts of Extension Methods and Lambda expressions."
Read away and please feel free to offer any feedback (not that anyone has been shy in the past).
I've taken a change from using 'inline-delegates' which were introduced in .NET 2.0 (in C# 2) to using Lambda expressions for those quick "one-liner" functions. The great thing is that you can do this in C# 3.0 or VB9! If you didn't already know, C# 3.0 and VB 9 are in the new release of the .NET 3.5 framework.
If you don't quite know what I'm talking about, or if you'd just like to see some examples, check out the post I just put on Eels: Lambda Expressions to Replace Inline Delegates
This past month has been a major lull for www.SingingEels.com, as we are all working professionals and this month has been very busy for all of us. We have a lot of things in the mix, including primarily more articles on LINQ, .NET 3.5 and other fun topics.
We're also planning on a full re-write into a .NET 3.5 environment with rich AJAX integration. We like to "eat our own dog food" so to speak, and I realize that we've had several articles on AJAX, LINQ, proper CSS design and the like... so we're going to re-focus and give the community a powerful and informative resource.
-Timothy Khouri
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