Is there an easy way to succinctly and unambiguously communicate the architecture of a software system? Something that could highlight the requirements, and still be brief?

Dev

Design

Architect

serverless

REST in WebApi

3 Feb 2017 by tranthanhtu.vn

In "REST - Overview" article, I were introduced the basic rules in RESTful, Can you show me how to implement in WebApi?Ok, in this article, we will learn how to implement those rules in WebApi using C#.Where could I get sourcode was used in this article?Please checkout the code at https://github.com

Introducing Hiro, the World's Fastest IOC Container, Part I: Design Diary

10 Apr 2009 by Philip Laureano

A look into the design of a statically precompiled IOC container that performs as fast as an application without an IOC container.

Windows

Dev

Architect

How to Fix Orphaned SQL Users

26 May 2013 by Tharaka MTR

This post will show you how to fix orphaned SQL users.

Out of Memory Exception: A simple string.Split Can Become Fatal If Not Used Properly

2 Apr 2011 by Vipin Kumarr

Out of Memory Exception: A simple string.Split can become fatal if not used properly

.NET

Architect

Silverlight MEF: Custom ExportProvider for Attached XAML Exports

2 Dec 2009 by Jeremy Likness

Use the Managed Extensibility Framework to export dictionary resources using custom ExportProvider in Silverlight

Why it's not crashing?

10 Sep 2010 by Andrey Permamedov

Why an exception raised in timer callback function doesn't leads to process termination.

Developing for .NET 2.0 in 2012

13 Apr 2012 by Michael Banzon

Developing for .NET 2.0 in 2012

One More Time About Resource vs. EmbeddedResource

1 Nov 2014 by Ivan Krivyakov

Difference between 'Resource' and 'Embedded Resource' Build Actions described

Guide for building C# apps on Ubuntu: Graphical applications using Windows Forms

20 Mar 2016 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

In this episode I am going to talk about using graphical applications in Mono. The graphical framework to use would be Windows Forms.

Calling Web Service Functions Asynchronously from a Web Page

2 Apr 2010 by Steve Wellens

A user had a problem calling a Web Service from a web page asynchronously. I tried his code on my machine and was able to reproduce the problem. I was able to solve his problem, but only after taking the long scenic route through some of the more perplexing nuances of Web Services and Proxies.

UIAutomation, Coded UI Tests, AutomationPeer, and WPF/Silverlight Custom Controls

25 Mar 2011 by jmix90

In this post, we will see how to make a custom control fully useable in a Coded UI Tests scenario.

Design and Document Your RESTful API Using RAML

23 Sep 2014 by Bryan O'Connell

Design and document your RESTful API using RAML

Software Metrics

22 Dec 2014 by Gautham Prabhu K

Software Metrics

Architect

Modal dialogs in cross-platform WPF/Silverlight applications

18 Jun 2010 by Colin Eberhardt

This blog post looks at the problem of showing modal dialog windows in applications that target both the Silverlight and WPF platforms. A solution is provided which allows modal dialogs to be written that work well for both technologies.

How to enable HTTPCompression in IIS6

17 Oct 2010 by Brij

Enabling HTTPCompression in IIS6

Do You Really Need An ORM?

14 Nov 2011 by garymcleanhall

You would save a lot of effort by starting with the simplest thing that works.

All-Topics

Dev

Architect

Advanced Observer Design Pattern via IObservable and IObserver in Automation Testing

12 Jul 2015 by Anton Angelov

Create an extendable test execution in automation tests via Observer Design Pattern. Explains an implementation in C# via .NET IObserver interfaces.

.NET

Dev

Architect

Using Monads to manage exception handling

25 Oct 2015 by Fitim Skenderi

In this article I will concentrate on how by using a specific functional structure called monad we can remove a lot of boilerplate code.

Rules Design Pattern in Automation Testing

20 Dec 2015 by Anton Angelov

A detailed overview with examples of how to utilize the Rules Design Pattern in automated tests to separate individual rules from rules processing logic. The post Rules Design Pattern in Automation Testing appeared first on Automate The Planet.

.NET

Dev

Architect

Programming C# on Mac — One post guide

24 Jan 2016 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This is an introductory post for Mac developers to get started using C# programming language on Mac environments using Mono Project!

