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A friend emailed me yesterday asking for a book recommendation so he can learn to write a webpart he needs for work. My immediate thought was that there really isn’t much to writing a basic webpart (which is all he needs), the complexity is more in getting it packaged up and deployed correctly. Especially when [...]
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As I mentioned in an earlier post, I’m spending some time working through a stack of books to brush up on the programming skills I haven’t used in a while and learn some of the things I haven’t had an opportunity to use before.
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) has been around for a while, but I’ve been doing more architecting than programming the last couple years so I haven’t had a chance to really use it. What I’ve seen has interested me (contract-first design, better separation & testability than .asmx web services, etc.), so I picked up Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation Step by Step
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Even though I work with .net code every day, it is almost always the same type of code. This means that although there are some facets of .net coding that I know top to bottom, there are other areas that I never work in and have forgotten what little I knew about them. Since I’ll be unemployed come July, I figure I should use the time until then to brush up on those areas to get ready for looking for a new job. I’m going to tackle this by first refreshing my broader knowledge and then digging into the areas where I really need deeper knowledge.
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