hOOt is a extremely small size and fast embedded full text search engine for .net built from scratch. It was created in response to concern from the community over the lack of maintenance on the .Net Lucene port. This article will introduce you to using hOOt and explain what's going on under the ho...

Nuget 1.5 released! Highlights include: Project Templates with Preinstalled NuGet Packages; Explicit Assembly References; Added ability to exclude files in the NuSpec; Removing packages using the dialog prompts to remove dependencies; Support for Proxies that require authentication; Support for Repo...

Python tools aims to be a modern, featureful IDE for Python developers built on the Visual Studio Isolated Shell. Some key features include: Support for CPython, IronPython, Jython, and PyPy; Advanced editing capabilities, including IntelliSense; Multiple refactorings, such as “Extract Method...

Check out Minibuss on Codeplex. Minibuss is micro service bus built on top of MSMQ. Minibuss provides a low barrier to entry so that you can concentrate on why you're using it, rather than how. Using a service bus system like Minibuss can help improve your applications design and function by redu...

If you enjoy using NuGet to obtain and distribute your open source work and you maintain a blog or a site using Orchard, this post's for you. I've written a widget that will allow you to enter your author name. Then, the widget will hit the NuGet OData API and find any packages published with that a...

If you've used NHibernate, you know certain aspects of it can be frustrating and time-consuming. NHQS was created with the idea of making development with NHibernate simpler and quicker, specifically for the ISV developer who is trying to churn out green field projects. NHQS is built atop Fluent NHi...

nuget button for your websites

A WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor in HTML5

Meet the new micro-ORM on the block. PetaPOCO seeks to be the solution you've been looking for when it comes to lightweight, flexible data access.

The incredible gherkin-powered BDD framework, SpecFlow, is now at version 1.7. Check out this awesome testing library if you haven't already, and if you have, read about the new features!

The fantastic NLog library has hit 2.0!

How to fix an issue where nagios periodically displays outdated data.

DistAppLog it's a library to create log entry from one application and replicate to a central server database, using ZeroMQ for messaging, Massive for ORM and Sqlite for the log storage. The objective it's to offer a centralized alternative for other libs like log4net or Nlog, but more simple and...

Lately I am getting more in love with Open Source technologies especially those which are ported to .Net or can be directly used with .Net.