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Color Printing Extension Now Available!

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:53:25 GMT

We are pleased to announce the availability of Color Printing as a free extension for Visual Studio 2010! By default, VS 2010 prints only in black and white; this extension restores support for printing code in color.

Prepare web.config for HTML5 and CSS3

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:02:34 GMT

HTML5 and CSS3 introduces some new file types that enables us to create even better websites. We are now able to embed video, audio and custom fonts natively to any web page. Some of these file types are relatively new and not supported by the IIS web server by default. It's file types like .m4v, .webm and .woff.

FluentScheduler Released - Fluent task/cron job scheduling library

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:58:49 GMT

FluentScheduler is a .NET 4 based task scheduler that allows you to run tasks/cron jobs from your application. A fluent api is used to configure schedules for when to run each task.

C# Identify Crisis, You Have To Know Your Identity

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:45:00 GMT

Marking the beginning of the end of C# as language and its ongoing identity crisis.

Spring.NET 1.2.0 Released

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:00:52 GMT

The Spring.Net framework version 1.2.0 has been released today and it features among others WCF and MSMQ integration as well as 100 bug fixes and enhancements since the 1.1.2 release.

LINQ to XML - XPath

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:24:02 GMT

LINQ to SQL may be on it's way out, but LINQ is no way out at all! And don't worry about LINQ to SQL, the ADO.NET Entity Framework is available and guess what it's awesome. Another good usage for LINQ is when you need to query an XML file. When working with LINQ to XML you may remember the old days when you used XPath. But don't worry anymore there is support for XPath on LINQ to XML. There are extension methods for LINQ to XML in the System.Xml.Xpath namespace! Read this blog post if you are interested in an example, and find out if there are any performance issues! Have fun reading!

New .NET logo

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:16:13 GMT

Our team decided a while back to bring a fresh new look to the .NET logo, given the old was in need of a refresh to suite our future product positioning (I've been staring at this for a few weeks now and it's totally grown on me)....

dev \ efor - visual studio plug-in

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:28:24 GMT

dev \ efor is the visual studio plug-in that helps you monitor your development progress While you are actively using your visual studio development environment, dev \ efor monitors your development progress, stores information and process project & solution based datas to let you know about your development efforts, software metrics, the trend and the history about your projects that you've been working on with Microsoft Vistual Studio IDE With dev \ efor you can; Calculate project & solution based software metrics. See the trend of your software metrics. Check out how much actual effort you spent during working on projects. Query these datas for custom & friendly time intervals. Export these datas to an Excel 2007 file. ( .xlsx ) Save chart images to an image file. (.png) Best out of it, dev \ efor is completely free ! download it from www.devefor.com

NHibernate Query Generator in Action

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:23:26 GMT

Mapped properties are accessed via properties as nature intended, and querying is a lot easier to read and write. Not quite as neat as Linq-to-NHibernate will be, but so much better than native NHibernate querying that I wonder why it wasn't included in the trunk.

Mono 2.0 Released

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:01:15 GMT

The Mono Project has released version 2.0 of Mono, enabling developers to run their .Net 2.0 applications on Linux and OSX.

Creating Visual Studio Snippets: Snippet Designer and ReSharper

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:21:30 GMT

Two ways of creating/using Visual Studio snippets are explored and demonstrated: using the newly released Snippet Designer and ReSharper's Live Templates

Aggiorno 1.2 released! Better Performance, IE8 features and more

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:01:03 GMT

The guys over at Artinsoft just released a refresh to their aggiorno web assistant tool, from their website "aggiorno represents a new generation of tools for software developers that uses advanced transformational technologies, for turning any existing website into a valid, findable, accessible standards compliant one"... it really is a great tool and totally worth it to check it out.

Inheritance and Associations with Entity Framework Part 3

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:57:11 GMT

On part 1 and part 2 I explored how to apply 2 different inheritance models (TPH & TPT) in Entity Framework. In this part I'm going to demonstrate associations between 2 base entities. And how to filter end properties to return specific type (sub entity).

Inheritance and Associations with Entity Framework Part 2

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:28:09 GMT

In the previous part I discussed Table-per-Hierarchy Inheritance, in this part I'll go through Table-per-Type Inheritance model. There is a video demonstrating this model if you wish to watch. Here I'll update my previous sample with new entities that demonstrate the Table-per-Type Inheritance model

Request for Help: Need better guidance for beginners

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:01:02 GMT

A call to harms for helping beginners. This time from a pro that realizes the need.

Inheritance and Associations with Entity Framework Part 1

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:53:01 GMT

In this multi parts series I'll explore how to build inheritance with Entity Framework showing 2 different approaches of inheritance in Entity Framework. Beside that I'll show how to build simple association between 2 entities and show how to provide custom code to retrieve other parts of the relation when inheritance is applied. In this part I'm exploring Table-per-Hierarchy Inheritance model in EF

Aggiorno, the Italian colleague you've always wanted

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:31:09 GMT

Review of the new Aggiorno plugin for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008

Objectively evaluating O/R Mappers

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:50:44 GMT

Microsoft has single-handedly pushed O/R Mapping to the center of conversation, and we struggle to objectively differentiate between the choices. Arguments like "Tool X rocks", or "Tool Y sucks" are hard to understand. I'd like to more objectively discuss the basis on which we should accept or reject an O/R Mapper. As always, it depends on context.

Microsoft PM responds to Entity Framework "petition of no confidence"

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:46:08 GMT

Tim Mallalieu tries to explain the EF situation - basically he says, "we'll try to do it in the next version" when responding to Entity Framework critics