Lessons learned from building the NHibernate Profiler

Published April 14th, 2010 Under Database | Leave a Comment

In this talk, Ayende will go over the implementation and design decisions of building the NHibernate Profiler, hurdles that we had to overcome. We will discuss working in a distributed team, and all the things we have to do in order to create a sellable software product. The NHibernate Profiler is an application that can track what an NHibernate based application can do. Building a real world application is never as simple as building demo apps, and there are many concerns that you have to consider when you do build something that will be used in the wild. In this talk, we will go over the implementation and design decisions, hurdles that we had to overcome and the challenges that needed to be resolved. Along with the technical details, we will discuss working in a distributed team, creating a product and all the other things that you have to do in order to create a software product that you can actually sell.

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Microsoft Visual C# IDE Tips and Tricks

Published March 3rd, 2010 Under Coding | 3 Comments

Come learn about a series of features and technologies available through Microsoft Visual Studio and out-of-box solutions that will make you more productive in the Visual C# IDE. Whether you’re trying to come up to speed with an unfamiliar code base, navigate your way through a large solution, write in new pieces of business logic, or test your application, these tips and tricks will help you get your job done better and faster.


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LINQPad – New Features for Entity Framework

Published January 6th, 2010 Under Coding, Database | Leave a Comment

Tiw webcast shows some exciting new features that turn LINQPad into an essential tool for writing and performance-tuning Entity Framework queries.

What’s New in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4

Published November 11th, 2009 Under Coding | Leave a Comment

The Visual Studio 2010 release not only adds a great set of new capabilities, but also comes with a refresh of the IDE, now based on Windows Presentation Foundation. The new start page is now fully customizable and the new code editor is easy to extend and provides a rich surface for visualizations on top of your code. Whether you’re building Windows or Web applications, the .NET Framework has a lot of new capabilities for you. In this video, Drew Robbins and Jonathan Carter will go over several of the new features that will be in this next release of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework.


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Learning Nant: Creating Token Driving Configuration Files

Published September 28th, 2009 Under Configuration Management, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment

In this episode we are going to continue our series on how to create a build script using the Nant build tool. In this episode we going to take a look at how we can create dynamic config files by putting tokens in your files and letting Nant replace those tokens for each user based on their unique settings.

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