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First look at Expression Blend 3

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:11:01 GMT

The keynote at MIX09 is almost over and Expression Blend 3 has been announced ! Go ahead and grab this new version from the Microsoft Expression web site. A video is also already available on Channel9, where Unni Ravindranathan takes on a tour to demonstrate the new features of Blend 3. I just finished watching the show and here are my notes.

A quick tour of Visual Studio 2010

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:41:37 GMT

As you may already now, a CTP (Community Technology Preview) of the next version of Visual Studio is available to download. I took some time yesterday evening to try it and here is the result of my first hour using Visual Studio 2010.

Visual Studio snippet designer

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:46:02 GMT

Recently Microsoft released source code and compiled version of previously internal tool, that helps to create and manage code snippets in Visual Studio IDE

Metrosexual Developers

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:16:02 GMT

A blog post I wrote on the value and importance of looking good as a software developer.

WPF: Reducing CPU consumption for animations « C# Disciples

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:46:02 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..

Writing code that you're proud of

Sat, 17 May 2008 07:46:03 GMT

Are you proud of the code you write? Take some extra time now and save yourself time down the road.

Why Pluggable Applications Fails in NUnit?

Fri, 16 May 2008 22:01:02 GMT

I am currently working on a project with a pluggable application. Although, the code was functioning very well it always failed during the NUnit tests, always!

A Programming Job Interview Challenge #3

Mon, 12 May 2008 21:16:02 GMT

This is challenge number 3 in our programming job interview questions column. Good Luck!

You too can be a metrosexual developer: an interview with Justice Gray

Tue, 06 May 2008 05:31:02 GMT

Justice Gray is an Edmonton-based leading .Net developer, .Net convention speaker, influential opinion maker, paradigm-challenger and lady killer. From the outset he has championed the suave, charismatic, virile and pithy route as a fast track the top of the industry, and has largely pulled it off. Read on to learn his tricks of the trade.

SQL Server in One Page - Download it Now

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:01:02 GMT

One of the most popular request I have received on this blog is to create one page which list all the SQL Server FAQs. SQL Server technology is very broad as well very deep. This is my humble attempt to list few of the daily used details in one page. Let me know your opinion and suggestion. Download SQL Server FAQ Sheet in PDF format

A Programming Job Interview Challenge

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:31:02 GMT

Recently, I ran into an interesting job interview question in C++ which I want to share. Lets take a look at the following code...

The Developer Exchange Program

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:31:03 GMT

How much better a developer would you be if you could regularly observe another Agile team in action... in person.

39 Free Microsoft eLearning Courses

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:46:02 GMT

39 Free Microsoft eLearning Courses

How to Evangelize Unit Testing

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:46:02 GMT

My experience on how to get people to kick start on unit testing

10 Visual Studio Shortcuts You Must Know

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:31:02 GMT

A great list of 10 Visual Studio Shortcuts any software developer must know and use.

Visual LINQ Query Builder - VS 2008 Add-In

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:31:02 GMT

Visual Linq Query Builder helps you create Linq to SQL queries for your programs

Do You Really Want to Be a Development Team Leader?

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:31:02 GMT

Ask any up and coming developer what they would like to do in the next year or so and you'll invariably hear, "I'd like to become a Development Team Leader". Hopefully most will have actually considered the change of role and be looking for new challenges and ways to contribute more to their chosen profession. However, for some this is an automatic response to a question that is particularly difficult to answer in an industry with no clear career path. For others it's simply a way to move up the pay scale.

NHibernate 2.0 Supa' Layer

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:46:03 GMT

Essentially I wanted a way to make queries work better within the context of a Domain Driven Design approach. I'm a big believer in Persistence Ignorance, so this means that I had to find a way to represent queries in a provider independent way. LINQ does this for me, mostly, but I still need a 'syntactically pleasing' way to get the LINQ provider to the query at runtime. Well, it turns out that doing this is pretty easy.

A New Pattern for Event Declaration

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:01:03 GMT

A better and safer way to declare events in c#

10 things I didn't know about WPF data binding

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:46:02 GMT

A article showing the last 10 things I learned about WPF data binding...

.NET Event Techniques

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:31:02 GMT

A very simple technique to avoid the need for a null check prior to raising an event

13 Tips to Comment Your Code

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:31:02 GMT

Following are 13 tips on how to comment your source code so that it is easier to understand and maintain over time.