Thoughts on the Nokia / Windows Phone 7 deal
For the last week the news that Nokia has chosen Windows Phone 7 as their main operating system for all their new smart phones has been all over the news. A lot of people are very upset and say that...
View ArticleThe must have tools for C# development
Visual Studio 2010 I don’t think Visual Studio needs an introduction. VS 2010 brought us .NET 4.0 that contains a lot of new goodies! ReSharper ReSharper is the absolut must have for Visual Studio. It...
View ArticleMVC 3 RTM Install Error (after upgrading to VS2010 SP1)
Yesterday I installed Visual Studio 2010 SP1 on my home computer. After the installation I wanted to upgrade MVC3 to the RTM version (I had the RC version installed), so i uninstalled the RC and...
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AppHarbor – Heroku for .NET?
I have been reading about this new startup that offers a service called AppHarbor. It seems very much as the same idea as Heroku for Ruby, but for .NET. The basic idea is that you deploy your code by...
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A simple image sprite generator in C#
Last week I posted the source code to a small program I wrote in Java to merge images into a sprite. This week I present the same application but in C#, pretty much translated line by line using...
View ArticleReference types are always passed by value in C#
Last week i had a discussion with a friend about C# and passing parameters to methods. My friend asked why it is possible to use the ‘ref’ keyword for a reference type in C# when passing it to a...
View ArticleUpdated version of SignalRChat
Yesterday I uploaded a slightly updated version of the test application I have built using SignalR. Besides from looking much better, it now uses the high level Hubs API (instead of the connection API)...
View ArticleString interning in C#
Last week a coworker sent me an interesting piece of code: const string a = ""; const string b = ""; const string c = "hello"; const string d = "hello";...
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MongoDB, C# and Mono
MongoDB is one of the many free open source NoSQL databases that exist today. I wanted to try out how well the official drivers for C# worked when using Mono. On the MongoDB web site they have pre...
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Deploying your ASP.NET MVC3 site on Mono
In this blog post I am going to show you how easy it is to create a new ASP.NET MVC site and deploy it on Linux/Mono. Step 1 – Create project Create a new ASP.NET MVC 3 project. Compile and run it....
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