Update: Fixed the attribution for ‘Dynamic Language Integration in a C# World’ – an incorrect copy paste operation incorrectly attributed the article to Marcus Olsson when the correct author was ‘Zenon Ochal’. Thanks to Marcus for pointing it out.
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- Making ASP.NET deployment easy with the Package/Publish Web tool – Rachel Appel discusses the provisions in Visual Studio to assist teams who are responsible for deploying the ASP.NET code they develop, walking through the configuration, build and deploy process.
- RenderAction with ASP.NET MVC 3 Sessionless Controllers – Keith Dahlby looks at the support fo Sessionless Controllers in ASP.NET MVC 3, looking at how this setting affects the rendering of other controller actions using RenderAction().
- Javascript: Defining Classes with Closures – Mike Hadlow takes a look at creating classes in JavaScript using Closure syntax based on thing he learnt from Douglas Crockford’s 5 part video presentation series
- Strategies for becoming a better programmer – Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo shares thoughts on things you can do to become a better developer, ranging from soft skills, through to practising your art.
- Some NHibernate Best-Practices – Nick Harrison shares a number of best practices for getting the most out of (and avoiding some of the pitfalls of) working with NHibernate for creating business applications.
- When WinForms met Game Loop – Shawn Hargreaves discusses some of the differences between XNA and WinForms, looking at how the two worlds can be brought together when hosting XNA inside a WindowForms applications, whilst maintaining the good behaviours of each.
- Announcing the Caliburn.Micro Contest Winners! – Rob Eisenberg shares the results of his Caliburn Micro competition highlighting the winners (and more importantly the location of the code for each), providing a great way to learn more about the framework by looking at others work with it.
- Subterranean IL: Pseudo custom attributes – Simon Cooper continues his series on the .NET Intermediate Language with a look at how Custom Attributes are applied to your code and compiled into the IL representation.
- Silverlight 5 features, firestarter keynote and sessions resources – Katrien De Graeve provides a nice summary of the Silverlight 5 announcement, along with links to the various resources from the Silverlight Firestarter event
- Rebuilding the PDC 2010 Silverlight Application (Part 2) – Mike Taulty continues his step by step rebuild of his Silverlight PDC 2010 Session downloader applications, focusing in this part on the Out of Browser experience.
- Exception data evolved – Markus Olsson takes a look at the little know Exception.Data collection which provides a way of passing additional Key/Value information along with your exception to help debug exceptions more easily.
- Dynamic Language Integration in a C# World –
Markus OlssonZenon Ochal takes a look at interop between the dynamic language world of IronPython and the staticly typed world of C# using the .NET 4 dynamic keyword
Community
- What’s new in ASP.NET MVC 2.0 & 3.0 – Scottish Developers welcome Andy Gibson and a session on the new features in ASP.NET MVC v2 and 3 bringing your knowledge up to date with the latest features including Razor, NuGet, improved Dependency Injection support. Th event is on the evening of Thursday 20th January, and is being held at Glasgow Caledonian University
- From Express to Ultimate: Improving Productivity with Visual Studio 2010, 14th Dec – Giles highlights an event being organised by Microsoft and Black Marble to be held on Tuesday 14th December at Microsoft London, where they will be looking at the features of the different Visual Studio editions.
- Plankytronixx Academy: Windows Azure Connect – Live Meeting on 15th December 16:00-17:15 UK time (08:00-09:15 PST) – Planky is running a live meeting event on the early evening of Wednesday 15th December which will look at the uses and misuses of Windows Azure Connect networking and domain joins, in what may become the first of a series of events.