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RSS Reporter free for 4th - free 5 license pack for first 1000 users

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:07:22 GMT

xSQL Software is giving away, to the first 1000 people, a 5 license pack for their RSS Reporter product. That's free free, no credit card or anything required

LINQPad For Writing LINQ Code

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:37:40 GMT

Joseph Albahari who co-authored C# 3.0 in a Nutshell has written a fantastic tool for writing LINQ queries called LINQPad. Lately I have been working extensively with LINQ and I often feel the need to write some code quickly to test my query.

Psake a- Powershell based build tool

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:31:10 GMT

James Kovacs debuts a Rake inspired build tool based on powershell. The sweetspot here is that it could bring the functionality already in powershell into the build process. Still at almost a POC stage, but worth looking at.

Lambdas

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:31:03 GMT

Lambdas are a simple technology with an intimidating name. They sound like they are going to be difficult to understand, but in practice prove to be relatively trivial. Read this post to get an easy to understand overview of a topic is not really so terribly difficult to understand.

Using GIT with CodePlex

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:16:12 GMT

Blog post by Ayende Rahien on using GIT with CodePlex through a combination of git-svn and SvnBridge.

Using Linq to query the File System

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:31:13 GMT

Short screen casts on using Linq to query the File System

HashSet to the Rescue

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:16:03 GMT

If you are using a generic List<T> to store unique object references in there is a better way. It's called the HashSet<T> and it is new in .Net 3.5 It's indexed and it's blazing fast.

C# Sorting winforms controls using linq

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:16:09 GMT

C# Sorting winforms controls using LINQ

What makes me NOT want to leave a company/client/shop

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:16:09 GMT

What makes me NOT want to leave a company

How To Create a WPF Custom Context Menu

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:01:02 GMT

An easy to learn and implement example about WPF custom context menu creation

The 5 types of poor software architects

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:31:06 GMT

The types of software architects you never want to meet in your career

Software Development and Programming Podcasts

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 05:46:03 GMT

I couldn't find a good list of software development and programming podcasts so I created my own. Feel free to chime in with any you recommend!

Don't be clever

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:01:03 GMT

How being clever can create headaches for you (later) and other team members.

Don't be clever 2 - The cost of cleverness

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:46:03 GMT

In the modern world of programming we need to be more cognizant of making our code readable and grokkable than to make it clever or sneaky. For 99% of the developers out there, no one is ever going to pat you on the back for being sneaky. You're probably more likely to get punched in the face for it when the team has to spend the weekend debugging a piece of your clever code.

The Cursed History of Smalltalk in .NET

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:01:04 GMT

Digging up the history of Smalltalk for .NET - none of the 5 are currently in development

Data Acquisition in .NET Micro Framework 2.0 using SPI

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:04:01 GMT

Data Acquisition using the .NET Micro Framework on Freescale's i.MXS Development Kit for SideShow.

Diagnose Assembly Binding Failures

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:46:19 GMT

Every one of us, software developers, experienced situations where the .Net Framework could not locate an assembly and ended up facing the TypeLoadException. Luckily, there is an assembly binding log viewer which displays information that helps us diagnose why the .NET Framework can not locate an assembly at run time.

IE Sends Mozilla a New Cake for Firefox 3

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:31:02 GMT

Sean from Microsoft came by just a few minutes ago to drop off a cake for the Internet Explorer team. As people may recall, the IE team sent Mozilla a cake after Firefox 2 shipped and it seems that they wanted to continue the tradition.

Added parallel abilities to Dizzy in the for of AsParallel()

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:01:04 GMT

Dizzy is a library of methods for operating on lists. I have recently added the ability to filter out parallel operations by using a method similar to the way the ParallelFX team has done "AsParallel()". It implementation might be of interest to you.

Introduction to Mocking with Rhino Mocks

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:01:09 GMT

A short screencast introduction to Mocking with Rhino Mocks

Another Use for C# Using

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:16:02 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 01:16:02 GMT

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

WPF: Reducing CPU consumption for animations « C# Disciples

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:46:02 GMT

Lately I've been working on a project at work and the application was performing pretty well. The CPU Usage was below 2% and I was quite happy with it. Then I decided to add a simple animation that continues executing forever. the results 15% CPU consumption . I was amazed at how much CPU was being wasted. Yet I am a stubborn guy and if I want an animation to execute forever, I will do it no matter what..

Compound Operators Or How T-SQL Is Morphing Into VB Or C#

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:01:02 GMT

C# is becoming more dynamic (like Python and Ruby) but now SQL is becoming more like C# (but with LINQ C# is becoming more like SQL) Confused? SQL Server has added compound operators......................................

What is Old is New Again: Functional Programming

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:01:06 GMT

One of the greatest ideals of high level programming is the idea of code reuse. In the old days, this was only ever done using functions or subroutines, depending on the language. In later days, this was performed as object oriented design. Every language seems to accomplish these ideals in various ways to accomplish a similar goal.