Steven Smith: TechEd Speaker, ASP.NET MVP, ASPInsiders member, INETA Speaker, DevConnections Speaker, co-author of three ASP.NET books and numerous .NET articles. Currently interested in agile methodologies and performance.
TechTalk
09 Sep 2010
Software Development Fundamentals Resources
Steven Smith writes
"...In this 45-minute talk, I covered what I consider to be fundamental principles, patterns, and practices of software development, with a little bit of time for a demo at the end....You can get my slides and demos from the talk here..."
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TechTalk
03 Sep 2010
Applying Interface Segregation to Configuration Files
Steven Smith writes
"...The Interface Segregation Principle states that classes should not be forced to depend on things they do not use. By refactoring “fat” interfaces into smaller, more focused and cohesive interfaces defined by the clients that use them, we can reduce the coupling in our code. This results in code that is..."
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Visual Studio
24 Aug 2010
Bug Solution to System.Core in VS2010 Projects
Steven Smith writes
"...I just ran into an odd issue with a VS2010 project. In my case it was an MVC 2 application I was upgrading from VS2008. One of the built-in controllers (ProfileController) was failing to compile because it could not resolve the Linq extension method symbols Single() and Matches(). These are located in the System.Core assembly. I checked my project references in Solution Explorer, and..."
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