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ReSharper 4.0 EAP Nightly Builds are Now Available!

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:58:11 GMT

That's right kids... those early bits are now available for download - if you're daring! :)

Stop Refactorbating or You'll Go Blind!

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:23:09 GMT

A new term for the developer lexicon: Refactorbation.

Expectation Based Testing with Mocks

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:01:02 GMT

An example and walk-through showing how to use mocks, Rhino.Mocks that is, to do expectation based testing... with a little BDD flavor thrown in just for fun.

CodeMash Open Space Podcast: Open Source on .net

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:46:04 GMT

From the recent CodeMash conference: an Open Spaces talk discussing Open Source software on the .net platform - and WebDevRadio just happened to be there and got it all on tape... err, digitally recorded.

Riding The Geek Rewrite Wave

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:01:03 GMT

Rob Conery like to ask the tough questions. In this post he asks when do you know its time to do a rewrite... and how do you tell your client that. Oh, and he has a good bit of fun at my expense along the way. :)

Visual Studio Tip: Kill That Build!

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:41:38 GMT

Have you ever accidentally started to compile your code and you didn't mean to... so you're stuck waiting for Visual Studio to finish so you can get back to work? Why not just cancel the build with a keystroke?

Get Ruby-esq Each Iterators in C# 3.0

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:52:20 GMT

An Extension Method that will shine a little Ruby-goodness on your hum-drum C# world - bringing Ruby's .each method to IEnumerable. Iterators, lambda methods, and solubility!

A Better Search and Replace for Your Database

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:10:09 GMT

Using SQL Server's built in Replace function to do a Search & Replace in Text and NText fields using a cast to nvarchar(MAX).

Search Driven Uninstall for Visual Studio 2008 Betas

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:03:35 GMT

Use Vista's search integration to make finding and uninstalling the mountain of VS2008 dependencies quicker and easier!

You Say MVC for ASP.NET, I Say mvc.net

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:05:10 GMT

A proposed name for the Microsoft-ASP.NET-System.Web-MVC-byScottGo-Framework

Multi-targeting VS2005 and VS2008 Web Application Projects - A Gotcha

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:31:03 GMT

Tips on Multi-targeting VS2005 and VS2008 Web Application Projects

Attn: Windows Update - Stop Installing the Same Updates Over and Over!

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:16:18 GMT

Microsoft recently pushed out a Visual Studio patch via Windows Automatic Update. The fun part... Automatic Update wants to install-and-reboot over and over again. Make it stop with this workaround.

Setting a Default Browser for Visual Studio

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:31:02 GMT

Want to launch a particular web browser when selecting "View in Browser" or debugging your web application from within Visual Studio? Read on to learn how.

Use the PageRequestManager to Get More Control of Your UpdatePanels.

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:01:01 GMT

The ASP,NET AJAX framework provides a new client-side JavaScript class that defines properties, events, and methods that can be used to on any page that has at least one UpdatePanel and a ScriptManager control. Use this class to take back control of your UpdatePanels and the pages they live on.

Lightbox and Subtext Galleries Integration

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:16:01 GMT

integrate Lightbox JS into Subtext's photo galleries

Nominate Subtext for a 2007 Community Choice Award

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:46:01 GMT

The SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards are a chance for you, the community of open source software users, to nominate and then vote on the projects that you find most useful, best designed, most collaborative, etc... Support the .NET Open Source community and Subtext - Go Vote!

Some Small Ways to Reduce Daily Development Friction

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:31:01 GMT

The start of a new series of posts to highlight some tips, tricks, and shortcuts to reduce the friction of day-to-day development tasks in Visual Studio and Windows.

URL and HTML Encoding on the Client? JavaScript to the Rescue!

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:49:17 GMT

Everyone knows about doing URL and HTML encoding/decoding in their Server Side code (thanks to classes like HttpUtility), but what about doing that encoding and decoding on the Client side? JavaScript has some utility methods to help you out - giddy-up!

Tip: Put Connection Strings in Their Own Configuration File

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:31:02 GMT

This post explain how to split the connection string out into a new configuration file, user.config. Doing this should make day to day development easier for our development team by reducing the number of merge conflicts in web.config.

Does Web Software Need a 'Check Engine' Light?

Sun, 27 May 2007 18:31:01 GMT

All software has bugs, and web applications are no exception. Is it time to add auto-update or at least a warning light to web applications so users will keep them updated?

Remote Debugging without the Administrator Account, a Gotcha'

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:16:01 GMT

Tthe hardest thing about remote debugging isn't actually using it - it's getting it correctly configured between your local (debugging) machine and the remote host. One key step is launching the Remote Debugging Monitor on the remote machine using the correct user account.

CSS Friendly Control Adapters Now Hosted on CodePlex

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 06:31:01 GMT

I don't know how I missed this for so long... but I just realized that the CSS Adapters are now a community product. As best I can tell, Microsoft decided to hand control of the Adapters project over to the OSS community and it is now being hosted at CodePlex.

CSS Control Adapters Cause Double PostBack in IE

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:16:01 GMT

Recently I've been trying to use CSS Adapters along with the Membership/Roles/Provider controls and I've come across an issue where the Adapters cause the page to PostBack twice when using IE. WTF?

CSS Friendly Adapters - Using Comments in .browser File can be Touchy

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:56:57 GMT

If you're relying on comments in the CSSFriendlyAdapters.browser file to disable certain CSS Adapters, be careful how you comment them out or you could end up disabling more adapters than you intended.

WebForm_PostBackOptions is Undefined - Check Your httpModules

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:00:36 GMT

The WebResource.axd handler is a powerful new addition to asp.net Framework... and it's also a cause of the "WebForm_PostBackOptions not defined" JavaScript error message. But the root cause may really be your httpModules. Read on for more.