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Tree Surgeon 2.0 Release

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:16:04 GMT

A tool to automatically generate Visual Studio solutions with proper directory structure

Free e-book: Foundations on Programming

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:24:09 GMT

Recently I found that e-book which might be useful to some of you. Its sub title is: "Building better software" and is written by Karl Seguin.

NHIbernate 2.0 Goes Beta 1 after Microsoft 'Linq to Entities' receives

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:01:09 GMT

The first official beta for NHibernate 2.0 was released today. This comes on the heels of the damaging 'boycott' of the Microsoft 'Linq to Entities' upcoming release, which was anticipated to be a serious competitor to NHibernate. LAST MINUTE UPDATE FROM THE NHIBERNATE TEAM There has been a change in how NHibernate is packaged as the core and contrib aspects now have dedicated locations. Since NHibernate 2.0 Alpha 1, ONLY THE CORE of the project is included at the link above. The Contrib Projects are now in a dedicated location: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nhcontrib There are a few new projects that are essential to investigate for your needs (for example the Burrow project). Also be sure to visit the wiki for these significant projects: http://nhcontrib.wiki.sourceforge.net See the end of this post for a partial list of these contrib efforts. The team at domain.dot.net has been working with 2.0.X since the first alpha, and following the progress of the trunk. In our opinion this beta has the high quality of prior betas and we recommend it for non-critical systems immediately as your risk policy allows. We're working on a more detailed analysis coming soon on some of the key improvements. To download the code direct from the trunk use this SVN URL: https://nhibernate.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/nhibernate This is no minor update, as with this release they will align with the widely used and praised 'Hibernate 3.2' for Java. Here is a listing of the planned new features which are represented to varying degrees of complexness in this beta:

Firefox 2 and 3 side by side

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:56:25 GMT

As a developer you'd probably like to have Firefox 2 and 3 installed side by side to check for compatibility etc.. This article describes how to do it.

WCF Security Guide - Formal beta now available

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:21:27 GMT

From the post: "Welcome to the patterns & practices Improving Web Services Security: Scenarios and Implementation Guidance for WCF project site! This guide shows you how to make the most of WCF (Windows Communication Foundation). With end-to-end application scenarios, it shows you how to design and implement authentication and authorization in WCF. Learn how to improve the security of your WCF services through prescriptive guidance including guidelines, Q&A, practices at a glance, and step-by-step how tos."

Learning WPF - Factories, Interfaces, Delegates and Lambdas

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:51:59 GMT

Another BabySmash refactoring post by Scott Hanselman. This time he refactors his "Yucky Random Factory".

Learning WPF with BabySmash - Another set of eyes

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:47:06 GMT

Scott Hanselman's next post on learning WPF. He writes about refactoring his "figures" library with help from Jason (check out the link to Jason's blog in the post).

Learning WPF with BabySmash - Keeping it DRY with XAML Styles

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:21:47 GMT

Scott's next post about Learning WPF, refactoring to use XAML Styles.

Learning WPF with BabySmash - Speech Synthesis

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:15:47 GMT

Scott Hanselman does another review of code changes to his BabySmash app.

Unit tests are for functionality, not code!

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:31:02 GMT

Unit tests are meant to test functionality, NOT code! That means if you write your unit tests after the fact, you're probably not focusing on the functionality.

Why You SHOULD Have 100% Code Test Coverage

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:46:02 GMT

Shawn talks about why your goal should be 100% unit test coverage, despite what others may say.

Hanselminutes 116 - Distributed Caching with Microsoft's Velocity

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:16:10 GMT

Scott sits down with 2 of the architects of Velocity.

.NET Rocks! 349 - Microsoft Dynamic Data

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:46:32 GMT

"Carl and Richard talk with Scott Hunter on Microsoft's Dynamic Data Runtime. Scott Hunter is currently a program manager on the ASP.NET team. Scott spends a lot of his time working on server side data and Dynamic Data is the current feature around this area."

Silverlight 2 Beta2 Released

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:31:02 GMT

Silverlight 2 Beta2 was released today. Silverlight 2 Beta2 supports a go-live license that allows you to start using and deploying Silverlight 2 for commercial applications. There will be some API changes between Beta2 and the final release, so you should expect that applications you write with Beta2 will need to make some updates when the final release comes out. But we think that these changes will be straight-forward and relatively easy, and that you can begin planning and starting commercial projects now.

Give way to the yield keyword!

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:31:02 GMT

A brief description of what you can do with the yield keyword.

Microsoft Project Code Named "Velocity" CTP1

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:06:25 GMT

From Overview: "Velocity is a distributed in-memory application cache platform for developing scalable, available, and high-performance applications. It can be configured to run as a service accessed over the network or can be run embedded with the distributed application. "Velocity" includes an ASP.NET session provider object enabling storage of ASP.NET session objects in the distributed cache without having to write to databases, which increases the performance and scalability of ASP.NET applications."

Windows Live writer update (preview)

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:01:10 GMT

The update for windows live writer is now available.

.NET Rocks! 347 - John Lam Updates Us on IronRuby!

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:11:09 GMT

"John Lam talks about his work with the DLR and Iron Ruby at Microsoft."

Learning WPF with BabySmash - Configuration with DataBinding

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:38:17 GMT

Scott Hanselman goes over some changes to his BabySmash application. Make sure to check out the first post.

Windows Live Writer PlugIn for DotNetKicks - Alpha

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:20:26 GMT

Using the June 2008 Technical Preview release of WIndows Live Writer and its SDK, this plug in creates a DotNetKicks "KickIt" link in the footer of a post. The bits are an alpha and only contain the ability t include the link, with 0 cusomtization. A future release will appear on CodePlex with more features.

20 Years Later IRC is Still Useful; Are You Taking Advantage of it?

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:46:04 GMT

Why You Should Care About A 20 Year Old Protocol? IRC is much more than just a relic of an earlier age. It helps connect highly technical people, it has weathered the years better than any other high level internet protocol. It does not suffer from the spam and abuse that have overtaken other protocols and no Web2.0 technology has supplanted it.

Unofficial google shell... awsome

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:16:04 GMT

Web base command shell for google. What else can I say?...

Feels like the 90s: disabling right mouse button with JS

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:28:27 GMT

I can't believe that there are still web sites out there that try to "protect" their precious (?) content by trying to disable the right mouse button with JavaScript. Never seen it? Those pages hook up the mouse down or mouse up event with JavaScript. When you use the right mouse button to bring up the context menu on those pages (e.g. to copy&paste text, save images, view the source code etc.) instead an alert box pops up telling you smart things like "Please don't steal our content" or "If you are interested in our web site please contact our web master". Those protection mechanisms are remains of the late 90s when people discovered that JavaScript was sooo cool

ASP.NET MVC Support with Visual Web Developer 2008 Express

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:16:03 GMT

Last week I blogged about the ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 release. One important thing I forgot to mention about this release is that you can now use it with both Visual Studio 2008 as well as the free Visual Web Developer 2008 Express edition...

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.