What Windows Runtime Can Teach .NET Developers?

6 Mar 2016 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

What Windows runtime can teach .NET developers

HoloLens Development using Visual Studio 2015 and Unity HoloLens Technical Preview

6 Jan 2017 by Mark Vinod Sinnathamby

This post is a tutorial that is complimentary to the session I did, demonstrating the steps of how a simple holographic application can be built and deployed in the HoloLens emulator.

Tutorial for Building Microservice Applications with Azure Container Apps and Dapr – Part 1

8 Sep 2022 by Taiseer Joudeh

Part 1 of a 10 post tutorial where we will build a full microservices app using Dapr and then deploy it to Azure Container Apps

Distributed Cache - Simplified

22 May 2009 by Diego Resnik

Cache mechanism is one of the basic infrastructures in every medium & above project, either web application or winForm application.

Silverlight Captcha Example

1 Sep 2009 by Jeremy Likness

Silverlight, with its powerful text and graphics manipulation capabilities and strong interaction with the scripting DOM, seems to be the perfect engine for a Captcha challenge.

Pex & Moles - Testing Business Layer

28 Jul 2012 by hoonzis

Pex is a tool which helps generate inputs for unit test. Moles is a stub framework used to isolate the unit tests from code which is not being tested. In this post, I will try to describe an attempt to use Pex and Moles to test a typical business layer.

Why You Should Be Using Interfaces In Your Code

2 Aug 2013 by Dev Leader

This post discusses why you should be using interfaces in your code

.NET

Dev

Architect

Dependency Injected Singletons… What?

2 Aug 2013 by Dev Leader

About dependency injected singletons

Remove Slow Startups and Enjoy Less “Suspense” through .NET 4.5.1′s App Suspend Feature

10 Oct 2013 by Rion Williams

This article covers one of the switches that you might be interested in flipping, the App Suspend feature, which is available in .NET 4.5.1 on Windows Server 2012 R2.

Get Ready to Learn SQL: 10. Database Second Normal Form Explained in Simple English

21 Oct 2014 by essentialSQL

Database Second Normal Form explained in simple English

Observer Design Pattern- Design Patterns Automated Testing

1 Jul 2015 by Anton Angelov

A detailed overview with examples how to utilize the Observer Design Pattern in automated tests to create an extendable test execution.

Progress Bar in Cell – Excel

18 Mar 2016 by johnniealan

This article describes about adding progress bar in cell.

Dependency Inversion in Java

7 Apr 2016 by Grzegorz @ tidyjava.com

Beginner guide to using the power of Dependency Inversion with examples in Java. Covers dependency injection, using abstractions and adapter pattern.

Grokking the CLI - Part 1: Meta Mayhem

15 Jun 2016 by Allen C. Copeland Jr

Grokking the CLI - Part 1: Meta Mayhem

Azure Functions Tutorial – SQL Database

18 Apr 2018 by Sarmaad Amin

Often a service is required to connect to a database to perform some operations. In this post, we are going to look at having an Azure Function connect and insert a record in database table. We will showcase the usage on nuget packages and usage in Azure Function to automate package management.

Page Objects with Partial Classes and Properties- WebDriver C#

26 Jun 2017 by Anton Angelov

Find how to create more refined and more maintainable page objects in WebDriver. These page objects will follow the Single Responsibility Principle more closely.

Look Behind the IQueryable Curtain

21 Jul 2020 by Jeremy Likness

Learn how to parse complex expression trees, and even modify them to alter IQueryable results.

LINQ: Enhancing Distinct with the SelectorEqualityComparer

15 Apr 2010 by Paulo Morgado

LINQ: Enhancing Distinct with the SelectorEqualityComparer

Writing a .NET debugger (part 2) – Handling events and creating wrappers

28 Oct 2010 by Sebastian Solnica

Writing a .NET debugger (part 2) – Handling events and creating wrappers

Architect

Delegates 101 - Part IV: Event Handling

7 May 2011 by MBigglesworth79

Event Handling

All-Topics

Architect

Aspects to Object vs. Aspects to Class

18 Jul 2011 by Gary H Guo

Discusses aspects to object and aspects to class

All-Topics

Dev

Architect

OOP, AOP and OP

18 Dec 2011 by Gary H Guo

Discuss object-oriented programming, aspect-oriented programming and object programming

To TDD or Not To TDD?

