Tutorials & Articles
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Apt Windows: Let’s Get Chocolatey!
by Rob ReynoldsIn the first of two parts, Rob Reynolds introduces chocolately, an application package manager similar to apt-get built on Powershell and nuGet
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The HTML5 History API and ASP.NET MVC
by Dan MaharryThe HTML 5 History API is one of the newer kids on the HTML 5 block. This article based on chapter 4 of HTML5 for .NET Developers shows you one way of getting history integrated with your .NET server-side web applications.
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An Introduction To Practical AOP Using PostSharp
by Brady GasterIn this article, Brady Gaster introduces the concept of Aspect Oriented Programming and how it can reduce code smells in your work. He uses PostSharp to refactor out logging, timing, transaction and GUI update code into separate and automatically executing Aspects
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Making Tables More Accessible With HTML5
by Dan MaharryFor those who are visually challenged and depend on technology such as screen readers to translate the Web from a visual to an aural experience, tables represent a significant challenge. This extract from HTML5 24 Hour Trainer looks at a number of additional tags and attributes that can make tables and their content more accessible to all.
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Testing In An Agile World: The Heart Of A Developer
by Malcolm AndersonIn this article, Malcolm Anderson looks at the roles of developer and tester in a classic team scenario and how a tester’s role and mindset, as well as a developer’s and manager’s to the tester, must evolve to fit effectively within an agile development team.
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An Introduction To FSharpx
by Dan MohlDan Mohl introduces FSharpx, a community-driven, open source set of extensions for the F# language
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An Ultra Opportunity?
by J. Scott HarrisonJ. Scott Harrison looks at the new Intel Ultrabooks and the opportunities Intel has opened up for developers with Ultrabooks
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Web Testing with MbUnit and WatiN Part 3: Testing Asynchronous AJAX Calls
by Yann TrevinConcluding his look at combining MbUnit and Watin to produce clean web integration tests, Yann Trevin looks at testing asynchronous calls
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Pattern Matching in F# Part 2 : Active Patterns
by Jessica KerrIn part two of this series, Jessica Kerr looks at creating active patterns. These are functions to transform, recognize, and categorize custom types for use with the F# pattern matcher.
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Constructors in C++11
by Dan MaharryThe new C++ standard has slowly been set and is now upon us. In this excerpt from Professional C++ 2e, the authors look at the existing ways to write constructor methods and the additional ones newly defined in C++11
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Massive Data Parallelism on the GPU with Microsoft's C++ AMP (Accelerated Massive Parallelism)
by Yossi LevanoniC++ AMP architect Yossi Levanoni discusses and demonstrates the need for Microsoft's new Accelerated Massive Parallelism specification.
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Pattern Matching in F# Part 1 : Out of the Box
by Jessica KerrIn the first of a two part series, Jessica Kerr examines and demonstrates the powerful built-in pattern matching functionality in F# and reveals there's a lot more to it than a C# switch statement or a regular expression
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Using NuGet Packages
by Dan MaharryNuGet is a Visual Studio extension that makes it easy to pull in libraries, components, and most importantly their configuration into your visual studio project. In this article, based on chapter 5 of ASP.NET MVC 3 in Action, the authors discuss NuGet and show you how to use it to add functionality to a project.
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Evolution in the Intel ecosystem
by Patricia F. MironWhy do we use the word ‘ecosystem’ to talk about the community around a particular technology?
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The Universal Application and You – Pipe Dream to Reality
by Paulo RosadoPaulo Rosado discusses the concepts of a universal application : one set of application functionality that supports EVERY platform
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Web Testing with MbUnit and WatiN Part 2: Controlling Localhost and IIS Express
by Yann TrevinOne important aspect of web testing which is not so often discussed in blogs or articles is how to run tests against a web project running in debug mode on the local host. Microsoft provides two options to let you debug web projects locally: the Visual Studio development server and IIS Express. In this second part of our series on writing web integration tests, we’re going to demonstrate how to use the WebTestServer<T> class to start either server from within a running test suite.
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Git Going with Distributed Version Control
by Matthew McCulloughAs a precursor to his one-day workshop on Git on October 21 at the 5th annual Software Architect conference in London, Matthew McCullough introduces git
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Web Testing with MbUnit and WatiN Part 1: Keeping Your Tests Legible
by Yann TrevinGallio, MbUnit and WatiN are a good choice of tools for writing web integration tests. Not only are they powerful tools but they allow us to write much cleaner and more concise tests than you might think. In this article we'll see exactly how clean and concise you can get.
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Is your game dynamic enough?
by Intel CorporationDoug Binks from Intel has been championing a new concept in games software design: dynamic resolution rendering.
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Deploying An Azure Application
by John MannixFollowing on from our look at the four main pieces of Windows Azure in “Introduction to Windows Azure”, John Mannix runs us through the development of an Azure application in C# and its deployment into the cloud.
