No? Nor me. (If you are wondering what Mocking is, check out my previous post on Mocking, Stubs and Test Doubles.)

From time to time (and when there's room for it, of course), I'm doing a so-called Code Kata, a small to mid-size programming exercise that usually originates from some seminar or meeting. (Kata co…

Update (11/14/2009): I updated EventToCommand with a new feature: You can now pass the EventArgs of the fired event to the invoked command. See this post for more explanations.

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There are a lot of things to like about the new version Virtual PC. Compared to its predecessor, it has added support for USB devices; allows individual applications to be run from a virtual machin…

Dr. Gopal Gupta from the University of Texas in Dallas spoke first on “Programming Rules Using a Constraints-Embedded Spreadsheet Interface”. Non-experts should be able to program rules. Dr Gupta d…

It has been almost 2 years since LINQ was officially released by Microsoft. It was another brilliant idea of Anders Hejlsberg – the lead architect of C# programming language in Microsoft. It is an …

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Since MVC has been released I have observed much confusion about how best to construct view models. Sometimes this confusion is not without good reason since there does not seem to be a ton of info…

Wow… so, I just got back from the SharePoint Conference and my first look at 2010 and all I can say is wow…

Setting the windows command path in Windows 7.

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is out and has a slick new UI. Also, this Beta has most of the features that would ship with the final version compared to the earlier Beta. Note that while new features m…

I have been working on database synchronization for a couple of weeks, and seems it at the final testing stage, I am using Microsoft Sync Framework 2.0, the DB server is SQL server 2008 Standard, a…

Unfortunately, after spending way too many hours trying to make this work, I just learned that you can not setup Windows 7 to boot from a VHD with Windows 7 professional, only Ultimate and Enterpri…

For a long time I’ve been wondering how to create a smoke effect like used in the Silverlight Logo for example. There are some techniques to render smoke by using 3D modeling software. But creating…

1. Open up an existing DVWP or create one. 2. Right click the DVWP and select ‘Common Data View Tasks’ (or click the little arrow that appears on the top right of the DVWP) 3. Click the ‘Parameters…

Silverlight bundles its executables into a single file with a XAP extension. This is really just a zip file. You can open the XAP and modify the contents just as you would any ZIP file. By default …

In this Issue: Mark Monster, Gavin Wignall, Fernando Cerqueira, Silverlight Tips, Mark Tucker, Mike Taulty, Robbe Morris, Brad Abrams, Christopher Bennage, and Victor Gaudioso. Shoutouts: The Silve…

This podcast accompanies the October 8th edition of the MSDN Flash newsletter.

In this Issue: Gavin Wignall, Manish Dalal, Jeff Wilcox, Terence Tsang, and Mark Tucker . Shoutouts: Rishi, the author of nRoute had to move his site. Last night I transitioned all his links in the…