Do you have tables that use GUIDs (columns of type uniqueidentifier) as primary keys in SQL Server? This scenario is now fully supported in Entity Framework 4, as long as you remember one little gotcha.
Continue reading "Using a GUID as an EntityKey in Entity Framework 4"
It seems the System.Net.Mail.SmptClient class has gotten a bit of a facelift in .NET 4.
Continue reading "New in .NET 4: Don’t Forget to Dispose() your SmtpClient Instances"
It’s official – I’ll be writing the next installment in Wrox Press’ best-selling ASP.NET series. Here’s a sneak peek into ASP.NET 4.0 Website Programming: Problem – Design – Solution, and a way you – yes, you – can help make the book better, and even receive written credit in the book’s Acknowledgement section.
Continue reading "Wanna Help Me Write a Book?"
Thanks in part to the many who forwarded, blogged, tweeted, and linked to my May 2009 plea to Telligent to turn GraffitiCMS over to the community, it now appears that Telligent will be doing exactly that.
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From blog posts to books, sorting a list of items by user rating is a very common task. In this blog post, we discover how the writings of an obscure 18th-century British minister lets us implement a “smart” ranking algorithm that takes into account the “wisdom of the crowd”, and presents a fairer and more accurate representation of results.
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Been going blind looking for the Dynamic Help window in the new VS 2010 Beta 2? Me too… until I learned this bit of bad news from a inside source.
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Thorough, detailed, and up-to-date documentation is one of the keys to success for any software application. Dr. Explain makes it easy (almost too easy) to create and maintain CHM help files, web-based HTML documentation, and even printable manuals.
Continue reading "Dr. Explain Gives Your Software a Brain"
Wrox Press has added a blog site, featuring posts from authors and key staff, to its lineup of great programmer resources.
Continue reading "Wrox Blogs Are Now Live!"
The time to start thinking about exception handling is right after you click File > New Project. Exception handling shouldn't be something you "tack-on" to an application after the fact. Here, I discuss a practical approach to incorporating exception handling into the normal code-writing process.
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Accessing ASP.NET profiles from a web application project is remarkably easy once you know how. Here’s how it’s done, along with a fully working implementation that you can download.
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