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Just Launch: .Net Developer Buzz Community Site

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:45:01 GMT

Bringing you absolutely fresh conversations about .NET and the Microsoft developer community.

Unit Testing Coming to a Workflow Near You

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:05:27 GMT

If you've been working with Windows Workflow, you'll find it has some cool features for orchestration, long running operations, state machines, etc. However you won't find very much support for Test Driven Development (TDD) or unit testing in general. In fact the architecture that makes Windows Workflow powerful (strict separation of workflow, activities, and the host for example) really gets in the way of unit test.

jQuery to ship with ASP.NET MVC and Visual Studio

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:01:03 GMT

Microsoft is going to make jQuery part of the official dev platform. JQuery will come with Visual Studio in the long term, and in the short term it'll ship with ASP.NET MVC. We'll also ship a version includes Intellisense in Visual Studio.

Philly .NET Code Camp 2008.3 - Registration Is Now Open

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:00:40 GMT

You can now register for Philly .NET Code Camp 2008.3 which will be held Saturday, October 11, 2008. Get all the details and register here. I will be there, presenting a beginner session on TDD as part of the ALT.NET track.

ClickOnce Deployment for Unmanaged Code (C++, VB6, etc)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:10:11 GMT

ClickOnce is a great deployment model for many Windows applications built with the .NET Framework. Too bad it isn't supported for C++, VB 6, or other technologies. Or is it... Surprisingly, you can deploy your unmanaged apps with ClickOnce. You just need a tiny .NET app to get it started.

Dynamic Data Access with LINQ

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:50:10 GMT

When I talk about LINQ people often ask whether it's possible to have dynamic queries with LINQ. An example of this is presenting the user with a UI that allows them to optionally filter by some criteria or other and sort by some criteria. This was straightforward if you built-up a SQL string in code. The compiled, static nature of LINQ makes this appear difficult at first. They are not and this video and sample application shows you how to accomplish just this.

Stop Polluting the UI Thread - Use a ThreadBarrier

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:01:10 GMT

A ThreadBarrier is a technique for simplifying the interaction between the UI and a worker thread. No longer do UI Controls need to check InvokeRequired and do the posting of events from a worker thread.

Commercial Skip and Instant Replay for Any Computer

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:47:55 GMT

This simple program allows you to add remote control, commercial skip, and instant replay functionality to any Windows computer - not just Media Center.

New Version of HarnessIt - a .NET Unit Testing Application - Available

Tue, 20 May 2008 13:53:33 GMT

There's a new version of HarnessIt - a .NET unit testing application that takes brings a different UI to the .NET testing world.

Still More on the ThreadPool Bug in .NET 2.0 SP1

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:34:17 GMT

There appears to be some confusion about this .NET 2.0 SP1 ThreadPool bug I found. Can you believe someone might be wrong on the internet? Maybe this will clear it up.

Top 5 Most Important Sessions from Mix 08 (with Video)

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:39:23 GMT

So who wouldn't want to curl up with a cold beer, a warm laptop, and a bunch of .NET presentations? That's what I want to know. But, maybe you don't have time to go through all 89 sessions? Don't despair, I'll distill them down for you.

Visual Studio Most Recent Files Utility

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:27:41 GMT

Manage your recent projects and solutions list for Visual Studio. Supports VS 2003, 2005, and 2008.

How DotNetKicks posts are being ripped off for other sites!

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:01:02 GMT

How posts from DotNetKicks are being copy-and-pasted wholesale into other sites. Is your hard work blogging just being stolen for other companies traffic?

Compile C# to Javascript!

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:01:03 GMT

Script# enables more productive Ajax application development by allowing you to compile your C# source code into JavaScript. It allows you to use standard .NET tools like msbuild projects, Visual Studio and IDE intellisense, reflector, refactoring tools, amongst various others.

ASP.NET MVC Source Code Now Available

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:31:03 GMT

Last month I blogged about our ASP.NET MVC Roadmap. Two weeks ago we shipped the ASP.NET Preview 2 Release. Phil Haack from the ASP.NET team published a good blog post about the release here. Scott Hanselman has created a bunch of great ASP.NET MVC tutorial videos that you can watch to learn more about it here....

Email Something Huge: Introducing the Big Mailer Utility

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:57:41 GMT

I often have to send large files around by email. For example, I had to email a colleague a 10 MB file. It seems a little rude to hit him out of the blue with a 10 MB email. I wanted something cleaner and less intrusive. So I created a simple utility I called "Big Mailer". I figured I'd blog about it and share it with the world. Feel free to use it as you see fit. This program consists of both a client and server piece that simplifies uploading content to your web site. Then the program gives you a regular web link you can send via email.

Breaking Changes in the ThreadPool: The Movie

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:28:59 GMT

More still on the .NET ThreadPool changes, a video.

.NET 3.5 Brings BREAKING Changes to ThreadPool

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:31:02 GMT

Things get more interesting with the .NET 2.0 SP1 ThreadPool.

.NET 3.5 Brings Major (Undocumented) Changes to ThreadPool

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:31:03 GMT

Interesting information about the new behavior of the thread pool in .NET 3.5.