by Will Froese

Entity Framework Performance

The Entity Framework is a fantastic tool that reduces development time on new projects. While it used to take a significant amount of time to write a data access layer, the Entity Framework now handles much of this for you. There are many good reasons to use the Entity Framework, but it requires some care to use properly; poor use can result in substantial performance degradation. I’ve been able to distil the majority of what a developer needs to know about EF performance down to three concepts.

by Will Froese

Simple Website Builders

Think you need to hire someone and spend big bucks to build a website for your small business? That may not be necessary after all.

Website builder tools have come a long way in the last few years and can make building a beautiful, basic website dead-easy.

by Will Froese

Basic Introduction to a Git Workflow for Subversion Users

If you would like to learn how to use the version control system Git and you’re currently a Subversion user, this guide is for you. I’ve recently started using Git myself, and coming from Subversion there are several basic concepts and ideas that need to be understood.

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by Will Froese

How to Write Bad Software

Developers who simply lack skill or experience often produce bad code which can become a maintenance nightmare. What’s less often understood is that average or even skilled developers can also easily end up writing bad code if they’re not careful, and there are several key reasons why.

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by Will Froese

LINQ DistinctBy – With Lambda Expression Parameter

A useful extension method that c# .NET provides is Distinct(). Sometimes you need to get distinct objects by a property of those objects, however, and there is no overload of Distinct() that accepts a lambda expression. Luckily, it’s easy enough to create our own.

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by Matt Thomas

The service ‘/MyService.svc’ cannot be activated due to an exception during compilation.

The exception message is: This collection already contains an address with scheme http

If you’re like me, when deploying a WCF service to a production site and seeing this error… you’re thinking WTF? Especially knowing it worked in your testing environment.

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by Will Froese

The Broken Window Theory

The broken window theory originated in the field of criminology, but nonetheless is highly relevant to software developers. Software teams that keep this theory in mind will always produce better, higher quality code than those that don’t.

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by Will Froese

Bootcamp Takes Too Long To Boot: Windows on Mac

The simple fact that it takes 2.5 minutes to switch from Mac OS X to Windows 7 via Bootcamp is appalling. I decided to give Parallels a try and found no love there. Today I found a solution that has made me very happy.

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We’re excited to announce that ElevenWinds has joined the WEtech Alliance.