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Jeffrey Palermo | Jeffrey Palermo (.com) | 09 Mar 2010 15:27

Supercharging ASP.NET MVC with MvcContrib (article)Subscribe to Jeffrey Palermo (.com)

Jeffrey Palermo writes "....CoDE Magazine has published a new article from me on MvcContrib.  Here is an excerpt: Hot on the heels of the groundbreaking release of ASP.NET MVC CTP 1 in December of 2007, an open source project called MvcContrib came to life. MvcContrib..."
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Supercharging ASP.NET MVC with MvcContrib (article)
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 09 Mar 2010 12:12

Hibernate Profiler New Feature: Parameters ValuesSubscribe to Ayende @ Rahien

Oren Eini writes "....One of the annoying things about the Hibernate port of the profiler was that JDBC didn’t provide us with the parameters values. Eric has just fixed and that is now live: Enjoy…"
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 09 Mar 2010 10:00

Cut the abstractions by putting test hooksSubscribe to Ayende @ Rahien

Oren Eini writes "....I have been hearing about testable code for a long time now. It looks somewhat like this, although I had to cut on the number of interfaces along the way. We go through a lot of contortions to be able to do something fairly simple, avoid hitting..."
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Cut the abstractions by putting test hooks
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Scott Hanselman | Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen | 09 Mar 2010 06:23

WPF and Text Blurriness, now with complete ClaritySubscribe to Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

Scott Hanselman writes "....The #1 complaint I hear about WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) is that many fonts end up looking "blurry." It's a darned shame because really great applications like Evernote get criticized because of this one issue*. The blurriness..."
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WPF and Text Blurriness, now with complete Clarity
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Scott Hanselman | Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen | 09 Mar 2010 01:21

A Trip Down Memory Lane - Presentations over 10 years oldSubscribe to Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen

Scott Hanselman writes "....I've been presenting for a long time. It's great fun, mostly it's stand-up comedy with code and PowerPoint. I also keep everything, always, so earlier today when I was asked by a friend to find some ten year old code, I found a few 10 year old..."
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A Trip Down Memory Lane - Presentations over 10 years old
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Steve Smith | Steve Smith's Blog | 08 Mar 2010 18:51

Fix: Can’t Change or Remove Visual Studio 2008 from DVDSubscribe to Steve Smith's Blog

Steve Smith writes "....If you installed Visual Studio 2008 on a 64-bit operating system, you may have trouble when you try ad add or remove functionality by inserting the disk (or remounting the ISO image).  I believe this is because of the path used to install the..."
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Fix: Can’t Change or Remove Visual Studio 2008 from DVD
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Jeffrey Palermo | Jeffrey Palermo (.com) | 08 Mar 2010 16:32

I am speaking at the Lubbock .Net User Group on March 29thSubscribe to Jeffrey Palermo (.com)

Jeffrey Palermo writes "....If you live in the area, or if you are a student at Texas Tech University, come on out to the Lubbock .Net Users Group.  More details to follow. http://www.ldnug.net/..."
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I am speaking at the Lubbock .Net User Group on March 29th
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 08 Mar 2010 10:00

Lessons learned from building the NHibernate ProfilerSubscribe to Ayende @ Rahien

Oren Eini writes "....Last week I gave a talk about the things I learned from building NH Prof. Skills Matter had recorded the session and made it available. Looking forward for your comments, but I should disclaimer that this was after a full day of teaching and on 50..."
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Lessons learned from building the NHibernate Profiler
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 08 Mar 2010 08:46

Slaying relational hydras (or dating them)Subscribe to Ayende @ Rahien

Oren Eini writes "....Sometimes client confidentiality can be really annoying, because the problem sets & suggested solutions that come up are really interesting. That said, since I am interesting in having future clients, it is pretty much a must have. As such, the..."
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Slaying relational hydras (or dating them)
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Scott Guthrie | ScottGu's Blog | 08 Mar 2010 08:07

Some VS 2010 RC Updates (including patches for Intellisense and Web Designer fixes)Subscribe to ScottGu's Blog

Scott Guthrie writes "....[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] We are continuing to make progress on shipping Visual Studio 2010.  I’d like to say a big thank you to everyone..."
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Some VS 2010 RC Updates (including patches for Intellisense and Web Designer fixes)
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Featured Maven

Scott Guthrie is a Corporate Vice President in the Microsoft Developer Division. He runs the development teams that build the following products/technologies:

  • CLR and the core .NET Base Class Libraries
  • ASP.NET
  • Silverlight
  • WPF
  • IIS 7.0
  • Visual Studio Tools for ASP.NET, WPF and Silverlight

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ayende (ayende)

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Scott Guthrie (scottgu)

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Scott Guthrie (scottgu)

Scott Guthrie (scottgu) @adrianmw75 Unfortunately I won't be in Wales this trip. Sorry! Would love to visit some time in the future about an hour ago from web


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Scott Hanselman (shanselman)

Scott Hanselman (shanselman) @g2girlie Woot! Sorry I wasn't able to solve it for you, but happy you fixed it! about 2 hours ago from Chromed Bird


Scott Hanselman (shanselman)

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