Expression Blend Essentials

This seven part video tutorial walks you through designing and building complex UIs using Microsoft Expression Blend.

Agile Tactics for Reducing Costs

Learn how evolutionary design, refactoring, and automated testing can help you reduce costs, eliminate risks.

Daily Dose - Google Seeks Chrome Patents

Google Seeks Chrome Patents   At least four patent applications have been filed by Google relating to their Chrome browser technology.  Three are related to the Google Native Client, which lets...

DZONE DAILY DOSE by mitchp

Functional C#: Extracting a higher order function with generics

While working on some code with Toni we realised that we'd managed to create two functions that were almost exactly the same except they made different...

0 replies - 50 views - 02/09/10 by markhneedham in News

BBQ Shack Silverlight Application

Introduction to Karl Shifflett's BBQ Shack Silverlight applicaiton. In this video, he demonstrates features including Navigation applications. 

0 replies - 270 views - 02/08/10 by alashcraft in Videos

Ruby in Steel 1.5 Leaves 'Iron' Age Behind

The newest version of Ruby in Steel, a Microsoft Visual Studio-based IDE for Ruby on Rails, is now available from SapphireSteel Software.  The new 1.5...

0 replies - 215 views - 02/08/10 by mitchp in News

Getting Started with iPhone Development

I know that it’s been quite a long while that I haven’t written anything on this blog and it marks a record in my blogging history. Moving from a country...

0 replies - 696 views - 02/08/10 by keyvan in News

Using Unit of Work Pattern with Entity Framework

In a previous post

0 replies - 724 views - 02/06/10 by gilf in News

Rules of MVVM??

As I had a MVVM session at my office, I was re-reading a few articles about MVVM. We have very interesting discussion about MVVM in WPF Disciples User Group...

0 replies - 732 views - 02/05/10 by Michael Sync in News

The Art of Unit Testing by Roy Osherove

As a developer who started working in Visual Basic 15 years ago and only began to explore unit testing and Test-Driven Development (TDD) in the last four to five years, I was blown away by The Art of...

0 replies - 1475 views - 02/04/10 by alashcraft in Book Reviews

Race Condition When Modifying the HttpRequestMessageProperty in an Outgoing WCF Message

I’ve stumbled upon a fairly obscure race condition in WCF’s implementation of the HTTP transport, and just wanted to quickly share it with you should you...

0 replies - 118 views - 02/04/10 by sashag in News

.NET Reflector Pro in Final Stages

.NET Reflector combines class browsing, static analysis, and decompilation in one very productive and popular tool.  Redgate offers this tool for free along...

0 replies - 552 views - 02/04/10 by mitchp in Articles

Functional C#: Writing a 'Partition' Function

One of the more interesting higher order functions that I've come across while playing with F# is the partition function which is similar to the filter...

0 replies - 508 views - 02/03/10 by markhneedham in News

Getting Started with SketchFlow in Expression Blend 3

Hello SketchFlow Last year Microsoft shipped Expression Blend 3, and along with it the first release of SketchFlow. SketchFlow is a set of tools which allows...

0 replies - 828 views - 02/02/10 by alashcraft in Articles

DZone Tutorial - Microsoft Expression Blend Essentials (7 Part Series)

The following seven part tutorial explores all the essentials to help you get started with Microsoft Expression Blend.  Joshua Eklund, Lead Trainder for IT...

0 replies - 2217 views - 02/02/10 by Nitin Bharti in Articles

Moving a WPF Window with Custom Chrome

Robert Iagar on twitter asked how to move a window in WPF without using the built-in title bar or resorting to user32.dll, so I whipped up this quick sample....

0 replies - 381 views - 02/02/10 by Psychlist1972 in News

Gherkin style specification testing in .NET

Behavior Driven Development is something that has interested me for quite awhile. I have constantly tried to write my tests as clear and concise as possible...

0 replies - 192 views - 02/01/10 by Ryan Lanciaux in News

Rounder, Faster, Better - WriteableBitmapEx 0.9.0.0

A lot of things happened since the release of the last WriteableBitmapEx version. I used the time I have to wait for a third party [spoiler] until I...

0 replies - 249 views - 01/30/10 by teichgraf in News