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Microsoft "Oslo" May CTP available (Including Quadrant)

Wed, 27 May 2009 15:14:13 GMT

The "Oslo" team has released the third CTP of Microsoft's forthcoming modeling platform. This post outlines some of the most important changes and shows some screenshots.

My Dot Net Developer's tools list, and more.

Wed, 27 May 2009 04:00:01 GMT

I gave a brownbag presentation at my current client recently about the common tools (in addition to Visual Studio), that I use on a regular basis for working with .NET or web development in general. I also threw in some non-development tools that are a part of my day to day life and make things easier. Here's the complete list:

New StringOr<T> in Base Class Library 4.1

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:30:29 GMT

A must read for all developers.

NUnitEx : assertion.Should().Be.Fluent();

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:11:22 GMT

New features of NUnitEx (NUnit extensions for fluent assertions).

NUnitEx : actual.Should().EqualTo(expected)

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:39:56 GMT

Extensions working on-top of NUnit. The intention of the project is to be a "base-line" of a possible API implementation for NUnit3.0. As me, Charlie Poole, think that "to have the code available is different than few-words and with this project we can "test" the acceptance of a possible API based on .Net3.5" (the phrase is mine and Charlie simply said "great!").....

Alt.Net Podcast Episode 17: The State of Alt.Net

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:01:04 GMT

Mike Moore talks with Scott Bellware about the state of Alt.Net

My .NET Development Must-have Tool List

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 06:52:18 GMT

List of .NET Development Tools every developer should know.

Domain Driven Design, Business Objects, Datasets and NHibernate

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:16:02 GMT

Speed test comparisons between NHibernate and custom BOs and Visual Studio TableAdapters and Datasets

Learn the Basics Before Programming

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:46:16 GMT

Simone Chiaretta wraps up the recent discussion on the community about the controversy opinions of building a software that only works versus building the software that has a high quality. After that, the leaves his own opinions on this.

UTF8Encoding.Default != Encoding.UTF8 (.NET C#)

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:46:03 GMT

Explains why you should never use ASCIIEncoding.Default, UTF8Encoding.Default, UnicodeEncoding.Default, UTF32Encoding.Default or UTF7Encoding.Default! Never ever!

Time released content in ASP.NET

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:01:17 GMT

"While working on the PDC2008 website, we had several time-critical updates. There were some announcements that needed to go live on the website at specific times to coincide with other marketing, there were updates to the list of of software being given to attendees that needed to go live right after the keynotes in which they were announced, etc."

ALT.NET Seattle 2009 is Happening

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:02:17 GMT

If you attended ALT.NET Seattle least year, you might be wondering whether or not it's happening this year. I am excited to announce that we are actually going to host an ALT.NET Seattle conference this year. What: ALT.NET Seattle 2009. (The site is still being worked on. Thanks to Justin Bonozier and Shoshanah Bain for getting the site up). Where: Digipen (thanks to Jeff Tucker for lining up the space) When: Evening February 27th through March 1st. Registration: Opens this tuesday evening at 6PM. We're holding on registration to allow the word to spread. There will be a max of 150 attendees. Check the wiki on Tuesday for details.

Oxite: OpenSource CMS from Microsoft Built on ASP.NET MVC

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:16:18 GMT

Simone Chiaretta writes about the recent announcement by Microsoft Evangelist, Jeff Sandquist, about Oxite which is an open source CMS built by Microsoft as a showcase and sample for ASP.NET MVC.

Customized .NET Coffee Cup

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:06:25 GMT

You know you are a real geek if you made a coffee cup that resembles the technologies that you use everyday...

Run R# tests without switching to the mouse

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:07:57 GMT

How to run unit tests right from within your code without even using the mouse.

Get SOLID: Single Responsibility Principle - Karl Seguin

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:31:02 GMT

SOLID is a popular acronym that refers to a set of 5 important class design principles. Today I want to talk about the first part of SOLID: Single Responsibility Principle (SRP).

Code Contracts in C#

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:12:42 GMT

Nice write-up on code contracts with statical analysis for C# with VS 2008 and VS 2010.

Why Good Developers Are Not Getting 10 times the Pay?

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:31:02 GMT

The productivity gap between the good developers and the bad ones can be very huge. But why good developers are not getting significantly more than the bad ones?

Taking the Magic out of Expression

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:31:12 GMT

Concise introduction to expression trees.

Code generation using MS codename "Oslo", T4 VS and VS Custom Tool

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 02:16:16 GMT

This post shows how you can create your own language using M Grammar from Oslo SDK, create T4 templates that will generate code artifacts by parsing the output data graph created by M Grammar language parser and finally how to use Visual Studio Custom tool to make possible the generation of multiply artifacts for single DSL file and placing them under that file in Visual Studio files hierarchy.

beautyOfCode: jQuery Plugin for Syntax Highlighting

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:23:40 GMT

jQuery Plugin using the SyntaxHighlighter from Alex Gorbatchev, but with nice xhtml-strict-compliant code.

7 Steps To Shameless (Successful) Self Promotion

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:46:13 GMT

How do you get yourself known in the community and in the industry? Jeff offers 7 steps on how to get yourself out there.

DSL Tools, Software Factories and Oslo - Model-driven .NET

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:57:49 GMT

Suddenly, at least it seams so, Microsoft is excited about modeling. At least they joined OMG! Here the summarized current state as well as a lot of links to articles, people and webcasts arround dsl, software factories and codename "Oslo".

Top 10 Things That Annoy Programmers

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:46:03 GMT

Programmers all have their personal pet peeves. Whether it's scope creep, Hungarian notation, or smelly coworkers, there are certain nuisances that we must put up with in our line of work. The following is a list of the top 10 things that annoy programmers, compiled from the results of my recent question on StackOverflow along with some of my own experiences as a programmer:

The Request/Response Service Layer

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:54:10 GMT

A nice write up about how to architecture a service layer using request and response messages (objects).