A review of Mike Bluestein's Learning Monotouch

I have been lucky enough to receive a review copy of Mike Bluestein’s “Learning Monotouch”. This is a mini review of the book.

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Listing all mime types without using OLE and IIS in .NET

An ASP.NET example of mapping file extensions to their mime types, without needing to query IIS via COM.

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Genetic Algorithms in C#

A .NET 3.5 upgrade to Barry Lapthorn's original C# example found on codeproject.

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C# Bit manipulation by example (part 2)

The second part of a two-part blog series looking at bit manipulation in C#.

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Avoiding Unicode issues when inserting XML into a SQL Database

If you have to insert XML into a SQL Server (2005+) XML column, there's three ways of doing it...

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C# Bit manipulation by example (part 1)

This is the first part of two blog posts trying demystify bit manipulation in C/C#.

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Linked list and Double linked list in C#

Two examples of implementing a linked and double linked list in C# from scratch.

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Creating a custom silverlight installation the jQuery way

The default Silverlight installation and upgrade experience is fairly jarring compared to its counter-part Flash. If you target version 4.0 of Silverlight and the user has 3.0 installed, they will receive an ugly and annoying modal dialog forcing them to upgrade...

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Inside The System.IO Namespace Part 3

The final part to a series of posts looking at the System.IO namespace.

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Inside The System.IO Namespace Part 2

The second in a series of posts looking at the System.IO namespace.

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