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Announcement of Rhino Queues

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:36:32 GMT

Looks like the start of something good. Looks simple. Not yet looked at the code to see the complexities it has, but it is said to fully support System.Transactions, which is no easy task.

Microformat .NET

Sat, 03 May 2008 01:16:02 GMT

A generic microformat parser. I thought this could use some attention from the .NET community!

Report on Day 2 Dev Week 2007

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:55:38 GMT

The Second day of Devweek 2007, was better than the first. View my report on the lectures that I attended.

Day 1 of the DevWeek Conference

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:25:22 GMT

A brief overview of my experience on the first day of DevWeek 2007 in London

PowerToys for ReSharper 2.5.1 Now Available

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:01:01 GMT

Power toys are plugins that shows how to use various techniques together. They are a lot more complex than plugin samples and require good knowledge of ReSharper OpenAPI to understand the source code. However they do useful things and can be installed just to add functionality to ReSharper.

Easy HTML Screen Capture in Windows in three lines

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:46:01 GMT

Create a HTML Screen Capture program like www.websnapr.com in three lines of code.

Intro to JSON

Wed, 27 Dec 2006 13:31:03 GMT

A brief introduction to the Javascript Object Notation

Ultimate .NET development tools

Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:01:02 GMT

A list of good free and commercial .NET development tools.

Increase productivity with ReSharper templates

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:01:01 GMT

Download useful ReSharper templates and learn how to use them

A simple example of a fluent interface

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 19:31:01 GMT

A fluent interface can make your code much easier to use by allowing users to write code like this: imageFilter.Rotate(90) .Watermark("Monkey") .RoundCorners(100, Color.Bisque) .Save("test.png"); This article shows how and why you should add fluent interfaces to your toolbelt.

Data Generator

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 16:31:02 GMT

"This little program lets you generate large volumes of random, custom data for use in testing software. Try messing around with it: you'll soon figure it out! I've had to limit it to a maximum of 5000 results, since server resources are limited."

ASP.NET Caching Gotcha

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:49:25 GMT

A small gotcha regarding ASP.NET and caching.

Message Contract Design Recommendations

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:01:01 GMT

Here are some useful recommendations for designing message contracts for web services.

Neural Networks on C#

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:31:01 GMT

The articles describes a C# library for neural networks computations and their application for several problems solving.

An HttpModule that moves ViewState to the bottom

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:01:01 GMT

Mads Kristensen shows how to move the ViewState to the bottom of the page with a couple of advantages that this brings.

Why I Love WSE 3.0

Sat, 18 Nov 2006 18:41:42 GMT

I little reason why I love WSE 3.0

Source for thumboo.com thumbnailing service and database released

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 16:31:02 GMT

Michael Schwarz has released the source code for his recent project, thumboo.com.

ASP.NET CSS Control Adapters Beta 3 Released

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 21:31:02 GMT

Microsoft releases beta 3 of their ASP.NET CSS Control Adapters. The adapters change the ASP.NET server controls (GridView, Menu, etc) to render standards-compliant markup.

Solution to my "Problem with List<T> and TypeConverter" Problem

Sat, 21 Oct 2006 07:47:54 GMT

I ran into problems with the XNA Beta1, where by I had a class that had a Vector2 struct in. The problem with the XNA Vector2 struct is that there is no TypeConverter for it at the moment. This means that there is no support in the designer.

Assigining a TypeConverter to a class you don't own

Sat, 21 Oct 2006 07:47:04 GMT

Bread and butter Resharper

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 12:31:02 GMT

I've been using Resharper full-time for a year. I'd dabbled with it before then, but I didn't learn enough to get the full benefit. I want to thank Steve Donie and Jeremy Miller for helping me to learn the full featureset of the product. I can't imagine coding without it now.

Memory in .NET - what goes where

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:31:01 GMT

A lot of confusion has been wrought by people explaining the difference between value types and reference types as "value types go on the stack, reference types go on the heap". This is simply untrue (as stated) and this article attempts to clarify matters somewhat.

New Virtual Server machine additions for Vista Beta 2

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 01:25:01 GMT

Some useful info for using Virtual Server 2005 R2 : * Installing Virtual Server on Windows Vista Beta 2 * Virtual Machine Additions for Beta 2 are available

Microsoft Expression Graphic Designer Tutorials

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 02:33:01 GMT

Some Expression Graphic Designer Tutorials

IE7 BETA 3 Released

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:21:01 GMT

downloads for XP x32 and x64 and Windows Server (x32, X64 and Itanium builds)