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Creating ReflectForEntities
Now that I teach the Essential .NET class for DevelopMentor, I find myself scouring the MSDN reference documentation looking for specific types. After doing this for an hour or so, I got to thinking –...
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Using ReflectForEntities
I love Reflector, but sometimes I want to be able to explore through the Framework in more interesting ways. In this post I am going to use the program that I created last time to do some exploring....
View ArticleConverting Projects To .NET
Which is easier? Bringing someone up to speed on the .NET platform or bringing someone up to speed on your business? This is the question that project managers should be asking themselves when...
View ArticleWindows Forms Validation
That’s it. The third time you get asked about a particular topic, its time to stop making it up as you go along, and actually write something down. I was asked (again) today by another one of my...
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Splitter Fun
I was working with a client that wanted to be able to layout the screen using some pretty complicated but fixed layouts. All of these needed to be able to be adjusted by the client after they were...
View ArticleReal world Entity Framework
[Update: this refers to the 1.0 version found in .NET 3.5] Sure, I had read the disclaimer here: http://efvote.wufoo.com/forms/ado-net-entity-framework-vote-of-no-confidence/ But these were the...
View ArticleRouted Events in Windows Forms
This week I was called on to do a very strange on-site custom course. They basically couldn’t decide on any one topic so they wanted me to talk a little bit about everything, mainly concentrating on:...
View ArticleTaskCompletionSource and WCF Discovery
For the G.NET in Boston last week I needed to setup a demo for the WCF 4.0 Announcement and Discovery pieces. After sitting through the Parallel Task library talks I was inspired to try to come up with...
View ArticleRepository pattern improvements
I just finished a Guerrilla.NET in Boston with Michael Kennedy and Mark Smith. Here are the topics we covered. Introduction to WPF and Silverlight ASP.NET MVC 3.0: Beyond the Basics LINQ to Objects and...
View ArticleI Love Reactive still, API changes
I love the Reactive Framework, I will get to why in a minute. I even did a talk on it at the Guerrilla.NET class in May. That talk didn’t go so well because they keep changing the freakin’ API! Every...
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