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.NET from A to Z – The Index

As you might be aware, this week ended my A-Z series exploring various facets of Microsoft and .NET technologies.  It was actually a lot of fun to explore a different topic each week, and I’m even happier to say I didn’t miss one Monday, making me Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 30, 2009 7:45 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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Z is for… Zermatt

Zermatt is, well actually was , the code name for Microsoft’s next generation identity and access management API.   Zermatt is now known by its new code name of “Geneva” Framework, but short of z-index , I was coming up empty on something to Read More...
Posted Monday, June 29, 2009 12:01 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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Y is for… Yield

Before we talk specifically about the yield keyword, let’s review a few constructs you probably use everyday, namely collection classes like lists and arrays.  We’re quite used to traversing these simply with a foreach loop, and what enables us to Read More...
Posted Monday, June 22, 2009 12:01 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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X is for… XML Literal

XML Literal(s) is a feature that Visual Basic developers can call their own! The XML Literal syntax facilitates creating XML documents and elements that support the vast majority of the XML 1.0 specification . Complementing the literals are axis properties Read More...
Posted Monday, June 15, 2009 12:23 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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W is for… WeakReference

With most of the major development technologies from Microsoft beginning with a “W” – Windows Presentation Foundation , Windows Communication Foundation , Windows Workflow Foundation – there was no shortage of choices for today’s post.  But somehow Read More...
Posted Monday, June 08, 2009 12:33 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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V is for… Velocity

Velocity is the code name (and a cool code name at that) for a highly-scalable, in-memory cache currently in a Community Technology Preview (CTP) stage.  The objective of Velocity is to increase performance by enabling your applications to grab data Read More...
Posted Monday, June 01, 2009 12:39 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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U is for… unchecked

Welcome to the Memorial Day edition of the A-Z series!  As I flipped through the index of Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform , I happened upon the unchecked keyword - one of those things I remember seeing once or twice, but couldn’t really recall Read More...
Posted Monday, May 25, 2009 12:01 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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T is for… Tracepoint

I’ve presented various sessions on Debugging Tips and Tricks as part of the Northeast Roadshow and MSDN Events series, and one of the undiscovered gems in that presentation is that of tracepoints.  Tracepoints have actually been around since Visual Read More...
Posted Monday, May 18, 2009 12:01 AM by joneil | 6 Comments
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S is for… sqlmetal

sqlmetal is one of the rare cases where a Microsoft utility or application ends up seeing the light of day with a cool name!  If you’re working with LINQ to SQL you may know what sqlmetal is, but since much of what it does is part of the Visual Studio Read More...
Posted Monday, May 11, 2009 12:00 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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R is for... REST

REST stands for Representational State Transfer, an acronym coined by Dr. Roy Fielding in 2000 as part of his doctoral dissertation at the University of California, Irvine .  As Dr. Fielding states in Chapter 6, Since 1994, the REST architectural Read More...
Posted Monday, May 04, 2009 12:08 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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Q is for... Quirks

Quirks… we all have them, but rather than get too personal, we’ll constrain the domain for this post to web browsers.  In the early days of the web – pre-HTML and CSS (cascading style sheet) standards – browsers varied considerably over what features Read More...
Posted Monday, April 27, 2009 12:05 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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P is for… Partial Method

By now, most of you are likely familiar with the concept of partial classes , introduced in .NET 2.0 to both C# and Visual Basic .  Simply put, classes can be marked with the partial keyword indicating that their implementation is split over multiple Read More...
Posted Monday, April 20, 2009 12:01 AM by joneil | 3 Comments
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O is for… Oomph

Oomph?!  no, I’m not making it up.  Oomph is a toolkit for developers facilitating the incorporation of microformats into web applications.  Ok, so what are microformats, you ask?  Here’s a definition from the go-to site on the subject, Read More...
Posted Monday, April 13, 2009 12:01 AM by joneil | 5 Comments
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N is for… Nullable<T>

Nullable<T> is a generic structure introduced with the .NET Framework 2.0 to support the concept of an undefined value.  The T in Nullable<T> is a value type; reference types, like strings, support nullability by design.  For instance, Read More...
Posted Monday, April 06, 2009 12:10 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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M is for… M

M is for M:   How cool is that? You really can’t start talking about M without first mentioning Oslo , the code-name for Microsoft’s model-driven development infrastructure.  Oslo was formally introduced at Microsoft PDC back in October 2008, Read More...
Posted Monday, March 30, 2009 12:02 AM by joneil | 0 Comments
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