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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.

To Inject Or Not To Inject

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:01:06 GMT

The benefits of Dependency Injection are very hard to see when only dealing with very simple examples. I tried to come up with an example that is simple enough to fit in a blog post, but is able to show the benefits of using Dependency Injection.

Is Nick Stakenburg Bullying His Open-Source 'Competitor'

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:16:02 GMT

This is obviously a scare tactic used by a vendor to frighten a 'competitor' who is encroachinig on his sales. Nick (the vendor) is jarred by the fact that someone has released a comparable (better?) product that his and it is free. It behaves somewhat the same, so obviously it was copied... This is a serious issue, we can't let companies push around open-source with threats like this.

"Quality Doesn't Matter That Much" -- Jeff and Joel

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:16:02 GMT

I was riding my exercise bike, listening to Stack Overflow #38 when I heard Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky say "Quality just doesn't matter that much." I nearly fell off my bike.

Building a Nant Script -- Part 1: Setting up the script

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:01:03 GMT

Learn how to setup your build script with Nant. You will learn the basics of using Nant to compile your application in this episode, which will be built upon in future episodes to build a more complex script.

Json.NET 3.5 Beta 1 - Big performance gains, Compact Framework support

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:46:04 GMT

New in this beta release of Json.NET 3.5 are big performance improvements (400%), Compact Framework support and lots more.

Measure String Size In Pixels (C#)

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:16:03 GMT

Sometimes we need to know the width of a given string in pixels, do you know how to compute it? Before writing some long code, please notice that the .NET framework class library provides such a method...

Dear Alt.Net Developers: Stop blaming Microsoft and WebForms for crea

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:46:02 GMT

I am responsible for every website I create. If I create a site or application that is unmaintainable or that has poorly formed HTML or doesn't render well in all browsers, that is my fault. I chose my development tools/framework, or my employer, who I choose to work for, chose the development tools/framework. Either way, it is my responsibility, as a professional, to do my utmost to create the best possible application that is within my capability to create.

Create apple.com-like breadcrumb using simple CSS

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:01:02 GMT

Janko shows an extremely simple and nicely polished way to create graphical breadcrumbs like on apple.com.

Update to: Microsoft cracking down on community extensions

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:31:02 GMT

The original story (http://www.dotnetkicks.com/csharp/Microsoft_cracking_down_on_community_extensions) got quite a bit of traffic from here. There've been some clarifications and updates from Microsoft and the StyleCop team that, I think, make their position clear and reasonable -- also, the original how-to that had been taken down "at Microsoft's request" is back up. A lot of people kicked the original story, so I hope you'll all take the opportunity to read Microsoft's responses and give them fair consideration.

A jQuery Client Status Bar

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:46:03 GMT

Status bars are very useful in client applications to display well status information and having a reusable and easily callable and configured status component to display messages is extremely handy. Here's an implementation that uses jQuery plus a bit of CSS to make short work of displaying status content.

Create MessageBox user control using ASP.NET and CSS

Thu, 29 May 2008 01:01:02 GMT

This article shows how to create MessageBox user control using ASP.NET and CSS. It have the ability to render different message types. It also have a close button in order to enable users to hide the message after reading. The article will guide you through the basics of making a simple and functional user control.

Guide to the semantic web

Fri, 09 May 2008 07:01:02 GMT

The calm after the storm: Mads explain what is semantic web and why it matters. And how we can get ready for it when Web 3.0 arrives.

Why I'm a better software developer than you

Thu, 01 May 2008 01:46:03 GMT

What makes one developer better than another? Shouldn't we all be performing at the same level? Of course not, we're not sewing buttons on an assembly line. We're using every bit of our intelligence to create something that we can only being to understand.

Implementing Generic Caching

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:46:02 GMT

I develop for a large, high-availability website, with hundreds of thousands of daily users. As such, we need to cache a lot of data in our web-server memory (which is cheap) to save numerous hits to our main database cluster (which is very expensive). I would imagine the desire to improve performance by saving on database hits is common across many web applications - and caching frequently used data is often seen as one of the best ways to solve this problem.

Write more empty lines! They will be read!

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 05:31:02 GMT

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

Style and Silverlight

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:37:54 GMT

How improve your silverlight look-and-feel

Scott Gu SilverLight 2 Tutorial Part 8

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:01:02 GMT

Creating a Digg Desktop Application using WPF.

Scott Gu SilverLight 2 Tutorial Part 7

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:31:02 GMT

Using Control Templates to Customize a Control's Look and Feel

Scott Gu: Silverlight 2 Tutorial Part 6

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:16:02 GMT

Using User Controls to Implement Master/Detail Scenarios.

Scott Gu SilverLight 2 Tutorial Part 5

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:46:02 GMT

Using the ListBox and DataBinding to Display List Data.

SilverLight 2: Using Networking to Retrieve Data and Populate a Grid

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:16:02 GMT

Scott Gu SilverLight 2 tutorial part 3.

Silverlight 2 Tutorial Part 2: Using Layout Management

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:46:02 GMT

Scott Gu SilverLight 2 tutorial Part 2.

Creating "Hello World" with Silverlight 2 Part 1

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:31:02 GMT

Scott Gu SilverLight 2 tutorial Part 1

XmlDocument fluent interface

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:46:02 GMT

A simple fluent interface for creating XmlDocuments & strings.