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RouteValueDictionary: abuse or elegance?
Sat, Oct 4 2008 23:02
Today I was reading an old post by Mike Tauty about the RouteValueDictionary and I remembered some old discussions on the RouteValueDictionary class. As many others, Mike sees the RouteValueDictionary as an abuse of the new anonymous type feature introduced by C# 3.0. Me: well, I’m not so quick in saying that it’s an abuse. I mean, would you prefer to drop the... Read More...
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Repositories, web apps and optimistic concurrency
Fri, Sep 5 2008 14:28
Yesterday, I was looking at some code and I found something like this on a method that handles the confirm click of a web page which triggers an update on a specific domain object: var aux = Request.Form[“Id”] == null ?                                ... Read More...
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S#arp Architecture: first impressions
Tue, May 20 2008 23:16
Today I've finally got some time to take a look at Billy McCafferty's S#arp Architecture . Comparing with the old NHibernate best practices project, I think it's fair to say that there are several important improvements. For instance, there's no longer a Load method that takes an instance and a property list which was used to pass an instance... Read More...
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.NET 3.5 and VS SP beta1 goodies
Mon, May 12 2008 20:58
You can get them from here (VS) and here (.NET). I'm reading what's new on Brad Abrams post and I'm really digging the new features:) For instance, having the format option working with JS code is simply cool! Another cool thing: the ScriptManager is able to combine scripts so there's really no need for using the ToolkitScriptManager for that... Read More...
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Application services IV: authenticating the user in an offline scenario
Thu, Feb 7 2008 14:43
In my previous posts I've been talking about the basic features introduced by the new Applications Services which were added during the latest release of the .NET platform. Today we'll see how easy it is to configure our windows form app so that it is able to authenticate a user in an offline scenario. As you might expect, you'll only be able to validate... Read More...
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Open Source projects in .NET
Fri, Mar 30 2007 7:36
An open letter from D. Starr to Scott G. resulted in a cool discussion about open source projects in the .NET platform. If you have the time, then go read it! [I know this is old, but I'm on vacations:) ] Read More...
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