Do you like a big pile of source code? Well, there is an imperial buttload of source in the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit . It's actually a 178 meg download, which is insane. Perhaps start your download now and get it in the morning when you get up. It's extremely well put together and I say Kudos to the folks that did it. They are better people than I. I like to explore it while watching TV myself and found myself looking through tonight. I checked my blog and while I thought I'd shared this with you before, Dear Reader, I hadn't. My bad, because it's pure gold . With C# and VB, natch. Here's an outline of what's inside. I've heard of folks setting up lunch-time study groups and going through...(read more)
NOTE: An alternative title to this post might be: " The Weekly Source Code 48: Making The Weekly Source Code 47 Suck Incrementally Less. " Last week I wrote a post about Dynamic Linq Query Generation in order to solve a kind of meta-programming problem. I had a site that used ASP.NET Dynamic Data and I wanted to do a LINQ query against some data. However, because I was creating a template that didn't know enough at compile time to write a proper LINQ query that could, well, compile, I needed to creating my LINQ dynamically. Be sure to hang in here with me, the awesome happens at the end. I was trying to generate effectively this at runtime Items.Select(row => row.Property).Distinct.OrderBy(colvalue => colvalue) And I succeeded...(read more)
In October of 2008 I took an informal survey on Twitter . I wanted to get an idea of what features of the .NET Framework people were using. Also, here's the disclaimer. I did this on a whim, it's not scientific, so the margin of error is +/-101%. That said, the results feel intuitively right to me, personally. I put the poll out again last week, adding only Silverlight to the end as an option. I realize I could have added many other subsystems and choices, but I felt it would have made this new poll too different from the original. There's certainly many ways that it could be improved as a survey, but it's best to think of it more as a "which direction is the wind blowing" question, than a survey per se. I also didn't...(read more)
First, let me start this post by thanking Tatham Oddie . He helped my buddy John Batdorf and I debug our issue remotely from Australia. He's patient, kind, opinionated and Tatham's got a darn fine blog that you should subscribe to now . I also found great inspiration from Stephen Naughton's excellent blog . He's continually pushing ASP.NET and Dynamic Data to do fun things and I was able to use 95% of his auto-complete code as I found it. And finally Marcin Dobosz's blog is where I started, taking his Dynamic Data sample Filter Repeaters and ending up at the Dynamic Data Futures samples . Technical Disclaimer: This is me just messing about with the .NET 3.5 SP1 Dynamic Data samples as this non-profit wanted .NET 3.5. The...(read more)
August 12, 2010