Before you continue reading this post, a suggestion; if you haven’t read “Programming Windows Phone 7 Series” by Charles Petzold, go read it. Now. If you find 150+ pages a little too long, at least…

Here, I’m going to discuss some key Architecture changes and concepts in Setup and Configuration of TFS 2010 when compared to TFS 2008.


Good Product Owners will help the team be the best that they can be. Bad product owners will mess with the team and won’t care about the team. If you’re a product owner, seek to do good and avoid b…

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This article is largely based on information learned within the book "Professional ASP.NET 3.5 Security, Membership, and Role Management with C# and VB" by Bilal Haidar.

> An upgraded article and solution had been posted here. I migrated the project to ASP.NET MVC 4 with some features added. > > \- Upgraded to ASP.NET MVC 4, Visual Studio 2012. > \- Moved the solut…

Well, yesterday night I was watching a tutorial on XNA when I came across this neat little trick. It was a simple XNA application with a Windows Phone logo in it and whenever the user clicked on th…

We've all heard of the old Decorator Design Pattern (here) or used it at one time or another either directly or indirectly. A decorator is a class that wraps a given abstract class or interface and…

In the spirit of hobbyist adventures, I made a static blog generator in C# with the help of MarkdownSharp (from the StackOverflow Guys, I think). Inspired from static blog generators like Jekyll, i…

In my last post, I talked quite a bit about iterators and how they can be really powerful tools for filtering a collection of items down to a subset of items. This had both pros and cons over retur…

When converting your projects to VS2010 you get the question to migrate them to .net4. But even if you do not do that VS set the ASP.NET version to 4 for setup projects.

If you've ever worked with XSLT, you'd know that it's pretty limited when it comes to its programming capabilities. Try writing a for loop in XSLT and you'd know what I mean. XSLT is not designed t…

Unfortunately, in the current version of the Windows Phone 7 Silverlight framework, it is not possible to attach any command on the ApplicationBarMenuItem and ApplicationBarButton controls. These t…

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In this Issue: Alan Mendelevich, Siyamand Ayubi, Rudi Grobler(\-2-), Josh Smith, VinitYadav, and Dave Campbell. Shoutouts: Jordan Knight has a demo up of a project he did for DigiGirlz: DigiGirlz, …

I had been wishing to blog @GWB for a while but each time I try to register something or other preempted me away from it. On Saturday last I was little free and hence just thought I would sit and r…

Recently a Python developer friend with whom I was pair programming with suggested that I show him how to write a little Ruby. I responded by telling him to check out Ruby Koans as a starting point.

Frameworks such as EF4 and MOQ do what most developers consider "dark magic". For instance in EF4, when you use a POCO for an entity you can opt-in to get behaviors such as "lazy-loading" and "chan…

In this Issue: Michael Washington, Hassan, David Anson, Jeff Wilcox, UK Application Development Consulting, Davide Zordan, Victor Gaudioso, Anoop Madhusudanan, Phil Middlemiss, and Laurent Bugnion.…