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Alex

Name:	Alex
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Browser Power Consumption—Leading the Industry with Internet Explorer 9 - IEBlog

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iftekharahmedamit 813 days, 12 hours, 56 minutes ago

Power consumption is an important consideration in building a modern browser and one objective of Internet Explorer 9 is to responsibly lead the industry in power requirements. The more efficiently a browser uses power the longer the battery will last in a mobile device, the... (more)

category: How To | clicked: 0 | 2 comments | | source: blogs.msdn.com

tags: Internet Explorer 9, IE 9, IE9, Internet Explorer, IE

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Scaffolding Actions and Unit Tests with MvcScaffolding - Steve Sanderson’s blog

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iftekharahmedamit 813 days, 4 hours, 30 minutes ago

This blog post is part of a series about the MvcScaffolding NuGet package:Introduction: Scaffold your ASP.NET MVC 3 project with the MvcScaffolding packageStandard usage: Typical use cases and optionsOne-to-Many RelationshipsThis post: Scaffolding Actions and Unit TestsComing soon: Customizing the T4 templates* Coming soon: Creating entirely new scaffolders with custom PowerShell logic* * Yes, I know those last two have been long delayed. There have been some changes to the extensibility mechanism and ... (more)

category: Web Dev | clicked: 1 | 1 comment | | source: blog.stevensanderson.com

tags: ASP.NET MVC 3, Unit Tests, MVC, ASP.NET

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CLI Built-In Value Types in Managed Code

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KodefuGuru 813 days, 1 hour, 25 minutes ago

The common language infrastructure has many built-in value types with special encoding directly supported by the virtual execution system. Many are frequently used in common managed languages such as C#. The following chart will help you determine the size of each... (more)

category: How To | clicked: 1 | comment | | source: www.kodefuguru.com

tags: CLI, Types

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My 10 tips for designing phone apps - Alex Knight

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Steves 812 days, 23 hours, 58 minutes ago

I have been designing apps for a while now, including apps that target lots of different devices and form factors. I thought it would be good to write a list of the top 10 things I keep in mind when designing and building phone applications. Most of these apply to any application in some way though. These points cover both the design of the experience and some visual tricks that help to make usable apps.1. Considering the user. This might seem like an obvious point, but it's probably the most important ... (more)

category: UX | clicked: 2 | comment | | source: silverzine.com

tags: Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone, phone, Windows Phone 7 Series

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Silverlight, HttpWebRequest, HTTP Stacks and the UI Thread - Mike Taulty's Blog

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iftekharahmedamit 812 days, 23 hours, 36 minutes ago

This one comes from a customer who thought that they were seeing an issue in using the browser HTTP stack in Silverlight to make lots of HTTP requests. The issue seemed to be that the stack was blocking the UI thread and causing the UI to stutter. The suspicion was that the blocking was occurring while data was being read from the stream that is handed back to you when you’re reading an HTTP response. I thought I’d see if I could reproduce this behaviour myself and so I set out to put something togethe... (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 3 | comment | | source: mtaulty.com

tags: SL, Silverlight

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Enabling dynamic compression (gzip, deflate) for WCF Data Feeds, OData and other custom services in IIS7 - Scott Hanselman

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iftekharahmedamit 812 days, 23 hours, 33 minutes ago

I'm working on a thing that uses an HttpWebRequest to talk to a backend WCF Data Service and it'd be ideal if the traffic was using HTTP Compression (gzip, deflate, etc). On the client side, it's easy to just add code like thisrequest.AutomaticDecompression = DecompressionMethods.GZip | DecompressionMethods.Deflate or more manuallyvar request = HttpWebRequest.Create("http://foofoo"); request.Headers["Accept"] = "application/json"; request.Headers["Accept-Encoding"] = "gzip, deflate"; However, you n... (more)

category: Web Dev | clicked: 23 | 1 comment | | source: www.hanselman.com

tags: IIS7, Compression, WCF, OData

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An Exploration of Dynamic in .NET 4 - Bobby Johnson

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iftekharahmedamit 812 days, 23 hours, 28 minutes ago

In my spare time I have been working on a Simple.Data provider for Sqlite. Simple.Data is a lightweight ORM written by Mark Rendle that leans heavily on dynamic types and metaprogramming techniques to create an api that is the closest to Ruby’s Active Record that I have ever seen in .NET. I have been using this project as a way to explore the new dynamic features introduced into C# and .NET with version 4. I have discovered some interesting things and wanted to share them. Before we dive too deeply into... (more)

category: How To | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: iamnotmyself.com

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Optimizing Regex Performance, Part 3 [Ron Petrusha] - BCL Team Blog

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iftekharahmedamit 812 days, 23 hours, 31 minutes ago

Regular expressions in the .NET Framework support a number of grouping constructs, which allow a regular expression pattern to be grouped into one or more subexpressions. Grouping constructs are essential for creating backreferences, as well as for defining a subexpression to which a quantifier is applied. The Performance Impact of Capturing Groups The most commonly used grouping constructs in the .NET Framework regular expression language are (subexpression), which defines a numbered capturing group, a... (more)

category: How To | clicked: 3 | comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com

tags: Performance, Regex

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TFS Build Service Dependencies - Bryan Group

