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The Weekly Source Code 56 - Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit - Code Contracts, Parallel Framework and COM Interop
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 Read More...
Hanselminutes Podcast 225 - Learning about NHibernate 3 with Jason Dentler
My two-hundred-and-twenty-fifth podcast is up . Scott chats with Jason Dentler about NHibernate and their new 3.0 release. Jason is the author of the upcoming "NHibernate 3 Cookbook" from Packt Publishing. Is NHibernate hard and scary? Jason Read More...
How to Post Code To Your Blog and other Religious Arguments
If you've got a programming blog, chances are you'll want to post some code snippets. Posting code sounds easy but it's surprisingly tricky if you consider all the ways that people will be reading your blog. There's a number of ways. Here's a few and Read More...
The Weekly Source Code 53 - "Get'er Done" Edition - XML in the left hand becomes HTTP POSTs in the right hand
I wrote some code tonight in about ten minutes with a "Get'er Done" attitude. We all do that (I hope). It's one-time code that will solve a one-time problem. As such, it isn't always pretty, but it often is interesting. I've got this silly website Read More...
Extending NerdDinner: Exploring Different Database Options
The original NerdDinner Sample was very simple. Two samples, simple, in fact. Perhaps it's the new Northwind, as it's a good way to start working with ASP.NET MVC. However, it's not a perfect sample or an idealized example on how to do many things that Read More...
Extending NerdDinner: Adding MEF and plugins to ASP.NET MVC
The original NerdDinner Sample was very simple. Two samples, simple, in fact. Perhaps it's the new Northwind, as it's a good way to start working with ASP.NET MVC. However, it's not a perfect sample or an idealized example on how to do many things that Read More...
Creating an OData API for StackOverflow including XML and JSON in 30 minutes
I emailed Jeff Atwood last night a one line email. "You should make a StackOverflow API using OData." Then I realized that, as Linus says, Talk is Cheap, Show me the Code. So I created an initial prototype of a StackOverflow API using OData Read More...
Hanselminutes Podcast 205 - Open Data Protocol (OData) with Pablo Castro
My two-hundred-and-fifth podcast is up . Astoria, ADO.NET Data Services and OData - what's the difference and the real story? How does OData work and when should I use it? When do I use OData and when do I use WCF? Scott gets the scoop from the architect Read More...
The Weekly Source Code 51 - Asynchronous Database Access and LINQ to SQL Fun
You can learn a lot by reading other people's source code. That's the idea behind this series, " The Weekly Source Code ." You can certainly become a better programmer by writing code but I think good writers become better by reading as much Read More...
Put Missing Kids on your 404 Page - Entirely Client-Side Solution with YQL, jQuery, and MSAjax
I noticed a post over at a blog called " The other side of the moon " where the author suggests that we put pictures and details of missing children on on 404 pages. It's a simple and brilliant idea. Millions of 404s are delivered every day. Read More...
Hanselminutes Podcast 202 - A different way to do ASP.NET WebForms with WebFormsMVP
My two-hundred-and-second podcast is up . I sit down (in my home, actually) with Tatham Oddie to talk about the WebFormsMVP open source project created by he and Damian Edwards.  What does it add?  Can we have the best of both worlds, convenience, Read More...
Hanselminutes Podcast 201 - The Making of a Open Source MonoTouch iPhone app with Chris Hardy
My two-hundred-and-first podcast is up . Two Englishmen in a row? What a sellout I am. This week I chat with Chris "ChrisNTR" Hardy, an ASP.NET programmer by day who writes C# code for the iPhone by night. He took it upon himself to answer a Read More...
Hanselminutes Podcast 199 - How Craigslist Works - with Jeremy Zawodny
My one-hundred-and-ninety-ninth podcast is up . I chat with Jeremy Zawodny , a developer at Craigslist on how the system is put together. How many servers do they have? How does it all fit together and what are the major technology problems they have Read More...
Hanselminutes Podcast 195 - Open Source, Microsoft and The WiX Project with Rob Mensching
My one-hundred-and-ninety-fifth podcast is up . The WiX Project was the first big Open Source project out of Microsoft over 10 years ago! Scott talks to project lead Rob Mensching about how the WiX Installer project got started. How much trouble did he Read More...
The Weekly Source Code 48 - DynamicQueryable makes custom LINQ expressions easier
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 Read More...
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