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Have you ever wondered why CodePlex is so slow?

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:31:21 GMT

Taking a look at one feature on CodePlex that is much slower than it needs to be, due to indiscriminate use of UpdatePanels and bloated ViewState, and then comparing it to similar functionality on Stack Overflow to illustrate how much more efficiently the same feature can be implemented.

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.

Three Simple Rhino Mocks Rules

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:46:13 GMT

Jimmy Bogard shows how he uses the new Rhino Mocks syntax, and three short rules for using it.

Regionerate Beta 2 Released

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:55:01 GMT

I am pleased to announce the release of Regionerate Beta 2. The first public beta was released more than a year ago and since then, thanks to great community participation in the forums and thanks to submitted patches, many bugs were fixed and many new features were introduced. I would like to thank everyone for their great help over the past year, and I hope Regionerate will continue to evolve and grow towards a super-stable and feature-rich v1.0.

C# Late Binding Library

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:37:55 GMT

A helper library for making Late Binding calls with C# in an easy way.

Using Linq2Objets to perform list conversoin

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:46:04 GMT

A short screencast showing how to use Linq2Objets to perform list conversion.

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...

Building Firefox Plugins using Visual Studio

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:01:01 GMT

If you use Visual studio as a development environment and want to develop plugins for Firefox here are a few points to help you get started.

Snippet Designer for Visual Studio Released!

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:01:11 GMT

An open source plug-in for Visual Studio which adds the ability to edit code snippets in a rich integrated way. It also adds the Snippet Explorer tool window which allows you to easily search for snippet files on your computer.