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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 ...

Clipping paths provide a way to hide sections of an object based on different geometries.  You can apply rectangles, ellipses or even create your own custom paths to a target object and hide specific areas from view.  I enjoy experimenting with things from time to time and decided to try creating a sports score scroller similar to the ...

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 ? ...

I needed to display the application version in a file based ASP.NET 3.5 application written in Visual Basic.  I wrote the following methods in my AssemblyInfo.vb file in the App_Code directory and it worked! Out popped the Version Number of 0.0.5.0 instead of that annoying 0.0.0.0.   using System; using ...

Here is the download project for my Compiler Tricks talk at TechEd Orlando, 2008. The talk focuses on what the C# 3.x compiler does with new syntax, and how you can use most of the 3.x syntax, when targeting a 2.0 build. This doesn't mean you can use the 3.x code samples with Visual Studio 2005, because you need the 3.x compiler to actually ...

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 ...

I'm working with a database table that has a RowVersion field defined as a TimeStamp data type.  The TimeStamp field is there to add concurrency into the application to ensure a row hasn't changed while a user is trying to update or delete it.  When the TimeStamp field value is queried and added into the LINQ to SQL generated object it ...

Microsoft just released the SP1 beta for Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 and it includes a huge number of new features and enhancements.  Check out Scott Guthrie's blog for details but here's a quick list of what's included: ASP.NET Data Scaffolding Support (ASP.NET Dynamic Data) ASP.NET Routing Engine ...

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 ...

Jeff asked the question ''Should All Developers Have Manycore CPUs?'' this week. There are number of things in his post I disagree with. First, ''dual-core CPUs protect you from badly written software'' is just a specious statement as it's the OS's job to protect you, it shouldn't matter how many cores there are. Second, ''In my opinion, ...