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Kaxaml 1.0 released

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:46:03 GMT

Kaxaml is a deluxe XAML editor, with syntax highlighting, auto-completion, the ability to save to an image file, plus other cool features

Custom Debugger Visualizers

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 04:06:26 GMT

Custom debugger visualizers are a little known feature of Visual Studio which allow you to write your own visualization for any datatype which you can imagine. Here is the DLL and accompanying source code for a visualizer for both images and the whitespace of strings.

.NET Framework 3.5 Is Shared Source

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:46:25 GMT

Microsoft's .NET Framework 3.5 is going to be released open source.

Utilities.NET 1.0 released

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:46:02 GMT

Utilities.NET is a collection of helper classes and components for quickly solving common .NET programming tasks.

How to Become a better developer (webcasts)

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 13:01:32 GMT

Microsoft Canada will be hosting a 5 session webcast about becoming a better developer and better managing your career.

Content-Aware Image Sizing - WOW

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:46:02 GMT

Cool video I found on YouTube about a software that resizes images with an content-aware algorithm. Must see...

The Code Project Browser Add-in for VS 2005

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:46:02 GMT

The people from SlickEdit have created a great add-in to let you integrate the very very large collection of projects directly from Code Project just inside your VS IDE.

Don't rely on obfuscation

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:31:02 GMT

A white paper demonstrating the weaknesses of managed code obfuscation known protection techniques

.NET Data-Parallel Library that Targets GPUs

Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:57:50 GMT

Did you know you can use the power of the GPU to process data in .NET? A new Microsoft research project allows you to do just that.

How secure are your applications?

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 04:50:06 GMT

Short post about application security and thread analysing using Microsoft Threat Analysis and Modeling tool.

Getting with it: Test-Driven Development

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:53:40 GMT

Excellent tutorial on getting started with Test-Driven Development.

Snooping WPF applications

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:46:02 GMT

Short Introduction to Snoop - a utility to browser WPF applications at runtime.

19 Eponymous Laws Of Software Development

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:31:02 GMT

My favourite - Hofstadter's Law: "A task always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law."

Feed to Podcast - Simple Converter

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:01:55 GMT

Open-source and simple C# application to convert any RSS feed to Podcast audio files. Mainly WPF and Speech API.

Using SQLite in .NET

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:31:01 GMT

Simple and understandable guide for those eager to use SQLite in .NET.

Regionerate, a Code Layout tool for C#

Sat, 07 Jul 2007 02:01:01 GMT

A cool product for automatically generating and laying out your code into regions.

15 Visual Studio .NET Add-Ins you won't live without

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 04:16:01 GMT

From the console compiler to the powerful Visual Studio IDE, .NET is just about coding as much as the tools. For that matter, here's a list of 15 indispensable VS.NET add-ins.

How to get started with Silverlight Sreaming

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 05:18:00 GMT

Quick guideline on how to start hosting and sharing content on Silverlight Streaming

Family.Show: Cool Open Source WPF Reference Application

Thu, 24 May 2007 09:12:51 GMT

?If you want to learn a new technology, there's no better way to go about it than to pore over the source of a real application. Nine months ago we commissioned Vertigo Software to create a reference sample for WPF and Windows Vista, and at MIX we unveiled Family.Show to the world. This application is beautiful both as source code and as running software - and it's free to download. Dr Sneath sat down with Scott Stanfield, Alan Le and Paul Osburn to find out more about how they built the application and the lessons they learnt in creating it. Check out the MIX session too!

DotNetKicks to be Open Sourced

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:16:01 GMT

As the community on DotNetKicks.com has grown in size over the past year, I have received received many offers of help with adding features and many requests for the source code. Due to other top secret commitments, I have recently not had as much time as I would have liked to continue the development of DotNetKicks.com. A discussion on DotNetKicks last week re-highlighted the issue of feature stagnation (the community is continuing to grow just fine). We are in the business of solving problems, and the best solution here is to open source the project. I had planned to release some code this past weekend, but some of the current dependencies include code that I don't wish to release. I am currently refactoring the dependencies, and I will be able to release some code very soon. Please shout it from the roof tops, we need all the contributers we can get.