Having spent a bit too long playing with an iMac in the Apple store on Saturday - I'm nearly convinced that it can be my next desktop. Would the "base" 24"...
Does anyone have any recommendations for books on BDD? I would prefer something tooling-neutral, but if there's nothing to be found then .NET-oriented would be...
I wasn't a fan of the ModelState dictionary in ASP.NET MVC. I wanted to make my view models more explicit about the fact their data comes from HTTP input. So I...
Looks like Microsoft has heard the community loud and clear. The message, don't re-invent the wheel. First with leveraging jQuery and now the decision to...
Registration just opened http://altnetconfcanada.com/home/index.castle Hope those left coasters are up early. Cheers, Greg -- It is the mark of an educated...
I'm a big fan of automated QA testing, whether that's Selenium, et.al. for web testing or any of the various testing suites for WinForms apps (e.g. ...
I'm happy to announce this months Edinburgh Scot Alt.Net meeting will take place on the 28th May at 7PM in The Rutland Hotel. You can register your interest...
How can a WCF service endpoint be configured to accept any type of message (formatted as SOAP,POX, JSON or text) and how can the service access the raw bytes...
Hi All I may need some consulting help with a WPF client application. The domain and in turn db schema are fine, but may need some WPF client skills to help...
A very kind person has just sent me £100 in Amazon book tokens for helping him with a problem - so now I want some book recommendations. I don't mind which...
I spent today playing around with validation (mostly for inbound HTML form post data in MVC). What do people think about using Expression trees instead of...
MVC in ASPX http://polymorphicpodcast.com/podcast/video/mv-patterns/winforms/ MVC in WinForms http://polymorphicpodcast.com/podcast/video/mv-patterns/winforms/...
I came accross this the other day and its a really neat idea http://www.infoq.com/zones/Virtual-Training/ Given I would personally prefer such things to be...
Hi all, i'm just working on a project where there is a requirement for ORM independence (my personal opinion is that this is ridiculous). so one of the problem...
Can anyone comment on or have experience of using C# is soft real-time environments (i.e. not embedded, but deadline sensitive)? This would be for a...
Hi guys, I am wanting to strive for statelessness in web application, particularly with the goodness of stateless style in .net MVC. I'm wondering how strict ...
We (may) have a case coming up shortly where we are displaying something on screen (for arguments sake, a payslip) via a internet facing website. These...
Hi, We are working on a monolithic brownfield application; currently working on v12.0. A few of us have been sneaking in some better practices, such as...
I don't know what technologies AccuRev is built on, but whatever they are we should all stop doing what we do now and use those. According to the reply on my...
I am reviewing Microsofts Business Rules Framework and their implementation of the same, their Business Rules Engine (MS-BRE). We are comparing this to ...
Hi, I wanted to know what are the opinions on designing the web service object oriented style or the messaging style. Lets take an simple example of...
hi all, Just a quick question. I am assuming people have evolved beyond paper and pen to record what is discussed at client meetings/workshops. Creating user...
http://railsconf.blip.tv/file/2089545/ What Killed Smalltalk Could Kill AltDotNet, Too -- Heinrich Breedt “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but...
thought this to be worth to mention on this list: http://speakingofclouds.com/?p=207 sounds surprisingly reasonable, so we probably should welcome the new, now...
Hi Altdotnet, I invited you to join Facebook a while ago and wanted to remind you that once you join, we'll be able to connect online, share photos, organise...
One of the perennial issues when doing OSS is that it is difficult to recruit people to perform certain jobs: promotion, testing, documentation, web design,...
Hello everybody, I have been involved recently (by choice) in delivering sessions in topics like Design Patterns, ASP.NET MVC, and Framework Design Guidelines...
Totally OT, I know. I haven't done any Java since University (I think it was 1.4/1.5 Swing apps we did back then). Currently I'm working with .Net in my day...
Hi all, I've been asked by my local users group to give an entry level talk on TDD. Does anyone have some slides that they would like to share so I can use...
