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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.

Geek Food Drive

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:31:03 GMT

More than 35.5 million people in the United States and Canada will go hungry during the holidays. The Challenge: For all user groups to hold a food drive at their meeting this month. There is plenty of need, especially this year!

WomenBuild - Geek Girls Playing With Legos at the MSDN Developer Confe

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:16:23 GMT

Inforation on the WomenBuild Event being held at this year's MSDN Developer Conference

5 Reasons To Use Live Mesh

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:21:39 GMT

This is a great list of tips for using Live Mesh for file sharing. There's definitely some "out of the box" thinking here.

Top 10 Things New Twitter Users Need To Know

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 07:01:02 GMT

Those new to Twitter need some guidance. Jeff Blankenburg has come up with a list of things that someone new to Twitter needs to read before even creating their account.

Meet the C# 4.0 team

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:16:05 GMT

... and some dude from the VB team. Anders and the guys in room 2543, building 41 (where C# was born) talk about the new features that will be in the next version of C#. I so wanted to blogspam this one. Enjoy your direct link.

Poll: Who Is Your .NET Man-Crush

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:12:49 GMT

I've posted a new poll on my blog: "Who Is Your .NET Man-Crush?". It's completely unscientific and will remain open through the end of the month. I will post the final results at that time.

NDepend: code metrics at your service

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:31:08 GMT

If you ever wrote code for a non-trivial project chances are that from time to time you stop an think: "I don't know, but I have the feeling that the code is not really clean/too complex/[insert adjective here that makes you feel bad about your code]". Chances are even that you did not had these thoughts - but your source code indeed was not really clean, too complex or what not. While the latter situation is certainly the worse of the two, both situation make clear that we need means to quantify the quality of our code. NDepend is an excellent tool that can be used to generate those metrics

How To Write Testable ASP.NET WebForms

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:16:15 GMT

Microsoft's upcoming ASP.NET MCV framework makes it easy to write tests for your application layer logic. But what about those of us who are stuck with ASP.NET WebForms? You can still write highly testable ASP.NET WebForms with only a little bit of extra effort. But that extra effort really pays off in the long run. In this post, i'll give a detailed description of one approach that has worked for me really well.

Microsoft cracking down on community extensions

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:01:02 GMT

Microsoft released a tool called Microsoft Source Analyzer, or StyleCop. It analyzes source code for standards violations. It's a 1.0 release, so it doesn't do some things ... like have a published API for custom rules or MSBuild integration. So the community dug in and figured out how to do these things and now MS is firing off license-violation emails. Don't they get it? The community wants to use the product, but it's too limited ... these extensions help make it better.