CodeProject | The Daily Build - 12 Feb 2014

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Most popular new articles Tue 11 Feb 2014 ToDoList 6.8.9 Feature Release - An effective and flexible way to keep on top of your tasks - .dan.g., autoQA Processing Standard Zip Files with C# compression/decompression classes - Uzi Granot PDF File Analyzer With C# Parsing Classes - Uzi Granot Using Munq IOC Container Version 3 in ASP.NET MVC 3 - Matthew Dennis ASP.NET MVC Single Page App with Upida.Net (Backend) - vladimir husnullin Research Build The Right Thing: 5 Business Leaders' Strategies for Avoiding Common Pitfalls of Product Development Great companies build products that customers love. While this means they build worthwhile and useful features, it also means they don't build things that aren't valuable. The development of unused features is the single biggest waste of time and resources in software development, and companies that build the "wrong things" are easily disrupted. In this guide, five business leaders offer different perspectives on Agile product development. Use it to help you understand how a unifying vision and customer-centric mindset avoids wasted time,... Download Now Latest Additions 20 articles overall. 12 new, 8 updated. New articles added Algorithms & Recipes GetOrCreateValueDictionary - Paulo Zemek A dictionary implementation optimized for caches and the GetOrCreateValue method, supporting real parallelism while reading and avoiding some problems encountered in the ConcurrentDictionary Articles updated Ajax DayPilot - AJAX Monthly Event Calendar for ASP.NET MVC in 10 Minutes - Dan Letecky Create an AJAX monthly event calendar (with drag and drop support) displaying data from SQL Server database in just 10 minutes (including a coffee break). Applications & Tools ToDoList 6.8.9 Feature Release - An effective and flexible way to keep on top of your tasks - .dan.g., autoQA A hierarchical task manager with native XML support for custom reporting. ASP.NET Using Munq IOC Container Version 3 in ASP.NET MVC 3 - Matthew Dennis Munq IOC Container Version 3 has been released on CodePlex and as a NuGet package. This article demonstrates how to integrate the IOC Container into an ASP.NET MVC3 project. ASP.NET MVC Single Page App with Upida.Net (Backend) - vladimir husnullin MVVM in web development with Upida.Net Design and Architecture Learning to Embrace Changing Requirements - Christopher Diggins A personal story about changing requirements and agile software development Files and Folders Processing Standard Zip Files with C# compression/decompression classes - Uzi Granot This project will give you the tools needed to compress and decompress files using the Deflate method of compression, and to read and write standard Zip files. PDF File Analyzer With C# Parsing Classes - Uzi Granot PDF File Analyzer is designed to read, parse, and display the internal structure of PDF files. New Tips and Tricks added ASP.NET Difference Between Response.Redirect() and Server.Transfer() Methods in ASP.NET - Sandeep Singh Shekhawat Here you will learn the difference between Response.Redirect() and Server.Transfer() Methods in ASP.NET LINQ Left Outer Join extension for Entity Framework - Tony Sherlock Snippet for Left Outer Join, Entity Framework Tips and Tricks updated .NET Framework Simple IDataReader Extension Method - M. Eugene Andrews A simple, but powerful way to convert an IDataReader to an IEnumerable New Technical Blogs added Client side scripting JavaScript "static" class - make JavaScript code more readable - harleydk I usually use static classes for my C# helper-functions, when there're no properties to expose, nor any need to inherit from them. So this increases code readability. Javascript, however, doesn't have that feature, so how to immitate it? Files and Folders Prevent browser caching of css and javascript files - harleydk A modern browser will attempt to cache content as best it can, to make for a better end-user experience. This works well, but we may run into issues when we deploy a set of different files to the server, yet the client browser insists on serving up the old ones out of its cache.So here's a tip on ho Session State Mocking Session State in an ASP.NET MVC4 Unit Test using Moq - harleydk I recently spent more time than I'd liked to figure out how to mock session state within an ASP.NET MVC test project. So here's the solution to that one, so hopefully you won't spend as much time as I. SQL Reporting Services Linq-to-sql enums support - harleydk I don't much like it when I must specify hard-coded values into my code. It can be a debugging nightmare, furthermore it looks ghastly. Microsoft's Sql Server OR-mapper linq-to-sql, which I like very much, unfortuantely do not have built-in designer support for generating enums from lookup-tables, w Testing and QA Advanced Debugging Techniques in JavaScript – Part 2 - Keyhole Software Introduction Writing Part 2 of this series has been really exciting. I’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback from people who’ve read Part 1. This post will be more hands-on than the previous, so be ready for screenshots and real case scenarios I’ve come across while working with Jav Uncategorised Technical Blogs How Developers Gain Perspective: The Forgotten Approach - Zac Gery How Developers Gain Perspective: The Forgotten Approach Notes from Jan 09, 2014 LIDNUG TDD, Where did it all go - Aligned Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/Aligned/archive/2014/02/10/notes-from-jan-09-2014-lidnug-tdd-where-did-it.aspxI recently was asked by a co-worker to watch Ian Cooper talk about TDD to give my take on Mr. Cooper's presentation on TDD. Here's what I sent back and decided to share it wi Web Security Contact web api from InfoPath Designer 2013 - harleydk I was having some trouble getting values from my home-brewed web api into a InfoPath Designer 2013 form, so I wanted to document the solution for those of you out there perhaps struggling with this as well.I was calling a simple 'Hello World'-web api that would return a string. My simple aip looks l Work Issues Five tips on how to prepare for an IT job interview. Some general, some practical. - harleydk Having just dealt with a number of job interviews, from the job-seeker's point of view, I can testify with some certainty as to how to prepare for one such interview. I made use of myself, will prove helpful to you, too. © 2014 CodeProject.  All rights reserved. This email was sent to vutunglampro@gmail.com. CodeProject 503-250 Ferrand Drive, Toronto Ontario, M3C 3G8 Canada +1 416-849-8900 x 100 Switch to Weekly Digest | Unsubscribe. 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