Articles having tag: .NET FRAMEWORK

.NET Memory Management and Finalization

In this excerpt from his new book, Practical Performance Profiling: Improving the Efficiency of .NET Code, Jean-Phillipe Gouigoux discusses the Dispose mechanism and the finalization process in the context of .NET Garbage Collection

SharePoint Saturday Boston presentation deck

By SB Chatterjee

SharePoint development with Visual Studio 11I presented at the SharePoint Saturday Boston on Apr 28th. It was held at the Microsoft Waltham MA offices. A great event that was very well attended (~500 registered).My presentation was well received and the slide...

ASP.NET MVC: Resolve or Inject? That’s the Issue…

By Dino Esposito

Classes should have dependencies only on abstract, rather then concrete, classes. To get around this, you can choose between Service Locator and Dependency Injection techniques. ASP.NET MVC uses 'Dependency Resolvers' which are Service Locators. When designing...

Practical PowerShell: Pruning File Trees and Extending Cmdlets

By Michael Sorens

One of the most radical features of PowerShell is amongst the least known. It is possible to extend the buit-in Cmdlets to provide extra functionality. One can add or remove parameters to make subsequent scripting simpler. Michael shows how this is done to...

MongoDB Basics for .NET by Example

By Jeremy Jarrell

MongoDB is one of the more intriguing 'NoSQL' databases to emerge from 'Cloud' computing. Sometimes, the best way of understanding a rather different technology is to get stuck-in and try it out, so Jeremy Jarrell shows how to get started with a simple ASP.NET...

A Generic ASP.NET MVC Template

By Dino Esposito

When you start an ASP.NET MVC project, you choose one of a number of project templates or starter kits. The ones that Visual Studio provide are very useful, but you can create your own if you want, and Dino finds that the generic one that he presents in this...

TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 6: Snapshots

By Michael Sorens

Moving backwards in time in Subversion is rather like time travel in science fiction. It is fine to just look around, but If you change enything it can have unforseen consequences; and you always have to return to the present.. Snapshots enable you to navigate...

On Writing Unit Tests for C#

By Patrick Smacchia

Is it realistic to keep to principles of 'Test-First' and 100% coverage for unit tests when in the heat of developing commercial C# applications? Does rigorous unit-testing lead naturally to good design by enforcing testability, low coupling and high cohesion?...

10 Reasons Why Visual Basic is Better Than C#

By Andy Brown

After having converted a whole lot of training materials based on VB.NET into C#, Andy \u2018Wise Owl' Brown decided to write a tongue-in-cheek rant whilst he could still remember the pain-points. 'Convert to VB.NET! You have nothing to lose but your semi-colons!...

PowerShell for SharePoint Developers

By Dave McMahon

For some reason, Sharepoint developers haven't taken to PowerShell with the same enthusiasm as the DBAs and SysAdmins. Dave McMohan is a man on a mission to explain that PowerShell can provide plenty of power for repetitive tasks and, once learned, can mean...