Some interesting articles..

I’d like to keep links to some of interesting articles for future reference…

• Command Line Parsing on Windows with Mono.Options
• Windows 7 Ribbon for WinForms
• Execution plan operations – joins
• Automatic Null Checks

Articles on MVVW

Following are a few articles about MVVM pattern and some of frameworks in development.

• Learning Prism (Composite Application Guidance for WPF & Silverlight) MVVM Fundamentals
• A ChildWindow management service for MVVM applications
• A quick tour of existing MVVM frameworks
• MVVM Study: Part 1 – MVVM: Philosophy and Case Studies – Introduction; Part 2 – “View of the Model” or “Model of the View” ?;  Part 3 – Why?; Part 4: Naked WPF
• WPF Apps With The Model-View-ViewModel Design Pattern
• Model View ViewModel – Wikipedia
• What MVVM framework are you using?
• CoreMVVM – A Simple MVVM Framework
• Cinch : A Rich Full Featured WPF MVVM Framework
• GalaSoft - MVVM Light Toolkit
• Jason Dolinger on Model-View-ViewModel (video)

MVVM with Prism 101:

• Part 1: The Bootstrapper
• Part 2: The Shell
• Part 3: Regions
  • Part 3b: View Injection and The Controller Pattern
• Part 4: Modules
• Part 5: The View-Model
  • Part 5b: ServiceLocator vs Dependency Injection
• Part 6: Commands

 

Cinch : A Rich Full Featured WPF MVVM Framework

 

A set of articles on Ruby

Following are a set of articles on Ruby:

• Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C#: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7
• Getting IronRuby Up and Running
• Running Applications in IronRuby
• Using IronRuby To Implement Dynamic Business Rules
• Improve your C# with IronRuby

The C# Design Patterns Series

Here is a set of articles on C# design patterns series from GeekDaily:

• Part 1 – An Overview
• Part 2 – The Decorator Pattern
• Part 3 – The Abstract Factory Pattern
• Part 4 – The Observer Pattern
• Part 5 – The Facade Pattern
• Part 6 – The Visitor Pattern

Log4Net Tutorials

Here are a set of article on Log4Net:

• Log4Net Tutorial pt 1: Getting Started
• Log4Net Tutorial pt 2: Basic XML Configuration
• Log4Net Tutorial pt 3: Appenders
• Log4Net Tutorial pt 4: Layouts and Patterns
• Log4Net Tutorial pt 5: Using Logger Objects
• Log4Net Tutorial pt 6: Log Event Context
• Log4Net Tutorial pt 7: Filters
• Log4Net Tutorial pt 8: Lossy Logging
• Log4Net Recommended Practices pt 1: Your Code
• Extension Methods for Deferred Log4Net Message Formatting
• Using log4net

Some related posts:

• BizTalk 2006: Log4Net stops logging ?
• Setup a Log4Net Logger in your ASP.Net Web application
• Why Log4Net?

Stephen Walther on ASP.NET MVC

Chapter 1 – An Introduction to ASP.NET MVC

Chapter 2 – Building a Simple ASP.NET MVC Application

Chapter 3 – Understanding Controllers

Chapter 4 – Understanding Views

Chapter 5 – Understanding Models

Chapter 6 – Understanding HTML Helpers

jQuery resources

• Main site
• Documentation
• API Explorer
• jQuery-based user interface downloads / demos
• Collection of user-submitted plugins
• An Intensive Exploration Of jQuery With Ben Nadel (the video)
• Ultimate Collection of 40+ jQuery Tutorials and Resources
• An Introduction to jQuery UI – Part 1, Part 2
• 6 jQuery Chart Plugins For Your App
• 25 Powerful and Useful jQuery Tutorials for Developers and Designers
• 11 jQuery Plugins to Enhance HTML Dropdowns

Visual Studio – Debugging

Visual Studio – Debugging

1. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend- Intro – Lesson 1
2. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 2 – Breakpoints in SubExpressions
3. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 3 – BreakPoint HitCount
4. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 4 – Debugging Threads
5. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 5 – Using TracePoints
6. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 6 – Watch and Immediate Windows – Advanced Techniques
7. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 7 – Advanced Techniques – Using Object ID
8. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 8 – The Garbage Collector – GC
9. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 9 – The Set Next Statement
10. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 10 – Debugging Threads
11. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 11 – SQL Server Stored Procedures
12. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 12 – Debugging Javascript In Web Pages
13. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 13 – Debugging VBScript

Other Visual Studio related articles:

• Exporting Visual Studio Solutions with SolutionFactory

SQL Server 2008 Spacial Data

Here is a series of articles talking about the spacial data support by SQL Server 2008:

• SQL Server 2008: Spatial Data, Part 1
• SQL Server 2008: Spatial Data, Part 2
• SQL Server 2008: Spatial Data, Part 3
• SQL Server 2008: Spatial Data, Part 4
• SQL Server 2008: Spatial Data, Part 5
• SQL Server 2008: Spatial Data, Part 6
• SQL Server 2008: Spatial Data, Part 7
• SQL Server 2008: Spatial Data, Part 8

Also: Virtual Earth & SQL Server 2008

• Part 1: Introduction
• Part 2: Spatial Data Management in SQL Server 2008
• Part 3: Getting Started with Virtual Earth
• Part 4: Integrating SQL Server 2008 and Virtual Earth
• Part 5: Conclusion

Related links:

• Finding the distance between two points given their lat/long

IoC – StructureMap Links

Here are some links to IoC, and specifically to StructureMap:

• StructureMap Home Page

• AutoWiring in StructureMap 2.5+

• “BuildUp” Existing Objects with StructureMap

• Conditional Object Construction in StructureMap (i.e. Fun with Lambdas)

• IoC libraries compared
• StructureMap Tutorial
• Introduction to StructureMap