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Creating Zip Archives In .Net Without An External Library

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:16:03 GMT

Jon Galloway offers his advice on creating your own zip library. SharpZipLib provides best free .NET compression library, but what if you can't use it due to the GPL license? I'll look at a few options, ending with my favorite - System.IO.Packaging.

.NET Framework 3.5 Is Shared Source

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:46:25 GMT

Microsoft's .NET Framework 3.5 is going to be released open source.

DotNetKicks - Now Serving SVN Revision 501

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:46:02 GMT

The DotNetKicks open source project is blistering ahead, there have been 336 commits in the last month taking us up to revision 501. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the project so far. Our main contributors the past few weeks were James Welsch, Simone Busoli, Kevin Fricovsky and Atif Aziz.

Leaky Abstractions and the Last Responsible Moment for Design

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:13:20 GMT

A discussion on 'Leaky Abstractions' and to make decisions as late as you can responsibly wait....

PostSharp - A Post-Compiler for .NET

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:16:02 GMT

PostSharp is a platform that allows you to transform or analyze your .NET assemblies after compilation. It reads binary assemblies into memory, execute a suite of plug-ins and write back the modified code. Geat tool for Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP).

Little things to help you CodeBetter

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:31:02 GMT

Jeremy Miller's tips for better coding.

DotNetKicks Widget via JQuery and new JSON Api

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:16:02 GMT

A screen cast that details how you can place this widget on your blog/site and display your most recent kicks - My Recent Kicks widget. Code available to download.

Agile vs. Traditional Development Cost Models ...Maybe

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:16:01 GMT

A comparison between Agile and Traditional development

Free ebook : Threading in C#

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:16:01 GMT

It has been updated since the last time it was posted here. Available in HTML and PDF.

Open Source .Net IM Client based on XMPP that can connect to Gtalk

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:46:02 GMT

This post describes the Open Source .Net application that can connect to Gtalk.

System.IO.Compression.DeflateStream - Gotcha

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:01:02 GMT

This article explains a common pitfall in DeflateStream and hos this can be solved - a must read for anyone who is using this class.

Performance consequence of DateTime.Parse()

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:01:01 GMT

This post explains the performance cost of using DateTime.Parse() and goes on to explain a possible solution.

Poor Man's Dependency Injection using Generics

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:46:01 GMT

Here's a quick way to incorporate dependency injection into your code using generics. This technique can be invaluable for testing.

Connecting to an SVN repository using .Net in 3 easy steps

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:46:04 GMT

This describes how we can use the Open Source DotSVN library to connect to Subversion FSFS repository.

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.