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Functional .NET 4.0 - Tuples and Zip

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:46:02 GMT

F# vs .NET 4.0

My Favorite .NET Link Blogs

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:01:09 GMT

Link blogs are one of the common types of blogs that are actually a list of links to other resources in a specific field. At first glance, it seems easy to collect some links and present them in a blog post and somehow this statement is right but there are some people who don't take it easy and put a good effort to present great link blogs.

New C# and .NET oriented search engine

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:46:02 GMT

A new search engine is available. Created with the Google Custom Search you can: - Search in MSDN forums - Search in Microsoft newsgroup - Search in .NET related sites (including dotnetkicks.com) - Search in everywhere with the standard Google search - Find any .NET tools or components

OpenWinForms - open source windows forms and controls

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:46:02 GMT

OpenWinForms is a open source website for windows forms and controls. Here you can find windows controls and libraries for free. This is a non-commercial open source web site. This site mainly focuses on Microsoft technologies e.g. Microsoft .net, VB.net, C#.net etc. You may use these for any commercial or non-commercial purpose for free.

MyGeneration 1.3 Beta - The 100% Free Code Generator

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:31:02 GMT

The first official MyGeneration since it has gone open source on SourceForge.net under the BSD licensing model is coming soon. There are some very cool new features as well. First, and very importantly, you can now install the new MyGeneration side-by-side with the MyGeneration 1.2.0.7 release that is on Download.com. MyGeneration is still going strong with over 100,000 downloads on download.com and MyGeneration already ranks 172nd on SourceForge.net. Many have joined in on the project. MyGeneration is getting much more powerful, please help us keep this wonderful, totally free, code generation tool moving forward. Many have done so and we thank you. The next EntitySpaces beta we put out will support this version of MyGeneration also.

XMLSerializer: XML Serialization Helper Class

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:46:42 GMT

The purpose of XMLSerializer helper class is to simplify the basic serialization tasks, such as the conversion of objects to XML - string or file - and vice versa (deserialization)

How to add Google Maps to your .Net site in 10 minutes

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 02:01:02 GMT

Add Google Maps to your .Net website in 10 minutes. Full code to display a map with a marker & also geocoding (supply address in text & have the map display it).

The Null Coalescing Operator ??

Sun, 19 Aug 2007 23:46:02 GMT

It has been around since the introduction of C# 2.0, but many people still don't know about the null coalescing operator or what it does. If you are wondering how you would use the ?? operator in your code, read on...

Searching Google Desktop From PowerShell

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 02:46:03 GMT

Scott Hanselman explains how to query Google Desktop from PowerShell.

PowerShell Registry Find and Replace

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 11:46:02 GMT

Some functions for performing find and replace on registry values from PowerShell.

Regex Cheat Sheet

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 02:01:01 GMT

Great Regular Expression Cheat sheet and a bit of description of how to use it well for those who know little about regular expressions.

Regionerate, a Code Layout tool for C#

Sat, 07 Jul 2007 02:01:01 GMT

A cool product for automatically generating and laying out your code into regions.

IDisposable - 1, 2, 3, .

Tue, 29 May 2007 05:01:01 GMT

IDisposable is one of these beasts. Considered to be common knowledge and yet regularly ignored. A well documented pattern and yet occasionaly improperly applied. And this is just the beginning; the finer details are lost more often than not.

Extension Methods in C#

Mon, 14 May 2007 05:01:02 GMT

Extension methods are a new feature for C# 3.0 and I had the opportunity to implement them in the Compiler. These methods can then be called with instance syntax on any object that is convertible(see convertability section for details) to the first param of the method.

C# Microsoft MapPoint 4.5 Geocode (Latitude and Longitude) Class

Tue, 08 May 2007 05:46:01 GMT

A class using the Microsoft MapPoint 4.5 Webservices to obtain Geocoding information about an address. Very easy to implement.

.NET interview question - when is a singleton not a singleton

Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:30:30 GMT

A tricky interview question about duplicated singleton instances.

SequenceViz.Reflector :: Reflector Addin to generate sequence diagrams

Wed, 02 May 2007 14:46:01 GMT

Reflector Addin to generate sequence diagram

Is .NET Taking over the World?

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:31:01 GMT

Microsoft's .NET Framework is a powerful bit of machinery, with the advantage of knowing where the competition went wrong in the decades past. Can .NET overcome the obstacles and become the ultimate (and only??) development framework one will ever need, anywhere, anytime?

Generic Template Methods

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:16:01 GMT

A C# example of how, using Generics, one can fuse Template Method with Chain of Responsibility to stay on the good side of Single Responsibility Principle and Open Closed Principle.

Increase Productivity With Search Driven Development

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:31:01 GMT

Search Driven Development is the de-facto software methodology in use almost universally. How to bring it into the IDE.

Got 15 minutes? Give Ruby a shot right now! (Online emulator)

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 06:01:02 GMT

A simply and useful tutorial to play with ruby Online =) Just click the link and begin to program in RUBY

Lessons Learned Automating Excel from .NET

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:01:01 GMT

Recently I had occasion to write a moderately complex component that used "automation" (using the old fashioned COM term) to communicate with the Microsoft Office Excel application installed on the same computer. In this post I share several tips and tricks that may help you in your Excel automation adventures.

The Action Delegate

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:31:01 GMT

Did you know that by using the Action delegate we can define a single operation which will automatically be applied to every member of an array? This is a great way to make your code cleaner and more elegant,

More Fun with C# Iterators: Take, Skip, TakeWhile, SkipWhile

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:31:01 GMT

Demostration of implementing a couple features of .Net 3.0 LINQ using just .Net 2.0

The Predicate object

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:46:01 GMT

Did you know that you can use the predicate object to significantly reduce the amount of code that you write? You can also use it to make the code that you do have to write incredibly more elegant. Here's how!