Red Gate has announced that they will be assuming responsibility for Lutz Roeder's Reflector utility.

How being clever can create headaches for you (later) and other team members.

In my previous post I show how to integrate PartCover reports into CC.Net and promise to look into make the reports look a bit nicer and try to integrate the Coverage metrics into the statistics reports. So I dust off my xslt, pick up two of my favorite books on XML (XML Hacks and XML for the world ...

Conversion of the Gauss Krueger notation into latitude/longitude

Use some advance compression tools like OptiPNG, AdvPNG and jpegtran to compress PNG and JPEG on your site and save 30% to 50% download time. See some handy powershell scripts than can run these tools on all your png and jpeg files and compress them all at once.

Rob Conery show how you can secure controller actions using Forms Authentication for an ASP.NET MVC application

The Managed OS research project at MS, codename Singularity, has been released as an RDK for non-commercial use on CodePlex.

Microsoft has released source code from the Singularity research project onto Codeplex under an academic, non-commercial license. “The Singularity Research Development Kit is based on the Microsoft Research Singularity project. It includes source code, build tools, test suites, design notes, and oth...

Microsoft has announced that support for the F# functional programming language will be fully integrated into Visual Studio. This marks a bold new commitment to facilitating functional programming on the .NET platform and could potentially help legitimize functional programming in enterprise environ...

I have been a proud user of .NET framework for 6 years now and I still think it is a really awesome product and Microsoft did a wonderful job developing it. But it seems like all the cool startups are not using ASP.NET. Does anybody have any idea why?

With the advent of IronRuby I think my opinion on the subject may change because that hopefully implies that visual studio will get full support for Ruby and that will finally give me the chance to evaluate my productivity in both languages more objectively. But as things stand currently I like the...

You've deployed your app in prod server, you run it on the browser and you get an exception: "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." ? (ASP.NET AJAX RC1)

The JavaScript confirm() function is simple to implement on a Button control, but you can only use it for one particular purpose and that is to confirm a postback. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could use it to ask users a question and act depending on their answer from the code-behind?

The book is around 1100 pages of goodness on open source and freeware tools you can use to improve your software development work. The book’s all about using tools to bring value to the entire development cycle from writing code to testing to lifecycle management. We’ve got something like 170 tool...