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Introducing MemBus: In-Memory Publish/Subscribe Messaging

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:15:08 GMT

MemBus allows you to use the messaging paradigm while staying internal to your App. This post introduces MemBus and provides links to several posts about the framework.

ReSharper Zencoding

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:30:52 GMT

I have to say I really like the new ASP.NET features in ReSharper 5 but in addition to all the goodness, the ReSharper Zen Coding Powertoy really rocks.

How to run, ON THE CHEAP, an IIS7 hosted website on Amazon EC2

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Its beautiful.... This article shows step by step, with clear instructions and lots of images, how to host your asp.net website on Amazon's EC2. I'm shocked at how easy it is. 1) Create account 2) Select image 3) do a little dance 4) publish your website to the cloud

Using SyntaxHighlighter use for your Blog

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:30:03 GMT

SyntaxHighlighter for Windows Live Writer

Introducing the realfiction builder - MsBuild without XML

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:21:43 GMT

Imagine writing MsBuild scripts: Without touching XML but rather using a simple syntax. If you like the idea, check out rfb.

Buy Anders' Pascal 4 dev laptop

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:30:03 GMT

Ebay auction for Anders Hejlsberg's (lead architect at MS on the .NET platform) old laptop on which he developed Turbo Pascal 4. Proceeds go towards Haiti relief. Pretty damn cool, and (at least right now) cheap!

How Fanboys See .NET ORMs

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:15:00 GMT

A play off of the recent "How Fanboys See Operating Systems" post.

Mindscape WPF Themes released

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:45:00 GMT

Mindscape have released a suite of WPF themes to help developers deliver attractive applications faster than ever before. All source code is included so that UI tweaks can be made to create your own style or leave them as they are to have an Office 2007 style or Expression Blend look and feel.

Tap into the power of the Windows 7 Taskbar with your .NET apps

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:45:00 GMT

The task bar has some of the most visible improvements in Windows 7 - find out how to hugely increase the usability of your .NET applications by tapping into the taskbar functionality. Jump lists, thumbnail previews and thumbnail toolbars are all covered.

WPF Printing: How to print a PageRange with WPF's PrintDialog ...

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:51:18 GMT

WPFs PrintDialog has no logic for printing a page range of a FixedDocument (XPS). It allows the User to define a pagerange, but then all pages are printed and it's up to you to implement the logic to only print the pages defined in the PrintDialog. This blog-post describes an elegant way how to implement generic logic to support the printing of page ranges.

OMG, Better Rake (for .net)!

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:00:00 GMT

If you ask me, when it comes tools for writing automated build scripts nothing packs more bang for the buck than Rake. Until recently, using Rake to build .net solutions required a magic concoction of hacked together scripts which rarely exhibited Ruby's appreciation for beauty nor Rake's spirit of simplicity. ... and then came Albacore...

Remote Desktop using C#.Net

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:45:00 GMT

Remote Desktop Services is one of Microsoft Windows components to access a remote computer through network. Only the user interface of the application is presented at the client. Any input is redirected over to the remote computer over the network.

ReSharper 5.0 Overview

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:00:00 GMT

As promised, we're publishing a general ReSharper 5.0 overview, elaborating on its feature set. Please keep in mind that this is a preliminary document. The general picture will stay unchanged, but local amendments cannot be ruled out at this point, and many user interface items will probably change.

Introducing PostSharp 2.0: #1 - NotifyPropertyChanged

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Gael Fraiteur does first revelations about PostSharp 2.0 on a real-life example: implementing the INotifyPropertyChanged pattern with an aspect. Be safely seated!

C# Structured Editor Prototype

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:30:02 GMT

As part of my research back in school I was building an experimental structured editor for C#. Now I've decided to publish the sources and binaries on CodePlex: http://structurededitor.codeplex.com To give a better idea of how the editor works, I've recorded six short videos showing the different features below.

Booting from a VHD

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:30:04 GMT

Hosting an OS in a virtual machine can be very useful for developers, but sometimes one pays a price in terms of performance. In Windows 7 developers can get improved performance in virtual machines by native booting a VHD. First create a Virtual PC that hosts Windows 7, then restart your computer, and finally boot directly into the VHD that contains the Windows 7 OS. When you native boot a VHD your virtual machine runs very close to the metal; performance is greatly enhanced and you have much better support for OS features that may not be available inside a standard Virtual PC.

YouCube 3.0 - WPF 3D Chromium Browser

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:30:02 GMT

There's an updated version of YouCube (WPF 3D Web Browser) available based on my Awesomium / Chromium WPF control.

Finally Understanding the Merits of TDD

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:00:07 GMT

I'm not a TDD person...or at least I wasn't until last week. Up until then, I had read the blogs and looked at the examples to try to understand TDD and unit testing (with mocking) in general. Almost all of the examples I was shown demonstrated very basic scenarios that, in most cases, were too trivial to show value. I would ask people who would speak about unit testing in general how you'd do a specific scenario and would get mix responses ranging from "just try it" to "you should be using this tool and it'll just write the tests for you".

Writing Great Unit Tests: Best and Worst Practises

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:30:04 GMT

A suite of good unit tests is immensely valuable: it documents your design, and makes it easier to refactor and expand your code while retaining a clear overview of each component's behaviour. However, a suite of *bad* unit tests is immensely painful: it doesn't prove anything clearly, and can severely inhibit your ability to refactor or alter your code in any way. How can you be sure to write unit tests that contribute positively to your project and don't end up being a liability?

ASP.NET MVC, TDD and AutoMapper

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:30:00 GMT

This post is in response to a question on a recent article I wrote about mapping domain entities to presentation models with AutoMapper, an object-object mapper for .NET. Today I will give a brief example of how we can tie it all together in an ASP.NET MVC application using dependency injection and application services.

Automating .NET and NHibernate Development With IronRuby + Rake

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:15:01 GMT

Using IronRuby to automate .NET development tasks.

.NET continues to DoS attack me, seriously!

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:45:00 GMT

Yeah, it does! And I don't necessarily mean denial of service - that would mean that I couldn't get any programming done. Nope, far from it - but it sure is denial of sleep attacking me. Come one, I am struggling to keep up with all the new runtimes, features, frameworks and best practices coming out of Redmond. It's awesome and actually fun; no doubt about it - but sometimes it is excruciating as well. And today I am going to talk about the excruciating experience of seeing another reinvented wheel hobble out of Microsoft.

An introduction to UI Automation - with spooky spirographs

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:30:14 GMT

UIAutomation provides a robust way of poking, prodding and perusing any widget shown on the Windows desktop; it even works with Silverlight. It can be used for many things, like building Screen Readers, writing automated UI tests - or for creating a digital spirit to spook your colleagues by possessing Paint.Net and sketching spirographs.

Free PowerShell EBook

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:45:00 GMT

Looking for something to do this weekend? Looking to master PowerShell? PowerShell MVP Dr. Tobias Weltner has released a free book just for you, Mastering Powershell!

Having Fun with the New Editor in VS 2010

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:45:00 GMT

A brief demo of how easy it is to customize the new WPF-based text editor in VS 2010