The singleton pattern is one of the best-known patterns in software engineering, but often implemented without lazy loading and introducing unintended issues around threading. Jon Skeet runs through the possible implementations.

CodeCast Episode 5: VSX, VSIP, Aggiorno, DBI-Tech ControlsThis 5th episode of CodeCast includes host Ken Levy with a new segment on news and gadgets, and three interviews all related to VSX and VSIP (Visual Studio Extensibility and Visual Studio Industry Partners). Interviews are with Microsoft a...

Ever wondered how the magic "yield" statement works? Jon Skeet digs into the inner workings of C# 2.0 and how this innocuous statement gets you a whole load of "free" generated code for your iterators.

With the arrival of LINQ to Objects, understanding how iterators work has become more important than ever before. Learn how to implement them in C# 2 (or 3), and how these apply to the fundamental aspects of LINQ to Objects.

Learn how using MAF allows you to easily create extensible applications that allow new features to be added without jeopardizing the stability of the existing code base. MAF provides a higher-level service that allow you to dynamically discover, load, secure and interact with external assemblies used to provide features for your application.

Tried TDD and abandoned it the moment you've tried it on 'real' code? Learn how to tackle these 'hard-to-test' areas, that those presentations and introductory books just don't seem to explain well.

CodeCast Episode 4: State of .NET, IE8, ASP.NET MVC, and O'Reilly MediaHosts Ken Levy and Markus Egger discuss the new State of .NET events, IE8, ASP.NET MVC, followed by an interview from PDC with two editors from O'Reilly Media. More on ASP.NET MVC can be found at http://asp.net/mvc. Interview...

One of the most exciting announcements from PDC was the news about C# 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010. With all the excitement and discussion throughout the event about these new developer tools, we reached out to two experts in the fields. Charlie Calvert and Bill Wagner sat down with Keith and Woody...

This is the twenty-ninth episode of the StackOverflow podcast, wherein Joel and I discuss the following: The downside of being a PC gamer: it?s prime game release season. My productivity last week was nil due to the release of Fallout 3, as I discuss on my blog. But it was totally ...

CodeCast Episode 1: The PilotWelcome to the CodeCast, the Late Night Show for .NET Developers, with your hosts Ken Levy, Gary Short, and Markus Egger. This episode introduces the podcast, the hosts, CoDe Magazine, as well as previews the upcoming PDC 2008 (Microsoft Professional Developer Confere...

CodeCast Episode 3: PDC, C#, IE8, and SurfaceIn this third CodeCast show, hosts Ken Levy and Markus Egger discuss a quick final summary of PDC 2008, then introduce a series of interviews with folks from Microsoft interviewed at PDC: Interview 1 (9:29): C# community and C# 4.0 0 - Charlie Calvert...

Keith and Woody grabbed a few other podcasters to have a roundtable discussion on the last day of Microsoft?s Professional Developers Conference in October 2008. The discussion was very lively and after you listen to this first part head over to the Herding Code podcast to listen to the con...

This is the twenty-eighth episode of the StackOverflow podcast, where Joel and Jeff discuss Windows Azure, SQL Server 2008 full text search, Bayesian filtering, porn detection, and project management ? among other things. Jeff met the inestimable Joey DeVilla aka Accordion Guy...

Ron Jacobs finally on .NET Rocks! Ron talks with Richard and Carl about architecture, C# 4.0, his podcasts, and more.

CodeCast Episode 1: The PilotWelcome to the CodeCast, the Late Night Show for .NET Developers, with your hosts Ken Levy, Gary Short, and Markus Egger. This episode introduces the podcast, the hosts, CoDe Magazine, as well as previews the upcoming PDC 2008 (Microsoft Professional Developer Confere...

This is the second half of our interview with Phil Haack on the ASP.NET MVC Beta Release. Topics ModelBinders in ASP.NET MVC Lessons learned in building MVC (question from Brian Henderson) To what extent did the MVC team look at other frameworks like Monorail, Rails, Django, ...

This is the second half of our interview with Phil Haack on the ASP.NET MVC Beta Release. Topics ModelBinders in ASP.NET MVC Lessons learned in building MVC (question from Brian Henderson) To what extent did the MVC team look at other frameworks like Monorail, Rails, Django, ...

Carl and Richard talk to Bill Wagner about the more advanced features of C# 3.0 and how they can be used to do some amazing things.

This is the twenty-seventh episode of the StackOverflow podcast, where Joel and Jeff interview Alexis ?kn0thing? Ohanian and Steve ?spez? Huffman, the founders and co-creators of Reddit. Jeff is at the Professional Developers? Conference in Los Angeles. He c...

