Category Archives: General

Three .NET Best Practices to Keep in Mind

By Michael Gerety | June 29, 2011

Practice #1: Catch Exceptions at the Highest Possible Level (Tier)
In general, exceptions should be bubbled up to the highest possible level to be caught and processed.  For example, in our project, a search goes through the following logical tiers:
UI -> Services -> Data/SharePoint/Refinement -> Web Services
There are quite a few instances where we’re catching exceptions [...]

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Multi Tenant Architecture via Dependency Injection: Part 3

By Nathaniel Engelsen | July 21, 2010

Using Ninject and Dependency Injection to enhance your ASP.Net MVC application’s Multi-Tenant Application.

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Multi Tenant Architecture via Dependency Injection: Part 2

By Nathaniel Engelsen | July 16, 2010

Using Ninject and Dependency Injection to enhance your ASP.Net MVC application’s Multi-Tenant Application.

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Multi Tenant Architecture via Dependency Injection: Part 1

By Nathaniel Engelsen | July 11, 2010

Discover how to use Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection to enhance your web application’s Multi-Tenant Application.

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Learning WPF

By Craig Vallee | July 1, 2010

As a .net developer that has recently spent over a year helping to design and build a SCSF winforms application, I have been looking to branch out into different techniques and technologies to improve my skill set.  With Visual Studio 2010 coming out, the latest support for WPF and a push, by Microsoft, toward its [...]

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Transform System.Drawing.ContentAlignment property to System.Drawing. StringFormat Alignment property

By Craig Vallee | December 31, 2009

Recently we had the need to transform System.Drawing.ContentAlignment property to System.Drawing. Stringformat alignment property for creating a Graphic object with text drawn on it inside a given rectangle.  Assuming that you want the text printed from left to right, you can use the ContentAlignment Enum values to obtain the desired StringAlignment Enum value.  For example:

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Adding SQLite to a Windows Mobile Application

By Craig Vallee | December 31, 2009

Using SQLite in a Windows Mobile Application provides a simple way to add pre-populated data for consumption by the application.  There are a couple of configuration considerations when adding the database to the project.
1. Adding reference to SQLite.dll. After installing SQLite there will be a Compact Framework folder in the following path :C:\ProgramFiles\SQLite.NET\bin.  This folder [...]

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Could not load file or assembly ‘AjaxControlToolkit’ or one of its dependencies. Access is denied.

By kadasani | September 1, 2009

Problem: Recently i came across this problem while switching to a new Windows 7 64 bit m/c. The web site at hand was working fine on my previous m/c Windows 7 64 bit RC1. The error and the event log were basically not very helpful either.
Resolution:
So here is what I did to fix the issue [...]

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WCF Exception Shielding Error

By Craig Vallee | July 1, 2009

While using the WCF Exception Shielding policy in Enterprise Library’s Exception Handler Block to shield exceptions and return Fault Contracts I came across an error. I named the shielding policy “WCF Shielding Policy” and implemented a FaultContract for each type of desired or expected exception.
While testing the policy, we were unable to return a proper [...]

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Write iPhone Applications in C# using MonoTouch

By Michael Gerety | June 30, 2009

The mono project has released a new Mono edition for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch.  This allows you to write full featured applications for the iPod touch using C#. 
This is not a JIT Compiler, but is a static compiler that turns .NET executables into native applications. 
For more information, check out the project at [...]

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