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Zen and the Art of Project Management

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:15:00 GMT

Nate Kohari, the developer of Ninject, announces Zen, a project management system based around lean/kanban.

Better Unit Tests with Test.Assert() for NUnit/VSTT/SUTF

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:39:32 GMT

Have you ever stopped to wonder whether the API's for the .NET unit testing frameworks should still be so similar to those of JUnit? Nowadays C# and VB.NET are capable of some very powerful code transformations. Despite the fact that .NET developers are conditioned to think of API's and programming languages as separate the reality is not so simple. The capabilities of programming languages tend to influence the design of API's. The question is this: Can we use the advanced features of .NET programming languages to create better unit testing API's?

I Spose I'll Just Say It: You Should Learn MVC

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:31:21 GMT

I'm never shy about my opinion - why start now? I've been reading a lot of posts flying about on whether you should learn MVC, Summing up the differences so you can decide when to use it, I even found a post that offers a scorecard approach! I remember reading the latter post thinking to myself "how can you possibly put a number next to Testability? And why it is only 2 more points than "using a RAD designer"? Isn't this missing the entire point?

5 Useful Visual Studio C# Snippets

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:31:02 GMT

The title says it all. Save yourself sometime by using these snippets.

5 Minute Tutorial on Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:01:04 GMT

A quick, to the point tutorial on exposing and consuming a plugin architecture created with MEF.

ASP.NET MVC Best Practices (Part 1) - Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:46:02 GMT

In this post, I will share some of the best practices/guideline in developing ASP.NET MVC applications which I have learned in the hard way. I will not tell you to use DI or Unit Test instead I will assume you are already doing it and you prefer craftsmanship over anything.

MVC Storefront is now Kona : Screencast

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:31:19 GMT

MVC Storefront - changes directions to a flexible, pluggable Open Source community application. This screencast is all about that change and what's become of the MVC Storefront.

Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Edition

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:01:02 GMT

Some screenshots and descriptions from the Visual Studio 2010 CTP, Architecture Edition, including Architecture Explorer, UML Support, and the Layer Diagram.

Expressions vs. Statements in C

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:38:14 GMT

Expressions and statements are basic constructs of the C# grammar, but what is the difference between them? It is a fundamental question and not easy to answer. I will try to explain and illustrate with some examples.

Picking

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:34:14 GMT

Sean James describes several methods of picking using XNA, tying it all together by providing some code to implement the most efficient and useful approach: Geometry Approximation Picking.

Some xUnut.net Snippets

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:35:33 GMT

Some xUnit.net snippets for Visual Studio.

How not to get help on an Open Source Project

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:06:38 GMT

So over the past couple of weeks I have been helping a user get up and running on a project I have developed called Managed Fusion Url Rewriter and Reverse Proxy. Now I understand that my project isn't well documented, and I really need to work on that. So, until I get the time to better document the project, I willingly spend my time helping people through their issues. 99.9% of the time everything works out, and everybody walks away happy. However there is this 0.1% of the time that the conversation ends like this:

SVN-Monitor is going Open-Source

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:31:04 GMT

You can start downloading the latest beta version and it's source-code (C#).

Jeff Atwood Finally Jumps the Shark

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:46:04 GMT

Well, we all knew it had to happen eventually. After years of great blog posts and insightful commentary on the programming world, Jeff Atwood has finally jumped the shark in his latest post which essentially says "programming is hard, let's go shopping!"

Why aren't I an MVP?

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:16:03 GMT

There's a problem with the MVP program I'd like to talk about. The fact that I'm no longer an MVP (haven't been for over a year now) isn't the problem, merely a symptom. My problem is that I don't know why I'm not an MVP, and by extension I don't know why others are. The process of becoming and remaining an MVP is completely opaque. Plainly, the MVP program lacks transparency.

Visual Studio 2005 Keyboard Layout Charts

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:54:44 GMT

One PDF for C# and one for Visual Basic

Model-View-ModelController- My Take On MVVM - Introduction

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:27:31 GMT

I'm currently in development on a very large application and I will be writing a series of articles on the structure in which it is built including what I am calling Model-View-ModelController; a cross between MVVM and MVC.

Source Code for Silverlight 2 Runtime and SDK Controls Published

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:07:52 GMT

This download contains the source code and unit tests for the managed Silverlight 2 controls included in System.Windows.dll, System.Windows.Controls.dll, and System.Windows.Controls.Data.dll.

IoC libraries compared

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:01:06 GMT

A comparison of how to initialize various IoC libraries. Including AutoFac, Ninject, Spring.Net, StructureMap, Unity, and Windsor.

Line count in Visual Studio

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:52:06 GMT

Visual Studio can count...

Activator.CreateInstance Performance

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:31:23 GMT

A look at the different forms of Activator.CreateInstance and the performance implications of each.

ASP.NET MVC Implementation of StackOverFlow

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:12:00 GMT

An Open Source ASP.NET MVC Implementation of StackOverFlow

Oxite Refactor, Take 1

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:46:02 GMT

I mentioned yesterday on Twitter that I'm helping out the Oxite team with some refactoring and tweaking of their codebase. I got started last night and people have been asking about it a LOT, so I thought that today I'd show you initially what I'm up to.

Oxite - Oh Dear Lord Why?!

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:01:16 GMT

Oxite is an open source application built on ASP.NET MVC and Karl Seguin raises some points related to the design/architecture/implementation.

TortoiseGit 0.1.0.0 Preview

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:16:02 GMT

TortoiseSVN is being ported to TortoiseGit