Visual Studio Theme Generator

published 2 months ago, submitted by dengar007 2 months ago

frickinsweet.com — A fun little ASP.NET MVC Application I wrote to generate Visual Studio themes based off of 3 given colors. I have always felt that selecting every color to make a decent theme is way too repetitive. This web application automatically chooses complements / contrasts based off your initial color selections (and uses jQuery to let you preview your theme before creating). Check it out and let me know what you think. read more...

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Writing a Simple Role Playing Game with C# .NET and the State Pattern

primaryobjects.com — Learn how to use the State design pattern in C# .NET by writing a basic role playing game, with a main character who explores a forest, finds magical items, slays monsters, and gains experience points. read more...

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The static Keyword

published 6 months, 3 days ago, submitted by shayfriedman 6 months, 3 days ago

shaytalksabout.net — We all use the static keyword, but do we really know what the possibilities are? read more...

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UI design patterns library

ui-patterns.com — Very cool site which shows give you ideas about visual presentation for misc elements of user interface read more...

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100% Reflective Class Diagram Creation Tool

codeproject.com — This article is about using reflection. For those of you that don't know what reflection is, it is the ability to obtain information about a Type of object without really knowing anything about the object type that is being dealt with. For example one could simply ask the current Type of object if it supports a certain method name, if it does, the method can be called. This may sound strange but it is a very powerful technique. Lets suppose that I simply want to look at what methods a class supports, well that is also easily achieved using reflection. .NET allows developers to leverage reflection in many ways. read more...

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The Blog Ride - The Vietnam of Computer Science

blogs.tedneward.com — Ted Neward once described object/relational mapping as the "Viet Nam of Computer Science," which was an incredibly effective soundbite, if not completely clearly understood by all who read it or heard about it. In this long and exhaustive blog entry, Ted explains everything behind what he meant - and what's wrong with O/RM. read more...

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Building Plugins Resilient To Versioning

submitted by ussherm 2 years, 3 months ago

haacked.com — Phil Haack discusses an event-driven approach to implementing a plug-in architecture. The biggest impact of this approach...? Making your plug-ins more resilient to versioning of the core application you're plugging into. read more...

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blinq part 2: comparing rails scaffolding

timheuer.com — comparing blinq to rails read more...

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