19 Mar 2012 by Nizar Noorani

To TDD or not to TDD

Architect

CLR Versions

29 Aug 2012 by Girish J Jain

Lets learn different CLR versions which exist and did we miss one between v2.0 and v4.0?

Implement Facebook Login with OpenID Selector in MVC3

3 Sep 2012 by S Ravi Kumar (TechieRathore)

How to use the OpenId selector tool in an ASP.NET MVC3 application

Create Parallel Task in State Machine Workflow in SharePoint 2010

17 Oct 2012 by Rohit Shrivastava

Create Parallel Task in State Machine Workflow in SharePoint 2010

VS2010

Dev

Architect

Software Architect Conference 2012

21 Nov 2012 by Chris_Green

I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to attend the Software Architect Conference this year in London. This is the same group which puts on DevWeek. It was short and sweet, just 2 days without the additional sessions before and after.

Coded UI Tests: Executing a Test Case While Desktop is Not Active

10 Dec 2012 by joinsaad

Coded UI Tests: Executing a test case while desktop is not active

Architect

Azure Diagnostics in the Cloud

5 Apr 2013 by AssemblySoft

Azure Diagnostics in the Cloud

Handling Casing Issues though Extension Methods in C# and Visual Basic

16 Sep 2013 by Rion Williams

Handling casing issues though Extension Methods in C# and Visual Basic.

Architect

Reduce the Size of MongoDB Documents Generated from .NET/C#

18 Mar 2014 by Pragmateek

How to reduce the size of MongoDB documents generated from .NET/C#

Synchronization, Memory Visibility and Leaky Abstractions

5 Apr 2014 by Pragmateek

Synchronization, Memory Visibility and Leaky Abstractions

Processing SQL Server FILESTREAM Data: Part 2 - The Setup

22 Sep 2014 by Bob McGowan

Utilizing SQL Server FILESTREAM capabilities from .NET

Windows Azure Storage Emulator failed to install

23 Sep 2014 by AssemblySoft

Upgrading Windows Azure Storage Emulator fails with error message 'Windows Azure Storage Emulator failed to install'

ASP.NET Website Project – External Assembly References

27 Sep 2014 by Mohit1110

In this blog, we would learn how an ASP.NET Website project keeps the references maintained as Website project does not have any Project file to maintain the same.

Guide For Building C# Apps on Ubuntu: NuGet Packages

21 Jan 2016 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

In this post version, I have talked about NuGet packages and their management in Mono environment.

Configure Git with Visual Studio Code

3 Sep 2016 by Mohit1110

How to configure Git with Visual Studio code

Always Encrypted Feature in SQL Server 2016

19 Oct 2016 by Manjuke Fernando

Always encrypted feature in SQL Server 2016

Using Munq IOC with ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2

23 Jan 2010 by Matthew Dennis

In this article, I will walk through the modification of the default ASP.NET MVC 2 application to use the Munq IOC container.

Simple External Templates With jQuery

15 Jan 2010 by webdev_hb

Some simple external templates with jQuery

CodeIt.Right Code File Header Template For StyleCop Rules

10 May 2010 by Paulo Morgado

CodeIt.Right Code File Header Template For StyleCop Rules

All-Topics

Dev

Architect

Compiling .NET 1.1 Projects In Visual Studio 2008

15 Apr 2010 by Paulo Morgado

How to compile .NET 1.1 projects in Visual Studio 2008

Munq IOC Container – Creating a Thread Local Storage Lifetime Manager

24 May 2010 by Matthew Dennis

Munq IOC Container – Creating a Thread Local Storage Lifetime Manager

Multi Language / Multicultural Exception Handling In WCF Using FaultReason

10 Jan 2011 by jebarson

Multi Language / Multicultural Exception Handling In WCF Using FaultReason

WCF

Architect

Liskovs Substitution Principle

27 May 2011 by jgauffin

This post is all about LSP.

Dev

Architect

So Where Do We Go From Here?

4 Jun 2011 by Pete O'Hanlon

Well, Microsoft has finally unveiled what is commonly known as Windows 8. The Metro UI represents a dramatic step forward for Windows applications.

