http://nickberardi.com/tags/.net/ Recent content in .Net on Nick Berardi Hugo -- 0.155.3 en-us Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:18:31 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/how-fluent-cassandra-handles-runtime-types/ Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:18:31 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/how-fluent-cassandra-handles-runtime-types/ Today I had the question come up about some wonky behavior with retrieving data from Cassandra for non-string types.  Here is the issue in a... http://nickberardi.com/posts/your-first-fluent-cassandra-application-part-2/ Sun, 06 Jun 2010 03:19:38 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/your-first-fluent-cassandra-application-part-2/ Last time I demonstrated how to create your first Fluent Cassandra app. After we finished learning about how to create records and save them to the... http://nickberardi.com/posts/your-first-fluent-cassandra-application/ Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:18:46 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/your-first-fluent-cassandra-application/ As your are probably aware by now if you follow my Twitter status or have looked in to some of my recent posts.  I am developing a library called... http://nickberardi.com/posts/gitignore-config-file-for-net-projects/ Wed, 19 May 2010 14:18:58 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/gitignore-config-file-for-net-projects/ I wanted to post this mostly for my future reference. But I think it is also equally as useful to anybody else with a .NET project that is using the Git... http://nickberardi.com/posts/timeuuid-only-makes-sense-with-version-1-uuids/ Sun, 16 May 2010 18:43:04 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/timeuuid-only-makes-sense-with-version-1-uuids/ In a world where we are all use to dealing with objects we often forget that everything gets reduced to ones and zeros before being transmitted over the... http://nickberardi.com/posts/creating-a-time-uuid-guid-in-net/ Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:04:05 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/creating-a-time-uuid-guid-in-net/ Previously I had written about how to setup Cassandra as a database on your Windows machine. As I was diving in deeper to learn more about the subject, I... http://nickberardi.com/posts/determining-a-significant-change-in-a-web-page/ Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:00:00 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/determining-a-significant-change-in-a-web-page/ The problem with many web pages today is that they include useless hidden pieces of constantly changing information that serves no purpose to the general... http://nickberardi.com/posts/asp-net-mvc-0-to-30-in-30-minutes/ Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:28:23 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/asp-net-mvc-0-to-30-in-30-minutes/ I recorded the following presentation for DevReady.NET, a new project that I am working on with a bunch of talented MVC’s and Microsoft employees. After I... http://nickberardi.com/posts/sometimes-you-just-need-to-codinghorror-it/ Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:53:46 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/sometimes-you-just-need-to-codinghorror-it/ The title of this post is a tongue-in-cheek reference to SubSonic’s inline query by the same name, which in turn is a reference to the blogger Jeff... http://nickberardi.com/posts/static-constructors-in-net-3-5-still-a-bad-thing/ Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:55:02 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/static-constructors-in-net-3-5-still-a-bad-thing/ Recently at the Philly.NET User Group, Kathleen Dollard gave a great presentation on the use of generics and rethinking object orientation. Both topics... http://nickberardi.com/posts/creating-your-first-mvc-viewengine/ Mon, 11 May 2009 02:46:08 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/creating-your-first-mvc-viewengine/ A question that I have been hearing a lot lately is: How do I change the view location in MVC? But what they really mean to say is: How do I create a new... http://nickberardi.com/posts/recession-proof-your-programming-skills/ Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:43 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/recession-proof-your-programming-skills/ In this economy you have to do everything to keep your skills fresh and current so that employers find you a desirable hire. I really though the tips... http://nickberardi.com/posts/i-see-at-least-4-things-wrong-with-this-code/ Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:38:21 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/i-see-at-least-4-things-wrong-with-this-code/ I saw this code over on Ayende's website. I see at least 4 things wrong with this code, which was found here. public object DeepCopy (object value) { try... http://nickberardi.com/posts/the-state-of-altnet/ Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:17:11 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/the-state-of-altnet/ Over the past 6 months I have been trying to really quantify what it means to be using