Knockout

Loading MVC PartialViews asynchronously using KnockoutJS

Load an MVC partial view from KnockoutJs

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Knockout

Binding to invalid property names with $data in KnockoutJS

A quick tip when working with KnockoutJS: if you are binding a value to a property with a valid name then it is very simple to get at the value in your HTML...

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Build

Visual Studio 2010: Massive Build Performance Improvements

The solution that I work on daily within VS2010 has around 70 projects, and over time has begun to take longer and longer and loooonger to build...

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Unit Testing

My (first attempt) JavaScript Mocking Framework

I've been getting much more involved in JavaScript development over the last few months and I have been playing around with QUnit as a unit testing framework....

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Performance

The Joy of Profiling (part 2)

This is the second in a series of posts about performance enhancements that covers some basic approaches to speeding things up

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Performance

WPF DataGrid Performance

The WPF DataGrid is a fantastic component but it can get pretty slow with a large number of rows or columns.

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Performance

The Joy of Performance Profiling (part 1)

Performance: it's great. It's a feature. Everyone appreciates a fast application. But despite our best efforts, it's not unheard of for software to turn out a little (whisper it)... slow

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Best Practices

Coding for Readability

It is a widely accepted fact in the development community that the average developer will spend more time reading - or rather *understanding* - code than writing it. The most simplistic analysis of...

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Best Practices

My Eternal Disinterest with the DAL

Sure, your data access layer is important, but that`s no reason to get excited about it

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