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IntelliSense for Expression Blend

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:16:05 GMT

An add-in for Expression Blend 2.5 that adds IntelliSense for editing of XAML files.

Introduction to Mocking with Rhino Mocks

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:01:09 GMT

A short screencast introduction to Mocking with Rhino Mocks

Adding Microsoft Source Analyzer Tool to your build process

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:36:24 GMT

This article explains how to add Microsoft Source Analyzer Tool for c# in your build process (for CruiseControl.NET integration), and how to make source analysis automatic during compilation.

Writing your own rules for Microsoft Source Analysis for C#

Mon, 26 May 2008 08:01:02 GMT

How to look at the baked in rules or how to write your own set of rules for the newly released Microsoft Source Analysis for C#.

Microsoft Source Analysis for C# Released

Fri, 23 May 2008 18:31:14 GMT

From post: "Source Analysis is similar in many ways to Microsoft Code Analysis (specifically FxCop), but there are some important distinctions. FxCop performs its analysis on compiled binaries, while Source Analysis analyzes the source code directly. For this reason, Code Analysis focuses more on the design of the code, while Source Analysis focuses on layout, readability and documentation."

Visual Studio Nunit & Rhino Mocks Templates

Thu, 22 May 2008 08:46:22 GMT

A simple visual studio installer file with a project template, an item template and a couple of code snippets for TDD with Nunit and Rhino Mocks

C# Google maps postcode parser

Thu, 15 May 2008 11:06:26 GMT

Source code and article for performing a Google maps lookup on all postcodes from a webpage, then plotting them with Google maps.

Introducing Waegis

Mon, 12 May 2008 20:46:04 GMT

A new spam blocking service just hit the .NET space: Waegis. It's a service similar to Akismet, but written entirely in .NET

Implement MetaWeblog API in ASP.NET

Sat, 10 May 2008 18:31:03 GMT

There is no doubt that MetaWeblog API is one of the very helpful and popular inventions around online publishing especially for blog engines and services. Of course MetaWeblog API has not been a tool only for blogs because it's used as a general publishing service for others sites as well.

CSS sliding doors technique

Mon, 12 May 2008 14:01:04 GMT

This article will show you how to create fancy buttons using CSS sliding doors technique. It is much better to use this technique than to use image buttons because you can apply the style to any link and at the same time you don't have to create an image for each button.

Silverlight Lightbox from TeamLive.com

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:31:02 GMT

A very cool Lightbox implementation using Silverlight 2.0

Implementing Generic Caching

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:46:02 GMT

I develop for a large, high-availability website, with hundreds of thousands of daily users. As such, we need to cache a lot of data in our web-server memory (which is cheap) to save numerous hits to our main database cluster (which is very expensive). I would imagine the desire to improve performance by saving on database hits is common across many web applications - and caching frequently used data is often seen as one of the best ways to solve this problem.

ASP.NET MVC - Legacy Url Routing

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:31:02 GMT

When converting web form applications to MVC, it requires a new Url structure. Learn how to handle legacy Url's within an MVC application by appropriately redirecting them to the correct MVC Url.

SEO Page Manager For ASP.Net

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:46:10 GMT

manage all your meta tags and sitemap urls in one convenient place

Serving your ASP.NET .aspx pages with .html

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:16:10 GMT

Need to serve your pages with an HTML extension instead of an ASPX extension? Start here!

A Great XPath Query Tool

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:46:03 GMT

Visual XPath is a free graphical XPath query tool which have many great features, some of those features are: Load an XML file and see it in a form of tree

Using NAnt with Visual Studio

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:31:03 GMT

Get your NAnt build running from VS.Net with full intelli-sense, and build errors reported to the error list window.

Hello Rhino World

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:04:50 GMT

A simple Hello World showing how elegant the Rhino Mock framework can be used to simulate expected behaviour on mocked objects.

Out, Out, Damn Ref

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:01:02 GMT

The difference between the out and ref keywords in C# .. and other questions this brings up.

Enterprise Service Bus Messaging Using nServiceBus

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:25:29 GMT

I have been working lately with a big group of fellow developers here in SilverKey on the architecture and design of a relatively big project that required much services and messaging work. We thought that we should implement our public services the REST way using WCF for .NET 3.5, with so many customizations, and that we'll use a library called nServiceBus for internal messaging. nServiceBus is a framework for handling publisher/subscriber (pub/sub) model of messaging. It provides reliable messaging via the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) pattern, and uses MSMQ as the physical bus.

How to enable pretty urls with Asp.Net MVC and IIS6

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:56:51 GMT

Step by step instructions for how to remove the .mvc extension requirement when using asp.net mvc on IIS6

BradA: End-to-End Data Centric Application with Silverlight 2

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 05:47:21 GMT

I have been having some fun with an end to end Silverlight 2 demo recently and I thought I'd share it here. My goal with the demo is to show how easy it is to create an end to end Silverlight application.

Correctly disposing using the using()-statement

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:16:07 GMT

A nice little article for newbies about how the using()-statement in C# works.

A C# fluent repeater

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:01:03 GMT

A fully-featured fluent class used for repeating method calls, handle exceptions, callbacks and more... Just plug-and-play and start repeating stuff!

How to disable web.config Inheritance for Child Applications?

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:01:02 GMT

Each ASP.NET Web Application has its own configuration file called web.config file. In fact every directory in ASP.NET application can have one. Settings in each web.config file apply to the directory where its placed, and all the subdirectories of that directory. This is called Configuration Inheritance and it can cause serious headaches if you are not fully aware of how it works...