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55 Free High Quality Icon Sets

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:01:02 GMT

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

39 Free Microsoft eLearning Courses

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:46:02 GMT

39 Free Microsoft eLearning Courses

Most Useful 50 CSS Tips

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:31:02 GMT

A useful page that provides a nice listing of various CSS tips, tricks and tools.

UI design patterns library

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:46:02 GMT

Very cool site which shows give you ideas about visual presentation for misc elements of user interface

Windows Communication Foundation - 65 Links to make you an expert!

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:31:02 GMT

Windows Communication Foundation - 65 Links to make you an expert!

stylizedweb.com - Most used CSS tricks

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:01:02 GMT

Earlier before I have written an article about current best CSS hacks which you can see here And now here's the list of today's most used CSS tricks - tips. I have added image examples for most of them because of critics on CSS hacks article. If you think I have missed any please let me know.

Three levels of extension methods

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:46:02 GMT

Some tips for building up C# 3.0 extension methods to solve problems, from wrapping static framework classes, to creating missing methods, to performing business logic validation.

Building a LinkedIn Style Address Book with the ListView and LinqDataS

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:16:02 GMT

Another great article from Matt Berseth about building a LinkedIn style address book

Find stored procedure parameters - SqlCommandBuilder.DeriveParameters

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:11:53 GMT

Next time you want to find the parameters used by a stored procedure, check out the use of SqlCommandBuilder.DeriveParameters.

Do You Really Need A Distributed Architecture?

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 06:46:02 GMT

Does the question sound rhetoric to you? Do you think the answer is "Yes" by default these days? Think twice. Ask yourself the questions below. You may change your mind at the end.

Top 10 Best Practices for Production ASP.NET Applications

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:01:02 GMT

A list of some things to pay attention to when dealing with production ASP.NET applications.

Put Down the XmlNode and Step Away From the StringBuilder

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:31:02 GMT

Demonstrates the easiest way of generating and parsing Xml available in the .net framework. No more XmlNodes and no more CleanStringForXml custom utility functions.

Best VS Fonts and Settings EVER

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:46:02 GMT

Okay the title is a bit over the top :) Recently I was playing around with the vs settings after reading Scott Hanselman's article on black/white IDE colors and came up with this. Take a look and let me know what you think. Maybe it will be your new color scheme in VS...

HowTo: SubSonic Introduction

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:16:02 GMT

SubSonic introduction with examples

Source Control and Continuous Integration On The Cheap

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:16:02 GMT

Setup source control (Subversion via VisualSVN Server) and a continuous integration environment (JetBrains' TeamCity) in less than 3 hours!

OpenID implementation in C# and ASP.NET

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:01:02 GMT

Interested in adding OpenID to your .NET website?

How to check email works with no SMTP

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:01:02 GMT

Testing code that sends email has always been a pain. You had to set up a SMTP service just to test that your .NET application sends the e-mail correctly...

Scott Hanselman's 2007 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tools

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:01:02 GMT

Scott's fantastic list of essential tools updated for 2007

VS2005 C# Code Snippet Cheat Sheet

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:01:02 GMT

Here's all the built-in Visual Studio 2005 C# Code Snippets on one single page for easy printing and reference.