Simplify N-tier Development with WCF RIA Services Last night I was at Dallas .NET User Group meeting where Tony Sneed of DevelopMentor made a presentation on WCF RIA Services called “Turbocharge Silverlight Development with WCF RIA Services“. I had read about this new technology before, but never had the time to play with it. The presentation turned out to be pretty cool.… Read More
An Elegant Way to Implement ReadOnlyDictionary(TKey, TValue) in C# While working on creating an application framework for a personal project, I needed a way to expose a Dictionary<TKey, TValue> object from one of my methods. The only caveat being, I wanted the Dictionary object to be read-only.… Read More
SubSonic 3.0 Released Finally a new version of SubSonic was released today with a lot of new features. SubSonic is one of my favorite Data Access Layer (DAL) generators, that makes it super easy to create data access code. As a developer you have a lot of control over what the generated code looks like, which is great… Read More
Learn ASP.NET MVC ScottGu just made available a free downloadable eBook in PDF format as well as a simple and easy-to-understand sample project called Nerddinner. The eBook is actually a chapter from his upcoming book on MVC, but it is an end-to-end tutorial that walks through building a small but complete ASP.NET MVC application from scratch. Download eBook.… Read More