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Here is the latest in my link-listing series . Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. ASP.NET Amazon EC2 Support for Windows and ASP.NET:...
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Someone asked me why LINQ operators return an IEnumerable<T> instead of something more useful, like a List<T>. In other words, in the following code: List < Book > books = new List < Book >(); // ... IEnumerable < Book >...
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jQuery is a lightweight open source JavaScript library (only 15kb in size) that in a relatively short span of time has become one of the most popular libraries on the web. A big part of the appeal of jQuery is that it allows you to elegantly (and efficiently)...
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Steve Smith has posted a couple of interesting probability problem solvers on his blog recently. His most recent one is a twist on the Monty Hall problem . I mentioned the Monty Hall problem and its solution in an earlier blog entry of mine, For Some...
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My nephew, Matthew O'Bryant, was one of the two US military personnel that was killed in the terrorist bombing of the Pakistan Marriott last weekend. He was a great kid (22 years old) and he will be missed very much by his wife, brother and sisters, parents,...
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This evening we published the first public release candidate of Silverlight 2. There are still a small handful of bugs fixes that we plan to make before we finally ship. We are releasing today's build, though, so that developers can start to update...
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I am happy to announce that this Thursday (9/25) will be the first meeting of the new Raleigh Alt.Net Beer Users Group, or Alt.bug for short. The basic idea is just to go hang out and discuss whatever comes up. We might consider setting topics for future...
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Every couple of weeks or so I seem to have a need to transfer (or receive) a relatively large file to another colleague or client. It might be a database zipped up into a 50 MB file, artwork totalling hundreds of megabytes, or various DLLs and source...
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August was a great month for The Lounge, with Scott joining the network the web publishers room hit an all-time high of 1.7 Million impressions in the month. To start out this month I have moved Sam Allen who runs the excellent site DotNetPerls from the...
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Since NHaml has broken out of MvcContrib (which is a great decision I think, I hate contrib projects in general since they are very hard to maintain) there isn't a great place to ask questions about using NHaml so I went ahead and created a NHaml-Users...
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Remember when people used to debate what search engine was the best among the bunnch? Do you remember back in the day when Yahoo! differentiated itself from other search engines by having actual human beings catalog, summarize, and rate large swaths of...
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I try to keep this blog tightly focused on technical issues, but I wanted to share this happy bit of news: on September 1st my wife gave birth to our daughter, Alice Mitchell . Mom & baby are healthy and happy. If you'd care to read a bit more about...
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Many of you have wondered what might have happened to me this year. Well, I'm still blogging at brandonkelly.com , but for all practical purposes I closed estatic's doors in January. I've made a decision that I feel good about, which is to put my family...
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Mike had to model answers. Yes or no answers, date and time answers - all sorts of answers. One catch was that any answer could be “missing” or could be “empty”. Both values had distinct meanings in the domain. An interface definition fell out of the...
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This past Thursday the ASP.NET MVC feature team published a new "Preview 5" release of the ASP.NET MVC framework. You can download the new release here . This "Preview 5" release works with both .NET 3.5 and the recently...
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I've received a number of (very nice) emails recently asking if I was ok - since my blog has been silent the last few weeks (and much of the summer). Just to address people's concerns - I'm alive and well. :-) I've just been on vacation the...
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Over a month ago I did a presentation on LINQ and promised a few people I’d share the code from the session. Better late than never, eh? We warmed up by building our own filtering operator to use in a query. The operator takes an Expression<Predicate<T>>,...
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I don't know about you, but when it comes to programming I am very particular about whitespace. When updating old code originally written by someone else, the first thing I do is “clean up” the code, injecting whitespace, tabs, and whatnot in the positions...
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I recently started reading Fred Brooks, Jr. 's The Mythical Man Month , an influential collection of essays on software project management. In the introductory essay he has a paragraph that starts with the following words: "Why is programming fun? What...
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It's amazing how much time speculative development can swallow up during the course of a project. Speculative development happens when a developer implements features above and beyond the requirements based on the assumption that he'll need such functionality...
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CopySourceAsHtml (CSAH) is a free Visual Studio Add-In created by Colin Coller that turns Visual Studio code - with its indentation, color coding, and line numbers - into corresponding HTML with a few points and clicks of the mouse. This Add-In is great...
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On July 15th I broke my right hand playing basketball, which resulted in a cast that severely limited the mobility and dexterity of my right hand and fingers. Today the cast came off! I am back to having all ten fingers available for typing, writing,...
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Certain features of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 require Visual Studio 2008 SP1. If VS 2008 SP1 is not installed the SQL Server installation will abort with the following error message: "A previous release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 is installed on...
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The RSS Room of the The Lounge is now live. The Publishers are still working on getting their feeds setup, but I hope in a week or so to have everyone setup and the first real advertisements running. RSS Advertising represents a new way for publishers...
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Friday afternoon Kevin Hazzard and Justin Etheredge made a stop in Raleigh to pick me on their way to CodeStock. Nothing makes a six hour trip go by as quickly as riding with two very smart and fun developers. We got in around 6 or 7 and went to the pre-conference...
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