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Introduction The Repository Design Pattern The Repository design pattern adds a layer of abstraction on top of the query layer and helps to eliminate duplicate query logic in your application’s code. In his great book “Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture”, Martin Fowler defines the Repository Pattern as: “Mediates between the domain and data mapping layers […]

A new suite of 30 ASP.NET Model-View-Controller cross-browser extensions which are compatible with .NET Framework 3.5 and LINQ was released last week by Developer Express. These new extensions will support both ASP.NET MVC 2.0 and jQuery. Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 developers will benefit from these new tools. Controls sets will include Grid View, HTML […]

According to a Neilsen report, Apple and Google are nearly tied for the number 1 slot on the smartphone wish-list. Than to add insult to injury, the Xbox 360 Kinect also appear to be rather low on the wish list as well with the Sony PlayStation 3 and its new Move motion controller, as well […]

Microsoft Windows Phone 7, with no cut and paste, no custom ringtones, no real multi-tasking, its going to take a rather large update to address each of these potential issues. The slated update is also to include a new Bing turn-by-turn directions app. Lets not forget that Windows Phone 7, while not entirely new to […]

Microsoft has just released a new set of tools for building Visual Basic applications for the Windows Phone 7 OS. And like most, the new tool-set does have its limits. However this move could help to produce a large number of applications for the new smartphone operating system thus improving the platforms acceptability.

This year’s Professional Developers Conference brought the news that the Microsoft Azure team would deliver new add-ons and services — in either test or final form and before the end of 2010. This week brought the release of those test versions of many of those services that are now available for download with the majority […]

Many websites display a news ticker of one sort or another. A news ticker is a user interface element that displays a subset of a list of items, cycling through them one at a time after a set interval. For example, on Cisco’s website there is a news ticker that shows the company’s latest news […]

Introduction System.IO.FileSystemWatcher Class Welcome to this installment of the .NET Nuts & Bolts column. In this article we’re going to tackle a task that I’ve run in to a number of times as part of an application that has a number of integration points or data partners. We’re going to build an application that will […]

A new piece of software may offer Windows Phone 7 users another way to install applications. A new third-party tool, called ChevronWP7 was released last week which enables the Windows Phone 7 for the side-loading of applications. What this means is the user can now add applications to their phones directly versus having to go […]

With the Silverlight Firestarter conference scheduled to begin in just a few days. With the lack of key functionality in Silverlight 4, Microsoft will most likely discuss the new features slated for Silverlight 5 and at least try to focus on the future of the development platform. HTML5 has a place at the table, but […]

Developers are beginning to complain that Microsoft isn’t providing Windows Phone 7 app developers with the key analytics to guide them on how many titles they’ve actually sold or which applications are selling well. For obvious reasons this is giving WP7 developers angst and fear over what tools to invest in or which direction to […]

Introduction With Windows Phone 7 now hitting the shelves, there will be a rush of developers heading out with the developer tools to make the next “Angry Birds” or the Netflix app. As we say in an earlier article, Microsoft has done a great job of providing a great set of developer tools to work […]