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March 2010
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Don’t Depend Upon the ASP.NET Membership Tables
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– One very popular option for implementing user security in ASP.NET is to use Forms Authentication with the SQL Server membership provider. This provider creates several database tables to store user-related information, as well as a number stored procedures. From time to time, a developer will ...
February 2010
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jqGrid and XSS Security
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– Version 3.5.2 of jqGrid included an important new feature: Now when autoencode is set to true we encode the data coming from server and not only when we post it (secutity fix) Prior to this, you were required to encode the data yourself. Now personally, I think that should be the default. But ...
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Entity Framework Models and Source Control
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– As you're probably aware, an Entity Framework model is stored in a single XML file, with the extension EDMX. Developers occasionally ask if this means that two people cannot work on the entity model concurrently. My answer to this is, "It depends." But I can give you some tips to ...
January 2010
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join in LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Entities Considered Messy, Redundant
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– In this post I will demonstrate that use of the join keyword in LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Entities is nearly always wrong. LINQ queries which you write with the join keyword are harder to read and write than queries you write using associations, and they require knowledge of ...
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Crossword No. 2
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– DotNetSlackers just published a crossword puzzle I created; you'll see the grid below. The puzzle is focused on .NET and programming themes, including a Delphi reference here and there. The site editors wanted an article to go with the puzzle, so I wrote an article explaining how I created the ...
December 2009
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Projecting Onto A Presentation Model with the Entity Framework and ASP.NET MVC
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– In this post, I will demonstrate how to map entity models to views in an ASP.NET MVC application without worrying about implementation details like eager loading, lazy loading, or having to manually optimize SQL for the task at hand. I will argue that expressing the relationship between an entity ...
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Delphi Developers: Go Buy CodeHealer
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– If you're doing commercial Delphi development and you're not already doing static analysis in your automated build, go buy CodeHealer now. Nick Hodges has arranged a 1/2 price special offer. There is no good reason not to use static analysis. If you are the sort of person who doesn't allow hints ...
October 2009
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Interview With Me At Delphi.org
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– Jim McKeeth interviewed me for Episode 34 of The Podcast At Delphi.org.Share This | Email this page to a friend
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Updating to ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2
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– Last week, I updated our main development branch to ASP.NET MVC 2 preview 2 (from preview 1). In this post, I'll list some of the features I've found, and also issues I encountered and how I resolved them. New Features Some of the new features of preview 2 have been discussed elsewhere, ...
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Comparing C#, C++, and Delphi (Win32) Generics
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– C#, C++, and Delphi all have a generic type and method language feature. Although all three languages are statically typed, they implement generics in very different ways. I'm going to give a brief overview of the differences, both in terms of language features and implementation. I presume that ...
September 2009
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NDepend Review and Tips
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– On and off for the past few months, I've been experimenting with the .NET static analysis tool NDepend. NDepend works somewhat differently than most other static analysis tools I've tried. Notably, Most tools tend to work on either compiled assemblies or source code. NDepend uses both. Most tools ...
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The Leadership Mistake I Keep Making
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– Jim Holmes gave a very nice presentation on leadership at the last Columbus Architecture Group meeting. He has covered much of the same material in a series of posts which you can read on his blog. Maybe it's just the way that I think, but as I listened to him ...
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This Blog Is Now (Officially) Free
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– I've been posting technical articles and source code on this blog for many years now, but I've never formerly specified a license for the material I've posted. Obviously, I wouldn't post it if I didn't want people to use what I've written, but I understand that my good intentions are ...
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Static Analysis and Generated Code
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– In recent months, I've been thinking about the problem of static analysis in generated code. Static analysis means using tools like FxCop and NDepend (for .NET apps) lint (for C) and CodeHealer (for Delphi) to find potential problems in your source code. Generated code is code written not by a ...
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How to Think Like the Entity Framework Presentation Available for Free Download
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– My CodeRage presentation, "How to Think Like the Entity Framework (and why you might want to bother learning that in the first place)," is now available for free download.Share This | Email this page to a friend
