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Replacing .NET Reflector

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:24:02 GMT

Good news for .NET developers who are unhappy with what Red Gate is doing with this must-have tool

Introducing JustTrace and JustDecompile

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 19:32:03 GMT

Have you heard the news? New productivity tools have JustT arrived, and it turns-out good things come in twos! JustTrace and JustDecompile have just been revealed and the betas are immediately available for download.

Building a better MessageBox for WP7 with the help of XNA.

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:27:34 GMT

I've recently had the requirement to allow my user to choose between two items in my Windows Phone 7 application. The first way that I thought of tackling this was using the standard MessageBox.Show that is included with the System.Windows class and seeing if the enum provided a way to allow custom text.

How to use ExpandoObject Class in .NET 4.0

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:01:17 GMT

In this article, i will explain how to use the How to use ExpandoObject Class in .NET 4.0.The ExpandoObject class is introduced on .NET Framework 4.0 and inherited using many interfaces.

Afterthought: a post-compilation code injection framework

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:01:16 GMT

Afterthought allows developers to post-process .NET assemblies to add code that either cannot be added to the original source or is not convenient/efficient to do so. Examples include: Tweaking a compiled assembly for which you do not have the source code be must support/modify Adding instrumentation logic to an assembly for test purposes, which will not always be part of the release version So, what does Afterthought do? Quite simply, it allows you to: Create type amendments by subclassing Amendment<,> to describe what changes you want to make Add attributes to your types indicating which types to amend and what amendments to apply Amend properties by either adding new properties or modifying the logic of existing properties Amend methods by either adding new methods or modifying the logic of existing methods Amend constructors by either adding new constructors or modifying the logic of existing constructors Implement interfaces directly on a type leveraging existing properties/methods, adding new properties/methods, and allowing Afterthought to automatically implement everything else Configure your project to call Afterthought as a post-build step to apply the changes

WPF Single Instance Application - Update - Arik Poznanski's Blog

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:08:32 GMT

Back in this post I've presented some code that make sure you only have one instance of your application.

5 of the best online code editors for fans of the cloud

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:08:32 GMT

This collection of cloud based code editors has been created with developers in mind, and perfectly showcases just how far software has come. Checkout CodeRun for .NET developers who need to run code in the browser.

Using GIT on top of TFS

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:53:44 GMT

How to use the git-tfs bridge to work with GIT on top of TFS.

Common Table Expressions (CTE) - Underappreciated Features of Microsof

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:38:34 GMT

This is part of the series of posts that I am running under the title " Under Appreciated Features of SQL Server ". The series has been inspired by Andy Warren's editorial on SQLServerCentral.com. Did you ever wonder if you could create a temporary result set and use that within a single...

Dot Net Techniques

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:36:50 GMT

Increase your dot net software development skills Active Directory Membership Provider,Software Skills, The MVP Pattern , Custom Paging GridView (Inheriting from the Base GridView Control) , LINQ to Services (LINQ to Amazon, google, bing, JSON, LDAP (Active Directory), Streams, DryadLINQ .) , Dot Net 4.0 Parallel Computing , Visual Inh......eritance In Windows Applications , Design Patterns Applicability, WCF, JSON

A sscanf() Replacement for .NET

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:56:39 GMT

C programmers have used the sscanf() function for many years to easily parse well-structured text. Here's source code for a .NET replacement for sscanf().

How To Debug WPF and Silverlight Binding Errors In Visual Studio

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:24:16 GMT

Learn about the Visual Studio settings that will reduce the amount of time spent debugging WPF and Silverlight binding errors.

WPF Themes now available on NuGet

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:08:17 GMT

WPF Themes are now available on NuGet

Select IN com LINQ - Entity Framework

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 14:06:54 GMT

how make a "select in" with LINQ and microsoft entity framework?

Flatten your architecture: Simplicity as a core value

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:19:17 GMT

Ayende discusses how a seemingly well structured yet complex application architecture which follows SOLID principles isn't always the best thing when it comes to reading data (and tuning for performance)

Visualize changes in your repository

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:03:46 GMT

As you perhaps know, there exists a very interesting project on Google code, with which you can visualize the activities on your repository: Gource. In this blog post I show how to use it and to create a movie.

New Coding4Fun.Phone.Toolkit v1.1 officially released

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:33:58 GMT

The New Coding4Fun.Phone.Toolkit v1.1 officially released

IRC.NET 0.4.0 released -- IRC library for .NET 4.0 & Silverlight

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:36:23 GMT

IRC.NET is a complete IRC (Internet Relay Chat) client library for the .NET Framework 4.0 and Silverlight 4. It aims to provide a complete and efficient implementation of the protocol as described in RFC 2812 (Internet Relay Chat: Client Protocol) as well as supporting de-facto modern features of the protocol, such as ISUPPORT commands and CTCP (Client To Client Protocol). The .NET Framework library is also intended to compile and run under Mono 2.6 and later.

Catel - a free open-source MVVM Framework for WPF and Silverlight

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 14:41:21 GMT

Information and background information about Catel!

An open letter to the .NET community

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:23:30 GMT

RedGate will start charging for their previously free version of Reflector.

Efficient buffering with BufferManager

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:01:17 GMT

Shows in a simple example how you can improve performance when using byte arrays in your application.

Using System.IO.Packaging to ZIP your files

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:41:15 GMT

System.IO.Packaging provides storage support for multiple data objects in a single container. System.IO.Packaging uses the ZIP file format as its primary physical format for a Package. Other Package implementations might use an XML document, a database, or Web service. The following contains a utility class I wrote to help zip a file or a folder into a ZIP archive. This is an asynchronous as is suitable for invoking from a WPF or a Silverlight Application when we need to display a progress bar. Here is the code:

SSL is not about encryption

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:41:15 GMT

It's about assurance. It's about establishing a degree of trust in a site's legitimacy that's sufficient for you to confidently transmit and receive data with the knowledge that it's reaching its intended destination without being intercepted or manipulated in the process. Last week I wrote a (slightly) tongue-in-cheek post about the Who's who of bad password practices. I was critical of a number of sites not implementing SSL as no indication of it was present in the browser. "But wait!" some commenters shouted, "you can still post to HTTPS and the data will be encrypted" they yelled, "stop propagating fear and misunderstanding", they warned. I thought carefully about these responses and made a little update at the end of the post but the story of posting data from HTTP to HTTPS is worth more than just a footnote. The real misunderstanding in this story is believing that just because the credentials are encrypted in transit, SSL has been properly implemented. Let's took a good look at what's wrong with that belief and why there's more to SSL than just encryption.

Chrome based browser control can embed .Net objects in the DOM.

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:07:33 GMT

The CefWebBrowser class is a standard WinForms Control and can be easily embedded in most applications. Being based on Chrome/Chromium it's blisteringly fast. It has a number of advanced features not seen anywhere else including the ability to embed .Net objects into the page's document object. This could be used to good effect for automated website testing or page scraping.

Existential Types in C#

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:07:33 GMT

What are existential types and how can we put them to use in C#? Here is an encoding of existentials in C# using generics.