Windows

Dev

Architect

Leaving Solution Land

25 Mar 2012 by AlexTatiyants

There is a big difference between figuring out what to do and why to do something.

Object Decoration is Functional Programming

3 May 2012 by Gary H Guo

Discuss object decoration, functional programming and dynamic behaviors

.NET

Dev

Architect

Tool: Code Metrics Viewer Extension for Visual Studio

22 Aug 2012 by Bryan O'Connell

Keep an eye on your team's software code metrics

Using the new .NET CLR without recompiling

13 Oct 2012 by Werner van Deventer

In-process side-by-side execution allows applications that were built on an older version of .NET (before 4.0) to use the new features of the updated CLR without even having to recompile your code!

.NET

Dev

Architect

Magic Wand: Object-relational mapping

2 Jan 2013 by Himanshu DS

What are the options available?

Architect

What are Exceptions?

4 Apr 2013 by jgauffin

This post will discuss what exceptions are.

Using LINQ to SQL for ETL projects

20 Jun 2013 by Bryan O'Connell

Using LINQ to SQL for ETL projects.

Canonical Data Source

4 Jul 2013 by TechMyTalk

SOA creates an environment where different types of data must work together.

Architect

Grails Design Best Practices

5 Jul 2013 by TechMyTalk

This article explains the usage and best practices around Grails.

Dev

Architect

The Beature: Is It a Bug Or Feature?

19 Jul 2013 by Zac Gery

"Beatures" fall into a gray area and come from a variety of sources, including customers, sales people, developers, QA analysts, or anyone with a bit of tinkering knowledge.

Dev

Architect

Singletons: Why Are They “Bad”?

9 Aug 2013 by Dev Leader

In this post, I’m going to focus on why singletons are “bad”, because for me it means acknowledging one of the two main perspectives–that they are the best thing since cat videos met The Internet or they are the worst thing since Justin Bieber.

Authentication Against CRM Contact using Custom STS

30 Oct 2013 by Manoj.Kumar12

Authentication against CRM contact using custom STS

How to Use CORS Requests in Internet Explorer 9 and Below

17 Apr 2014 by jgauffin

This article explains how you can automatically proxy CORS requests in jQuery without changing your existing code.

How to Connect ASP.NET Website to Remote Database for CRUD Operations

10 Jan 2015 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

An overview for connecting an ASP.NET website or a web application to a remote SQL Server database

Zend Framework 2: Error & Exception Handling

24 Jan 2015 by Prava-MFS

Zend Framework 2: Error & Exception Handling

Architect

Guide for Building C# Apps on Ubuntu: Language Quickies

15 Jan 2016 by Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan

This is the second part of the series of articles for Ubuntu programming using C#. In this, I am talking about the quick tools and helpful features provided by MonoDevelop for C# programmers.

My Understanding of ArcNet Protocol

3 Aug 2017 by johnniealan

ArcNet Protocol basics

Enhanced Selenium WebDriver Page Objects through Partial Classes

16 Apr 2017 by Anton Angelov

Find how to create more refined and more maintainable page objects in WebDriver. These page objects will follow more closely the Single Responsibility Principle.

The Real Answer to the FizzBuzz Interview Question

20 May 2018 by John M. Dlugosz

Here is the real answer to the FizzBuzz interview question

ESWC 2008 Day 2

7 Apr 2009 by Anna-Jayne Metcalfe

Last night we descended en-masse on Berliner Republik, a quirky bar where the beer prices go up and down according to demand (they even have a mini stock exchange - watch for the crashes and run for the bar!). Really good food, too.

Creating a Data Access layer using Unity

21 Aug 2009 by Martin Hinshelwood

I am always pulling out the Unity assemblies. Maybe it is just because I am lazy, but I really can’t be bothered rolling my own dependency injection and mapping framework!

BDD with DSL: "Aubergine", a ruby/cucumber like alternative for .NET - Download Available

6 Nov 2009 by Tom Janssens

In this article, you can download the very first alpha version of Aubergine; a BDD /DSL framework for .NET, initially based on Machine.Specifications, but later on heavily inspired by Cucumber.

.NET

Dev

Architect

Using LINQ To Filter By Object Type and Then Quantify

15 Apr 2010 by Joe Rattz

Using LINQ To Filter By Object Type and Then Quantify