A quick, to the point tutorial on exposing and consuming a plugin architecture created with MEF.

Ever needed to perform an INNER JOIN on a pair of DataTables? Would you like to do so in a completely type-safe manner? Boy do I have the technique for you using Typed DataSets and LINQ!

FTA:"After much time, trial and error, I was finally able to get Visual Studio's remote debugging features to work. In my travels around the Internet, no one seems to have compiled all the steps to make the process work successfully and seemlessly into one page, this is my attempt."

CTRL+F is fine and functional, but check out CTRL+I :)

Each ASP.NET Web Application has its own configuration file called web.config file. In fact every directory in ASP.NET application can have one. Settings in each web.config file apply to the directory where its placed, and all the subdirectories of that directory. This is called Configuration In...

Asp.Net 2.0 GridView control is very powerful control. Developers at Microsoft really did a great job when designing it. Its like Swiss Army knife for selecting, editing, sorting, paging and displaying data. Combined with various DataSource controls (ObjectDataSource, SqlDataSource) it helps you e...

A quick and dirty technique to auto-refresh a SharePoint page.

This article is expected to: [1] Introduce patterns to you in a simple, human readable way [2] Train you how to really 'Apply' patterns (you can learn patterns easily, but to apply them to solve a problem, you need real design skills) [3] Provide you a fair idea regarding the contexts for apply...

I've been busy with the release of Virtual Earth 6 this week exploring the new features and making some videos and articles. A must read for any VE developer is the what's new Article I just finished: http://www.viawindowslive.com/Articles/VirtualEarth/WhatsnewinVersion6.aspx I'm very impress...

A good, "highly visual" overview of Version Control, (a.k.a. Source Control). It also references Subversion command line examples, but the overview applies to most version control systems.

Recently I gave two days worth of talks introducing an organization to agile management and development with Scrum and XP practices. I've made available the presentations and exercises for the betterment of mankind...or at least to get a few more people familiar with agile development. Included is...

Instead of using a different Assert method for each different type of assertion (e.g.: Assert.AreEqual() for equality comparison, or Assert.IsTrue() for boolean evaluation), the new Constraint-Based Assert Model introduced in NUnit 2.4 utilizes only one Assert method named Assert.That().

NUnit "Quick and Dirty" Tutorial In the style of the JUnit Quick and Dirty Tutorial, here's a similar tutorial for NUnit. I'm assuming that you're familiar with C#/.NET, downloaded NUnit and have a development environment all setup for compiling and running C# code.

You've had the ASP.NET overview, now you want to dive a little deeper and know how to do "XYZ", but have a hard time finding the answers on MSDN? Check out this collecetion of reference links.