ALT.NET practices. And I can honestly say that I still honestly... http://nickberardi.com/posts/introducing-aspnet-mvc-part-6-the-view/ Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:06:54 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/introducing-aspnet-mvc-part-6-the-view/ This is a continuation of my Introduction to ASP.NET MVC series. As I outlined before this is in an effort to write the book and keep blogging, I decided... http://nickberardi.com/posts/introducing-aspnet-mvc-part-5-the-model/ Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:13:04 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/introducing-aspnet-mvc-part-5-the-model/ This is a continuation of my Introduction to ASP.NET MVC series. As I outlined before this is in an effort to write the book and keep blogging, I decided... http://nickberardi.com/posts/introducing-aspnet-mvc-part-4-first-aspnet-mvc-project/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:00:21 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/introducing-aspnet-mvc-part-4-first-aspnet-mvc-project/ This is a continuation of my Introduction to ASP.NET MVC series. As I outlined before this is in an effort to write the book and keep blogging, I decided... http://nickberardi.com/posts/introducing-aspnet-mvc-part-3-installing-prerequisites/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:50:02 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/introducing-aspnet-mvc-part-3-installing-prerequisites/ This is a continuation of my Introduction to ASP.NET MVC series. As I outlined before this is in an effort to write the book and keep blogging, I decided... http://nickberardi.com/posts/introducing-aspnet-mvc-part-2-aspnet-mvc-vs-webforms/ Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:42:30 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/introducing-aspnet-mvc-part-2-aspnet-mvc-vs-webforms/ This is a continuation of my Introduction to ASP.NET MVC series. As I outlined before this is in an effort to write the book and keep blogging, I decided... http://nickberardi.com/posts/introducing-aspnet-mvc-part-1-model-view-controller/ Sun, 14 Dec 2008 05:45:08 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/introducing-aspnet-mvc-part-1-model-view-controller/ About a month and a half ago I announced that I am writing a book, I was really overwhelmed by the amount of support that I received from this... http://nickberardi.com/posts/creating-extension-module-net-url-rewriter-reverse-proxy/ Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:37:25 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/creating-extension-module-net-url-rewriter-reverse-proxy/ Wow that is a long title. Recently I have been looking for quick posts that I can put out each day to keep my blog relevant and also so I don't feel like... http://nickberardi.com/posts/how-not-to-optimize-linq/ Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:35:05 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/how-not-to-optimize-linq/ About a month ago I was experimenting with different ways to optimize my LINQ queries against the IdeaPipe database, in order to improve the read times. I... http://nickberardi.com/posts/mvc-captcha-for-preview-release-3/ Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:08:24 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/mvc-captcha-for-preview-release-3/ Since my last release of the MVC toolkit some major changes have taken place in the MVC Framework. I am going to do a quick run through of how they... http://nickberardi.com/posts/mvc-facebook-wonderful-development-platform/ Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:05:12 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/mvc-facebook-wonderful-development-platform/ Just recently I started experimenting with the ASP.NET MVC Framework and the Facebook Development Platform, it has been a very bumpy road, but I have... http://nickberardi.com/posts/scaling-aspnet-applications-with-velocity/ Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:04:50 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/scaling-aspnet-applications-with-velocity/ Scaling ASP.NET Application just got easier with a new technology that Microsoft has just released that they have dubbed codename "Velocity". This product... http://nickberardi.com/posts/aspnet-mvc-preview-3-released/ Tue, 27 May 2008 06:40:20 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/aspnet-mvc-preview-3-released/ The ASP.NET MVC Team has released an refresh of MVC. To all those that are interested the new Preview Release is posted at:... http://nickberardi.com/posts/microsoft-soruce-analysis-still-needs-work/ Fri, 23 May 2008 14:49:45 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/microsoft-soruce-analysis-still-needs-work/ Microsoft just released a tool called Microsoft Source Analysis for C#. Apparently it is a tool they use internally to make sure all their souce code... http://nickberardi.com/posts/interesting-extension-hack-to-get-around-nullreferenceexceptions/ Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:19:22 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/interesting-extension-hack-to-get-around-nullreferenceexceptions/ Today I came across an interesting