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Monday, March 05, 2007 - Posts

  • NUnit 2.4 RC

    Charlie and the NUnit team have been hard at work with the fruits of labour seeing light of day in the RC of NUnit 2.4 . I note with interest that the constraint based asserts have been added in this RC. On the TDD list this syntax was debated in some detail so it will be interesting to see if the syntax does need tweaking when out in the wild. It's certainlly a cool feature and kudos to Charlie and the rest of the folks. Read More...
  • Why I Structured My Book Like I Did

    A programmer named Ben Hayat writes in an email: I'm starting to learn WPF and I've bought three books, including yours. I've looked at a series of web casts, read lots of Blogs and articles. The interesting thing is that in every resources that I've looked at, every author jumps into XAML and begins the show. Only when the design is done, if any back logic needed, then they use C# as code behind. But 90% of the emphasis is done using XAML. Even though the same result can be achieved using C#. The funny thing is that most of these authors are C# programmers and the audience are also C# programmers and they are delving into XAML. Then I look at your book. Someone who is an expert in writing technical book, is doing the exact opposite. Starts with C# and then half way completes the book with XAML. Well, if you ask me, I'd have done it the exact same way as you have, but when I see everyone does it the other way, I began to doubt myself at first, but seeing you've done the same, this question Read More...
  • The trouble with webforms

    Ayende has a post on "Removing the leaky abstractions from webforms", webforms do leak abstractions like a water mains with a hole it. I see folks going to great lengths to reduce page bloat by removing all viewstate and in the process creating a kind of ASP on .NET model. MonoRail helps you achieve this goal and does provide a clear seperation of concern by following MVC closely. Read More...
  • Rough Cuts - WPF Book Preview

    Chris Sells and I are hard at work on the 2nd edition of our WPF book. We're getting closer, but if you just can't wait for the full production process to run to completion (a surprising amount seems to happen between writing the last chapter, and seeing it in print) there is an alternative. O'Reilly make work in progress for some books available for purchase online through their rough cuts service. You can either buy access to just the rough cuts, or you can pay a little more to get access to the previews and then a proper copy of the book once it's ready. Here is the rough cuts edition of Programming WPF . Read More...

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