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iftekharahmedamit 812 days, 23 hours, 26 minutes ago

Anyone who has had to deal with services failing to start (i.e. logon permissions, setting recovery responses [run a program], verifiying dependencies, etc.) knows what a real PITA it can be to track down the culprit of the failure. Having said that I recently had an issue with the "Visual Studio Team Foundation Build Service Host" service. A message box that stated “Cannot start service TFSBuildServiceHost on computer ‘contoso.na.microsoft.net'. (The dependency service or group failed to start)” was pro... (more)

category: How To | clicked: 5 | comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com

tags: TFS

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Rounding Corners using CSS3 - Kirupa Chinnathambi

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iftekharahmedamit 812 days, 22 hours, 36 minutes ago

Every few years, something gets added to HTML or its related technologies that starts off as being cool and trendy. After massive overuse, that "something" ends up being despised and mocked. This cycle of going from adulation to derision repeats itself all the time. For example, two additions that people once loved but pretend never existed are the blink and marquee tags. (Admit it - you know you used them at some point! ) In CSS3, one recent addition is the ability to natively specify rounded corners. ... (more)

category: How To | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: www.kirupa.com

tags: css3, CSS 3, CSS

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Edulinq - the e-book - Jon Skeet

published 813 days, 22 hours, 5 minutes ago posted by

iftekharahmedamit 816 days, 1 hour, 41 minutes ago

I'm pleased to announce that I've made a first pass at converting the blog posts in the Edulinq series into e-books. I'm using Calibre to convert to PDF and e-book format. I still have a way to go, but they're at least readable. The Kindle version (MOBI format) is working somewhat better than the PDF version at the moment, which surprises me. In particular, although hyperlinks are displaying in the PDF, they don't seem to be working - whereas at least the internal links in the Kind... (more)

category: How To | clicked: 2 | 1 comment | | source: msmvps.com

tags: Ebook, e-Book, Linq

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Producing and Consuming OData in a Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 application. (Part 2 )

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mbcrump 814 days, 22 hours, 10 minutes ago

This article is Part 2 of the series “Producing and Consuming OData in a Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 application.”Producing and Consuming OData in a Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 application. (Part 1) – Creating our first OData Data Source and querying data through the web browser and LinqPad.Producing and Consuming OData in a Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 application. (Part 2 ) – Consuming OData in a Silverlight Application.Producing and Consuming OData in a Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 appli... (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: michaelcrump.net

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Metro In Motion Part #2 – ‘Peel’ Animations | Colin Eberhardt's Adventures in WPF

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FantasticMrFish 815 days, 5 hours, 21 minutes ago

This blog post is part #2 of my Metro In Motion series. In this post I demonstrate how to implement the animated ‘peel’ effect seen when native Windows Phone 7 applications exit. In my previous blog post I discussed how the Metro Design Language that heavily influences the Windows Phone 7 style is not just about static graphics, it is also about fluid transitions. In that post I demonstrated a technique for making items within lists slide gracefully as the user moves between pivot pages. The post was ... (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 4 | comment | | source: www.scottlogic.co.uk

tags: Windows Phone 7, metro

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LightSwitch Beta 2 Content Rollup - Beth Massi

published 813 days, 22 hours, 5 minutes ago posted by

iftekharahmedamit 816 days, 1 hour, 36 minutes ago

Well it’s been 10 days since we released Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2 and we’ve been working really hard to get all of our samples, “How Do I” videos, articles and blog posts updated to reflect Beta 2 changes. Yes, that’s right. We’re going through all of our blog posts and updating them so folks won’t get confused when they find the posts later down the road. You will see notes at the top of them that indicate whether the information only applies to Beta 1 or has been updated to Beta 2 (if there’s n... (more)

category: How To | clicked: 1 | comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com

tags: Visual Studio LightSwitch, Beta, LightSwitch Beta 2, beta 2, LightSwitch

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Lessons Learned developing a Windows Phone 7 App - Cameron Skinner's Blog

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iftekharahmedamit 816 days, 1 hour, 34 minutes ago

Quite a few folks have been playing with the Windows Phone 7 platform, creating all kinds of crazy games, utilities, etc. for this new platform. I am no different. I simply couldn’t help myself, so once I had my new Samsung Focus in hand ( November of last year I believe ), I set out to build a game that I knew I would miss terribly after replacing my iPhone 4. This post is really less about the game however, and more about the various issues I found as I built the game and got it up on the marketplace. ... (more)

category: Smart Client | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com

tags: Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone 7 Development, Windows Phone, Windows Phone 7 Development Tools

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Comparing MVC 3 Helpers: Using Extension Methods and Declarative Razor @helper Syntax - Jon Galloway

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iftekharahmedamit 816 days, 1 hour, 27 minutes ago

