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Free Winforms and ASP.NET Chart Controls

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:31:02 GMT

Directly from Microsoft

101 Free Silverlight Controls

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:31:10 GMT

Awesome collection of FREE silverlight controls.

Becoming a Visual Studio Jedi Part 1

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:16:03 GMT

Peter discusses how to get your use of Visual Studio to the next level.

Craig Shoemaker - Rockstar (ASP.NET) Dynamic Data Customizations

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:36:14 GMT

Craig Shoemaker shows how the new ASP.NET Dynamic Data feature can go well beyond what you might imagine. He provides five screencasts of how he took Dynamic Data and turned it on it's head. If you think Dynamic Data is just about boring lists and tables you should check these casts.

SQLite on .NET - Get up and running in 3 minutes.

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:16:02 GMT

The quick and dirty guide to setting up SQLite with .Net in 3 minutes. Small, fast, and ass-kicking like a transactional Jackie Chan. Good background information and tutorial to get you from download to querying in no time flat.

Happy 2nd Birthday DotNetKicks

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:46:02 GMT

DotNetKicks.com is 2 year old today. A big thanks to everyone who has contributed to the community.

Log4Net Config to Make Your Loggin' Rockin' | From C Sharp to C Sharp

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:01:02 GMT

Hot config for your Log4Net needs.

TerraServer Sample: A LINQ Provider

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:35:32 GMT

Over the holidays Alex Turner, Mary Deyo and I added a new sample to the downloadable version of the CSharp samples that accompany Visual Studio 2008. This sample is called the LinqToTerraServerProvider, and it appears in a sub-directory called WebServiceLinqProvider. The LINQ provider technology that makes this sample possible is also used by other tools such as LINQ to Amazon, LINQ to LDAP, LINQ to SharePoint, and LINQ to Google Desktop.

Microsoft Sync Framework Support in Visual Studio 2008

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:01:03 GMT

How to add synchronization framework to your app in several mouse clicks in Visual Studio 2008.

More Silk-style icons

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:46:05 GMT

Everybody's heard of the fantastic silky-smooth "Silk Icons" set from FamFamFam. This new set complements that original 1,000 png icon set with over 450 more of the same for use in Windows or Web applications.

LINQ To Sql tutorial Series By Scott Guthrie (Pdf Book Format)

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:16:02 GMT

Scott Guthrie's great 'LINQ To Sql' tutorial series in PDF book format.

Speed up Visual Studio 2005

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:46:12 GMT

Nice tricks to speed up Visual Studio 2005

Utilities.NET 1.0 released

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:46:02 GMT

Utilities.NET is a collection of helper classes and components for quickly solving common .NET programming tasks.

C# and Lucene to index and search

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 04:16:02 GMT

Downloadable solution showing how to use Lucene for content indexing and then searching the data. Shows some of the advanced filtering possibilities Lucene offers when it comes to searching. Sourcecode C# and .NET 2.0, Windows Forms.

Scott Hanselman's 2007 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tools

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:01:02 GMT

Scott's fantastic list of essential tools updated for 2007

Coding Horror: Discipline Makes Strong Developers

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:46:02 GMT

Jeff explains why Discipline is so important in today's programming world.

DotNetKicks Beta 1 Available For Download

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:46:02 GMT

I have just tagged and uploaded SVN revision 132 as DotNetKicks Beta 1. Enjoy!

Open source .NET libraries you should be already using

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:46:03 GMT

As we know, there are many good, enterprise level, open source libraries, frameworks and projects implemented in Java. Most of them are being ported into different platforms like .NET and PHP, so developers are migrating to the these platforms with their familiar tools. For example, i have been using Ant, JUnit, Log4J, iText and many mores when i was developing in Java, but now i am still using Log4Net and Nunit in my current

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is HERE!

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:46:02 GMT

Download it :)

Windsor IoC Container in a Lunch Break

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:31:02 GMT

A brief, soup to nuts tutorial designed to get you up and running with the Windsor Container and Inversion of Control within an hour.

XNA Game Studio Sessions at Gamefest 2007, are we getting Networking

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:18:54 GMT

Playing games by yourself can be fun, but it's far better when you can play with others, whether cooperatively or head-to-head. Creating multiplayer games using XNA Game Studio, however, requires networking support in the XNA Framework for both Windows and Xbox 360. And that support simply isn't there.until now!

VS 2008 Nested Master Page Support

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 09:31:01 GMT

VS 2008 designer handles now nested Master Pages

DotNetKicks.com - Now running on the open source codebase

Sun, 08 Jul 2007 10:12:01 GMT

I have just switched DotNetKicks.com to use the new open source codebase - svn revision 101. The site is now using SubSonic as the DAL. Please kick the tires if you can. Report any bugs to google code site: http://code.google.com/p/dotnetkicks/issues/list

Microsoft Releases new XNA content

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:49:07 GMT

Microsoft has updated the creators site with more content for us to play with over our Fourth of July vacation! With four new samples, two new tutorials and even a new mini game, there is plenty to keep us occupied.

Indexing and searching source code with Lucene.Net

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 02:46:01 GMT

An academic implementation of a source code search engine with open source frameworks.