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Neptune (personal SMTP testing server)

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:46:13 GMT

Neptune is a SMTP Development Server targeted for use in automated testing. It's a SMTP server that does not relay the message and allows you to query for messages and their content.

XAML to PNG with server-side WPF

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:01:03 GMT

XAML to PNG with server-side WPF sample

Silverlight 2.0 RTM available from Oct 14th, on a Linux machine next t

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:01:02 GMT

Silverlight 2.0 will go RTM tomorrow morning, with an Eclipse plugin to allow development of SL app on Linux to Java developers

Big News about Silverlight coming this Monday and some open source too

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:44:34 GMT

Big news about Silverlight coming this Monday (ideas on what it could be) and two open source tools you may not have heard of but could prove very useful (an open source integration server and an open source search server).

NAnt build file reuse with Macrodefs, 1/2

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:57:31 GMT

Java's Ant build tool has a wonderful type called Macrodef. This is part one of a two-parter on how to use a port of macrodef to tidy up your NAnt build.

List of countries, cities, languages

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:31:03 GMT

You will find in the following links list of countries, cities, and their languages in CSV format, you can import into any database:

IntelliSense for Expression Blend

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:16:05 GMT

An add-in for Expression Blend 2.5 that adds IntelliSense for editing of XAML files.

Introduction to Mocking with Rhino Mocks

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:01:09 GMT

A short screencast introduction to Mocking with Rhino Mocks

Adding Microsoft Source Analyzer Tool to your build process

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:36:24 GMT

This article explains how to add Microsoft Source Analyzer Tool for c# in your build process (for CruiseControl.NET integration), and how to make source analysis automatic during compilation.

Writing your own rules for Microsoft Source Analysis for C#

Mon, 26 May 2008 14:01:02 GMT

How to look at the baked in rules or how to write your own set of rules for the newly released Microsoft Source Analysis for C#.

Microsoft Source Analysis for C# Released

Sat, 24 May 2008 00:31:14 GMT

From post: "Source Analysis is similar in many ways to Microsoft Code Analysis (specifically FxCop), but there are some important distinctions. FxCop performs its analysis on compiled binaries, while Source Analysis analyzes the source code directly. For this reason, Code Analysis focuses more on the design of the code, while Source Analysis focuses on layout, readability and documentation."

Visual Studio Nunit & Rhino Mocks Templates

Thu, 22 May 2008 14:46:22 GMT

A simple visual studio installer file with a project template, an item template and a couple of code snippets for TDD with Nunit and Rhino Mocks

C# Google maps postcode parser

Thu, 15 May 2008 17:06:26 GMT

Source code and article for performing a Google maps lookup on all postcodes from a webpage, then plotting them with Google maps.

Introducing Waegis

Tue, 13 May 2008 02:46:04 GMT

A new spam blocking service just hit the .NET space: Waegis. It's a service similar to Akismet, but written entirely in .NET

Implement MetaWeblog API in ASP.NET

Sun, 11 May 2008 00:31:03 GMT

There is no doubt that MetaWeblog API is one of the very helpful and popular inventions around online publishing especially for blog engines and services. Of course MetaWeblog API has not been a tool only for blogs because it's used as a general publishing service for others sites as well.

CSS sliding doors technique

Mon, 12 May 2008 20:01:04 GMT

This article will show you how to create fancy buttons using CSS sliding doors technique. It is much better to use this technique than to use image buttons because you can apply the style to any link and at the same time you don't have to create an image for each button.

Silverlight Lightbox from TeamLive.com

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:31:02 GMT

A very cool Lightbox implementation using Silverlight 2.0

Implementing Generic Caching

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:46:02 GMT

I develop for a large, high-availability website, with hundreds of thousands of daily users. As such, we need to cache a lot of data in our web-server memory (which is cheap) to save numerous hits to our main database cluster (which is very expensive). I would imagine the desire to improve performance by saving on database hits is common across many web applications - and caching frequently used data is often seen as one of the best ways to solve this problem.

ASP.NET MVC - Legacy Url Routing

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:31:02 GMT

When converting web form applications to MVC, it requires a new Url structure. Learn how to handle legacy Url's within an MVC application by appropriately redirecting them to the correct MVC Url.

SEO Page Manager For ASP.Net

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:46:10 GMT

manage all your meta tags and sitemap urls in one convenient place

Serving your ASP.NET .aspx pages with .html

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:16:10 GMT

Need to serve your pages with an HTML extension instead of an ASPX extension? Start here!

A Great XPath Query Tool

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:46:03 GMT

Visual XPath is a free graphical XPath query tool which have many great features, some of those features are: Load an XML file and see it in a form of tree

Using NAnt with Visual Studio

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:31:03 GMT

Get your NAnt build running from VS.Net with full intelli-sense, and build errors reported to the error list window.

Hello Rhino World

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:04:50 GMT

A simple Hello World showing how elegant the Rhino Mock framework can be used to simulate expected behaviour on mocked objects.

Out, Out, Damn Ref

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:01:02 GMT

The difference between the out and ref keywords in C# .. and other questions this brings up.