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Joe Stagner says you could improve your ASP.NET site one tag at a time

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:46:09 GMT

Microsoft's Opinionated Misfit Geek apparently took a brief look at Aggiorno, a Visual Studio plugin that does some interesting stuff, such as add alternate text to images, update deprecated attributes or fix tag structure for XHTML compliance. Come take a look!

Dependency Injection is Dead!

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:46:10 GMT

The author claims that AOP-assisted Dependency Resolution, where dependencies are resolved on-demand without plumbing code and use of factories, can supersede Dependency Injection... at least in some scenarios. A refreshing view on a topic that tends to become sanctified and therefore undiscussed in our community.

Blog Engine.NET1.4 Released

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:01:03 GMT

Blog Engine.net 1.4 has been released. more...

Blog Engine.NET1.4 Upgrade Guide

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:01:04 GMT

The upgrade process is fairly easy but there are a few things to be aware of. more....

An Introduction to the xUnit.net Testing Framework

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:31:03 GMT

In this blog entry, Stephen Walther demonstrates how to use the xUnit.net testing framework while building an ASP.NET MVC application. He discusses how to build unit tests for controller actions that perform database access.

ASP.NET Performance Tips

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:31:03 GMT

The article lists few of some of the many performance tweaks that can be implement to boost up ASP.NET performance.

Which .NET Blogger Do Girls Like Better?

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:46:09 GMT

Find out which .NET blogger is more popular with the ladies. Scott Hanselman, Phil Haack, Jeff Atwood, or Joel Spolsky I received an invite to Google Ad Planner. As I was playing around with this new tool, I was really blown away by how much information Google has collected on specific websites. So much so that I wanted to share this tool with my readers, but I couldn't come up with an interesting way to demonstrate the capabilities. Until I started looking up some of my favorite bloggers and saw the almost embarrassing balance between females and males.

Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:16:05 GMT

Internal email from Bill Gates detailing his difficulties with Microsoft.com, Windows Update, and more.

Using Linq to query the File System

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:31:13 GMT

Short screen casts on using Linq to query the File System

HashSet to the Rescue

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:16:03 GMT

If you are using a generic List<T> to store unique object references in there is a better way. It's called the HashSet<T> and it is new in .Net 3.5 It's indexed and it's blazing fast.

VS2008 Web Server Here Shell Extension

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:31:02 GMT

This shell extension adds a right click menu on any folder that will start WebDev.WebServer.exe (aka Cassini) pointing to that directory.

10 Tools Which I Still Use, Even I Have VSTS 2008

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:31:11 GMT

In my last post, titled "10 Tools Which I Left After Using VSTS 2008", I have included a list of 10 tools which I am not using currently, as I have the corresponding features available in Visual Studio Team System 2008. However, on the other hand, I am still using few tools even I have VSTS 2008!

Recommendations From My Developer Toolbox (June 2008)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:31:03 GMT

This is an updated version of my January 2008 list of must have software for your developer toolbox. Kudos to Scott Hanselman for the inspiration.

VisualSVN Server 1.5 Released

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:31:02 GMT

We are glad to announce the new and improved version of the popular all-in-one Subversion server package for Windows platform - VisualSVN Server 1.5. This release brings new Subversion 1.5 with a bunch of great features and several important improvements in VisualSVN Server itself: Windows Authorization and UI for hooks.

VisualSVN 1.5 Released

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:31:02 GMT

We are glad to announce new version of the professional Subversion integration for Microsoft Visual Studio - VisualSVN 1.5. This release brings to you the new release of Subversion 1.5 with a bunch of great fetures and bug fixes.

10 Tools Which I Left After Using VSTS 2008

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:01:08 GMT

I have started using Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 2008, recently. Previously I worked with Visual Studio 2005. As a matter of fact I had to use lots of external tools to perform and speedup my development process. However, while working with VSTS 2008, it's very exciting for me that, I found replacements for most of the external tools there. Here are 10 tools which I left after using VSTS 2008.

How Do You Exit Your .Net Application?

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:31:09 GMT

The question in the title does not refer to the actions you take when you are about to exit your application, issues like logging, closing file handles, freeing unmanaged resources and so on. It does literally refer to the exit action itself...

How to use NDepend to improve code quality

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:16:09 GMT

Code quality is an important aspect of every software development project - discover how NDepend can aid in giving you a richer and more meaningful understanding of the quality of your code as well as helping to identify areas you could improve. This post is a high level overview of what you can achieve with NDepend.

10 reasons why SQL Server 2008 is going to rock

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:01:12 GMT

Just like its predecessor, SQL Server 2008 is taking its sweet time to actually ship. However, unlike its predecessor, it won't just be a "worthwhile upgrade". It will kick ass. Here are the top 10 reasons why.

The 5 types of poor software architects

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:31:06 GMT

The types of software architects you never want to meet in your career

How to get Cross Browser Compatibility Every Time

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:31:10 GMT

Cross-browser compatibility is one of the most time consuming tasks for any web designer. We've seen many different articles over the net describing common problems and fixes. I've collated all the information I could find to create some coding conventions for ensuring that your site will work first time in every browser. There are some things you should consider for Safari and Firefox also, and IE isn't always the culprit for your CSS woes.

Performance: IEnumerable<>.Sum

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:31:02 GMT

A article about the performance hit created by the IEnumerable<>.Sum extension method!!!

How to create web application user interface that looks like Outlook

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:01:02 GMT

How many times have you heard form a client that they want "outlook-like" web user interface for their application? Me, probably a hundred of times. In this article I'll explain how to create a web application user interface that looks like Outlook. You can see the live demo and download source code with images.

Using Classes To Fight CSS Class Explosion

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:16:04 GMT

You might think that really stylable HTML needs classes all over the place. That's not true, thanks to descendant selectors, which let you target elements inside a parent element.

Learning how to create LiveTemplates with ReSharper

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:01:02 GMT

Short how-to on learning how to create LiveTemplates with ReSharper