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Microsoft cracking down on community extensions

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:01:02 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.

Tree Surgeon 2.0 Release

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:16:04 GMT

A tool to automatically generate Visual Studio solutions with proper directory structure

Lambdas

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:31:03 GMT

Lambdas are a simple technology with an intimidating name. They sound like they are going to be difficult to understand, but in practice prove to be relatively trivial. Read this post to get an easy to understand overview of a topic is not really so terribly difficult to understand.

VS2008 Web Server Here Shell Extension

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:31:02 GMT

This shell extension adds a right click menu on any folder that will start WebDev.WebServer.exe (aka Cassini) pointing to that directory.

Software Development and Programming Podcasts

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 05:46:03 GMT

I couldn't find a good list of software development and programming podcasts so I created my own. Feel free to chime in with any you recommend!

Silverlight 2 Beta2 Released

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:31:02 GMT

Silverlight 2 Beta2 was released today. Silverlight 2 Beta2 supports a go-live license that allows you to start using and deploying Silverlight 2 for commercial applications. There will be some API changes between Beta2 and the final release, so you should expect that applications you write with Beta2 will need to make some updates when the final release comes out. But we think that these changes will be straight-forward and relatively easy, and that you can begin planning and starting commercial projects now.

Microsoft releases CTP of URL Rewriting Module for IIS7

Sat, 31 May 2008 05:23:41 GMT

"Today we are releasing a very cool feature that lots of customers have really been asking for, URL Rewrite Module is now available for download"

JavaScript: Warning the user when CapsLock is on

Sat, 17 May 2008 22:16:02 GMT

Describes a method for warning a user that their caps lock is on using JavaScript. Also includes an ASP.NET control

Visual Studio Usability Tip: Highlight Current Line

Sat, 17 May 2008 23:01:02 GMT

A small tweak you can make to your Visual Studio color scheme to help you navigate your code faster... maybe.

best programming jokes

Thu, 08 May 2008 17:46:05 GMT

a very big good collection of programming jokes, WOWwwwwwww

Day-to-day with Subversion

Wed, 07 May 2008 14:46:03 GMT

A good post that highlights some of the functionality of Subversion

Resharper 4.0 vs coderush refactor smack down results

Thu, 08 May 2008 21:31:05 GMT

Derik Whittaker compares both tools

Using NHibernate (years after I should have been)

Thu, 01 May 2008 12:31:11 GMT

Getting up and running with NHibernate.

51+ Best of jQuery Tutorials and Examples

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:46:02 GMT

A good summary of jQuery resources

Extension Method Hack To Get Around NullReferenceException's

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:46:02 GMT

Today I came across an interesting extension method pattern that I didn't know how the runtime would react. Because I was calling a method from an object that was obviously null. Check it out it is pretty cool.

SVN Bridge 2.0 Released

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:16:03 GMT

Version 2.0 of SvnBridge has been released! This is a great tool for those of us who use TFS but love the SVN client TortoiseSVN.

Comprehensive Comparson of 7 Popular JavaScript/Ajax Frameworks

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:16:02 GMT

After four days of ASP.NET AJAX training with Stephen Walther I set out to learn more about my options in choosing a solution for a JavaScript/Ajax framework. If I realized days later I would be writing this comprehensive post on 7 of the most popular frameworks, I may have just went with the "Inny-Minny-Miney-Moe" method! I decided to share my research, analysis, links, resources, and personal grade for each of the frameworks compared - jQuery, YUI, Prototype, Dojo, MooTools, Ext JS, and Script.aculo.us. I put together a comparison matrix to illustrate where many of the frameworks differ...

jQuery AJAX calls to a WCF REST Service

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:46:02 GMT

Here's an overview of how to call WCF REST services with jQuery. The basic process is very easy, but if you want to handle the formats that Microsoft sends down reliably, you have to make some format choices and deal with JSON encoding and decoding that is not native to jQuery.

ASP.NET MVC Source Refresh Preview

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:01:02 GMT

ScottGus Blogpost to the new MVC drop on Codeplex

.NET Obfuscators

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:46:13 GMT

Comprehensive list of all .NET obfuscators available today and online reviews.

Send Text Message from ASP.NET

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:27:10 GMT

This provides how to send a text from an ASP.NET app using a normal mail server. This provides a link to a list of email address formats for each provider.

Visual LINQ Query Builder - VS 2008 Add-In

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:31:02 GMT

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

Open source Project:DotNet Zip Library

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:46:31 GMT

The Microsoft .NET Framework {v2.0 v3.0 v3.5} includes base class libraries supporting compression within streams - both the Deflate and Gzip formats are supported. But the System.IO.Compression namespace provides streaming compression only - useful for communicating between cooperating parties but not directly useful for creating compressed archives, like .zip files.

Javascript: Introducing Using (.js)

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:16:03 GMT

Clean late loading of scripts using using.js.

DotNetOpenId 2.0 Released!

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:46:02 GMT

This release adds full support for OpenID 2.0 while preserving full backward compatibility for OpenID 1.x. It is a mature library with lots of help for diagnostics and debugging, and a balance between simplicity and extensibility.