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ALT.NET Canada Conference

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:46:25 GMT

The Canadian crew hosts the ALT.NET crowd for a weekend of open spaces

Day-to-day with Subversion

Wed, 07 May 2008 14:46:03 GMT

A good post that highlights some of the functionality of Subversion

It's the ALT.NET Show!

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:16:04 GMT

Jeremy Miller and David Laribee discuss their work with ALT.NET, a "self-organizing, ad-hoc community of developers bound by a desire to improve ourselves, challenge assumptions, and help each other pursue excellence in the practice of software development." On .NET Rocks!!

Scott wants support for NHibernate in Dynamics Data!

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:46:02 GMT

"In the future, watch for the possibility of Dynamic Data for POCO (my term, not the teams), Dynamic Data for Silverlight and Dynamic Data for MVC. Now is your opportunity to be heard. I'd like the idea of Dynamic Data for NHibernate myself, so I'm pushing for that."

Unit Test Projects or Not?

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:31:02 GMT

Interesting article by Bil Simser on whether to put your Unit Tests in a separate project or within the project that they test.

WPF or WinForms

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:29:25 GMT

Nice ideas of what we should thing if choosing between WPF and WinForms.

Memcached's .NET cousin - Cacheman

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:01:02 GMT

Sriram from Microsoft develops Cacheman, a fast distributed hashtable similar to Memcached written in pure managed code.

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#.

Scott Gu SilverLight 2 Tutorial Part 8

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:01:02 GMT

Creating a Digg Desktop Application using WPF.

Scott Gu SilverLight 2 Tutorial Part 7

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:31:02 GMT

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

Scott Gu: Silverlight 2 Tutorial Part 6

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:16:02 GMT

Using User Controls to Implement Master/Detail Scenarios.

Scott Gu SilverLight 2 Tutorial Part 5

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:46:02 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 14:16:02 GMT

Scott Gu SilverLight 2 tutorial part 3.

Silverlight 2 Tutorial Part 2: Using Layout Management

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:46:02 GMT

Scott Gu SilverLight 2 tutorial Part 2.

Creating "Hello World" with Silverlight 2 Part 1

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:31:02 GMT

Scott Gu SilverLight 2 tutorial Part 1

First Look At Silverlight 2

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:46:02 GMT

Scott Gu annouces Silverlight 2 and describes a sample application that should be of interest to anyone developing web applications to consume data from public APIs.

XmlDocument fluent interface

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:46:02 GMT

A simple fluent interface for creating XmlDocuments & strings.

Manage your ASP.NET Web.config Files using NAnt

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:31:02 GMT

Generate web.config files using a template and property files.

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.

Downgrade a VS 2008 .sln or .csproj to VS 2005

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:46:02 GMT

I just had to convert a Visual Studio 2008 Solution and Project to Visual Studio 2005. It is actually pretty straight forward. At least in my case...

Developing Kigg - Part 1

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:46:02 GMT

Learn how to develop a Digg-like application with ASP.NET MVC, LINQ to SQL and ASP.NET AJAX. The first part of the article goes here.

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.

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."...

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.