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Regular Expression Generator(txt2re.com)

submitted by gavinjoycegavinjoyce(25.7k) 4 years, 1 month ago

Generate regular expressions from sample text input read more...

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Visualizing the .NET Framework(codebetter.com)

submitted by gavinjoycegavinjoyce(25.7k) 4 years, 2 months ago

This was done using NDepend. The numbers are quite large — e.g. 39,509 types. read more...

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Why Isn't IE8 Passing Acid2?(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by gavinjoycegavinjoyce(25.7k) 4 years, 2 months ago

IE8 fails the copies of ACID2 due to the cross domain security checks IE performs for ActiveX controls. Since IE does not natively handle HTML content in the OBJECT tag, but rather uses IE’s rendering engine as an ActiveX to display this HTML content, the same cross domain security checks also apply. read more...

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Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated?(joelonsoftware.com)

submitted by gavinjoycegavinjoyce(25.7k) 4 years, 3 months ago

"Last week, Microsoft published the binary file formats for Office. These formats appear to be almost completely insane. The Excel 97-2003 file format is a 349 page PDF file."... read more...

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Microsoft releases Office binary file formats (doc, xls, ppt)(microsoft.com)

submitted by gavinjoycegavinjoyce(25.7k) 4 years, 3 months ago

.doc, .xls and .ppt specifications are available. A few years too late for me, but good news none the less. read more...

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Happy 2nd Birthday DotNetKicks(dotnetkicks.com)

submitted by gavinjoycegavinjoyce(25.7k) 4 years, 4 months ago

DotNetKicks.com is 2 year old today. A big thanks to everyone who has contributed to the community. read more...

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Why a standards compliant IE8 won't really mean much(codethinked.com)

submitted by gavinjoycegavinjoyce(25.7k) 4 years, 5 months ago

"What would a standards compliant IE8 mean for web developers? Call me cynical, but I honestly don't think it will mean all that much for a long long (long long long long) time, and lets look at why I believe that." read more...

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Scott Guthrie: Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Released(weblogs.asp.net)

submitted by gavinjoycegavinjoyce(25.7k) 4 years, 6 months ago

Scott's announcement on the release of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5. read more...

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Visual C# 2008 Keybinding Reference Poster(microsoft.com)

submitted by gavinjoycegavinjoyce(25.7k) 4 years, 6 months ago

A high quality, print-ready PDF containing the useful keybindings for developers that choose the C# developer profile in Visual Studio 2008 or use Visual C# Express. read more...

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SubSonic: MVC Preview Video(blog.wekeroad.com)

submitted by gavinjoycegavinjoyce(25.7k) 4 years, 6 months ago

Rob Conery has created a short screencast showing ASP.MVC and SubSonic. read more...

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DotNetKicks: Searchable and a new build server(blog.incremental.ie)

submitted by gavinjoycegavinjoyce(25.7k) 4 years, 7 months ago

We have recently added a new search feature and a build server to DotNetKicks.com. read more...

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SharpCacheSessionManager(aspadvice.com)

submitted by gavinjoycegavinjoyce(25.7k) 4 years, 7 months ago

The SharpCacheSessionManager is a HttpHandler that allows to display the entries stored in the Cache, Session and Application object. You can view the data stored inside the objects and you can also remove the objects from the corresponding storage. read more...

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Scott Guthrie announces ASP.NET MVC framework at Alt.Net Conf(codebetter.com)

submitted by gavinjoycegavinjoyce(25.7k) 4 years, 7 months ago

Some more information from ALT.NET on the new ASP.NET MVC framework. read more...

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Revisiting Programming Fonts(codinghorror.com)

submitted by gavinjoycegavinjoyce(25.7k) 4 years, 7 months ago

Jeff Atwood discusses programming fonts including the new one on the block, Inconsolata. read more...

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Software Branching and Parallel Universes(codinghorror.com)

submitted by gavinjoycegavinjoyce(25.7k) 4 years, 7 months ago

"Source control is the very bedrock of software development. Without some sort of version control system in place, you can't reasonably call yourself a software engineer. If you're using a source control system of any kind, you're versioning files almost by definition. The concept of versioning is deeply embedded in every source control system. You can't avoid it. But there's another concept, equally fundamental to source control, which is much less frequently used in practice. That concept is branching." read more...

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DotNetKicks - Now Serving SVN Revision 501(blog.incremental.ie)

submitted by gavinjoycegavinjoyce(25.7k) 4 years, 7 months ago

The DotNetKicks open source project is blistering ahead, there have been 336 commits in the last month taking us up to revision 501. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the project so far. Our main contributors the past few weeks were James Welsch, Simone Busoli, Kevin Fricovsky and Atif Aziz. read more...

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