HTML Helpers provide a clean way to encapsulate view code so you can keep your views simple and markup focused. There are lots of built in HTML Helpers in the System.Web.Mvc.HtmlHelper class, but one of the best features is that you can easily create your own helpers. While you've been able to create your own helpers since MVC 1 using extension methods, the Razor view engine gives you a new option to create helpers usi... (more)

category: Web Dev | clicked: 12 | 1 comment | | source: weblogs.asp.net

tags: ASP.NET MVC 3, ASP.NET MVC, Extension Methods, Razor Syntax, MVC 3, Helpers, MVC, ASP.NET

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C l e m e n s | VS2010 ALM MTLM usages patterns for Windows Azure hosted application development

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ClemensReijnen 814 days, 4 hours, 40 minutes ago

The deck of my presentation covering VS2010 ALM MTLM usages patterns for Windows Azure hosted application development and the handout/ talk through (in the table below, not a real handout. I’m busy changing it to a more paper style document. But thought I better could start sharing it to gather some early feedback.) (more)

category: Architecture | clicked: 0 | comment | | source: www.clemensreijnen.nl

tags: ALM, VS2010, mtlm, Azure

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Entity Framework 4.1 Release Candidate with Go-Live (with Final Release to follow in a month) - Scott Hanselman

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iftekharahmedamit 825 days, 21 hours, 38 minutes ago

I was in Redmond this last week and talked to Jeff Derstadt, the Lead Developer on Entity Framework Code First (or, as I say, EF Magic Unicorn). What's the deal with this new feature in Entity Framework? What about the bad rap that EF got back in the day? What's new in EF4 and how does EF Code First sit on that? Which is the right choice, Model First, Database First or Code First? All of this plus demos in this off-the-cuff interview. There's lots of good info in this video including some insight into mu... (more)

category: Architecture | clicked: 4 | comment | | source: www.hanselman.com

tags: EF, Entity Framework, EF 4.1, Entity Framework 4.1, Entity Framework 4.1 Release Candidate

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New EF4 & EF4.1 content on MSDN - Julie Lerman

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iftekharahmedamit 825 days, 21 hours, 33 minutes ago

I’ve been busily writing and recording screencasts about Entity Framework 4 and 4.1 for MSDN and some of the fruits of my labor are finally online. Although there is much more to come. 1) Drag & Drop Databinding with the Entity Framework and WPF Learn how developers can use the Entity Framework to easily build WPF windows or even master detail windows with WPF with little or even no code at all. 2) Building an MVC 3 App with Code First and Entity Framework 4.1 In this whitepaper... (more)

category: Architecture | clicked: 10 | comment | | source: thedatafarm.com

tags: EF 4.1, EF 4.0, MSDN

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ADO.NET Entity Framework Performance Tips - Wriju's Blog

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iftekharahmedamit 825 days, 21 hours, 23 minutes ago

Over a period of time I have been working with ADO.NET Entity Framework and I am flattered with its amazing usability. I am a big fan of EF and especially with EF4 release a lot more avenues are open. I love to talk about this technology in any forum and given a chance I would love to work on any implementation and migration. While doing all of these stuffs I found one big question which always comes to our mind is performance and it is quite obvious that for any data access technology performance is a b... (more)

category: Architecture | clicked: 4 | comment | | source: blogs.msdn.com

tags: ADO.NET, Entity Framework, Performance

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Alex

Browser Power Consumption—Leading the Industry with Internet Explorer 9 - IEBlog

Scaffolding Actions and Unit Tests with MvcScaffolding - Steve Sanderson’s blog

CLI Built-In Value Types in Managed Code

My 10 tips for designing phone apps - Alex Knight

Silverlight, HttpWebRequest, HTTP Stacks and the UI Thread - Mike Taulty's Blog

Enabling dynamic compression (gzip, deflate) for WCF Data Feeds, OData and other custom services in IIS7 - Scott Hanselman

An Exploration of Dynamic in .NET 4 - Bobby Johnson

Optimizing Regex Performance, Part 3 [Ron Petrusha] - BCL Team Blog

TFS Build Service Dependencies - Bryan Group

Rounding Corners using CSS3 - Kirupa Chinnathambi

Edulinq - the e-book - Jon Skeet

Producing and Consuming OData in a Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 application. (Part 2 )

Metro In Motion Part #2 – ‘Peel’ Animations | Colin Eberhardt's Adventures in WPF

LightSwitch Beta 2 Content Rollup - Beth Massi

Lessons Learned developing a Windows Phone 7 App - Cameron Skinner's Blog

Comparing MVC 3 Helpers: Using Extension Methods and Declarative Razor @helper Syntax - Jon Galloway

C l e m e n s | VS2010 ALM MTLM usages patterns for Windows Azure hosted application development

Entity Framework 4.1 Release Candidate with Go-Live (with Final Release to follow in a month) - Scott Hanselman

New EF4 & EF4.1 content on MSDN - Julie Lerman

ADO.NET Entity Framework Performance Tips - Wriju's Blog

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