The Enterprise Library team is trying to improve the performance of the Logging Application Block (LAB) even further. Since version one we did come a long way. It is interesting that even the guida…

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The Joel test is intended to gauge the quality of a software development organization. Ten years later, it is in need of an update. Below is a possible “New Joel Test”, updated for 2010.

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1. Error Message : Only parameterless constructors and initializers are supported in LINQ to Entities:

I have moved the tagging features for my media player application from MediaInfo to taglib-sharp. because taglib-sharp provides writing of tags back to audio files too.. As a matter of fact, Everyt…

In this Issue: Mark Monster, Patrick Cauldwell(2), Kirupa Chinnathambi, and Nigel Sampson. Shoutouts: Tim Heuer has some great advice up for anyone trying to get ready for the SL2/SL3 switch: Check…

This review is based on Emulator Image. Not a real phone experience.

If you can find the control panel for DEP, you will find there is not an option to turn it off. This is not a terrible thing unless you are trying to troubleshoot a problem. Then you want to elimin…

So you're ready to kick off your first Scrum project and you ask the inevitable question - Where do I begin?

How To Read .NET Performance Counters Correctly

A couple of notes about my environment that I didn’t state before. The laptop I’m use is a typical laptop 4Gb of memory standard dual-core, with 64-bit Vista Ultimate as the OS. There don’t appear …

I’ve refactored part of the project and removed the generic methods, and added in a few new public methods to illustrate building a real sandwich.

After cleaning up the “Not Implemented Exception” throws in the concrete class implementations of IBusiness Manager, Pex delivered a set of PUTs for each layer.

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Pex has had two updates, one since I first used it, and one after I finished using it. Here’s the release notes for the latest build that dropped on 5/1/2009. Fresh install, and rewinding back thro…



I was integrating a JQuery plugin for file uploads, uploadify, in my app when I saw a very strange behavior. The plugin reported an error transmitting the file to the server and debugging the contr…