What is the most cost effective way to develop C#?I use VS 2005 with R# when working with clients, but unfortunately that copy of VS 2005 is owned by my employer. The same setup at home would cost $1400+. I know there are free C# IDEs, but they all have flaws [...]
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Ruby on Rails has inspired a whole generation of MVC Web Frameworks. The RoR inspired frameworks follow the same basic design; Controllers whose public methods are web endpoints. So…Do RoR based MVC Web Frameworks encourage good design?
MonoRail and MS MVC are a part of the RoR generation.
They must. Right? I [...]
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I am giving a MonoRail talk, at HDC 07, on Thursday morning.What questions do you think I should be prepared to answer?Here is a list of questions, and answers, that I typically get, and give, about MonoRail.Why would I use (care about) MonoRail?
Separation of concerns makes your application easier to test.
Microsoft will soon be releasing [...]
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Scott Guthrie gave us our first look at the the new Microsoft MVC framework at ALT.NET. I took special care, while watching the video, to answer one question.What, if anything, can MonoRail learn from MS MVC?
Routing - RoR and MS MVC treat Routing as a first class citizen. Routing in MonoRail [...]
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My quest to take a “deep dive” into C# has led me to this variation on the ShortSet Java Puzzler. I translated the ShortSet class, described in Java Puzzlers, to C#. C# does not have a Set class, so I used List.
public class ShortList{ public static void Main(string[] [...]
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I want to thank the person that added my blog as a reference for MonoRail on Wikipedia. I am flattered.Thanks.
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I was a Java instructor earlier in my career. The best thing about being a Java instructor is you really learn Java. I knew Java as well or better than anybody while I was teaching. I quickly learned that students ask the best questions and they forced me to [...]
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