Perry Stathopoulos

Dynamic LINQ

pstatho — Sat, 10 May 2008 10:36:50 +0000

Good blog post the describes using dynamic LINQ to create lambda expressions to use in LINQ.

Silverlight Resources

pstatho — Sat, 10 May 2008 10:34:30 +0000

Mike Snow has a list of Silverlight resources here. Check out the comments for other links as well.

Improve LINQ to SQL performance

pstatho — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:21:25 +0000

While it is easy to get carried away with using LINQ to SQL, developers have the responsibility to understand what is going on under the hood and to ensure that things are running as smoothly and efficiently as possible.

The following blog post describes 10 tips from improving LINQ to SQL performance, highly recommended for anyone using LINQ to SQL.

HOWTO: Silverlight Unit Testing Framework

pstatho — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:16:57 +0000

Jeff Wilcox has a detail blog post on unit testing Silverlight applications. I can’t wait to try this out. Looks very promising, since I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to test the UI.

ASP.NET Debugging

pstatho — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:36:20 +0000

For help with debugging ASP.NET issue especially on production servers. The following 2 blogs provide very valuable information as to inner working of ASP.NET.

http://blogs.msdn.com/tess/

http://blogs.msdn.com/tom

Open-source Silverlight Charts!

pstatho — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:32:07 +0000

The guys at Visifire have made available some really nice Silverlight 2.0 charts. These charts render beautifully with animation.

Best of all it’s open-sourced!

Debugging WPF Databinding

pstatho — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:31:24 +0000

Beatriz Costa has a good write up on debugging WPF databinding. I will have to try out to see if there is something similar with Silverlight.

ASP.NET MVC Request Lifecycle

pstatho — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:40:10 +0000

Stepehn Walther has a great in depth blog post on the lifecycle of an ASP.NET MVC request. You will need to dedicate several minutes to reading this in-depth, but it certainly is worth it.

Moq - An Awesome .NET Mocking Framework

pstatho — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:34:31 +0000

I came across Moq a mocking framework specifically designed for .NET 3.5. You know when you hear that lambda expressions are going to be used heavily…and they are.

But, that’s a ~~good~~ great thing. You just need to start using it in a couple of tests and bam! before you know it, it will seem intuitive to you.

Oh and btw the document is not bad at all and full of examples to get you started.

Online CSS Reference

pstatho — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:45:33 +0000

CSS can be a very tricky and complicated subject. Using it for layout sometimes can get hairy and quite frankly you can often get lost with so many style classes.

Here is a great link to an online CSS reference that explains the ins and outs of CSS

http://reference.sitepoint.com/css