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No bandwidth MSDN: Reflector

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:01:17 GMT

How you can use Reflector to browse the insides of the .NET framework classes and why choosing Reflector over MSDN will make you a better developer.

Visual Studio 2010 == Visual Studio 2008 + ReSharper

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:31:04 GMT

o you want the next gen of next-gen applications? Get the Visual Studio 2010 CTP! Which is - according to Microsoft itself - really just Visual Studio 2008 with ReSharper installed.

How To Localize Your Application Using String Tables

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:46:08 GMT

Unfortunately for us the developers, nowadays, many customers require that that the product they purchased, will be localized to a specific language

BlogEngine.NET community is growing!

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:46:15 GMT

new contributions to support BlogEngine.NET

ASP.NET MVC Request Flow

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:46:02 GMT

I looked all over the net for a good diagram that outlined the major classes involved an ASP.NET MVC request. I couldn't find one, and so I created this one. If you want to get a very high level overview, then check it out.

EventArgs.Empty - Do You Use It?

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:31:08 GMT

Anyway, we can define EventArgs as a private member and use it instead of allocating an EventArgs object every time the event is raised. Fortunately, there is no need for that, C# introduce us the EventArgs.Empty...

ASP.NET MVC Beta1 in a few weeks and v1 by end of year

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:01:07 GMT

A tweet in the morning, straight from Remix08 UK, where ScottGu is doing a presentation on ASP.NET MVC: ScottGu says feature complete MVC beta "in a few weeks". final v1 by end of year

Avoiding Dependencies

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:46:03 GMT

As a rule, code should not directly depend on external resources such as System.Net.Mail's email sending capabilities. Having code that directly calls out to System.Net.Mail is difficult to unit test as well as difficult to walk through in a test or stage environment without having actual emails sent. Two design patterns can be used to reduce this dependency: Facade and Strategy. The Strategy pattern offers a host of benefits above and beyond what the facade layer provides, as this articles demonstrates with code examples.

CodePlex launches support for TortoiseSVN

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:01:03 GMT

No longer do you need to host SvnBridge yourself, or use the Team Foundation Client or the CodePlex client. Now you can use your favorite SVN client and connect directly to your repository!

Two ASP.NET/VS 2008 Performance Tricks That Even Microsoft Didn't Know

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:46:02 GMT

Two interesting ASP.NET with Visual Studio 2008 performance tips that were not documented and discovered by chance

MSDN Social Bookmarks

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:46:02 GMT

MSDN Social Bookmarks was released today. This is a candid look at what it's all about and why you should consider using it.

Path to .NET 3.5 Developer Certification

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:31:05 GMT

If you are trying to figure out the new certification exams for Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) or Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist (MCTS) for .NET Framework 3.5 / Visual Studio 2008 then you may be interested in a diagram that I put together to helped me to visualize the path through the required certification exams.

An Introduction to the xUnit.net Testing Framework

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:31:03 GMT

In this blog entry, Stephen Walther demonstrates how to use the xUnit.net testing framework while building an ASP.NET MVC application. He discusses how to build unit tests for controller actions that perform database access.