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Top Visual Studio Add-ins

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:31:02 GMT

I am often asked what my favourite development tools are, so I thought I'd write down a few that I use and why. I have split this list in 2 as some of these are add-ons for visual studio and others are just standalone applications here are the VS Add-ins.

Converting Text into Image On-The-Fly (C#)

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:46:04 GMT

This code converts the text into image and displays it onto the web page without saving it into a file on the disk. It also takes care of text wrapping. TextToImageConvertor can either be used in a web page or in a module.

RegEx Multiple Matches with Lookahead Assertion

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:16:04 GMT

This is a quick article where I would like to show how to use regular expression to get all matches of a particular pattern from the string.

27 Free Must-have Online Collaboration Tools

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:46:12 GMT

hese days teams can be dispersed all over the globe. With outsourcing, telecommuting, distance learning and complex project collaboration, it's often helpful to have tools that can assist with the various collaborative tasks need to be done by dispersed teams. I've put together a great list of 27 free...

New ASP.NET Charting Control

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:31:03 GMT

From ScottGu's blog. Brand new, Free, ASP.NET 3.5 chart control. It looks very nice!

Software Tools You Should Be Using and Blogs You Should Be Reading

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:01:02 GMT

Advice on how to become a great developer and not just a monkey programmer.

ScottG:October 22nd Links: ASP.NET, Visual Studio, WPF and Silverlight

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:46:09 GMT

Latest quality link collection by Scott

7 of my favorite jQuery plugins for use with ASP.NET

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:46:04 GMT

Seven of my favorite jQuery plugins to use with ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX, based on my own successes and failures using them over the past year and a half.

Speeding up ASP.NET with the Runtime Page Optimizer

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:31:08 GMT

An great new tool to automatically optimize your ASP.NET website.

ScottGu: ASP.NET MVC Beta

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:46:03 GMT

One of ScottGu´s monster blogposts

3 themes adapted for Blogengine.NET

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 05:46:03 GMT

3 wp themes: Notepad Chaos, FreshCitrus and Scruffy adapted for Blogengine.NET 1.4.5... more to come ;-)

10 Programming Proverbs Every Developer Should Know

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:01:02 GMT

Proverbs are used to express universal truths or life lessons in a short and memorable fashion. I find that they are a great way to keep things in perspective, both in life and in work. Because of this, I have assembled 10 programming proverbs that every developer needs in their arsenal.

Removing unused CSS Classes from your web application

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:31:14 GMT

2 ways to clean up your Css by removing unused classes.

$("Microsoft").append("excitement");

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:46:14 GMT

Right now is honestly the most excited that I have ever been about the .net platform. With IronRuby and ASP.NET MVC on the horizon and jQuery being integrated as part of the official Microsoft development platform, I think that Microsoft is finally "getting" web development.

Microsoft Announces Visual Studio 2010. Developers Respond.

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:01:13 GMT

Microsoft's development environment offers new tools for Agile development, software testing enhancements and improved support for cloud computing. Microsoft showed CIO.com a sneak peek, and the author invited developers to chime in with their feedback.

Development Tools I Use & Recommend

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:16:03 GMT

Eventually I will get to some technical code Posts. But for now, I'm a bit delayed with some other things at work lately. I will be blogging about Code Generation, OOP, and other topics very soon though. In the meantime, I wanted to share a list of tools I regularly use now or have used in the past as a C# / ASP.NET Engineer listed below:

Introducing SemanticEngine.NET

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:16:15 GMT

Technologies or formats such as FOAF, APML, SIOC, XFN tags and microformats are some of the building blocks of the social aspects of the semantic web. They are used to create cross-site profiles of people and also represent relationships between them. XFN and microformats are somewhat easy to start using, but FOAF, APML and SIOC are a different story. Here's a new class library to make it easier..

Web.config magic: configSource and file attributes

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:06:32 GMT

If you are stuck supporting multiple versions of your application, here's some handy information to help you encapsulate the differences and simplify updates.

Migrating to jQuery

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:46:20 GMT

This post outlines some of the steps I went through to convert an existing, small web application from traditional JavaScript to jQuery.

SQL Server Tips and Tricks

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:46:02 GMT

The following are a wide range of tips and tricks I have collected over the years working with various versions or Microsoft's SQL Server. I always enjoy finding little snippets of code which are both simple and powerful. Why write complicated routines when one or two lines of code can do it?

Fun - Wedding In SQL Style

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:08:54 GMT

Smile please, hey guys I received this query through email from one of my friend. It looks great and funny; I am sharing it with you. Dedicated to all techies :)

SQL - Step By Step Installation of SQL Server 2008

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:01:04 GMT

Step by step installation of Microsoft SQL server 2008.

Visual Studio snippet designer

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:46:02 GMT

Recently Microsoft released source code and compiled version of previously internal tool, that helps to create and manage code snippets in Visual Studio IDE

SQL SERVER - 2008 - Interview Questions and Answers - Download PDF

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:16:04 GMT

Interview is very important event for any person. A good interview leads to good career if candidate is willing to learn. I always enjoy interview questions and answers series. This is my very humble attempt to write SQL Server 2008 interview questions and answers. SQL Server is very large subject and not everything is usually asked in interview. In interview what matters the most is conceptual knowledge and learning attitude. I have listed all the series in this post so that it can be easily downloaded and used. All the questions are collected and listed in one PDF which is here to download. If you have any question or if you want to add to any of the question please send me mail or write a comment. Bookmark this first ever set of interview questions and answers.