Professional ASP.NET - Chris Love's Official Blog

So I have been having a problem designing a rather odd LINQ to EF statement the past week and I decided to contact my friend on the Entity Framework team, Erick Thompson. he said oh yah, I created something like what you are looking for in the 101 sample queries. I looked for several hours this weekend to figure out what he was talking about, no ...

Recently I have been confronted with a movement that seems to hate using #Regions in source code files. Personally I really like using regions and I absolutely like the ability to collapse sections of code I am not directly working with. The opposing argument I am given is that my classes or methods must then be too long. I really have to ...

This week I saw a twitter from Roy Osherove about a new Regular Expression Visualizer he built. If you do not know Roy yet, he is a very smart .NET developer for TypeMock and has done some great work with regular expression tools, such as Regulazy and The Regulator. If you are not familiar with Visualizers then you should get to know how they ...

Last week I was talking some folks at TechEd and it seemed customized settings of Visual Studio came up in a few conversations. As a frequent speaker I am starting to learn some of the tricks of the trade to make Visual Studio perform during a presentation. This morning Sara Ford posted the recommended Visual Studio settings the TechEd organizers ...

One of my favorite tools is available for Visual Studio 2008, Refactor 2008. If you do not know what Refactor is, it is a Visual Studio 2008 add-in that makes it very easy to refactor your code. That means make your code more manageable.