This is the first half of our interview with Phil Haack on the ASP.NET MVC Beta Release. Topics The MVC Elevator Speech MVC and Codebehind files How MVC differs from Webforms How MVC changes your development process The difficulty in unit testing UI What?s t...

This is the first half of our interview with Phil Haack on the ASP.NET MVC Beta Release. Topics The MVC Elevator Speech MVC and Codebehind files How MVC differs from Webforms How MVC changes your development process The difficulty in unit testing UI What?s t...

Scott chats with Jeff Atwood of CodingHorror.com and most recently, StackOverflow.com. Jeff and Joel Spolsky and their technical team have created a new class of application using ASP.NET MVC. What works, what doesn't, and how did it all go down?

Michael Neel joins the show to dispel SEO myths, uncover why some ASP.NET sites are invisible to search engines and share the 'secret sauce' for potent placement within the search engines.

Newscast for Oct 23rd 2008 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com The Android project has been released as open source, beating the rumored launch date for the source code by several monthshttp://source.android.com/ And, Gizmodo and ZDNet both offer in-depth revie...

In this episode Chris Brandsma, Rick Strahl, Dave Ward, Bertrand Le Roy, and Scott Koon conclude their discussion of Microsoft?s jQuery in ASP.NET announcement1.This episode of the Alt.NET Podcast is brought to you by LLBLGen Pro, the most mature O/R mapper and code generator out there.Are ...

In this episode Chris Brandsma, Rick Strahl, Dave Ward, Bertrand Le Roy, Scott Koon, and Steven Harman discuss Microsoft?s jQuery in ASP.NET announcement.This episode of the Alt.NET Podcast is brought to you by LLBLGen Pro, the most mature O/R mapper and code generator out there.Are you loo...

Jason takes you back to those high school geometry lessons and demonstrates how to take advantage of the new geospatial and geometric data types in SQL Server 2008.

Rocky is back to talk about his acclaimed CSLA.NET framework which was just released for Silverlight, allowing you to write CSLA clients in the browser... even running on a Mac!

In the first of three parts, Alex looks at some of the basic patterns in ASP.NET, and how you can apply these to your ASP.NET applications in a few simple steps.

Dan Hanan and Kevin Kennedy from Interknowlogy talk about their experiences working with WPF, Surface, and Silverlight. Interknowlogy is run by Tim Huckaby, a long-time guest and friend of .NET Rocks!

Dan Hanan and Kevin Kennedy from Interknowlogy talk about their experiences working with WPF, Surface, and Silverlight. Interknowlogy is run by Tim Huckaby, a long-time guest and friend of .NET Rocks!

Scott chats with Jeff Atwood of CodingHorror.com and most recently, StackOverflow.com. Jeff and Joel Spolsky and their technical team have created a new class of application using ASP.NET MVC. What works, what doesn't, and how did it all go down?

In this episode Chris Brandsma, Rick Strahl, Dave Ward, Bertrand Le Roy, and Scott Koon conclude their discussion of Microsoft?s jQuery in ASP.NET announcement1.This episode of the Alt.NET Podcast is brought to you by LLBLGen Pro, the most mature O/R mapper and code generator out there.Are ...

Pretend you know what you're talking about in suitably geeky company. More seriously, it will give you a very rough overview to give some context if you choose to investigate a particular feature further.

Michael Neel joins the show to dispel SEO myths, uncover why some ASP.NET sites are invisible to search engines and share the 'secret sauce' for potent placement within the search engines.

Learn 5 techniques that ever ASP.NET developer must know to tame HTML markup.

Interview with Erich Gamma and Tim Francis of IBM Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.comErich Gammahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_GammaTim Francishttp://www.eclipse.org/webtools/people/person.php?name=francisDesign Patterns - the Gang of Fourhttp://www.amazon.co...

Closures are often described in terms of functional languages, but Jon introduces the concept of closures in a world of C# and Java. Learn how to use them and why.

Mike James explains that LINQ isn?t just for SQL programmers but is usable by every .NET developer. Learn how take the power of LINQ queries to your every-day coding through the lowly IEnumerable interface.

Newscast for Oct 6th 2008 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.comAndroid 1.0 SDK released http://code.google.com/android/http://www.betanews.com/article/TMobile_Android_G1_phones_priced_at_179_launch_Oct_22/1222182441http://lifehacker.com/5053661/what-android-could-b...