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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.

The ASP.NET MVC Information Portal

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:46:02 GMT

A content aggregator of everything related to ASP.NET MVC

DotNetKicks PlugIn for Windows Live Writer

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:31:03 GMT

John Papa created a plugin for WIndows Live Writer that will customize a DotNetKicks link in a blog post.

Using NAnt with Visual Studio

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:31:03 GMT

Get your NAnt build running from VS.Net with full intelli-sense, and build errors reported to the error list window.

The Weekly Source Code 24

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:39:35 GMT

Scott Hanselman posts the 24th edition of "The Weekly Source Code". This week he shows source relating to extensibility (PlugIns, Providers, Attributes, AddIns and Modules). He also has a few links to great Windows Live Writer plugins.

Standalone Silverlight Applications (Moonlight)

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:16:03 GMT

"Last year we created a framework to run Silverlight applications as native applications. At the time we called those applications moonlight desklets. The desklets are Silverlight applications that run in standalone mode, with full access to the entire Mono API stack (as opposed to be limited to the .NET subset for the web) and that can optionally render without frames."

A different approach for raising events

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:16:31 GMT

This article describes different approaches how to raise events in C#.

ASP.NET MVC Interim Released (4/16/2008)

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:46:03 GMT

Get the latest MVC Source Code while it is hot.

Resourceful ASP.NET MVC: Multiple approaches to optimizing CSS

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:16:02 GMT

This article summarizes multiple articles on how to crunch, combine, cache, and compress CSS resources using the ASP.NET MVC demo template to show the methods in practice. The techniques used are meant to be a good trade-off between performance and time-saving, since CSS resources are dynamically processed once on the server, eliminating the need for tedious manual optimization prior to deployment.

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."

CodeProject: The WPF Podcatcher Series - Part 2 (Structural Skinning).

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:46:03 GMT

About two months ago I unveiled a pet project of mine, named Podder. It is an audio podcast player (a.k.a. podcatcher) built in WPF. The application comes pre-loaded with a dozen or so podcasts, so you can start listening to episodes right away. If there are other podcasts that you would like to listen to, it is easy to add them into Podder at any time. Podder is free, fun, and easy to use. The first article in this series explained that Podder supports what I call "structural skinning." This article explores what structural skinning is, how I implemented it, and even shows structural skinning in action as we examine a truly fantastic Podder skin built by Grant Hinkson, a professional Visual Designer.

Screen Cast - Creating MonoRail-AspView Web Application From Scratch

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:01:02 GMT

Following many requests from users, I've created a screen cast in which I show how to setup a new MonoRail/AspView website, from scratch (no wizards).

Google Apps API released

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:46:01 GMT

Google Apps and its APIs open up a wide variety of new opportunities to integrate and extend Google's communication and collaboration services. Domain adminstrators can use the APIs to migrate from and integrate with existing IT infrastructure. Application developers can use the APIs to extend Google's growing offering of services.

Microsoft .NET Micro Framework Is Now Available

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 04:31:01 GMT

Microsoft Corp. announced the availability of the software development kit (SDK) for the Microsoft® .NET Micro Framework. With its ability to work seamlessly with Visual Studio®, the .NET Micro Framework extends the power of Microsoft's embedded offerings into the realm of smaller, less expensive and more resource-constrained devices.

How to host an ASP.NET Web Service Outside of IIS

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:01:01 GMT

WSE 3 enables ASP.NET Web services to be hosted in console applications, Windows services, COM+ components, or Windows Forms applications and then to be called using the TCP protocol or any custom transport protocol written for WSE.

Creating symbolic links with C#

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 06:01:02 GMT

Symbolic links are a new NTFS feature in Windows Vista. This post shows how to create those with managed code.

A simple example of a fluent interface

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 13:31:01 GMT

A fluent interface can make your code much easier to use by allowing users to write code like this: imageFilter.Rotate(90) .Watermark("Monkey") .RoundCorners(100, Color.Bisque) .Save("test.png"); This article shows how and why you should add fluent interfaces to your toolbelt.

Mono 1.2 released with SWF 1.1 and C# 2.0!!

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 09:19:23 GMT

The Windows.Forms 1.1 API is now available, it includes all of the controls in the standard specification, a complete System.Drawing implementation. The Windows.Forms implementation has a WndProc compatible design, so most third party widgets that use WndProc to achieve special effects will work out of the box. Currently there are drivers for X11 and Win32 and will run on Windows systems or systems with the X11 windowing system (Linux, Unix and OSX when using the X11 package).

New Mono 1.2 Released

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 08:19:45 GMT

The new version of Mono is now officially released and available for download.