(Lee Richardson) Occasionally I hear complaints that LINQ is hard to unit test. These complaints aren’t about LINQ to objects, mind you, they’re specific to the complexities of the flavors of LINQ that turn C# code into something else like SQL or CAML using expression trees. The most common technolo
Tag: Development
VS 2010 Productivity Power Tools Update (with some cool new features)
(Scott Guthrie) Last month I blogged about the VS 2010 Productivity Power Tools Extensions – a free set of Visual Studio 2010 extensions that provide some really nice additional functionality.
Vertical ScrollBar in C#
(Mahesh Chand) A VScrollBar control is a supporting control that is used to add vertical scrolling capability to a control that does not have built-in scrolling such as a container control. You do not need this control for the controls that already have built-in scrolling.
Thoughts On Razor, Microsoft’s New ASP.NET MVC View Engine
(Mohamed Meligy) This is something I have posted to a private mailing list before, and thought since I have only fixed number of keyboard strokes to death, I should be sharing it with larger audience…
Vertical ScrollBar Control in C#
(Mahesh Chand) A VScrollBar control is a supporting control that is used to add vertical scrolling capability to a control that does not have built-in scrolling such as a container control. You do not need this control for the controls that already have built-in scrolling.
Custom Silverlight TextBox control that immediately updates DataBound Text property in TwoWay binding
(Slobodan Pavkov) Standard Silverlight TextBox control is very useful but has one strange behavior: if you use TwoWay data binding and bind some property to controls Text property, when users type text into the control, this change is not propagated to the bound property until the control loses its
What’s new in ASP.NET 4.0: Core Features
(Rick Strahl) Microsoft released the .NET Runtime 4.0 and with it comes a brand spanking new version of ASP.NET – version 4.0 – which provides an incremental set of improvements to an already powerful platform. .NET 4.0 is a full release of the .NET Framework, unlike version 3.5, which was merely a
WCF RIA 4.0 requires an Entity Model that includes Foreign Key Information
(Tom) If you try to build a WCF RIA Application and the Entity Model (EM) doesn’t include foreign key information you will get an error like:
Adding a Form Helper to an MVC-based Framework in PHP 5
(Alejandro Gervasio) In this fifth episode of the series, I start building an HTML form helper class to add to this sample MVC framework the ability to render some basic form elements.
Microsoft.Data.dll – Data Access for WebMatrix PHP-Like Development
(David Hayden) David Fowler mentioned the new Microsoft.Data collection of classes as a simple wrapper around ADO.NET to simplify access to a database for querying and CRUD services. Those of us who have been around the block will compare this to the old SqlHelper and Data Access Application Block i
