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Preparing for and Taking Microsoft Certification Exams

June 17, 2012

Leverage optimal study and test-taking techniques to prepare for and pass your next Microsoft Certification Exam. [Full Article]

Limit IIS to a Single IP Address

June 05, 2012

Limit IIS to a single IP Address, permitting running additional web servers (embedded or standalone) on the same machine, along side of IIS. [Full Article]

Tags: IIS 

Auto-Notifying View Models in Silverlight and WPF

March 12, 2012

Many aspects of the MVVM architecture for Silverlight and WPF development permit easy and seamless integration with the XAML markup. However, the time consuming and awkward task of raising property changed notifications for every bounded view model property leaves much to be desired. Luckily, we can leverage dynamic proxies, generated during runtime, to automatically raise property changed notification events, significantly reducing the amount of effort, time, and number of lines required to implement custom view models. [Full Article]

Categories: Microsoft .NET  |  Tags: .NET 4.0  WPF  Silverlight  MVVM  C# 

Randomizing Enumerables via Extension Methods

January 22, 2012

Randomize all the values in an IEnumerable or choose a random value using extension methods and LINQ, enumerating the collection only once. [Full Article]

Categories: Microsoft .NET  |  Tags: LINQ  Extensions 

Rendering Microsoft .NET 4.0 Charts in ASP.NET MVC

January 21, 2012

Render Microsoft Charting 3D Charts the easy way in ASP.NET MVC in a straight-forward, cacheable, and easy to implement solution. [Full Article]

Categories: Microsoft .NET  |  Tags: MVC  .NET 4.0  C# 

Removing Visual Studio WebSite Root Folder Development Server URL

December 17, 2011

Visual Studio's included ASP.NET Development Server includes the project base directory name in the default debugging URL for non-compiled ASP.NET websites. This default virtual path causes trouble with non-relative Uri's, including CSS and JavaScript includes [Full Article]

Categories: Microsoft .NET  |  Tags: Visual Studio