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At http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/776908/Dealing-with-Enum-in-MVC, Shahriar Hossain has published a very useful article on displaying Enums within MVC 5.1. I look forward to using this information on my next MVC project.
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I recently became interested in the potential of the C5 Collections solution from http://www.itu.dk/research/... however I was dismayed at the state of the code in the unit test project, so I set about fixing the 20,663 issues detected by StyleCop. The tools I used were the latest versions of: My 64-bit development PC running Windows 8 Update with 8Gb RAM Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate with SP2 ReSharper GhostDoc Pro My first attempt had to be abandoned due to collision of class names which broke one ......
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The Calibre E-Book Manager is an excellent free E-Book manager that can be downloaded from http://calibre-ebook.com/download_windows
It works on Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8.
Given the amount of VB6 code still in use, the Visual Basic Tools for Visual Studio highlighted by Greg Duncan at http://coolthingoftheday.blogspot.ca/2014/05/now-that-classic-visual-basic-classic.html, sounds very promising, even though still pre-release.
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At http://blogs.technet.com/b/... the official Microsoft Blog by Brad Smith records that Microsoft now has approval by european data protection authorities that Microsoft’s Cloud Contracts meets EU data protection law ......
At http://ericlippert.com/2014/05/19/when-should-i-write-a-property/, Eric Lippert gives excellent advice on when to use and when not to use properties.
Until May 27th, APress are offering 50% off all Springer E-Books at http://www.springer.com/?SGWID=0-102-12-992148-0
With seemingly no fanfare, Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 has been released.
Contrary to what the prophets of gloom might say, the ASP.NET team at Microsoft are continuing to develop web forms. Please see the article at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/web... The bulk of these changes should be part of VS2013 Update 2 which is now available as an RTM ......
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At http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IntroducingASPNETVNext.aspx, Scott Hanselman has announced the details of the next version of ASP.NET, together with the next generation of C# and VB.NET Compilers (the long awaited Roslyn).
GhostDoc from Submain is an excellent add-on for Visual Studio. It allows you to rapidly provide XML documentation for compliance with StyleCop. GhostDoc provides the XML skeleton together with basic function descriptions derived from your class and function names. Given sensible naming, these descriptions will read well. GhostDoc Pro includes a spell checker – I find this very useful. I am currently Style-Copping a large project and GhostDoc (together with ReSharper) greatly speeds up the process! ......
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Cedric Otaku has blogged on "The pitfalls of Test-Driven Development" at
http://beust.com/weblog/2014/05/11/the-pitfalls-of-test-driven-development/
I commend this blog post to all my readers.
Computer Manuals UK are closing down and until 14th May are holding a closing down sale with books being offered at considerable discount. Details at
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Economy delivery is free within the UK Mainland.
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At
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/04/stanfords-password-policy-shuns-one-size-fits-all-security/, Dan Goodin has published a very interesting article on how password complexity checking should vary according to the length of the password. (The rule on length variation was derived by Stanford IT)
At
http://www.knowbe4.com/free-e-book/, KnowBe4 are offering a free E-Book called Cyberheist.
At http://www.itu.dk/research/c5/ there is library of generic collection classes for C# and other CLI languages and works with Microsoft .Net version 2.0 and later, and Mono version 2 and later. There is a free E-Book on the library at https://www.itu.dk/research... library is available under the MIT open licence and thus is available for use in both open-source and commercial projects.It is available via Nuget at http://www.nuget.org/packag... ......
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At
http://www.apress.com/files/extra/ASP_NET_Identity_Chapters.pdf, APress have kindly made available the chapters on ASP.NET Identity as promised in his book
Pro ASP.NET MVC 5.
At
https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/ms14-021, Microsoft have announced the availability of a patch for Internet Explorer versions 6 through 11.
I strongly suggest that you run Windows Update as soon as possible to get this important update.
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At http://www.theregister.co.u... the register is reporting a potential problem with Internet Explorer that is reported to affect versions 6 through 11.Microsoft confirmed this at https://technet.microsoft.c... this means you should use Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox until Microsoft releases the patch and you have applied it ......