Agile Tactics for Reducing Costs

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

db40 for .NET Cheat Sheet

This Refcard walks you through db4o's basic operations, various query types and data access optimization techniques.

Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0

MVC Refcardz just released!Get your free copy of DZone's Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Refcard now. Download is available here.Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is a great book for any developer who...

1 replies - 2156 views - 09/07/09 by alashcraft in Book Reviews

Service Locator in MVVM

While doing MVVM one of the common problems to solve is to have the ViewModel consume entities that are “replaceable”. Let me give you an example so that...

0 replies - 559 views - 09/07/09 by Marlon Grech in News

Type-Free Lambda Calculus in C#, Pre-4.0 - Defining the Lambda Language Runtime (LLR)

A while back, I blogged about (Mis)using C# 4.0 Dynamic – Type-Free Lambda Calculus, Church Numerals, and more which was a fun post and got some good...

0 replies - 579 views - 09/04/09 by bdesmet in News

Building a DSL for Scheduling Tasks

This article is taken from Building Domain Specific Languages in Boo from Manning Publications. It shows how to build a DSL using task scheduling as the...

0 replies - 920 views - 09/03/09 by alashcraft in Articles

Lucene.net: The Main Concepts

In the previous post you learnt how to get a copy of Lucene.net and where to go in order to look for more information. As you noticed the documentation is far...

1 replies - 1226 views - 09/02/09 by Simone Chiaretta in News

Soma on Architecture Tools…

Nice overview post on the Architecture Tools by Somarsegar. He uses some new bits for the images of the diagrams.      The layer diagram has two...

0 replies - 364 views - 09/01/09 by clemensreijnen in News

Visual Studio Tutorial: Part 1 - Overview and Layout

New to Visual Studio and .Net development?  If so, this short eight minute video will get you started in learning how to use Visual Studio to develop on the...

0 replies - 1190 views - 08/31/09 by Keith Elder in Videos

CNET Video: Scott Guthrie on Silverlight 3

Microsoft's Scott Guthrie talks to CNET News' Ina Fried about his company's latest effort to take on Adobe's Flash and where the Silverlight technology is...

0 replies - 971 views - 08/30/09 by alashcraft in Videos

How to Get Started with Lucene.net

A few weeks ago I expressed my intention of introducing Lucene.net into Subtext, and that I would have written about the journey. In this post I’m going to...

0 replies - 944 views - 08/28/09 by Simone Chiaretta in News

So, What Is This Boo language Anyway?

This article is taken from Building Domain Specific Languages in Boo from Manning Publications. It introduces the Boo language and demonstrates its syntax. For...

0 replies - 998 views - 08/27/09 by alashcraft in Articles

Coupling and Expressiveness

We came across an interesting situation in our code base recently whereby two coding approaches which I consider important for writing maintainable code seemed...

2 replies - 770 views - 08/26/09 by markhneedham in News

Visual Studio Add-In vs. Integration Package – Part 2

Two days ago I started a new post series to discuss Visual Studio add-in and integration package in order to introduce their structure, applications,...

0 replies - 476 views - 08/25/09 by keyvan in News

Visual Studio Add-In vs. Integration Package – Part 1

It’s been quite a long while since the last time that I wrote something about Visual Studio Extensibility as a topic that I used to write a dedicated book...

0 replies - 551 views - 08/23/09 by keyvan in News

Silverlight 3 Programmer's Reference

As a developer who typically doesn't venture too far into the "visual" side of things, normally hiding in the invisibility of server side logic, I was really surprised by this book. I've...

0 replies - 1217 views - 08/21/09 by chris.baughman in Book Reviews

Framework Agnostic Web Languages

After a great time at a language agnostic conference this past weekend (I don't have pictures, I got a new camera and I forgot to bring it. I was so mad) I've...

0 replies - 975 views - 08/21/09 by sarajo in News