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55 Free High Quality Icon Sets

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:53:41 GMT

A lot of freebie icons. Another great article from Smashing Magazine

MVC Storefront Part 16: Membership Redo With OpenID

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:46:02 GMT

Robs new Screencast - the focus in this screencast is the membership system.

How to Generate an RSS Feed with Argotic

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:16:03 GMT

A short screencasts walking you through how to generate an RSS Feed with Argotic RSS framework.

Newspaper - a free theme for BlogEngine.NET

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:01:03 GMT

Newspaper is a free, lightweight, high-contrast, black&white theme for BlogEngine.NET. The name "Newspaper" comes from the fact that theme looks like real newspapers. You can see how does it looks like and download a free copy.

Very nice.. We need more people talking about fluent APIs!

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:58:07 GMT

Excellent content...

How to Generate Public Classes for Resource Files

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:16:02 GMT

Notice that when you add a resource file, there is an automatically generated class with properties issued from the resources elements, so you can call this class properties instead of using the ResourceManager. The only problem with this class is that its properties are marked as internal and thus can't be accessed externally

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 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....

MoQs Rox

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:09:15 GMT

My first impressions of the MoQ object mocking framework... Hell, my impressions with the first mocking framework I've ever used. tl;dr: Niiiiiice.

Setting up a Project for Source Control

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:01:08 GMT

Short screencast on setting up your Brownfield project for Source Control

Using GIT with CodePlex

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:16:12 GMT

Blog post by Ayende Rahien on using GIT with CodePlex through a combination of git-svn and SvnBridge.

Ranting and Raving or Getting Results?

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:16:07 GMT

Josh talks about the recent Vote of No confidence and offers up some advice for those wanting to see change.

Design Patterns - Strategy Pattern

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:35:29 GMT

An informal explanation of the Strategy Pattern, using a simply strategy game as an example, class diagrams and code samples included.

Foundations of Programming Ebook

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:46:04 GMT

Covering the basics of good programming.

DelegateMarshaler - Replace Control.InvokeRequired and Control.Invoke

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:46:02 GMT

This is the third revision of the ThreadBarrier implementation that simplifies UI and worker thread interaction. This implementation (DelegateMarshaler) supports the original thread encapsulation concept as well as provides capability for replacing Control.InvokeRequired and Control.Invoke.

Microsoft PM responds to Entity Framework "petition of no confidence"

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:46:08 GMT

Tim Mallalieu tries to explain the EF situation - basically he says, "we'll try to do it in the next version" when responding to Entity Framework critics

Get Vista to Boot faster

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:16:02 GMT

Great trick to use all your processors

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.

Alt.NET Podcast Episode 5: Dependency Injection and Inversion of Contr

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:46:11 GMT

Part one of a two part discussion with Nate Kohari and Brad Wilson on Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control containers.

Remove the most annoying Visual Studio shortcut - F1

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:45:07 GMT

Have you pressed F1 in Visual Studio? Did you wait a couple of minutes cursing it? I did. And I found a cure, a very simple cure - remove the F1 shortcut.

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.

List of Silverlight Games on Mashooo.com

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:01:00 GMT

I decided to compile my finds on search keywords "Silverlight Games" for my own selfish personal enjoyment but realized it could be of great use to other curious spirits.

Look at Xaml Samples and write your own!

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:44:20 GMT

You can find a good XAML sample library here.

Ninject 1.0 Goes Gold at Discord&Rhyme

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:46:16 GMT

Ninject, an excellent Dependency Injection Framework with support for Silverlight, the compact framework, and all regular flavors of .NET just hit 1.0.

Keep your .config clean with external config files

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:01:19 GMT

The web.config (or app.config for non-web applications) file is the central place to configure your web application, starting from connection strings, over application settings to ASP.NET specific topics like caching, authentication & authorization, sessions as well as HTTP handlers and modules. Normally the web.config starts as a neat little pet you can easily manage. But as soon as your project grows mature, web.config turns out to be a huge beast. This article shows you a way to tame the beast.