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Change and Pray Development Methodology (CPD)

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:31:06 GMT

A quick posting about a new development methodology that has been coined.

Tips for avoiding Spam Filters with System.Net.Mail

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:31:03 GMT

It's getting more difficult for spammers to dig through the walls of tools like SpamAssassin every day. However, that also tightens the rules for us developers who do not intend to send out spam. We have to be very careful when creating and sending out HTML Mails. This article shows you how to do it properly and avoid being caught by spamfilters.

How to Write a Good .NET Article

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 06:46:01 GMT

Keyvan gives a multi-step guide to write a good article about .NET and share it on community.

Host Windows Forms Controls in WPF

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:01:01 GMT

In this post Keyvan describes a simple process to host traditional Windows Forms controls in Windows Presentation Foundation applications.

.NET Languages

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:31:01 GMT

This is complete list of .NET Languages and .NET language projects. You can look up a reference to any .NET language alphabetically by major language classification. For example, look up Basic to find Basic language implementations and variants including Visual Basic.NET. To find a particular implementation by name-e.g. F#-, type "F#" in the site search box and click the site search button (navigation column at left). If you do not find the language you are looking for in this list of .NET languages, then-please-add it.

Basic Animations Using Microsoft Ajax

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:31:01 GMT

Basic Animations Using Microsoft Ajax

Small utility help freelance developers

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:01:02 GMT

A tiny tool help me calculate total of hours that i spent working on a project for freelance developers.

System Wide Spell Check

Sat, 23 Dec 2006 16:31:02 GMT

Dyslexic Helper is a spell check that can be used anywhere in windows.

Google Calendar Status

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 07:57:15 GMT

This article provides suggestion for Google Calendar service. Google Calendar status buuton shows your current(realtime) status(free or busy).

More LINQ on Channel 9 & LINQ PDF from O'Reilly

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:01:02 GMT

Links to some articles about LINQ

Microsoft XPS Essentials Pack

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:01:02 GMT

Microsoft has an XPS Reader/writer pack with an XPS IFilter available for download

Ascend.NET - Nice and FREE WinForms Controls

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 05:01:01 GMT

The Ascend.NET controls are a collection of Windows Forms controls written in C# targeting Visual Studio 2005 and .NET 2.0. The intent is to provide controls that are flexible but easy to use that will hold up well under heavy usage.

Open Source Web Designs - 1694 free designs and counting

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 03:31:03 GMT

So what's next for the open source era? Open Source "Software" (opensource.org), Open Source "Hardware" (opencores.org)......and now "Web designs"!! So what's next? Open Source Photography!? Just keep rolling those "Open Source" ideas. This initiative sure makes "the Internet a prettier place"..........

Dynamic Serialization vs. Xml Serialization.

Sun, 29 Oct 2006 16:31:01 GMT

This is an example of how to use the new DynamicMethod class in .net 2.0 as a base for smart dynamic serializer with human readable output.

Goodbye XAMLPad, Hello Kazaml!

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 05:01:03 GMT

Kazaml is a new XAML editor tool.

CodeSmith 4.0 Public Beta 2 Released

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 05:01:02 GMT

CodeSmith 4.0 Beta 2 has been released and is now available to the public. Here are just a few the new capabilities in CodeSmith 4.0: * CodeSmith Projects (.csp) - This feature makes automating your code generation process really easy and consistent whether you are working from inside of Visual Studio 2005, MSBuild, Windows Explorer, a command line / batch file, or CodeSmith itself. * ActiveSnippets - Imagine Visual Studio 2005 snippets, but with the full power of CodeSmith available to execute any logic or access any complex metadata (including database schema and xml data) to control the output of your snippets. * CodeSmith Maps (.csmap) - This feature will allow you to create dictionary style maps of things like SQL to C# data type mappings. * .netTiers 2.0 - The .netTiers templates have been greatly enhanced and included with CodeSmith 4.0. * Extended Property Management - You can now edit and add new schema extended properties inside of CodeSmith Studio. * Property Persistence - CodeSmith now remembers the property values from the last time you executed a template.

How to increase application scalability using Plugin Support

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 02:01:02 GMT

This article discusses implementation details of how to support loading Assemblies in different App-Domains in run time, also how to control the execution and crashes.

Your first Boo control. Office 2007 SupertoolTip.

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:31:02 GMT

This is an extremely simple introduction to creating a control with Boo. This article will concentrate on the creation of a SuperToolTip control (Office 2007).

Using .NET from Ruby. Other way.

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 22:46:28 GMT

I tried to install RubyCLR Drop 4 last week. But had no luck. Then I decided to go my own way. I thought about using COM for interaction between Ruby and .NET Framework.

Googling with RubyCLR.

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 06:16:23 GMT

Now I`am experimenting with RubyCLR.This article provides example of client application for Google Code Seach service.

Rediscover .Net with Boo

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 09:31:02 GMT

This article provides sample of using Boo. BooFlickr is a fast Flickr browser.

Google Code Search

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 06:31:02 GMT

Is it the end of the problem with lack of examples in the documentation?

RubyCLR. Complete Installation Guide.

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:01:02 GMT

This article provides complete(step-by-step) installation guide for RubyCLR.

PowerShell Customization.

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:46:48 GMT

This post provides quick tutorial for PowerShell customization with profile.

NoiseKiller.NET C# application for noise reduction

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 02:01:03 GMT

NoiseKiller is a open-source .Net Framework application for noise reduction.