Paul Sheriff's Blog for the Real World
This blog is to share my tips and tricks garnered over 25+ years in the IT industry
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Web Forms is not Dead!
It seems like everywhere you read, everyone is talking about using ASP.NET MVC to create mobile web applications. But what about programmers still working in ASP.NET Web Forms? We want our projects done using the latest techniques, we want to build mobile web apps, and we want to use jQuery and bootstrap too. Not to fear, Web Forms is not dead, and nearly everything you can do in MVC, you can also do in Web Forms. I am creating a whole series of videos on how to use all the latest techniques in Web Forms to build modern web applications. This series of videos will be available in the summer of 2014 on www.pluralsight.com.
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Join me on Thursday, April 10th in Nashville
Hi All,
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WPF for the Visual Basic Programmer - Part 2 (Pluralsight)
Hi All,
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Put Development Standards In Place At Your Shop
Before beginning any application development consider implementing programming and database standards with your team. Using development standards allows all programmers to know what is expected of them and how to create new applications from scratch. Standards help developers move from one project to another without having to learn a different style of programming because it was created by another programmer.
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WPF for the Visual Basic Programmer (Pluralsight)
Hello All,
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Pluralsight Class on Best Practices for Requirements Gathering
Hello All,
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Two more courses on Pluralsight
Hello All,
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Create a Login Window in WPF (2013)
One of my most widely-read blog posts had to do with creating a Login Windows in WPF that I wrote several years ago. I thought I would revisit this login screen with an updated version in Visual Studio 2012 and with an updated look and feel.
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My First Course on Pluralsight
So, my first course went live on Pluralsight today! Entitled "The Many Approaches to XML Processing in .NET Applications" this ~4 hour long video course covers the following topics: - What is this XML Thing Anyway? - A Myriad of Methods to Read XML - 16 Ways to Write XML Documents - Read World Uses of XML - LINQ to XML Step-by-Step - Use XML: An Alternative to SQL If you have ever wanted to work more with XML, then learning LINQ to XML is a great way to do so. This video course will take you step-by-step on the best ways to read and write XML documents. You can check out this course at http://pluralsight.com/training/Courses/TableOfContents/xml-processing-approaches-dotnet-applications Enjoy!
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Creating Collections of Entity Objects using Reflection
In my last blog posts I have been showing you how to create collection of entity objects using code that is custom for each table and object you create. Well, if you use a little reflection code you can shrink this code quite a bit. Yes, we all know that reflection is slow and probably should be avoided in most cases. What I have found out is that loading over 6200 product records into an entity collection still takes less than a second when using Reflection. So, I will leave it up to you to decide which way you wish to go.
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