In short use _references.js file with your web projects. What is _references.js? With the latest Visual Studio a new file _references.js is found in the scripts directory. As you probably know, the `// ` syntax was introduced in Visual Studio long time ago to make you able to have intellisense in any JavaScript file to include everything defined in the JavaScript located at this path. Read more. [More]
This is 2nd in a series of articles on .NET design practices. This article concentrates on classes and interfaces and how they differ and how/when to implement.An interface defines the signatures for a set of members that implementers must provide. Interfaces cannot provide implementation details for the members. Interfaces provide definitions for events, indexers, methods and/or properties. When to use interfaces? How to use inconjuntion with classes? Let's discuss. [More]
Being from Canada and missing my home land I have watched carefully for Canadian developer content. In hopes of connecting with the pulse of software development in Canada I reached out to twitter-verse for help in finding Canadian resources. My calls were answered and in return I established a twitter list of active developers as well as an RSS feed aggregating Canadian blogs. [More]
In the .Net Framework 1.x most of the collection classes store a data of type "System.Object", so you can store any types of data in the collection object or many types in the same collection object. This makes the addition of new items very easy, but when you need to extract a stored data from the collection you will first need to cast it back to its original data type. This cast had a performance impact especially when you are going to deal with the stored data repeatedly. [More]
