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Using PowerShell to Publish a NuGet Package

At my employer we have a local NuGet server to host all of our internal packages. Occasionally, I’ll be working on a project and realize that I need to...

0 replies - 1710 views - 05/08/12 by Michael Ceranski in Articles

.NET 4.5 Baby Steps, Part 1: ThreadLocal

Introduction ThreadLocal<T> was introduced in .NET 4 and didn’t get much attention because it didn’t do much over the ThreadStaticAttribute which...

0 replies - 1676 views - 05/08/12 by Robert Maclean in Articles

Create A Moving Background In A XNA Game on Windows Phone

As I was working on a Dream.Build.Play project, I thought about replacing a static (read: somewhat boring, maybe) background in the main menu to a moving one....

0 replies - 3657 views - 05/06/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

Windows Phone Apps - Code, But Don't Hardcode

One of my hobby projects, Beem, is a pretty successful DI.FM streaming application in the Windows Phone Marketplace. What I did in this application is...

0 replies - 2842 views - 05/06/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

How To Fix the WCF Cache of Dynamic WSDLs

One of the least used WCF extension points is IWsdlExportExtension. This extension allows to customize the WSDL document which WCF emits. Since you rarely...

0 replies - 1536 views - 05/05/12 by Yaron Naveh in Articles

A Look At the CLR 4.5 Internals

eknowledger - CLR 4.5: .Net Framework Kernel Improvements "In this post I’ll go through some of the enhancements and improvements done by the...

0 replies - 2060 views - 05/05/12 by Greg Duncan in Articles

Cocoon - An Easier Way To Develop Windows 8 Applications

Cocoon "Cocoon is a framework to support the development of .Net Windows 8 Metro-style applications, in particular those that link to web...

0 replies - 2953 views - 05/03/12 by Greg Duncan in Articles

EF Code First/MVC NotNullAttribute

Unfortunately MVC3 doesn’t respect the [Required] attribute’s AllowEmptyStrings property. When using a class both as an MVC model and as an EF Code...

0 replies - 2007 views - 05/03/12 by Anders Abel in Articles

Getting The Flights Above You, And Much More, On Windows Phone, With WolframAlpha

The reason I like WolframAlpha is because it is a "knowledge engine" that can give quick insights in a multitude of topics. Specifically, the most...

0 replies - 2093 views - 04/30/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

Using composite entities in data-driven apps

In my previous post, I discussed some of the problems that you run into when you try to have a single source of truth with regards to an entity definition....

0 replies - 1932 views - 03/16/12 by Ayende Rahien in Articles

Using custom TODO tags in Resharper

Today I stumbled across a very neat little feature in Resharper that can help immensely when carrying out large code refactoring on a solution as we're doing...

1 replies - 2567 views - 03/15/12 by Merrick Chaffer in Articles

RavenDB Session mManagement in the ASP.NET Web API

This was brought up in the mailing list, and I thought it was an interesting solution, therefore, this post. A couple of things to note here. I would...

1 replies - 2548 views - 03/15/12 by Ayende Rahien in Articles

My First Experience with NuGet Package Creation

Frankly, it is about time I started distributing some of my projects through NuGet. In case you are a .NET developer and were living under a rock for the past...

1 replies - 3224 views - 03/15/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

Portability Goes Metro: A CLR and WinRT Love Affair

Part 1: Creating the Portable LibraryPart 2: Portability in Silverlight and WPF: a Tale of Type ForwardersPart 3: Portability in Metro: A CLR and WinRT Love...

0 replies - 4479 views - 03/14/12 by Jeremy Likness in Articles

Entity Framework Code First Tips and Tricks

These days I do all of my development work with EF code first. One of the cool things about EF is its ability to drop and recreate the database when the...

0 replies - 2950 views - 03/13/12 by Michael Ceranski in Articles