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Silverlight 2 (beta 2) and Firefox 3... so happy together...

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:16:03 GMT

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 now works in Firefox 3. Here's some background on the Bugzilla thread detailing the epic struggle.

Cool links for programmers

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:46:02 GMT

In this post I do not intend to make a list of the best programmers web sites, but to share with you some you might not know:

How to Find Memory Leaks With CLRProfiler

Fri, 30 May 2008 14:01:07 GMT

Track down, discover and eliminate memory leaks in your applications with this free open source tool.

The future of .NET, Visual Studio and more

Mon, 26 May 2008 09:31:04 GMT

The career pages of Microsoft give hints what the future holds for us developers. This post picks out the interesting little details about future versions of Visual Studio, .NET Framework, SharePoint, SQL Server etc and analyzes a bit what they could mean.

Microsoft Research's DOLOTO Makes AJAX Twice as Fast

Thu, 22 May 2008 14:01:15 GMT

Microsoft Research has released some exciting information about a new tool being worked on by Ben Livshits and Emre Kiciman. DOLOTO promises to greatly speed the loading of web applications. It does this by automatically making parts of the application load in the background or lazy load when they are needed. The results look extremely impressive. They tried it on a bunch of websites and saw around a fifty percent improvement in loading time on all of them. These included such content rich sites as Live.com, Live Maps and Google Spreadsheets.

SharpTemplate.NET pre-release on CodePlex

Wed, 21 May 2008 15:31:02 GMT

Introducing SharpTemplate.NET, a lightweight general-purpose template engine for .NET 2.0. It allows you to incorporate template parsing in your .NET applications. Perfect for code generators, reporting tools, mass-mailing applications, etc.

Unloadable plugins

Fri, 16 May 2008 16:16:02 GMT

A visual explanation on how to load and most importantly unload plugins in .net.

Choosing the Right Garbage Collector Settings for Your Application

Thu, 15 May 2008 14:46:04 GMT

In this post I discuss the gcConcurrent and gcServer settings which allow you to exercise some control how the Garbage Collector operates. Tuning the garbage collector to the specific context of the particular application can significantly improve the performance of both non-threaded and multi-threaded applications.

A Series on GPU-based Effects for WPF

Wed, 14 May 2008 18:31:09 GMT

Greg Schechter on the new GPU-based Effects in WPF coming with .NET 3.5 SP1.

Great Silverlight 2.0 example application

Mon, 12 May 2008 03:31:02 GMT

Great example of how to make rich line-of-business apps using Silverlight 2.0. Scalable UI, DeepZoom, animation etc.

best programming jokes

Thu, 08 May 2008 17:46:05 GMT

a very big good collection of programming jokes, WOWwwwwwww

Subversion as a deployment tool

Mon, 05 May 2008 20:46:08 GMT

I was thinking on the way to work today that subversion would be a great tool to overcome some of the difficulties associated with frequent deployments to the web servers.

Get Motivated - Motivational Poster Generator + Source

Wed, 07 May 2008 20:01:02 GMT

"I chose to focus on the typography and the color selection for the slogan. All of this is put together through one remote invoke to the aspx application on the server. On the server, there is a method called ReworkPage that takes an URL to an image, a slogan, and subtext. This method does all the work of building the image."

Unattended Installation for the .NET Framework 3.5

Sun, 04 May 2008 12:31:02 GMT

Excellent information for different ways to script an unattended installation of the .NET Framework 3.5.

Convert a string into an enum

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:16:02 GMT

Tim Sneath writes some C# to convert a string into an enum.

Write Your First Silverlight Game

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:16:05 GMT

Palermo shows us how to build a game using Silverlight. Should be excellent!

Five recommendations for starting a startup with ASP.NET

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:16:03 GMT

Here are five practical pieces of advice for developers who want to build a web startup, and use ASP.NET to do it.

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."

StackOverflow.COM

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:01:03 GMT

JA and Joel Spolsky join forces to kick the s*t out of Experts Exchange. I didn't know anybody else hated them as much as I did. I even toyed with the idea of creating a google frontend to append -experts-exchange to any search....

A .NET Cryptography Primer, part 3

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:01:02 GMT

This part covers symmetric encryption, more commonly known as password-based encryption. Goes over the different types of symmetric algorithms available, concepts such as initialization vectors, and includes code examples.

.NET Obfuscators

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:46:13 GMT

Comprehensive list of all .NET obfuscators available today and online reviews.

Improving C# Performance Through Stack Allocation

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:46:02 GMT

In this article I walk through safe and unsafe stack allocation in C#. I discuss some methods of improving performance and talk about the dangers and inconveniences involved in those methods.

Why WPF Rocks (Custom Layout Panel showcase)

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:16:08 GMT

This article discuss why WPF Layout model is great... The attached code of some of the best layout panels available on the net is also included (ie. FishEyePanel, FanPanel, TimelinePanel, AnimatingStackPanel, etc)!

SQL SERVER - 15 Best Practices for Better Database Performance

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:01:02 GMT

I have written 14 best practices here, read them all and let me know what is as per your opinion should be the 15th best practice.

.NET 3.5 Framework Distribution Size

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:46:03 GMT

....This is certainly an issue that's making me think twice - at least right now - of using .NET 3.5 for vertical/desktop applications. Distribution sizes do matter and people are weary of downloading a 200 meg runtime in order to run an application that has a 2 meg footprint on its own.