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Every time there is a MVP renewal there are always some tweets or posts from people not being re-awarded, but this New Year re-awarding cycle was different: a few vocal and prominent community members didn't get re-awarded. Most of them were MVPs becaus...
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This is the time of year when people look back at the year just passed, review and looks out for the year to come. My retrospection post will come in the new year, but for the moment I want to review my top posts of 2011. The most popular post of 2...
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Today I decided to convert an action that was making various long calls to external webservices to be asynchronous. With the synchronous version it was long but still under the default script timeout of ASP.NET, so I was very surprised when the async ve...
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Last week Lucene.Net 2.9.4 was released on the official site. Lucene.net 2.9.4 There is no official news feed for the project, so I’m just copying here the announcement from their homepage: We finally got it out the door, it took a lot longer tha...
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As you may or may not have heard, yesterday WCF Web API preview 6 has been released. If you never heard about it I recommend you read the quick introduction on CodePlex, but basically it is a facility that helps you expose your services over the web, t...
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ASP.NET MVC 4 is the new version of ASP.NET MVC that came out during Build in September: it included a few pretty interesting features like a newly revamped project template, a better asynchronous controller and, the main feature, native support for mob...
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The voting for the UGIALT.net conference just ended, and just in time for the opening of the registration at noon we published, on the new web site the list of the 19 sessions chosen by the more than 180 voters: Perché a fare i preventivi facciamo c...
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XRegExp is an open source JavaScript library that provides an augmented, extensible, cross-browser implementation of regular expressions, including support for additional syntax, flags, and methods. It’s used by the popular SyntaxHighlighter script, which...
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Part 1 is here Some languages have better ways to pass boolean parameters. C# 4.0, and all versions of VB, allow parameters to be passed by name. This allows us to write much clearer code: //C# 4.0:
UpdateLayout(doFullLayout: false) ...
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Have you ever written code like this: public void UpdateLayout(bool doFullLayout) {
//Code
if (doFullLayout) {
//Expensive code
}
//More code
}
This pattern is commonly used when some operation has a “cheap” mode and an “expensive...
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