Category Archives: .NET

More On MSBuild

Posted on November 30, 2006 by Geoff Lane

On the heels of my article on using MSBuild with NUnit, I’ve been totally outdone by Brennan. Check out his series on MSBuild. He covers Unit testing with NUnit (naturally), but starts with the basics, and gets into everything from … Continue reading →

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MSBuild with NUnit

Posted on November 28, 2006 by Geoff Lane

I’ve written about Unit Testing and Build Automation in the past, but mostly dealing with Java projects and tools (because I usually write about things I’m working on at the time). Well, I’ve started a .NET project for the first … Continue reading →

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How Do You Deal With Blog Spam?

Posted on November 2, 2006 by Geoff Lane

I assume that many of my readers are technical people and as such are likely to be bloggers themselves, so I post the question to you: How do you deal with blog spam? I’m currently getting on the order of … Continue reading →

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Ruby 1.8 (today) vs C# 3.0 (some future date)

Posted on March 25, 2006 by Geoff Lane

One of the big features I keep hearing .NET developers talk about is something called Language Integrated Query (LINQ). LINQ is an Object Query Language (OQL) technology that is slated to be integrated into .NET 3.0. In the general sense … Continue reading →

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Custom WebDAV Server Using .NET

Posted on February 2, 2006 by Geoff Lane

As I discussed in a previous post "ASP.NET Web Application without ASPX Extension", I’ve been working on a custom WebDAV server for a client. The initial proof-of-concept was just to see if we could get some .NET code that would … Continue reading →

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ASP.NET Web Application Without .ASPX Extension

Posted on January 20, 2006 by Geoff Lane

The Problem Ok, let’s say you want to create an application in ASP.NET. That application should be able to execute .NET code regardless of the path that is requested. You don’t want to map the .NET execution to a specific … Continue reading →

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Remoting: Tight or Loose Coupling?

Posted on December 8, 2005 by Geoff Lane

There are many ways to do remoting these days. In general you have 2 choices between techniques that offer tight coupling and techniques that offer loose coupling. Continue reading →

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.NET Nullable Types and DBNull Expose Design Flaws

Posted on November 17, 2005 by Geoff Lane

The need for Nullable types included in .NET 2.0 expose what is essentially a major design flaw in the language. Continue reading →

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VS.NET Developers Should Use ReSharper

Posted on October 21, 2005 by Geoff Lane

ReSharper makes Visual Studio.NET useable. Continue reading →

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