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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.

Rounded Corners with the Cornerz jQuery plugin

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:00:00 GMT

I found a useful plugin to create rounded corners with ease. The output looked consistent in most of the latest browsers I tested it on. Here's a post introducing you to the plugin

60+ .Net libraries every developer should know about

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:45:03 GMT

Every good developer knows never to re-invent the wheel, especially if there is software out there that has been tested by others, and has an established track record. As a developer using the .NET framework I've found some of these libraries invaluable, so I'm sharing them for some of the other dev's out there with a brief outline of how to use.

Using CDN Hosted jQuery with a Local Fall-back Copy

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:45:00 GMT

How to use a jQuery hosted on a CDN with a fall back to a local version in case of an outage.

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.

Using git as a backup tool

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:14:19 GMT

How not to get Haacked off with you (lack of a) blog backup strategy...

Domain-Driven Documentation

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:47:58 GMT

Here's a couple of real-life documentation examples from a system I've been building for a client...

DI Patterns: Constructor Injection

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:54:15 GMT

In this article, an excerpt from the book "Dependency Injection in .NET", we will take a detailed look at the DI pattern known as Constructor Injection.

SharePoint: The Wild West of Software Development

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:00:02 GMT

Some argue that Microsoft developers lack rigor -- that techniques like unit testing and continuous integration are virtually unheard of in this space. That's rubbish. I would be shocked if the percentage of developers that track code coverage is significantly different for the .Net or Java spaces (not quite mainstream, but respectable). Mind you I'm talking .Net development in general. SharePoint, now that's another story.

Sort Visual Studio 2008 Projects alphabetically inside Solution Folder

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:31:07 GMT

This blog article shows how to sort Visual Studio 2008 projects alphabetically inside Solution Folders

Microsoft kills Linq to SQL

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:01:13 GMT

Ayende (aka Oren) expresses disbelief at Microsoft's decision to effectively kill off LINQ to SQL.

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.

Not doing TDD is worst than doing it wrong in the beggining.

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:16:02 GMT

Check this out, and make a learn from it.

Implementing a Repository and Specificaiton pattern using Linq

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:31:03 GMT

In my previous post I put down some thoughts on the Repository and Specification patterns and in the end said that with the introduction of Linq and the growing popularity of ORM frameworks and their support for Linq, it's time to look back at these two patterns and see how we can leverage Linq to simplify the patterns and make them infrastructure agnostic.

Another Use for C# Using

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:16:02 GMT

If you are a C# developer you're familiar with the using directive. It appears at the top of every one of your class files informing the compiler what namespaces should be looked at while compiling this code page so that you don't have to fully qualify every object. (This isn't the interesting bit)

Using C# 3.0 (.Net 3.5) syntax in a .Net 2.0 application

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:16:02 GMT

An overview of using C# 3.0 syntax in a .Net 2.0 application.

Getting rid of strings (2): use lambda expressions

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:31:02 GMT

In the first article of this series I talked about the problems with strings in code. This article will show you how you can use lambda expressions and expression trees as another tool to avoid strings

HowTo: Configure Microsoft Source Analysis

Mon, 26 May 2008 14:46:03 GMT

Lots of folks are complaining about Microsoft's recently released Source Analysis tool, and how they disagree with certain rules, and how it is not configurable. Well, it is configurable, but they put the dialog in a strange place.

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."

Using Consolas font in cmd.exe

Fri, 23 May 2008 15:59:50 GMT

You're using Consolas in Visual Studio already -right? With this little tip you can use it as the command shell too!

Entities, Value Objects, Aggregates and Roots

Thu, 22 May 2008 05:46:02 GMT

Basics of DDD

Generic types and IDisposable, the "using" trick

Wed, 21 May 2008 14:46:03 GMT

This is another one in the series "heck, I never thought of that"... Like most of these articles, if you already knew this trick, ignore me...

7 tricks to simplify your programs with LINQ

Mon, 19 May 2008 15:31:03 GMT

Ever since I learned about LINQ, I keep discovering new ways to use it to improve my code. Every trick makes my code a little bit faster to write, and a little bit easier to read. This posting summarizes some of the tricks that I came across. I will show you how to use LINQ to: initialize an array, iterate over multiple arrays in a single loop, generate a random sequence, ...

Alt.NET Podcast Launched!

Wed, 14 May 2008 05:01:04 GMT

The Alt.NET Podcast has a new podcast. The premier episode is a conversation with David Laribee, Jeremy D. Miller, and Chad Myers about continuously improving yourself, your code, and your team. Give it a listen!