Contents tagged with Best Practices
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Minimum & Maximum Dates in code
When updating Sql columns that need a minimum or maximum date, consider using the defaults from the System.Data.SqlType namespace:
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What we dont know "will" hurt us...
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Recruiting professionally in the small world of IT.
Face it, the IT world is a tiny tight-knit community where everyone knows everyone either directly or indirectly through our own private game of 6-degrees of separation. So, why do most employers treat potential recruits more like pesky cold-calling-vendors than like valued potential future clients?
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Codesmith Custom Exception Template (C#)
Codesmith_CustomExceptionTemplateV1.4.zip (C# only)
Version 1.4
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C# Coding Standards document
Version 1.5
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Codesmith Exception Template updated
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P&P Service Factory Guidance package Community Release
I have been following this project from a distance, but am starting to like their idea of an end-to-end guidance for Web Service development. The P&P team recently announced the release of the VS2005-integrated "Guidance Package" to help you implement their proscribed best practices:
patterns & practices: Service Factory: Home:We have just released our May Community release of the Web Service Software Factory to our GotDotNet community - http://practices.gotdotnet.com/projects/svcfactory. Highlights of this release include: - Updates to our base WCF guidance package based on your feedback - An entire guidance package dedicated to securing your services using - X.509 certificates - Kerberos - Direct authentication using Windows, ADAM, or SQL - A MEX based policy generator to help you secure your client applications - A partially complete Interop configurator to help you apply security policy based on your interop requirements - Improved documentation including: - A Service Factory navigator to help you navigate the documentation and the Service Factory - Extensive documentation to support the security guidance package - Documentation for customizing your own guidance packages - A new reference implementation - Based on feedback from our community we have applied a slightly different combination of patterns. Take a look and let us know what you think.
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Another view of the Iterative WaterFall methodology
Kane Mar identifies 2 Anti-Pattern variations on the Iterative Waterfall methodology as it relates to people implementing Agile methodologies:
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PDC05: Hands On Labs rediscovered
Shortly after the end of PDC, Microsoft briefly posted a huge list of all the Hands-On Labs that were available during PDC. Unfortunately, while I was downloading them they removed the files and links from the CommNet site, and later I had a HD crash and even lost those.
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Tool: IIS Debug Diagnostic Tool (DebugDiag)
I recently was referred to this tool by a MS rep while troubleshooting some IIS Hangs and Crashes. It is still in Beta, but you can grab it via the Guest ID "DebugDiag" at http://beta.microsoft.com :
