Articles by Dean Oliver (Articles: 2, Tip/Tricks: 6)

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C# 4.0	MEF 2 Preview Beginners Guide 18 Apr 2012 Updated: 18 Apr 2012 Rating: 4.84/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 77,035 Bookmarked: 38 Downloaded: 1,729 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A short guide to what to look forward to in the next release of MEF.
	MEF Generics 2 Feb 2012 Updated: 2 Feb 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.52 Licence: CPOL Views: 44,285 Bookmarked: 32 Downloaded: 957 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How we can harness the power of MEF and extend it by way of generics.

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C#	How to compress/decompress directories using GZipStream [Tip/Trick] 1 Feb 2012 Updated: 1 Feb 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,931 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. My alternative is to rather use a tried and tested compression api. It's simpler to use and you don't have to spend time developing helper methods to zip and unzip files.http://dotnetzip.codeplex.com/[^]Create a zip file using (ZipFile zip = new ZipFile()) { ...
	Alternative to Activator.CreateInstance [Tip/Trick] 25 Jan 2012 Updated: 25 Jan 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 58,222 Bookmarked: 15 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An alternative to Activator.CreateInstance
	Alternative to Activator.CreateInstance [Tip/Trick] 26 Jan 2012 Updated: 26 Jan 2012 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,972 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The final solution after much debate and optimization:public class DynamicInitializer { static readonly Dictionary> list = new Dictionary>(); public static T New() where T : class { return New(typeof...
C# 4.0	EF 4.1 Cached object performance tip [Tip/Trick] 25 Jan 2012 Updated: 25 Jan 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,810 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A performance tip for EF 4.1
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	Hide Intellisense info to view code [Tip/Trick] 24 Jan 2012 Updated: 24 Jan 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,030 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to hide Intellisense info to view code.
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ASP.NET	Set your maxUrlLength in ASP.NET MVC [Tip/Trick] 17 Feb 2012 Updated: 18 Feb 2012 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 23,080 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote.

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Dean Oliver

Software Developer BBD Johannesburg

South Africa

Bsc (Hons) Business Information Systems.
MCTS: Web Applications Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4
MCTS: Windows Communication Foundation Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4
MCTS: Accessing Data with Microsoft .NET Framework 4
Microsoft Certified Professional Developer Certification.