Last time we finished with all the pieces except the common:MahAppsPopupWindowAction used in XAML. Prism already has a PopupWindowAction (it wasn't there a few years ago) so let's use that to create our own popup window action that will show MahApps-metro-style-dialog.

As you may know, there's a little problem with the attribute routing in ASP.NET MVC: generating a link (via Html.ActionLink) might get real slow when you've got hundreds of attributed actions. The answer to this issue is to use named routes, so instead of Html.ActionLink you use Html.RouteLink, but that's not quite handy, at least for me it isn't. Given that I'm used to T4MVC, it seems like a step back.

Reading time ~2 minutes This post was inspired by a discussion on Reddit that followed my previous post In this post, I will cover a suggestion by BelowAverageITGuy that cut down the total execution time by almost one hour. Saga Before I go further here are some link to the previous posts on the problem of calculating similarities and then optimizing it grew to few post. Here are all of them:How I calculate similarities in cookit?How to calculate 17 billion similaritiesIndependent code in ...

There are times that you need to call native (C/C++) code from .NET environment. To do so, you have several options: use C++/CLI, use P/Invoke mechanism, use some sort of inter-process communication like pipes, memory mapped files etc persuade yourself that it's gonna be easy to port this cool C/C++ library to C#. Shoot yourself in the head when trying to do it. We will discuss option 2.

I love T4MVC. It allows me to stop using those ugly magic strings while generating compile-time valid links or accessing resources from ASP.NET MVC views. It also has a very nice feature called IModelUnbinder. In short: it can translate action argument of any type into properly constructed link.

...oto jest pytanie! Po długiej przerwie w pisaniu postaram się Wam na nie odpowiedzieć. Co dzieje się w momencie użycia tej metody? Kiedy powinniśmy z niej korzystać, a kiedy możemy to sobie odpuścić? Oczywiście nie będę w stanie przeanalizować każdej możliwej sytuacji, ale mam nadzieję, że po dzisiejszej lekturze będziecie korzystać z tej metody w pełni świadomie.

Everybody knows you should be making backups of everything. Especially if it's your startup's database. Without db backup you'll probably be bald soon. And you don't want to be bald.