extension pattern that I didn't know how the runtime would react. Normally when you do something like the following:... http://nickberardi.com/posts/mvc-toolkit/ Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:04:54 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/mvc-toolkit/ Today I decided to release a toolkit that I have been building over the past couple of months. Most of the code in the toolkit is related to MVC. Here is... http://nickberardi.com/posts/why-json-deserialization-important/ Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:48:08 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/why-json-deserialization-important/ Recently I have been working on a RESTful interface for a Web 2.0 project that I will be releasing very soon. And one of the self imposed requirements... http://nickberardi.com/posts/force-mvc-route-url-lowercase/ Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:45:06 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/force-mvc-route-url-lowercase/ So one of my pet peeves in web development is mixed case URL's. And I usually make sure that all my URL's in my personal projects follow this standard. I... http://nickberardi.com/posts/securing-mvc-controller-actions/ Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:59:06 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/securing-mvc-controller-actions/ So I just read Rob Conery's blog post on Securing Your Controller Actions in MVC. I was a little perplexed about why guys at Microsoft love to reinvent... http://nickberardi.com/posts/actionfilterattribute-aspnet-mvc-captcha/ Sun, 09 Mar 2008 08:33:17 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/actionfilterattribute-aspnet-mvc-captcha/ My last article on ASP.NET MVC CAPTCHA was very well received by many of my readers and it even caught the eye of the DotNetKicks crowd. Now that MVC... http://nickberardi.com/posts/singularity-source-code-released-codeplex/ Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:28:33 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/singularity-source-code-released-codeplex/ Just saw on OSNews that Microsoft Research has just released the Singularity Source Code on CodePlex. Microsoft has released source code from the... http://nickberardi.com/posts/aspnet-mvc-captcha/ Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:33:36 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/aspnet-mvc-captcha/ Note: Most recent update for MVC Release Candidate 3 is out. So my MVC application that I have been working on required a CAPTCHA today. The problem is... http://nickberardi.com/posts/aspnet-mvc-validation-and-seo/ Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:50:35 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/aspnet-mvc-validation-and-seo/ Recently I have been using the ASP.NET MVC framework for a project at work. And one of the requirements was that certain data inputed in to the URL be... http://nickberardi.com/posts/microsoft-mvc-day-one/ Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:21:04 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/microsoft-mvc-day-one/ I am really blown back about how fast and easy MVC is to develop with. I know the guys at Microsoft do a good job with their .NET coding, but I am really... http://nickberardi.com/posts/essential-software/ Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:51:11 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/essential-software/ Every developer has their favorite tool collection that they must have in order to survive while developing software. The list below is indispensable in... http://nickberardi.com/posts/linq-cheat-sheet/ Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:45:38 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/linq-cheat-sheet/ This cheat sheet was compiled by Milan Negovan at http://www.aspnetresources.com/. It is very handy and I recommend everybody download it and print it... http://nickberardi.com/posts/url-rewriter-reverse-proxy-iis-wordpress/ Sun, 10 Feb 2008 06:00:22 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/url-rewriter-reverse-proxy-iis-wordpress/ First off I would like to say that many of my readers are very intelligent, they picked up on a one line sentence in my last post about my new design and... http://nickberardi.com/posts/name-this-programming-pattern/ Sun, 03 Feb 2008 08:50:43 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/name-this-programming-pattern/ Recently I have been working very hard on getting a new Web 2.0 initiative off the ground. With most new initiatives I like to start out by looking for... http://nickberardi.com/posts/seo-c-sharp-extenion-methods/ Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:04:29 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/seo-c-sharp-extenion-methods/ I previously talked about the importance of using the correct kind of redirect to optimize your website for search engines in an article titled. World Of... http://nickberardi.com/posts/visual-studio-2008-and-net-35-released/ Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:07:27 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/visual-studio-2008-and-net-35-released/ Scott Guthrie has announced that Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 are now available for download and provides a tour of some of the new features. If you... http://nickberardi.com/posts/how-to-resolve-relative-urls-without-resolveurl/ Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:01:39 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/how-to-resolve-relative-urls-without-resolveurl/ Sometimes you need to resolve relative url's without ResolveUrl. If the code is executing outside a Control, for example in an IHttpHandler or business... http://nickberardi.com/posts/anything-for-sale-by-owner/ Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:46:04 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/anything-for-sale-by-owner/ As I alluded in a post a couple of weeks ago, I have been a bad blogger. And I have neglected my community of readers. However I would like to tell you... http://nickberardi.com/posts/creating-a-more-accurate-json-net-serializer/ Fri, 24 Aug 2007 07:16:22 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/creating-a-more-accurate-json-net-serializer/ Recently I have been diving in to the world of REST and all the great things that come along with that. If you are not familiar with REST and what it... http://nickberardi.com/posts/wii-debugging-your-net-code-on-linux/ Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:18:26 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/wii-debugging-your-net-code-on-linux/ It's official MainSoft developers have too much time on their hands. I personally think so, but if you are one of those coders who always wished they... http://nickberardi.com/posts/evolution-of-linq-and-its-impact-c-30/ Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:32:52 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/evolution-of-linq-and-its-impact-c-30/ One of the things I love to learn about is the history of how things come to be. Specifically my interests have always been in the evolutions of religion... http://nickberardi.com/posts/sql-server-2008-will-have-7-new-datatypes/ Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:57:49 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/sql-server-2008-will-have-7-new-datatypes/ I haven't even herd of a new version of SQL Server 2008, coming out, but according to this blog the new version has some very interesting and new data... http://nickberardi.com/posts/less-rules-imposed-the-better/ Fri, 01 Jun 2007 05:56:45 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/less-rules-imposed-the-better/ Recently I read an article from Jeff Atwood, where he basically claimed the brevity leads to better code. Personally I think his example he gave: if (s ==... http://nickberardi.com/posts/understanding-c-operator/ Fri, 11 May 2007 10:06:12 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/understanding-c-operator/ The ?? operator returns the left-hand operand if it is not null, or else it returns the right operand. int? i = null; int count = i ?? 0; The value that... http://nickberardi.com/posts/creating-a-vista-like-search-box/ Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:14:01 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/creating-a-vista-like-search-box/ Introduction In this post we are going to go over what it takes to create a control, and more specifically a Vista Search Box like control. Definition of... http://nickberardi.com/posts/using-distributed-transactions-in-your-data-layer/ Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:59:32 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/using-distributed-transactions-in-your-data-layer/ Many developers use a pattern called ORM or Object Relation Mapping to generate data layers for their application. Many other developers choose to create... http://nickberardi.com/posts/how-to-unit-test-hidden-classes/ Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:38:59 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/how-to-unit-test-hidden-classes/ Unit testing is an important part of developing high quality software. Many of you are probably not familiar with the term Unit Testing. Wikipedia defines... http://nickberardi.com/posts/visual-studio-2005-update-for-windows-vista/ Wed, 07 Mar 2007 06:00:44 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/visual-studio-2005-update-for-windows-vista/ I was reading Tim Sneath's blog today and noticed his post on the release of a Visual Studio 2005 Update for Windows Vista was released. It is a... http://nickberardi.com/posts/visual-studio-team-edition-for-database-professionals-error-connecting-in-vista/ Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:44:33 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/visual-studio-team-edition-for-database-professionals-error-connecting-in-vista/ As you may all know I have Windows Vista Ultimate x64 and last post I talked about upgrading to SQL Server 2005 SP2. However while starting my first... http://nickberardi.com/posts/proper-use-idisposable/ Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:05:13 -0500 http://nickberardi.com/posts/proper-use-idisposable/ The System.IDisposable interface is a very useful interface to understand if you are concerned about performance in your application. Microsoft says the...