(Tess Ferrandez) I get several emails every week through the blog asking for help on various issues. Unfortunately due to time constraints I can’t really look at them all on an individual bases but I thought this particular request might be interesting to share.
Tag: Development
.NET Tip: Avoiding Boolean Overload
(Jay Miller) I mentor the robotics team at a local high school. Recently, I was reviewing the code of a couple students when I came across what appeared to be some very complex boolean logic. The code was using the input from several sensors to determine what to do next. Following the logic when the
Using Expression Builders in ASP.NET
(Scott Mitchell) ASP.NET offers a variety of ways to inject the results of a server-side expression (such as DateTime.Now.ToString()) into the rendered markup of an ASP.NET page. The most common way is to add a Label Web control to the page and then from the Page_Load event handler (or some other su
Tool for Oracle Database Developers to Support Microsoft VSTS 2010
(Brian Prince) Quest Software is launching a beta program to allow Oracle developers to take advantage of the capabilities of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010. The new tool enables Oracle developers to perform offline design, development and change management in VSTS, as well as integrate th
TIP: Using Proxies and ChannelFactory in WCF
(mendhak) If you’ve used WCF services before, you know that you can add a reference to the service either by using svcutil.exe or letting Visual Studio do it for you (which in turn uses svcutil.exe).
Sharing the event logic between controls in VB.NET
(Irina Medvinskaya) Whenever you write the code logic that may be used for more than one control, it makes sense to try to save time by creating only one procedure that will handle the event and perform that logic. In this tip, I show you a way to share the event logic for multiple controls on a VB.
Introduction to Memorization Pattern
(Sateesh Kumar) In this article, I am going to discuss about Memorization pattern. This pattern is very helpful to improve performance of the methods that are having complex logic. I will explain about this pattern followed by an example. Most of us use to write some methods that will do complex cal
WPF Lists/Views – A Visual Quick Start
(Josh Fischer) This article is a continuation of my previous “controls” article and focuses on the ItemsControls (lists) in WPF. While virtually any control in WPF can be made to contain various atomic parts, these containers are designed to show collection based data; typically through data binding
Creating Fixed Headers in an ASP.NET GridView using jQuery
(Suprotim Agarwal) This article will demonstrate how to create Fixed Headers in an ASP.NET GridView using jQuery. This solution is cross-browser and has been tested in IE 7 and Firefox 3.
LINQ Explained– Part 2
(Kashif Ahmad) This is the second part of my on going series on LINQ. In the first installment, we had an overview of LINQ. In this post, we will look at some of the underlying concepts which are important to understand to work with LINQ. Though you are not required to master them but an understandi
