.NETified

The Twin Cities Code Camp put on by Magenic and a co-worker of mine Jason Bock, is coming up this Saturday.

There are many good sessions including LINQ and several on game programming.

It is a free event, so everyone should come. No excuses.

Scott Hanselman has posted a video of the full talk that ScottGu gave on MVC for ASP.NET.

I’m even more excited after watching the video.

Microsoft is finally going to release a framework for creating web pages using the MVC (Model View Controller) pattern. It will be integrated into the core and not sitting on top of System.Web.UI.Page. Aspx pages were created to behave just like Windows Forms, rather than how the web actually works.

This will be a nice change, and long overdue.

I’ve always been curious about when to use the RegexOptions.Compiled option, and when to use the instance over the static Regex methods. I did a little research and found the results to be quite different than I expected.

To Compile or Not to Compile

Regex Class Caching

For those of you who don’t understand the concept of source control branching and merging, and the correct way to do it, take a look at this post by Jeff Atwood. He does a create job of explaining it.