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.NET Meanderings - EF4 Self Tracking Entities – the new DataSet?

A while back I wrote a blog post about DataSets and why you shouldn’t use them on service boundaries. The fundamental issues are:

1. No non-.NET client has any idea what the data looks like you are sending them
2. Hidden, non essential data is being passes up and down the wire
3. Your client gets coupled to the shape of your data (usually a product of the Data Access Laye

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Getting started with MongoDB – Using Json.Net and Castle Dynamic proxy
This post is divided in three blocks:
- Getting MongoDB to run on your machine
- Consume it manually via the MongoDB – Console
- Consume it from C# code.

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Scott Bellware: QA Missed Something
When a team is closing in on a release it may still find a flaw so terrible that the release opportunity might be missed. After the initial panic settles down, we go looking for the explanation of why a such a significant problem can remain hidden until so late. Inevitably, QA missed something.

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Iterator-based Microthreading | MJHutchinson.com
Back in May, I was wrapping PhyreEngine and porting the samples to C#. To extend one of them and demonstrate some of the capabilities of C#, Miguel and I decided to use simple iterator-based microthreading, which simulates multithreading but with many microthreads within a single real thread. Unity does something like it in their game engine too. It enables you to use a very imperative style of coding, as if using a single dedicated thread for each, but without anywhere near the overhead of real threads.

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Linq to Sql and ASP.NET MVC – AutoCommit and the RoutePreParser
In my previoust post, I demonstrated how you could scope a Linq to Sql DataContext to a single HTTP Request by using StructureMap to manage the lifetime of the DataContext instance. This often works well, but has a couple of gotchas. Let’s take a look at an example:

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MongoDB and C# Dynamics : Scott Watermasysk
There is a good C# driver called, MongoDB-CSharp. Unfortunately, because of the strongly typed nature of C#, the default implementation requires you to work with your data as a dictionary. This has an unfortunate side effect of some ugly code and a quite a bit of casting

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Herding Code Podcast #69 - Bellware on the HTML Specialist
This week on Herding Code, Scott Bellware returns to talk about HTML specialists.

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Server-side resizing with WPF: now with JPG - Tales from the Evil Empire
The algorithm that I’m going to use here is what I consider the best compromise between quality and speed for each technology. I chose HQ bicubic for GDI and “Fast WPF” for WPF. PNG generation will be our baseline, and I’ll generate JPG files for quality settings in increments of 5 from 50% (lower than 50% is just horribly bad). The set of images that I will resize is the same as in the previous post.

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Pluralcast #7 : The Language Tour, Part 2
  Listen to this episode ! [30:37] The second part of our Language Tour, this episode is a visit with K. Scott Allen. Scott shares his experiences learning IronRuby and looks ahead to C# 4. K. Scott Allen Scott is the founder of OdeToCode and a member...

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Pluralcast #6 : The Language Tour, Part 1
Listen to this episode ! [35:20] It’s always fun to learn what others are playing with and taking a look at alternative programming languages can be the most fun of all. This episode is the first of 2 shows discussing some different languages.

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