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In .NET, open source does not beget open source

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:10:26 GMT

Ruby, Python, Perl, Node, and Clojure all have, to varying degrees, a unified story for defining a project, translating its source code into runnable code, running a test suite, building distributable packages, and resolving and installing a project or package's dependencies. These stories just work across all supported platforms. Setting up a cross-platform open source .NET project is non-trivial. ...

Colorize Visual Studio Output

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:39:49 GMT

The VSColorOutput extension provides color highlighting for the build and debug output windows in Visual Studio. Check it out on Codeplex!

NetBash - An Alternative to Admin Pages in Asp.Net Web Apps

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:25:35 GMT

NetBash is a drop in (think mvc mini profiler) extendable command line for your web application.

Introducing 'Vingy' Add-in for VS2010 To search StackOverflow, Web etc

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 23:15:51 GMT

Vingy let you search the web (mainly sites like StackOverflow, CodeProject, MSDN etc) in a non intrusive way, with out leaving the IDE. Vingy is a simple, but effective add in for Visual Studio 2010 so that you can search the web in a non intrusive way, and can filter results based on sources.

Jobping Url Shortener - Version 0.6

Sun, 03 Oct 2010 09:00:52 GMT

New version of Jobping Url Shortener.

StickyBeak Version 0.3 Released

Sun, 03 Oct 2010 09:45:52 GMT

StickyBeak is a logging utility for asp.net websites which can log every request to your site. It provides similar features as IIS log files but provides additional logging information (which just isn't possible with IIS logs) and easy viewing of logs via a admin page. You can also use the StickyBeak log file parser in your own code.

Easy Mail Delivery with SMTP Smart Host

Sun, 03 Oct 2010 00:00:52 GMT

I knew the downfalls of using the default localhost and the potential mail delivery problems if I didn't properly set the DomainKey, DKIM, SPF, SenderID, Reverse PTR, and blah blah blah. But it wasn't really worth the hassle for me to properly set all this, because I can sent the number of emails sent from my server on one hand each day. And a 4 out of 5 times they were administrative emails sent to my Gmail account. But given all that it is still no excuse for poor email hygiene.

Five Must Have Tools for MVC Developers

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:15:52 GMT

5 Must have tools for MVC developers

What's new in IIS 7.5

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:53:52 GMT

What's new in IIS 7.5 for administrators and developers

ASP.Net and Custom Error Pages, an SEO nightmare?

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:30:00 GMT

How to avoid custom error pages impacting on your SEO.

When "Activator" is just to slow

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:00:00 GMT

Nice performance tip

A Visual Look At The LINQ SelectMany Operator

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:00:00 GMT

An inside look at how SelectMany works, along with visuals to help you more easily understand it.

DiffPlex - a .NET Diff Generator

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:15:00 GMT

DiffPlex is a combination of a .NET Diffing Library with both a Silverlight and HTML diff viewer. It is released open source on CodePlex under the MS-PL license.

Mercurial tutorial - by Joel Spolsky

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:30:00 GMT

Mercurial is a modern, open source, distributed version control system, and a compelling upgrade from older systems like Subversion. In this user-friendly, six-part tutorial, Joel Spolsky teaches you the key concepts.

New in .NET 4: Don't Forget to Dispose() your SmtpClient Instances

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:30:00 GMT

It seems the System.Net.Mail.SmptClient class has gotten a bit of a facelift in .NET 4.

Yahoo YUI Compressor vs. MS AJAX Minifier vs. Google Closure Compiler

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:00:00 GMT

A while back, YUI Compressor was king of the hill, and for the most part the only game in town that was really designed for production use. Since then a number of new competitors have been released by Google and Microsoft, and Nick Berardi checks out how they stacked up against the YUI Compressor.

Write C# instead of JavaScript - gain the productivity of C# dev.

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:15:07 GMT

SharpKit is a Web Toolkit that enables you to write C# and convert it to JavaScript during compilation. Writing and maintaining JavaScript code can be very expensive. Migrating from JavaScript to C# enables you to: *Leverage Visual Studio C# productivity *Maximize cross-browser compatibility *Streamline client-side code review

Thoughts on ASP.NET MVP - A Framework That Wants To Be MVC

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:02 GMT

Rob Conery discusses again why ASP.NET MVC matters now, and how (and why) the concept of productivity changed over the years.

.NET Serialization Performance Comparison

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 12:00:01 GMT

Comparing the speed and output of the different serializers available in .NET with the latest version of Json.NET.

ASP.NET MVC: Compile Your Views for Release Build Only

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:15:09 GMT

Mark J. Miller shows how to setup an ASP.NET MVC application project to compile views based on WebForms engine in release builds only. You therefore get the speed during development but a final validation before release.

Open Source Silverlight Battleship Game

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:01:44 GMT

Here's an open source Silverlight Battleship game. Sources are released under Ms-PL.

Smarten up your UI with Task Dialogs

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:45:01 GMT

Put your message boxes on steroids. Take advantage of the new-look dialogs in Windows Vista and Windows 7 in your applications and smarten up your UI.

Hacking the ASP.NET Parser

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:15:02 GMT

A while ago I blogged about using external templates in an asp.net application. The problem with that was it wasn't natively supported, so I had to create a derived SpecialRepeater in order to take advantage of the external template system. In this latest parser hack I've managed to "trick" the asp.net parser into letting me declaratively set any template property to be a virtual path in order to load a user control into that template at runtime. The ASP.NET compliation system is pretty complex. There are all kinds of extensibility points, including BuildProviders, PageParserFilters, ControlBuilders, ExpressionBuilders and the list goes on. One unknown *feature* of the parser is it's ability to generate code from something called an InstanceDescriptor.

Silverlight 4 - Review of all the Cool New Features

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:15:00 GMT

Check-out this comprehensive blog post by Tim Heuer - who outlines all the cool new SL4 features announced at the PDC in November - with links to videos and code samples to help you get started with each new capability. Here is a link to his complete blog post: http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/11/18/whats-new-in-silverlight-4-complete-guide-new-features.aspx

PDC09 - Microsoft to Open Source the .NET Micro Framework

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:45:00 GMT

Peter Galli reporting form PDC09 - Today, at the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference (PDC) here in Los Angeles, we announced not only the release of version 4.0 of the.NET Micro Framework, but also that we are open sourcing the product and making it available under the Apache 2.0 license, which is already being used by the community within the embedded space.