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Community Convergence XXXII

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:13:18 GMT

Welcome to the thirty second issue of Community Convergence. I write these posts to keep you up to date on the latest information from the C# team. The biggest news right now is probably not C# specific, but nevertheless lots of my fellow team members have been excited to see that a Windows 2008 Release Candidate is available for download. Note that further down in the this text I call out a post from Scott Hanselman on this subject.

PostSharp - A Post-Compiler for .NET

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:16:02 GMT

PostSharp is a platform that allows you to transform or analyze your .NET assemblies after compilation. It reads binary assemblies into memory, execute a suite of plug-ins and write back the modified code. Geat tool for Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP).

IIS 7.0 Hits RC0 - Lots of cool new IIS7 Extensions Also Now Available

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:01:02 GMT

Scottgu blogs about the IIS 7.0 RC0 release

10 Usability Nightmares You Should Be Aware Of

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:31:02 GMT

Usability mistakes that you will want to avoid.

DotNetKicks Google Analytics Stats for All

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:16:02 GMT

I want DotNetKicks to be as transparent as possible and would like to share the real-time google analytics reports with anyone who want them. Send me your google username if you would like access - gavinjoyce@gmail.com.

DotNetKicks Widget via JQuery and new JSON Api

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:16:02 GMT

A screen cast that details how you can place this widget on your blog/site and display your most recent kicks - My Recent Kicks widget. Code available to download.

.NET 2.0 Data Structures

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 06:31:02 GMT

The .NET 2.0 framework includes many data structures that go unnoticed by many developers. Additionally, there are very powerful data structures that are not part of the base class library, but are very efficient when used in the right situation. This is a great article that (re)demonstrates a very important topic that many of us have forgotten since college.

How to design a Fluent Interface

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:16:02 GMT

How to design Fluent Interfaces and why it's important to know about this pattern.

Reverse Engineering with Reflector and Reflexil

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 18:31:01 GMT

I've always been a big fan of Reflector, allowing me to have a look in assemblies to learn new things, debug in case of problems and provide useful information when creating bug reports. Combined with the Reflexil Add-in it's now easy to also modify assemblies yourself.

String Concatenation vs Memory Allocation

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:46:02 GMT

Over the years, plenty has been written about string performance, lots of comparisons between String.Concat and StringBuilder. Today I decided to do some of my own research into the subject and contribute to the knowledge already out there. More specifically, I'll be taking a look at the memory usage for various concatenation methods.

11 Visual Studio 2005 IDE Tips and Tricks to Make More Productive

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 08:01:02 GMT

Here are 11 tips and tricks for getting things done faster with the Visual Studio 2005 IDE (without using third-party add-ins or upgrading hardware...). Yes, some of these tips and tricks may fall into the "obvious" category, but I think they are worth repeating. Thee are too many .NET developers not taking advantage of even the basic time-saving techniques.

Agile vs. Traditional Development Cost Models ...Maybe

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:16:01 GMT

A comparison between Agile and Traditional development

Free ebook : Threading in C#

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:16:01 GMT

It has been updated since the last time it was posted here. Available in HTML and PDF.

Why is .NET getting its ass kicked in social media?

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:01:02 GMT

Maybe I'm just not looking hard enough, but does it seem like .NET is getting blown out by PHP, JAVA, and even Ruby in terms of presence in social media outlets?

Performance consequence of DateTime.Parse()

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:01:01 GMT

This post explains the performance cost of using DateTime.Parse() and goes on to explain a possible solution.

VS 2008 will Treat HTML, CSS Validation issues as Warnings

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:16:02 GMT

You can have your error list only contain VB/C# code-related issues, and not be cluttered with a lot of markup problems.