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Programming Languages
C#
3 Oct 2011   Updated: 3 Oct 2011   Rating: 4.14/5    Votes: 11   Popularity: 4.31
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Indepth details about constants and readonly
SQL
28 Jun 2011   Updated: 28 Jun 2011   Rating: 4.50/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.35
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SQL Table to Managed Type Creator
1 Jul 2011   Updated: 1 Jul 2011   Rating: 0.00/5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.00
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This article explains a refactored code snippet on passing parameters for a stored proecedure via SP schema rather than hard coding the column/param names.

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.NET
13 Oct 2011   Updated: 13 Oct 2011   Rating: 0.00/5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.00
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Structural Design Pattern (Part 2)
All Topics
6 Nov 2011   Updated: 7 Nov 2011   Rating: 3.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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Better Approach to Clearing StringBuilder TIP
10 Nov 2011   Updated: 15 Nov 2011   Rating: 0.00/5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.00
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Dear Reader, Lately i have been reviewing/refactoring alot of code, and i must say many a times some code pushed me to a confused state, because they are not sealed. Now reading this you may wonder that i might sound silly. The problem is with inheritance here. When there are alot of code in your [.
10 Oct 2011   Updated: 10 Oct 2011   Rating: 0.00/5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.00
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Not only is learning a pattern important or a big deal, it’s also important to know when to choose what.
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An introduction to the Decorator Pattern
28 Sep 2011   Updated: 28 Sep 2011   Rating: 0.00/5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.00
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Constants and Readonly internals
29 Sep 2011   Updated: 29 Sep 2011   Rating: 1.50/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 0.45
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Dear Reader, In this article, i shall talk about internals of null checking on a type (ref type mostly) by using null coalesce operator or via if condition.
30 Sep 2011   Updated: 30 Sep 2011   Rating: 0.00/5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.00
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How to prove that properties are methods without looking into IL
11 Oct 2011   Updated: 11 Oct 2011   Rating: 0.00/5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.00
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Dear Reader, Today i was again skimming through the symbols in ruby and its advantage and then i began to see under which scenarios these folks claim its much better than the traditional way. So i started to write some small code chunks to test the performance on my laptop having i7 with 4 gigs [...
17 Oct 2011   Updated: 17 Oct 2011   Rating: 3.60/5    Votes: 5   Popularity: 2.52
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Destructors vs Finalizers vs Dispose pattern (Part 1)
21 Oct 2011   Updated: 21 Oct 2011   Rating: 0.00/5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.00
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Internals of Params TIP
16 Dec 2011   Updated: 16 Dec 2011   Rating: 0.00/5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.00
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Here is a simple way to build solution without opening VS (TIP)
19 Dec 2011   Updated: 19 Dec 2011   Rating: 0.00/5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.00
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Internals of Conversion styles in .NET
28 Mar 2012   Updated: 28 Mar 2012   Rating: 0.00/5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.00
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How to convert a 3 digit number to words
21 Nov 2015   Updated: 21 Nov 2015   Rating: 1.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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Dear Reader, I learned some thing new (for myself) but could be an old news for you. Any ways just wish to share it with you all in case if you did not know It may so happen that at times we need to build dependent projects/solutions... Read More
28 Sep 2011   Updated: 28 Sep 2011   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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Overview on task parallel library
Desktop Programming
Windows Forms
4 Jan 2012   Updated: 4 Jan 2012   Rating: 0.00/5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.00
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Refactoring Hooking and Unhooking Events TIP
25 Nov 2011   Updated: 8 Feb 2013   Rating: 3.33/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.00
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A small tool called BoxCop which is basically a static analyzer just like FxCop
Multimedia
GDI
5 Nov 2011   Updated: 5 Nov 2011   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.51
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String to Integer conversion Internals
21 Nov 2015   Updated: 21 Nov 2015   Rating: 1.67/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 0.80
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Dear Reader, I would like to bring into your attention an old article written on this topic. This article explains alot about strings concatenation and does very good performance analysis. Here is a glimpse about this article: Over the years, plenty has been written about... Read More
Programming Languages
C#
23 Dec 2011   Updated: 23 Dec 2011   Rating: 0.00/5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.00
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Static in generics
10 Nov 2011   Updated: 10 Nov 2011   Rating: 0.00/5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.00
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Try not to implement Property with only set accessor TIP
28 Sep 2011   Updated: 28 Sep 2011   Rating: 0.00/5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.00
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Assumed mistake in explicit interface implementation
10 Oct 2011   Updated: 18 Oct 2011   Rating: 3.11/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 0.94
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Virtual methods can cause performance overheads
6 Nov 2011   Updated: 6 Nov 2011   Rating: 3.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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Why we should avoid calling virtual methods in Ctor.
10 Nov 2011   Updated: 10 Nov 2011   Rating: 4.00/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.20
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An API available in the .NET FCL called CultureInfo.Compare().
10 Nov 2011   Updated: 10 Nov 2011   Rating: 4.75/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.27
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Suppressing Code Analysis Warning
11 Oct 2011   Updated: 19 Oct 2011   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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Structural design pattern
20 Oct 2011   Updated: 20 Oct 2011   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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Good practice in method design
2 Oct 2011   Updated: 8 Oct 2011   Rating: 4.11/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.24
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Design patterns presentation Part 1
10 Oct 2011   Updated: 10 Oct 2011   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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Using the Facade Pattern to simplify application design
13 Oct 2011   Updated: 13 Oct 2011   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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Structural Design Pattern (Part 3)
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Accessing base private members from child
22 Nov 2011   Updated: 20 Nov 2011   Rating: 0.00/5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.00
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Singleton in non-inheritable vs inheritable classes
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Method call in Using block TIP
MSIL
10 Nov 2011   Updated: 10 Nov 2011   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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I have found a few interesting things which I would like to share with you all.
21 Dec 2011   Updated: 21 Dec 2011   Rating: 1.00/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 0.30
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String concatenation and a very good performance analysis.
Ruby
1 Nov 2011   Updated: 1 Nov 2011   Rating: 4.50/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.35
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This is an extension to my old post about ctor concept in Ruby where I talked about how the Ctor concept has been implemented in Ruby and it’s quite different from other languages.
1 Nov 2011   Updated: 1 Nov 2011   Rating: 0.00/5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.00
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Safe guarding from NoMethodError exception in Ruby
19 Oct 2011   Updated: 19 Oct 2011   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
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Crazy Ctor concept in Ruby
SQL
1 Nov 2011   Updated: 1 Nov 2011   Rating: 0.00/5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.00
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SqlConnection.Dispose internals
Web Development
ASP.NET
16 Jul 2016   Updated: 16 Jul 2016   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.39
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ASP.NET Treeview node expand-collapse with node click: client side JQuery, JavaScript

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Programming Languages
C#
22 Oct 2011   Updated: 23 Oct 2011   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 3   Popularity: 2.39
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I find Organize Usings -> Remove and Sort option much more useful than Just using Remove Usings. After it sorts, the using statements looks nice. :) In case you don't want to install any addins.
10 Jul 2011   Updated: 10 Jul 2011   Rating: 3.40/5    Votes: 2   Popularity: 1.02
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A simulation of the IS operator working in C#.

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