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This Website holds a collection of the Song 99 Bottles of Beer programmed in different programming languages. Actually the song is represented in 1253 different programming languages and variations. For more detailed information refer to historic information. All these little programs generate the lyrics...
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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 MSDN or in the full documentation also at MSDN. A...
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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 Linq to Objects has some similarities with SQL, I...
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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 Linq to Objects has some similarities with SQL, I...
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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 a custom configuration section. In the configuration...
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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 it as a regular element in the original collection...
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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 Control Service relies on standard protocols such...
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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 of all I’ll talk about the Windows Azure, which...
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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.
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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 of the whole population) allow the software...
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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 gaming libraries based on the .NET Framework. The...
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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 (AdventureWorks) and return it as XML. I’ve...
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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 we’ll use. It is as simple as it can be, having...
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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 and embed visually stunning animated Silverlight...
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Today I was testing a website using a HTML W3C validation tool (XHTML 1.0 Transitional) and I found a problem in my links. Some URLs had the & symbol, since they linked to dynamic webpages which need parameters. The trivial solution is to replace the “&” occurrences on all links by...