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Automate the Complete Windows Environment Setup and Configuration

Boxstarter is an open-source application that enables you to do the unattended install of everything required to turn bare metal, Azure VM or Hyper-V VM...

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OWIN: Customizing the Web Server

OWIN and Katana are designed to provide a different way of meeting those objectives that currently require the use of NodeJS. With them, you can...

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Giving Clarity to LINQ Queries by Extending Expressions

LINQ expressions can be made much easier to comprehend and modify by using extension methods to create pipes and filters. Ed takes a working LINQ...

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Large Object Heap Compaction: Should You Use it?

Despite the many benefits of automatic memory management in .NET, there are still a few perils which we must avoid. One of the most common,...

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Windows Runtime: Fielding the Obvious Questions

WinRT, the Windows Runtime, was launched by Microsoft to some puzzlement. How does it relate to COM? Is it a replacement for .NET or SilverLight?...

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Fluent Code in C#

In LINQ, the 'fluent' method syntax flows logically and intuitively, and allows them to be combined simply, because each method returns the appropriate type of...

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The overhead of async/await in NET 4.5

The support for asynchronous operations in .NET 4.5 has made it much easier to create easily-intelligible asynchronous methods that avoid blocking. However, async/wait isn't cost-free...

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Different Approaches of Entity Framework

Entity Framework provides three different approaches to deal with the model, and each one has its own pros and cons. Ambily Kavumkal Kamalasanan discusses the...

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Taking NuGet to the Enterprise

The NuGet package manager is a great way for developers to install and update third-party tools. It solves a lot of the problems of dependency...

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TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 11: Subversion and Oracle

It is only recently that the tools have existed to make source-control easy for database developers. Although entire build-scripts for databases could be stored in...

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Beginning Distributed Version Control with Mercurial

The move from client-server version ontrol systems (VCS) to distributed version control systems can be bewildering. Tom uses his experience of moving to Mercurial to...

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Building a Public HTTP API for Data

The creation of a public API for data presents something of a dilemma for the developer. Web API, with its content negotiation, seems somehow cleverer...

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Dynamic LINQ Queries with Expression Trees

It's possible to build up dynamic LINQ queries or queries with several conditional criteria. In fact there are several options for doing this, including the...

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TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 10: Extending the reach of Subversion

Subversion provides a good way of source-controlling a database, but many operations are best done from within your database-development environmant. Fortunately, several products provide this...

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TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook Part 9: Server, Repository, and Statistics

In the ninth installment of his popular series on using Subversion, Michael describes how to set up a simple Subversion server for a multi-user project...

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Windows Store App Contracts

Windows Store Apps use contracts to declare the interactions that they support with other apps and with the 'Charm Bar'. They bind your app to...

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Route Validation and Controller Validation in ASP.NET MVC

The ASP.NET MVC controller is a good friend of web developers. There are a host of features in it that can be used to reduce...

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Client-Side Markup with JQuery Cloning and Templates

Almost certainly, any HTML-based application is going to need to create markup on the client-side, using JavaScript. The language isn't particularly geared for the task,...

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View-Models with Flags in WPF

Enums in .NET are strongly-typed constants that allow you to share a multi-valued property across applications. When used in a XAML application with view-models it...

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Are Unit Tests Overused?

Unit Testing has come to dominate the many types of test that are used in developing applications. This has inevitably been at the expense of...

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