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Some time back, I blogged about different options to hook up a view to its view model when following the ViewModel (aka MVVM) pattern. There are multiple approaches in use out there. I raised the possibility of a convention-based approach in addit...
Fabulous Adventures In Coding
2/25/2010
Suppose you’re shutting down the worker thread we were talking about last time, and it throws an exception? What happens? Badness, that’s what. What to do about it? As in our previous discussion, it is better to not be in this situation in the fir...
Scott Hanselman
2/25/2010
I noticed a post over at a blog called " The other side of the moon " where the author suggests that we put pictures and details of missing children on on 404 pages. It's a simple and brilliant idea. Millions of 404s are delivered every day. We ar...
like (I think) many others, the extension I am writing for visual studio 2010 beta did not even load on the new visual studio 2010 RC. After searching and asking around, it looks like the main breaking change for me was that I was importing an ISe...
A lot of eager students will be graduating with CS degrees soon. Realistically, with almost 10% unemployment, out-sourcing, and a rough economy, it can be hard for a college-grad to find a tech job. Here's a brain-dump: Condition your mind Until y...
Fabulous Adventures In Coding
2/22/2010
The other day, six years ago, I was was talking a bit about how to decide whether to keep waiting for a bus , or to give up and walk. It led to a quite interesting discussion on the old JoS forum . But what if the choice isn’t “wait for a bit then...
I have enhanced my streaming Ajax Proxy with POST, PUT and DELETE features. Previously it supported only GET. Now it supports all 4 popular methods for complete REST support. Using this proxy, you can call REST API on external domain directly from...
Scott Hanselman
2/21/2010
My two-hundred-and-second podcast is up . I sit down (in my home, actually) with Tatham Oddie to talk about the WebFormsMVP open source project created by he and Damian Edwards. What does it add? Can we have the best of both worlds, convenience,...
Scott Hanselman
2/21/2010
My two-hundred-and-first podcast is up . Two Englishmen in a row? What a sellout I am. This week I chat with Chris "ChrisNTR" Hardy, an ASP.NET programmer by day who writes C# code for the iPhone by night. He took it upon himself to answer a tweet...
My TDD course week in Vienna just finished, and Vienna was a blast! I got to hang out with (admittedly very quiet) geeks: how geeky? Lars (who came all the way from Denmark!) actually brought over his avatar 3d glasses to dinner: