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Write more empty lines! They will be read!

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:31:02 GMT

Using empty lines in source code may seem like a waste of precious screen space, but it's crucial to writing readable code.

Microsoft's Interoperability Principles and IE8

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:01:02 GMT

We've decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we've posted previously.

Immediate Window - A forgotten tool

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:16:02 GMT

A little bit about the Immediate Window tool available in Visual Studio.

When TDD goes bad

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:46:03 GMT

Last week, at the London .NET User Group meeting, Ian Cooper talked about Test-driven development, focusing on both good and bad practices. I'm a big fan of learning from anti-patterns and mistakes of other people, so the second part of his session was very interesting to me. Here is a short list of things that Ian identified as symptoms that TDD has gone bad in a project, along with my comments...

Cropper the C# Screen Capture Program - Johan Danforth's Blog

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:16:02 GMT

Nice screen capture program written in c#.

XmlDocument fluent interface

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:46:02 GMT

A simple fluent interface for creating XmlDocuments & strings.

The Sweet Sound of a Million Microsoft Haters Heads Exploding

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:01:02 GMT

Ensuring open connections; promoting data portability; enhancing support for industry standards; fostering more open engagement with customers and the industry, including open source communities... this isn't your daddy's Microsoft

Sound of one man testing

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:16:02 GMT

Recently I was chatting with a friend of mine and he asked if a single developer could be successful following TDD on a team that does not follow TDD. My simple answer was YES, they can. But there are a few things you must consider.....

Do try...catch blocks hurt runtime performance?

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:31:02 GMT

This posts looks at the real runtime cost of writing a try...catch block in a .Net language. Drawing on his knowledge of .Net internals, the author looks at how such structures are represented in a compiled .Net assembly and what happens at runtime, so the performance characteristics can be understood.

Jacob Nielsen: Top-10 Application-Design Mistakes

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:46:02 GMT

Application usability is enhanced when users know how to operate the UI and it guides them through the workflow. Violating common guidelines prevents both.

Microsoft SharedView

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:01:01 GMT

Microsoft SharedView is a fast, easy way to share documents and screen views with small groups of friends or coworkers.

Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated?

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:31:02 GMT

"Last week, Microsoft published the binary file formats for Office. These formats appear to be almost completely insane. The Excel 97-2003 file format is a 349 page PDF file."...

Digitally Signing an XML Document and Verifying the Signature

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:16:02 GMT

Signing an XML document and then validating the digital signature of the document doesn't involve a lot of code - once you know how it works, but arriving there is quite the journey. This post describes setting up a certifcate for testing, signing an XML document with the Private key and then validating it with the Public key.

ASP.NET Runtime Cheat Sheet: HttpRequest, HttpRuntime, and f

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:16:07 GMT

Cheat sheets for retrieving various bits of ASP.NET runtime information, all with live sample values, links to MSDN, and some explanations. Includes source code.

Kigg - A Digg like application developed in ASP.NET MVC

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:46:02 GMT

Learn how to develop a Digg/DotNetKicks like application in ASP.NET MVC, LINQ To SQL and ASP.NET Ajax.

Patrick Smacchia on metrics for Coupling, Dead Code, and Design Flaws

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:01:02 GMT

Patrick shows us how to use NDepend to spot dead code and other design flaws in our code

Understanding IoC Container

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:16:02 GMT

Very nice explanation of base principles of IoC container with sample implementation.

The DotNetKicks Effect - Enjoy While it Lasts

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:46:05 GMT

DotNetKicks is great source of .NET related information but is it going to survive the shortcomings of "digg" concept?

C# 4, part 4: My manifesto and wishlist

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:46:02 GMT

A Manifest and also some interesting ideas proposed/wished for in future versions of C#.

New ASP.NET Wiki

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:01:01 GMT

Check out the new ASP.NET wiki for a ton of resources on asp.net. Being a wiki, everyone can contribute so go ahead and give it a whirl! http://wiki.asp.net/

Tell Me Your Unit Testing Pains

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:01:02 GMT

... Unfortunately, by most definitions of Unit Test, most of these tests are really integration tests.

Download all the .NET Reference Source at once

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:46:04 GMT

John Robbins talks about the tool he and Kerem Kusmezer created to pre-fetch *all* the .NET reference source.

.Net Performance Optimizations

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:01:02 GMT

There are some good ones in here. Keeping javascript business logic off the client-side and on the server side... caching AJAX requests... etc.

Why I changed my mind about Extension Methods

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:16:02 GMT

Why I went from an extension method hater to an extension method lover. I look at three benefits of extension methods over static methods: More intuitive to read, more intuitive to write and easier to discover.

Build Providers: Strongly typed page urls in ASP.NET

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:46:02 GMT

A look at using a build provider to generate IntelliSense for pages within your project.