Articles by James Curran (Articles: 4, Technical Blogs: 10)

Articles: 4, Technical Blogs: 10

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Database Development
SQL Server	Locate SQL Server instances on the local network 24 Nov 2005 Updated: 24 Nov 2005 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 46 Popularity: 7.79 Licence: CPOL Views: 307,328 Bookmarked: 139 Downloaded: 5,044 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An article on locating MS SQL Server instances on the local network, and retrieving information about them.
Desktop Programming
Windows Forms	Writing Text to a Printer with LPrintWriter 8 Jun 2006 Updated: 8 Jun 2006 Rating: 4.18/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 3.99 Licence: CPOL Views: 94,480 Bookmarked: 30 Downloaded: 1,804 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A TextWriter object for writing to a printer
Programming Languages
C++	The Object-Oriented Text Star Trek Game in C++ 6 Aug 2008 Updated: 6 Aug 2008 Rating: 4.74/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.52 Licence: CPOL Views: 42,338 Bookmarked: 34 Downloaded: 816 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The Classic Super Star Trek Game rewritten in modern Object-oriented C++
Web Development
ASP.NET	JavascriptHelper:Managing JS files for ASP.NET MVC (With Bundling) 29 Jun 2012 Updated: 30 Jun 2012 Rating: 4.43/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.10 Licence: CPOL Views: 48,779 Bookmarked: 20 Downloaded: 499 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. JavascriptHelper is a MVC component which allows you to specify that a JavaScript file is needed, wherever you need it and the helper will collection them all up, plus all their dependencies and insert all the (along with their associated CSS files) tags in one spots in the layout.

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	Creating an Entity Framework Connection from Another One [Technical Blog] 7 Jun 2012 Updated: 7 Jun 2012 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,261 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to create an Entity Framework Connection from another one
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	Lambda Expressions as Properties [Technical Blog] 7 Jun 2012 Updated: 7 Jun 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,654 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using lambda expressions as properties.
Mobile Apps
Windows Phone 7	Get an ApplicationBarIconButton by name (Redux) [Technical Blog] 7 Jun 2012 Updated: 7 Jun 2012 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.20 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,670 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to get an ApplicationBarIconButton by name.
Programming Languages
C#	Running an Async Event Handler on the UI thread (with lambdas and extension methods!) [Technical Blog] 7 Jun 2012 Updated: 7 Jun 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,170 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Run an Async Event Handler on the UI thread.
	The Evolutionary Guide to C# Lambda Syntax [Technical Blog] 7 Jun 2012 Updated: 7 Jun 2012 Rating: 4.87/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.64 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,471 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. All you need to know to write a lambda function.
	Code Tune-Up: Shuffling a List [Technical Blog] 7 Jun 2012 Updated: 7 Jun 2012 Rating: 4.29/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.58 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,010 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to shuffle a List.
	Automating Retry on Exception [Technical Blog] 7 Jun 2012 Updated: 7 Jun 2012 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 21,880 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to automate Retry on Exception.
	PropertyBagTextWriter (Stream into Dictionary) [Technical Blog] 7 Jun 2012 Updated: 7 Jun 2012 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 4,900 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An article on PropertyBagTextWriter.
Javascript	A (somewhat) new jQuery plug-in: Wizard [Technical Blog] 7 Jun 2012 Updated: 7 Jun 2012 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 7,690 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A new jQuery plug-in called Wizard.
Web Development
ASP.NET	JavascriptHelper–Managing JS files for ASP.NET MVC [Technical Blog] 7 Jun 2012 Updated: 7 Jun 2012 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.40 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,301 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Managing JS files for ASP.NET MVC.

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James Curran

Software Developer (Senior) NovelTheory LLC

United States

20+ years as a developer : Assembly, C, C++ and C# (in that order) with sidelines in ASP/VBScript, ASP.Net, JavaScript, Perl, QuickBasic, VisualBasic, plus a few others which I'm not going to mention because if I did someone might ask me to use them again (shudder)

Microsoft MVP in VC++ (1994-2004)

I also run www.NJTheater.com as a hobby.

Full resume & stuff at NovelTheory.com

Underused blog at HonestIllusion.com

Articles by James Curran (Articles: 4, Technical Blogs: 10)

Articles: 4, Technical Blogs: 10

Average article rating: 4.54

Database Development

Desktop Programming

Programming Languages

Web Development