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Today….All Your Wildest Dreams Come True
If you fit into any one (or more) of these three categories…You like tabletop RPGsYou build Xaml applicationsYou build Html/JS applications1. RPGWithMeFor some time I’ve been cranking away building my...
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Greenfield Development with ASP.NET MVC & S#arp Lite - Introduction
A series of posts providing proven guidance for developing ASP.NET MVC applications from idea to well-designed implementation.So you’ve landed your first project! Just days ago your client came to you...
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Convention Binding to Ninject 3 -- Resolving ‘Value Cannot be Null’ Exception
Recently I was creating a new MVC4 application and of course I wanted to use Ninject as my IoC container. The first thing I did was to download and install the following NuGet...
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Gen Con and Kickstarter!
Today I ship off to Gen Con to exhibit my new web-based RPG product RPGWithMe! If you are attending, I hope you will visit me in booth 1850.I’ve also got a big announcement for today! I’ve launched a...
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Unit Testing WinJS: First Steps
N.B. If you don’t know anything about WinJS, take a moment to peruse this primer. Also, the context of this post is the p&p Hilo project.One of the first questions we’ve been struggling with is how...
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WinJS: Unpacking Promises
N.B. If you don’t know anything about WinJS, take a moment to peruse this primer. Also, the context of this post is the p&p Hilo project. Derick Bailey also wrote about promises on his blog.A Bit...
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Data Binding to the Panorama control in WP7
When you build a Windows Phone 7 (soon to be 8) application, one of the screen layouts you can use is the Panorama. In most cases the number of pages in the panorama is hard defined in code but there...
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Greenfield Development with ASP.NET MVC & S#arp Lite - Day 1
A series of posts providing proven guidance for developing ASP.NET MVC applications from idea to well-designed implementation.Part I - Planning & DesignFor the planning and design phase of project...
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Help my Secondary Tile will not navigate correctly in my Win Phone Application
When you are adding the ability to have a Secondary tile to your Windows phone application you may from time to time find the need to debug or mimic the launching of the application via the Secondary...
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To constructor or to property dependency?
Us, developers, are a bit like that comic strip (from always great xkcd):We can endlessly debate over tabs versus spaces (don't even get me started), whether to use optional semicolon or not, and...
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Code Contracts tab in VS2012 – Odd way to get it enabled
I am a huge fan of the Code Contracts library which is now part of .net, in fact when I setup a new instance of VS it is one of the first plugins I install by default. However, I was having some...
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How to migrate your TFS Repository to GitHub
So it has begun. We have been using TFS at work for 2+ years and the time has come to move off of TFS and over to GitHub (we have a few reasons, most of which I am going to avoid for this post as they...
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Chocolatey featured on LifeHacker!
Chocolatey was just featured on LifeHacker! http://lifehacker.com/5942417/chocolatey-brings-lightning-quick-linux+style-package-management-to-windowsI was ecstatic to hear about this, of course now I...
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Introducing TypeScript
This is the first tech coming out of Microsoft in several years that I’m excited about….really excited about. So, I thought I would take you, dear reader, on a learning adventure with me. Let’s dive...
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Raleigh Windows 8 Developer Camp – October 9th
Brian Hitney and Jim Duffy will be hosting a follow up Windows 8 Developer Camp in Raleigh on Tuesday, October 9th in the Microsoft RTP office.Come on out Tuesday, October 9th at 9:00 AM to the...
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Greenfield Development with ASP.NET MVC & S#arp Lite - Day 2
A series of posts providing proven guidance for developing ASP.NET MVC applications from idea to well-designed implementation.Day 2 – Define the Domain Conceptual ModelObjective of the DayTransform the...
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Greenfield Development with ASP.NET MVC & S#arp Lite - Day 3
A series of posts providing proven guidance for developing ASP.NET MVC applications from idea to well-designed implementation.Day 3 – Define the Domain Design ModelObjective of the DayTransform the...
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How to determine the number of ‘Wednesday’s’ in a given date range (Fun Code)
Today I ‘fun need’ which I don’t ever recall coming across before and I thought I would share my results.I needed to find both the number of Wednesdays (or any day for instance) and the date for each...
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How to split a list into ‘chunks’ (Fun Code)
Today I had yet another need that I never recall having in the past. I needed to take an list/array of items and split it into chunks, effectively creating a multiple dimensional list.For Example, if...
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IoC container solves a problem you might not have but it's a nice problem to...
On frameworks and libraries A logging framework helps you log what's happening in your application. A UI framework helps you render and animate UIs to the user. A communication library helps connecting...
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