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Extreme ASP.NET Makeover – Getting Your House in Order
A few months back, I announced that I was doing a series of articles for MSDN Magazine on improving a “classic” ASP.NET application with modern tooling and frameworks. As an application, I chose...
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DevTeach Toronto 2010 Ultimate Edition
DevTeach is heading back to Toronto in a few weeks (March 8-12, 2010)and you’ll get a bigger dose of awesome than ever before. We’ve got a fantastic line-up of top-notch, internationally renowned...
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TechDays Calgary 2010 Wrap-up: Convention-over-Configuration
Thanks to everyone who came out to my session on Convention-over-Configuration on the Web at TechDays Calgary 2010. I enjoyed sharing my ideas about convention-over-configuration and how it can...
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[Code for this article is available on GitHub here.] One of the new features in NHibernate 3 is the addition of a fluent API for configuring NHibernate through code. Fluent NHibernate has provided a...
View ArticleDate/Time Support in NHibernate
[Code for this article is available on GitHub here.] In this post, we’ll examine the ways that NHibernate supports the DateTime-related data types, including some new features introduced in NHibernate...
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Easier Debugging with ReSharper and the Clipboard
We’ve all done it at one point or another. Our application throws an exception and we start wading through a standard Windows error dialog or a log file to examine the exception and stack trace. If...
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Get/Load Polymorphism in NHibernate 3
[Code for this article is available on GitHub here.] Nothing gets an OO zealot hot under the collar the way the term polymorphism does. You probably have three questions right now… What does...
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ReSharper, Import Symbol Completion, XML files, and You
System.Type and XML are the nuts and gum of the development world. You can stuff a System.Type into an XML file, but it leaves a bad taste in your mouth. Sometimes you don’t have much choice. For...
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The Case of the Confused ComboBox – A WPF/MVVM Bedtime Story
Once upon a time there were four friends – two TextBoxes and two ComboBoxes. They all lived happily on a WPF Window bound together in blissful MVVM harmony. The TextBoxes were bound to the ViewModel’s...
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Building FactoryGirl.NET
As some of you might have noticed, I’ve been talking about Ruby and Ruby on Rails more recently. It’s often good to get outside your comfort zone and see how other (web) developers live. One of the...
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