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The 1st anniversary of the blog (Part II): Results

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Now we’ll talk about my favorite part, about results. In general, we will walk through the decisions taken by me when I created the blog and discuss some future plans.

The 1st anniversary of the blog (Part I): Statistics

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On this day, a year ago, I wrote the first post in this blog. Many changes were made during that time. Today I decided to talk about results and share plans for the future.

How to cook a loop

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With coming of Linq we rarely write loops. Actually, the most part of data fetching tasks, those earlier was done by loops, today could be simply done by Linq-to-Objects. Nevertheless, the loops are widely used for different scenarios and a developer should try to write a good loop. This post was written for beginners, but I hope that experienced developers will find in it something useful.

The book review: Developing Microsoft SharePoint Applications Using Windows Azure

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In the O’Reilly Blogger Review program I decided to write a review of Developing Microsoft® SharePoint® Applications Using Windows Azure™ by Steve Fox. As the title hints, the book introduces the basics of the development of SharePoint solutions for Windows Azure operating system. Generally, I liked this book even though it has some drawbacks. Let’s talk about it in more detail.

Entity Framework: One step closer to LOB apps

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Not so long ago I wrote about the problems of using Entity Framework (EF) in LOB applications. Just a few days EF team has announced June version. This release solves some of the problems I have described, so I could not pass by and decided to write this post. In it I ‘ll do a brief review of main features in the context of LOB apps.

Expression cannot contain lambda expressions

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Try to open any of Watch / Immediate and Locals windows of Visual Studio in debug mode and to add lambda expressions, and you will see this message. Own reasons exist for it and they are very detailed in these posts. Unfortunately, the posts also lack information about resolving this problem. While developers are confronted daily with the need to filter collections in debug windows and the support for lambda expressions would greatly simplify their work.

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