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Best C# Web Sites

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:46:02 GMT

Best C# sites active on the Web today.

Visual Studio 2008 New Multi-Threaded Debugging Feature

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:16:02 GMT

An overview of some of the new multi-threaded debugging features in VS2008.

NDepend

Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:31:01 GMT

NDepend analyses .NET assemblies of an application and generates reports containing design quality metrics, warnings and diagrams. The VisualNDepend tool allows analysing all these data thanks to an interactive view. Such view can be tuned according to numerous software metrics. Currently free until september

Tiny Trick For ViewState Backed Properties

Thu, 10 Aug 2006 04:01:01 GMT

Describes how to use the null coalescing operator to write cleaner ViewState backed properties.

Optimizing Rendered Page Size - Part 2

Tue, 08 Aug 2006 18:46:14 GMT

A second article describing how you can go about reducing the size of the page that is sent to a client.

A must-have ASP.NET Controls pack

Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:31:02 GMT

A very useful collection of ASP.NET controls that I'm using on a daily basis. The collection includes controls such as an ImageCheckBox and an ObjectDataSource. A must have :-)

Sumatra PDF Viewer for .NET?

Tue, 08 Aug 2006 23:31:01 GMT

There's a new version of Sumatra, Krzysztof Kowalczyk's open source PDF Viewer for Windows. It's an incredible accomplishment, and a great example of the value of open source software.

VB.NET and C# comparison cheat sheets

Tue, 08 Aug 2006 08:31:02 GMT

Some comparison cheat sheets for VB.NET and C#

LiteBoxAlbum: Autogenerate LightBox-like photo albums

Mon, 07 Aug 2006 04:01:01 GMT

Yesterday I posted about how I created a couple ASP.NET web controls to make it easy to generate a photo gallery using the LiteBox library. Ok now I have to make a confession, that was only a step to achieve something much more useful, an automated LighBox-like image slideshow!

Reflection and Attributes from O'Reilly's Programming C#

Tue, 08 Aug 2006 11:31:01 GMT

"Throughout this book, I have emphasized that a .NET application contains code, data, and metadata. Metadata is information about the data--that is, information about the types, code, assembly, and so forth--that is stored along with your program. This chapter will explore how some of that metadata is created and used."

ASP.NET Best Practice Analyzer

Sun, 06 Aug 2006 17:31:01 GMT

The alpha release of the ASP.NET Best Practice Analyzer was about 5 weeks ago. Similar to the popular SQL Server BPA, the ASP.NET BPA evaluates a set of best practice rules and tells you about configuration problems in your applications. The tool checks both machine level and application level config files.

C# Equivalent of SQL Coalesce

Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:31:01 GMT

This blog post describes the use of the null coalescing operator.

NDbUnit - Database Testing

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 20:31:02 GMT

NDbUnit is a .NET library for putting a database into a known state. NDbUnit may be used to increase repeatability in unit tests that interact with a database by ensuring that the database's state is consistent across execution of tests. NDbUnit does this by allowing the unit test to perform an operation on a dataset before or after the execution of a test, thus ensuring a consistent state.

Do more with a DataTable and improve performance

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:31:02 GMT

There are some features in the System.Data.DataTable class that a lot of developers doesn't utilize. I base that statement on different code samples I've seen on blogs and article bases during the last couple of years. Some of these features can improve the performance.

Using .NET Code to Set a Windows Service to Automatically Restart

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 23:31:01 GMT

How to programmatically ensure that a windows service always restarts if it fails

Prototype Window Class : Introduction

Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:22:32 GMT

This javascript class allows you to add window in a HTML page. This class is based on Prototype. The code is inspired by the powerful script.aculo.us library. You can even use all script.aculo.us effects to show and hide windows if you include effects.js file , but it's not mandatory. It has been tested on Safari, Camino, Firefox and IE6.

UIZE JavaScript API

Sat, 29 Jul 2006 23:03:10 GMT

Nice Javascript library

Introducing CaptainHook - A Subversion Hook Framework For .NET

Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:01:01 GMT

A really nice set of hooks to tap into SVN events using .NET

IronPython 1.0 Release Candidate

Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:01:01 GMT

Microsoft has shipped the release candidate for IronPython 1.0 -a project that implements the dynamic object-oriented Python language on top of the CLI

Determining which method called me...

Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:31:01 GMT

Using the stack trace to find out the caller.

The Demise of NDoc and A Challenge For Users Of Open Source Software

Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:01:02 GMT

A summary of the unfortunate demise of the NDoc 2.0 project. But more importantly, it is Paul Haack's eloquent appeal to developers to do their part and contribute to the open source projects which make their lives much easier.

Phalanger - the PHP Language Compiler for .NET Framework

Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:31:01 GMT

Extends the .NET language family with PHP version 5, Enables creation of ASP.NET applications made of existing PHP scripts, Compiles PHP scripts to achieve a significant speed-up of application execution, Provides .NET application developers with all the PHP libraries, Integrates the PHP language into Microsoft Visual Studio .NET

MSDN library now free on Microsoft.com

Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:01:02 GMT

need i say more?! Gentelmen: Start your downloaders!

Scriptable CSS

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:11:41 GMT

How to enable ASP.NET script markup in a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) file and why you would want to do it.

.NET 1.1 to .NET 2.0 Migration

Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:31:01 GMT

Peter Laudati answers common questions on how to migrate .NET apps from 1.1 to 2.0. Includes a link to a PPT presentation based on the post.