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Tuesday, September 01, 2009 11:45 AM

Building Performant Line of Business Applications with LINQ to SQL

The Scenario Throughout the article, I will refer to the AdventureWorks database and use the following hypothetical customer scenarios: Customer browses list of all products Customer checks status of order through web portal showing all previous orders;
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009 9:49 AM

Building Line of Business Applications with LINQ to SQL

Introduction The LINQ framework offers a basic pattern of sequence operators, allowing for primitive behavior such as filtering, grouping, and joining over collections and types. The support of the high level query comprehension syntax in C# 3.0 is paramount
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009 3:03 PM

Influencing Executives

Preparing Your Idea The first real step in preparing a proposal with a greater chance of success is finding a subject you’re passionate about. Even if you present all the data to support your idea, your lack of passion for the subject will give you the
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009 10:47 AM

Easy String to Resource file refactoring

During the development of internal tools we often have to stop working on features and clean up after ourselves to ensure that strings and such are embedded in the appropriate resource files and not hard coded into our applications. This can be a very
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008 11:49 AM

Utilizing memoization and Dijkstra’s Fibonacci algorithm to compute large values

More of an acute fascination than anything else I expanded my use of memoization for computation to use a more efficient means of calculating Fibonacci sequences for values of n greater than 40 (previous Fibonacci example takes several minutes to compute
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008 10:54 AM

Extensions I found useful while developing with WPF and LINQ to SQL

  When I observe developers writing solutions using LINQ to SQL or Entity Framework, I see a number of conversions occurring time and time again. Below are some of the more trivial utility method extensions I used when developing solutions based
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008 11:13 AM

Significantly speeding up computations with smart predicates

There is a technique that allows optimization of repeated calculation results for a set of inputs called memoization . This technique is particularly helpful when working with numeric computations, pathing, such as for tree searches, etc. where the time
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Saturday, March 08, 2008 11:09 AM

Software development outsourcing and client proximity

I had a recent comment come in that I wanted to share: I was wondering what your take was on Consulting firms. Although it is not offshore outsourcing, in some sense, it is still outsourcing their projects to firms. I totally agree with you regarding
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Monday, November 26, 2007 12:05 PM

Visual Studio 2008 Released

After months of waiting, I can finally say that Visual Studio 2008 was released last week. There are hundreds of new features, language enhancements, and technology integrations in this version. To help you get your head around what is new in Visual Studio
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Friday, April 20, 2007 9:19 AM

Why moving work offshore fails

Not to say that all offshore projects fail, I have both been a contributor and leader in projects that have been a great success and those that have been complete failures. Each project had its own reasons for failing and were defined by the business
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Tuesday, April 03, 2007 1:59 PM

Outsourced Projects using Visual Studio Team System

Having been included in two separate teams where our outsourced projects don't go as well as expected I cannot help but to take a step back and ask why things are consistently failing with separate teams, and separate organizations. The commonalities
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007 11:49 AM

Team Foundation Server Power Tools (tfpt) 1.2 Released

Today the Team Foundation Server team announced the release of version 1.2 of Team Foundation Power Tools (formally known as Power Toys). What are the Power Toys you say? They're extra functionality delivered out of band for Team Foundation Server including
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006 10:45 AM

Getting my Sandcastle Team Build targets file to work with Sandcastle September CTP

A few things before we get started: You will need the HTML Help Workshop installed September CTP of Sandcastle My September CTP Sandcastle Targets File (attached) This file needs to be copied to your %programfiles%\MSBuild directory Next you will need
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Attachment(s): Sandcastle.targets
Monday, October 30, 2006 5:24 PM

Reusable MSBuild Sandcastle Targets File

Based on a past post, I have an external targets file you can place in your $(MSBuildExtensionsPath) folder (attached in zip). You can call it like this: < Import Project = " $(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\Sandcastle.targets " /> < Target Name = "
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Attachment(s): Sandcastle.zip
Wednesday, October 25, 2006 9:43 AM

VSTF Feature Request

There have been several instances when working with multiple teams that they need to build different build configurations on the same build machine. For example, we have a central build type that encapsulates the compilation of the bits, database installation
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