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What a developer needs from their manager

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:16:03 GMT

I've a read a lot of articles talking about what it takes to be a good development manager. There are also articles about what makes a good developer. I thought it would be a good idea to describe what a developer needs from their manager.

Quick Tip: Use System.IO.Path.Combine instead of string concatenation

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:01:01 GMT

System.IO.Path has a number of utility methods that are useful when you have to progamatically build a file path ...

Ascend.NET - Nice and FREE WinForms Controls

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:01:01 GMT

The Ascend.NET controls are a collection of Windows Forms controls written in C# targeting Visual Studio 2005 and .NET 2.0. The intent is to provide controls that are flexible but easy to use that will hold up well under heavy usage.

Where is .NET?

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:31:01 GMT

Today at Digg/programming, not one single topic involved .NET. There were a lot of PHP, Ruby and Java. So where is .NET? Why is .NET so under represented on the broader community sites? I don't think it is because PHP or Java has a bigger user base or is better or worse than .NET. It must be something else. Maybe it is because .NET developers just don't care about the other programming languages and platforms. That's fair enough, but I don't buy it.

CoreWeb :: Regular Expression Library

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:01:01 GMT

This library contains many useful regular expressions.

Introducing Regulazy: Point & Click Regular Expressions

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:51:01 GMT

Roy Osherove has released a new Regular Expression (alpha) tool: "Regulazy is an attempt to build a small "Expert System" for creating .NET Regular Expressions. It lets the user create an expression based on a real life example of text they would like to parse. As the user interacts with Regulazy using the mouse, Regulazy offers the user possible expressions that would fit the currently selected text. As the user selects "rules" to apply on various parts of the text, a regular expression is built automatically in the lower application pane. The end result is a visual expression builder, that for most simple parsing operations, requires the user only to know what they would like to parse, and what the parsing rules should be - Regex Syntax is *not* needed."

Abstract Class vs Interface

Wed, 05 Jul 2006 21:21:01 GMT

There are lost of discussion on the internet about the Interface vs Abstract class. Also, as base class whether we have to use interface, abstract class or normal class. This post points out a few considerations on which we can take decision about Interface vs Abstract class vs Class.

Fireball Framework - Free .NET Syntax Highlight Control and More

Tue, 27 Jun 2006 23:09:01 GMT

Fireball Framework is project that aim to create the best controls and libraries for developer, the project already contains some control, CodeEditorControl with Syntax Highlight, Collections,Outlook Navigation bar and etc.. Here are some compiled examples: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dotnetfireball/FireEdit_Bin.zip?download Simply Excellent !!

.NET Format String 101

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:49:01 GMT

A useful reference article on String.Format()