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Software I can't work without

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:46:10 GMT

I'm about to configure a new development machine this week. It's going to be my 3rd install from scratch in the last 12 months, which I know is not all that much, but certainly more than I wish I had to.

5 Books Every Developer Should Read

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:01:02 GMT

Which books should you read/buy when you are a programmer? I have listed 5 books that have helped me a lot. The books that I have chosen are not specific to any language although some of the books have examples in one language only

Getting Started with TDD

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:31:02 GMT

Getting started with Test Driven Development can be challenging. In this blog post, Steve offers some advice on how to get started either for a brand new project or one that already in maintenance mode.

Foundation of Programming FREE EBook - CodeBetter.Com

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:46:05 GMT

The Foundation Of Programming Series Free ebook By Karl Seguin

How to Generate an RSS Feed with Argotic

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:16:03 GMT

A short screencasts walking you through how to generate an RSS Feed with Argotic RSS framework.

Newspaper - a free theme for BlogEngine.NET

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:01:03 GMT

Newspaper is a free, lightweight, high-contrast, black&white theme for BlogEngine.NET. The name "Newspaper" comes from the fact that theme looks like real newspapers. You can see how does it looks like and download a free copy.

Microsoft PM responds to Entity Framework "petition of no confidence"

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:46:08 GMT

Tim Mallalieu tries to explain the EF situation - basically he says, "we'll try to do it in the next version" when responding to Entity Framework critics

Diagnose Assembly Binding Failures

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:46:19 GMT

Every one of us, software developers, experienced situations where the .Net Framework could not locate an assembly and ended up facing the TypeLoadException. Luckily, there is an assembly binding log viewer which displays information that helps us diagnose why the .NET Framework can not locate an assembly at run time.

Tips on Creating Portable APIs

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:46:16 GMT

Five tips and hints on creating good portable APIs.

When to use LINQ?

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:16:03 GMT

Great, in-depth discussion of when it makes to sense to use LINQ in LightSpeed 2.0.

Why Are Our Programs Still Represented by Flat Files?

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:31:25 GMT

It's time to leave the secondary, external structure of our programs behind. If you can treat the reflected code from a programming language like an abstract data structure, why can't you just keep the source itself in a similarly abstracted data structure? Isn't the structure of a program more similar to a graph, than a list? Besides the momentum of the past, what is keeping us tied to having our code in this format?

iPod Ad Generator

Wed, 28 May 2008 20:46:02 GMT

The iPod Ad Generator creates a silhouette image of you and your friends. Free Windows Application.

Alt.NET Podcast Launched!

Tue, 13 May 2008 23:01:04 GMT

The Alt.NET Podcast has a new podcast. The premier episode is a conversation with David Laribee, Jeremy D. Miller, and Chad Myers about continuously improving yourself, your code, and your team. Give it a listen!

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.

DotNetKicks with WordPress

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:46:09 GMT

How to add DotNetKicks icon to a WordPress blog.

Resharper 3.1 released!

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 19:31:02 GMT

The popular Visual Studio tool has an update released by creator JetBrains.

Internet Explorer 8 now passing Acid2

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:46:02 GMT

The IE8 team just announced some new news about IE8 - they just passed a major milestone which is to have IE8 render Acid2 when in IE8 standards mode. Includes link to official post and video.

Sick of Opera

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:16:05 GMT

Simone provides some insite and opinion on the Opera open letter.

ASP.NET Version 3.5's Web.config File

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:16:02 GMT

If you have had a chance to try out Visual Studio 2008, you likely have seen the rather bulky Web.config file Visual Studio generates when creating a new ASP.NET website or when converting an ASP.NET 2.0 website to 3.5. In one of Scott Guthrie's blog entries a commenter named Mike asked Scott for a rundown of the markup in the default Web.config file generated for version 3.5 ASP.NET applications. I went ahead and created such an article: Dissecting ASP.NET Version 3.5's Web.config File. Enjoy!

LINQ and Deferred Execution Video

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 01:31:02 GMT

Here is a video version of the Deferred Execution post I published on December 9. You can watch the video on SoapBox, or you can access it directly from the Microsoft Downloads site. To download the video, just right click on this link and choose Save target as or Save link as from the popup menu.

Best C# Blogs

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:01:05 GMT

What makes a C# blog good? Pretty much the same thing that makes any blog good, but with a focus on C#, of course.

Microsoft's .NET-Powered Windows Live Writer

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:31:02 GMT

Windows Live Writer is first major product to use the .NET Framework and ship out of Microsoft's camp. Ever since the release of the .NET Framework in 2002, people have wondered why Microsoft doesn't use its own framework to write its programs - it seems that they finally do - and that WLW may be the first of more to come!

The LINQ DataContext

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:50:17 GMT

In an earlier post I showed how LINQ developers can connect to a database and write a simple query. This post steps behind the scenes of a LINQ to SQL application and describes the classes auto-generated by the Object Relational Designer (aka LINQ to SQL designer). The focus will be on two key items: * The Customer and Order entity class * The DataContext itself

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.

Free Camtasia & SnagIt downloads! (full function)

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:16:03 GMT

TechSmith is now offering Camtasia 3 & SnagIt 7.2.5 (see the first blog comment for link) as free downloads.