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	Serialization 101 - Part II: SOAP Serialization [Technical Blog] 16 Sep 2011 Updated: 5 Dec 2011 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 22,120 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 145 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article we are going to take a quick look at SOAP serialization.
Database Development
SQL Server	Gotcha #121008: SELECT @Variable vs SET @Variable in SQL-Server [Technical Blog] 23 Oct 2012 Updated: 23 Oct 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,560 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. SELECT @Variable vs SET @Variable in SQL-Server
	Serialization 101 - Part III: XML Serialization [Technical Blog] 1 Dec 2011 Updated: 1 Dec 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 25,051 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. XML Serialization
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Image Processing	Resizing an Image On-The-Fly using .NET [Technical Blog] 5 May 2011 Updated: 5 May 2011 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 69 Popularity: 8.98 Licence: CPOL Views: 309,521 Bookmarked: 82 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to resize an Image On-The-Fly using .NET
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C#	Delegates 101 - Part III: Generic Delegates [Technical Blog] 5 May 2011 Updated: 15 Jun 2011 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 4.94 Licence: CPOL Views: 36,960 Bookmarked: 35 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to leverage the power of Generics in order to make our delegates more ...well ...generic!
SQL	Gotcha #1167: Quoted Identifiers in Oracle [Technical Blog] 16 Jun 2011 Updated: 16 Jun 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,400 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Quoted identifiers appear to be causing more problems and confusion than they are worth; not least the potential creation of "duplicate" column names.
Visual Basic	Oh No! Not Another Way to Write a CSV File? [Technical Blog] 5 May 2011 Updated: 16 May 2011 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.21 Licence: CPOL Views: 32,074 Bookmarked: 36 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Oh No! Not Another Way to Write a CSV File?
	Data Access Using Dynamics - Part I: The DynamicDataReader [Technical Blog] 25 May 2011 Updated: 25 May 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 20,170 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The DynamicDataReader provides a means of retrieving data from a database in a way that involves less code and increases code readability.
	Data Access using Dynamics - Part II: The DynamicDataSet [Technical Blog] 27 May 2011 Updated: 31 May 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,401 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 174 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to create a dynamic version of another staple component of the ADO.NET framework, namely the DataSet.
	A Simple Wrapper for log4net [Technical Blog] 12 May 2011 Updated: 26 May 2011 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.29 Licence: CPOL Views: 66,904 Bookmarked: 27 Downloaded: 1,093 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A wrapper for log4net which allows logging operations to be accomplished with a single line of code.
	A Look at Dapper.NET [Technical Blog] 16 Jun 2011 Updated: 16 Jun 2011 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 57 Popularity: 8.57 Licence: CPOL Views: 307,956 Bookmarked: 119 Downloaded: 3,779 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Dapper.NET is an Open-Source, lightweight ORM that is simple to use, and is compatible with any database which implements a provider for .NET.
	Serialization 101 - Part I: Binary Serialization [Technical Blog] 14 Sep 2011 Updated: 26 Sep 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.23 Licence: CPOL Views: 47,474 Bookmarked: 24 Downloaded: 590 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A good primer for getting into serialization
	Delegates 101 - Part II: Anonymous Methods and Lambdas [Technical Blog] 5 May 2011 Updated: 15 Jun 2011 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 24 Popularity: 6.87 Licence: CPOL Views: 33,413 Bookmarked: 37 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to use anonymous methods and lambdas to make our code more terse by reducing the amount of code we need to write.
	Reflection 101: An Introduction to Reflection in .NET [Technical Blog] 4 Jun 2011 Updated: 4 Jun 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 6.28 Licence: CPOL Views: 62,533 Bookmarked: 43 Downloaded: 502 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An introduction to Reflection in .NET as well as some examples of how it can be used.
	Gotcha #1161: Using Named Parameters with Oracle ODP.NET [Technical Blog] 8 Jun 2011 Updated: 8 Jun 2011 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 25 Popularity: 6.84 Licence: CPOL Views: 90,991 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using Named Parameters with Oracle ODP.NET
	Rounding Floating-Point Numbers Up or Down in .NET [Technical Blog] 7 May 2011 Updated: 18 May 2011 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.83 Licence: CPOL Views: 52,293 Bookmarked: 20 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Rounding Floating-Point Numbers Up or Down in .NET
	Delegates 101 - Part IV: Event Handling [Technical Blog] 7 May 2011 Updated: 7 May 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,570 Bookmarked: 20 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Event Handling
	Unit Testing 101: Getting Started with NUnit [Technical Blog] 17 May 2011 Updated: 17 May 2011 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.44 Licence: CPOL Views: 28,721 Bookmarked: 21 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article is primarily for those of you who are new to unit testing and is intended as a basic introduction to unit testing and test-driven development; as well as how to write basic tests using the NUnit framework.
	Oh No! Not Another Way to Write a CSV File?? [Technical Blog] 21 Nov 2015 Updated: 21 Nov 2015 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.73 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,100 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Yet another way to write a CSV file
Web Development
ASP.NET	Accessing MVC Routing URLs in JavaScript [Technical Blog] 5 May 2011 Updated: 5 May 2011 Rating: 4.64/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.61 Licence: CPOL Views: 62,632 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using the UrlHelper class to query the routing engine and generate the correct URLs for us
	Accessing ASP.NET Session Data Using Dynamics [Technical Blog] 5 May 2011 Updated: 5 May 2011 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.13 Licence: CPOL Views: 46,181 Bookmarked: 15 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Access session information via a dynamic object where we use a dynamic property to specify the name of the session item
	Partial Validation with Data Annotations in ASP.NET MVC [Technical Blog] 2 Dec 2011 Updated: 2 Dec 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 26,990 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article is a follow-up to Andy West's blog post about performing a conditional validation when using .NET data annotations on a model in MVC.
CSS	A D.I.Y. Lightbox [Technical Blog] 7 Jul 2011 Updated: 7 Jul 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,430 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 188 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. LiteBox is a very simple, lightweight jQuery lightbox, which can serve as an example for anyone wishing to develop their own solution; or as a base for anyone wishing to extend it further.
HTML	Delegates 101 - Part I: What is a Delegate? [Technical Blog] 5 May 2011 Updated: 15 Jun 2011 Rating: 4.86/5 Votes: 60 Popularity: 8.65 Licence: CPOL Views: 59,166 Bookmarked: 79 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. What is a Delegate?