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Regex Hero to the Rescue

Fri, 01 May 2009 06:16:14 GMT

From BucketSoft comes an online Silverlight regular expression tool utilizing the .NET regular expression engine. Features instantaneous highlighting of regular expression matches. It's a great way to test iterations of your .NET regular expressions quickly.

Singletons vs. Static Classes

Fri, 01 May 2009 10:01:02 GMT

My last "versus" post seemed to elicit a good number of interesting responses. Today, I'm musing about Singletons vs. Static Classes -- two constructs which appear to accomplish the same task. Or do they?

BlogEngine.NET 1.5 final release

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:16:03 GMT

BlogEngine.NET 1.5 final release announcement

TwitterFeed-Widget for BlogEngine.NET 1.4

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:22:53 GMT

This is a widget for the BlogEngine.NET 1.4 to show your latest tweets in your margin. There are several options you can configure on-the-fly. The widget is developed in C# 3.0 and uses some .NET 3.5 syntax.

ReSharper 4.5 gone gold

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:16:11 GMT

JetBrains has released version 4.5 of their multi purpose productivity plugin for Visual Studio, ReSharper. This updates contains some pretty cool features. For example, solution wide analysis now checks for members that can be made internal. Also, JetBrains promises to have improved performance and memory use. All in all certainly an update that is worth installing, especially because updating from licenses for version 4.0 and above is free

ASP.NET MVC goes RTM before MIX09

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:46:04 GMT

Not sure if the release was intentional or just someone that forgot to set the timezone field while publishing the download, but ASP.NET MVC has been RTMed before MIX09.

New version of the VisualSVN Servers

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:13:37 GMT

Yesterday the SVN-plugin VisualSVN for Visual Studio (2003 - 2008) was updated to the new version of subversion 1.5.6 - today the free VisualSVN-Server measures up to the same subversion-version with VisualSVN-Server 1.6.4.

FizzBin - The Technical Support Secret Handshake

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:46:04 GMT

I hate that 5 minute to 5 hour long "ramp up" when I'm on the phone with any kind of technical support as they realize that we both know what we're doing. Or at least, one of us does.

VisualSVN 1.6.3 Released

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:32:38 GMT

Less then two weeks ago the update to version 1.6.2 was released with some bugfixes. Today the VisualSVN Ltd. has released another update.

How .NET Regular Expressions Really Work

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:46:04 GMT

A very deep dive into the source code for how .NET Regular Expressions really work

Big websites gone small

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:30:11 GMT

If you need a simple way to generate a thumbnail of a website, have a look at thumbscreator.net. This service created by Jan Welker and Klaus Bock allows you to create snapshots of websites in three different sizes by simply passing its address to a specific URL.

VisualSVN 1.6.2 released

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:12:34 GMT

Yesterday a patch release of the subversion-plugin for Visual Studio was made available.

Announcing TeamCity.CodeBetter.com

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:31:02 GMT

CodeBetter - in collaboration with JetBrains, IdeaVine, and Devlicio.us - is proud to announce the launch of TeamCity.CodeBetter.com - a continuous integration server farm for open source projects. JetBrains is generously supporting our community efforts by funding the monthly costs of the server farm and providing a TeamCity Enterprise license. Volunteers from CodeBetter, IdeaVine, and Devlicio.us are administering the servers and setting up OSS projects on the build grid.

Team System on Twitter

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:18:36 GMT

A list of all the Visual Studio and Team System influentials.

jQuery: make all external link open in new window

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:37:22 GMT

Using jQuery to make all your external links in your website open in a new window. You don't want your visitor click on a link, go somewhere else and never come back, do you ^_^

Use jQuery to Show a Link's Address After its Text When Printing In IE

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:31:10 GMT

I found a cool trick in a post by Remy Sharp that appends the address of a hyperlink to the end of the link's text when the page is printed. Unfortunately the trick only works in browsers that support the CSS2 pseudo selector :after. Firefox, Safari, Chrome*, Opera and now IE8 all support the selector. IE6 and IE7 don't though and that is a huge percentage of users. I came up with a way to achieve the same thing with IE6 and IE7 using jQuery and the proprietary IE events onbeforeprint and onafterprint though.

15 Helpful .NET Extension Methods to Increase Productivity

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:01:17 GMT

Alright folks, this is my arsenal of useful Extension Methods for .NET 3.0+ mostly written by me to help with development productivity. Some real time-savers in here such as .ToInt() and .ToDateTime() (with and without a default fallback value), plus...

SociableBE-Extension for BlogEngine.NET

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:46:12 GMT

Social bookmarking sites allow websurfers to save, catalog, and share interesting pages they find online. The SociableBE-Extension appends links for your readers to use those sites to the end of each of your blog's posts, increasing your potential audience. While Sociable is originally developed as a Wordpress-Plugin in PHP, SociableBE is based on the main idea but re-developed for BlogEngine.NET in C# and with a simple copy'n'paste installation.

Top Visual Studio Add-ins

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:31:02 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.

Recommending revisions with the new SVN-Monitor

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:01:03 GMT

A new version of SVN-Monitor is out with some new features. One new exciting feature allows developers to recommend revisions and make all team-members coordinated. Don't miss it! It's 100% free!

A fluent C# library for Twitter

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:16:10 GMT

This C# library allows you to compose queries to Twitter easily, as well as serialize responses into data classes, make asynchronous calls, and perform caching and URL shortening automatically. It covers 100% of the Twitter API.

BlogEngine.NET Backup Manager

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:16:02 GMT

A simple Backup Manager for BlogEngine.NET in order to perform some entire Weblog Backups.

Geek Food Drive

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:31:03 GMT

More than 35.5 million people in the United States and Canada will go hungry during the holidays. The Challenge: For all user groups to hold a food drive at their meeting this month. There is plenty of need, especially this year!

jQuery Ajax uploader plugin (with progress bar!)

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:46:04 GMT

Do you want your HTML file upload controls to show a progress bar during the upload? That's always been tricky. Here's a cool jQuery plugin that gets the job done, along with a demo app written in ASP.NET MVC.

Developing for IE8: Web Slices and Accelerators

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:50:24 GMT

How to develop new kinds of add-ons for IE8 right now: Web Slices and Accelerators.