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ASP.NET Output Cache - Cleaning all at once

I’ve been using a feature of ASP.NET called Output Cache. It allows you to have server-side cache for your ASP.NET webpages. You can define several profiles and cache expiration rules. You can read more about it in a simple and short article at...

Published 5 Fev 2009 15:52 by Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog

Filed under: Web, Programming, .NET, ASP.NET

List Random Order in .NET using Linq

While refactoring some C# code I came across some lines that seemed a bit awkward. I was trying to sort a list or an array randomly. That code was written before Linq came into the .Net Framework, so now I was able to figure out a new approach. Since...

Published 27 Jan 2009 17:03 by Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog

Filed under: Programming, .NET

List Random Order in .NET using Linq

While refactoring some C# code I came across some lines that seemed a bit awkward. I was trying to sort a list or an array randomly. That code was written before Linq came into the .Net Framework, so now I was able to figure out a new approach. Since...

Published 27 Jan 2009 17:03 by Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog

Filed under: Programming, .NET

Using web.config for custom configuration settings

If you are an ASP.NET developer you must be familiar with web.config . Something that maybe you haven’t tried yet is to create custom configuration sections to store you application specific settings. Bellow you can see a web.config file that uses...

Published 22 Jan 2009 10:13 by Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog

Filed under: Web, Programming, .NET, ASP.NET

Linq - Adding element to collection, Union vs Concat

Some time ago while developing a project I came across a problem related to Linq to Objects. I wanted do join a single object with a collection in order to transverse them with a foreach statement (the item was not allways present and I wanted to treat...

Published 21 Jan 2009 11:45 by Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog

Filed under: Programming, .NET

More about Azure Platform Services

Some highlights from a nice article that I found in my feeds . They are excerpts of the document, text in italic was written by me. Please note that the lines lack some context. .NET Services .NET Access Control Service All communication with the Access...

Published 29 Out 2008 15:27 by Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog

Filed under: Web, Programming, My Life, .NET, Events, Windows

First toughts about Windows Azure

After the yesterday’s announcement of Windows Azure , the brand new cloud-based Windows, today I started reading a little bit about it. This new platform seems promising, and I’ll write a bit about it in some of my next blog entries. First...

Published 28 Out 2008 12:33 by Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog

Filed under: Web, Programming, .NET, Windows

C# Yellow Book by Rob Miles

Rob Miles (a MVP from UK) has made available in his website a C# book for beginners that is used in this university in the First Year programming course. Download the PDF and happy reading.

Published 20 Out 2008 9:59 by Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog

Filed under: Programming, .NET

Using Neural Networks for Classification

During the last weeks I’ve been doing some research related to my Master thesis. One of the topics I’m studying is Unsupervised Machine Learning . The main goal is to have a piece of software that given a training set (a set of examples representative...

Published 15 Out 2008 20:18 by Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog

Filed under: Software, Programming, .NET, Artificial Intelligence

XNA Game Studio 3.0 beta | Now Live!

This release represents the beta of Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.0, which enables hobbyists, academics, and independent game developers to easily create video games for Windows and the Microsoft Zune digital media player using optimized cross-platform...

Published 17 Set 2008 10:01 by Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog

Filed under: Programming, XNA, XBox 360, .NET

Data Visualization Charts (Part 3 - WCF Webservice Data Source)

Since I’m having trouble to get enough time to complete these post series (1 post was left), I’ll just leave you the source code. It contains a sample of a WCF service that uses LINQ to SQL to retrieve some data from a SQL Server Database...

Published 9 Set 2008 11:51 by Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog

Filed under: Web, Programming, .NET, Silverlight, WCF

Data Visualization Charts (Part 2 - XML Data Source)

Previously I’ve written about how to create data charts using Silverlight. The data was coming from an static array, which is not that useful after all. Now lets see how to use data from an XML file. Bellow you can see an example of the XML file...

Published 29 Ago 2008 13:42 by Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog

Filed under: Web, Programming, .NET, Silverlight

Data Visualization Charts (Part 1 - Silverlight Interface)

Recently someone told me about a data visualization component library powered by Microsoft Silverlight. What is Visifire? Visifire is a set of open source data visualization components - powered by Microsoft ® Silverlight ™ . With Visifire you can create...

Published 22 Ago 2008 23:02 by Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog

Filed under: Web, Programming, .NET, Silverlight

.NET - the Environment class

In the System namespace there is a class called Environment which gives you access to a lot of information about the environment where your application is running. A nice one that I use is stored in the NewLine property. It gives you the characters sequence...

Published 12 Ago 2008 20:56 by Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog

Filed under: Programming, .NET, Windows

Text label “inside” password input (safe without javascript)

You can find several ways of putting some sample text in a HTML input text which fades away when you click it. Some of them use a few lines of javascript, others take advantage of Javascript frameworks, and there are even ways to achieve it using just...

Published 7 Ago 2008 20:04 by Bruno Silva » Bruno Silva - Technology Blog

Filed under: Web, Programming, .NET, ASP.NET

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ASP.NET Output Cache - Cleaning all at once

List Random Order in .NET using Linq

List Random Order in .NET using Linq

Using web.config for custom configuration settings

Linq - Adding element to collection, Union vs Concat

More about Azure Platform Services

First toughts about Windows Azure

C# Yellow Book by Rob Miles

Using Neural Networks for Classification

XNA Game Studio 3.0 beta | Now Live!

Data Visualization Charts (Part 3 - WCF Webservice Data Source)

Data Visualization Charts (Part 2 - XML Data Source)

Data Visualization Charts (Part 1 - Silverlight Interface)

.NET - the Environment class

Text label “inside” password input (safe without javascript)