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ScottGu and his team strike again

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:31:04 GMT

ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and Web Deployment Project for VS2008

De-crapify your code base with AOP using PostSharp

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:01:02 GMT

How to remove all the code thats irrelevant to what your trying to do, to make your code base easier to grok.

MSSQL SERVER 2008 New Features for Developers

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:31:02 GMT

MSSQL SERVER 2008 New Features for Developers

An Architectural View of the ASP.NET MVC Framework

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:31:03 GMT

Dino Esposito introduces the ASP.NET MVC framework.

ASP.Net MVC Framework - Exception Handling

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:16:05 GMT

How to handle exceptions with ASP.NET MVC Framework

Visual Studio 2008 RTM available for download

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:46:03 GMT

MSDN subscribers can now download final RTM version of Visual Studio 2008.

"Click to Activate" in IE going away!

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:01:03 GMT

Update for IE to be included in Vista SP1, XP SP3 and standalone update available starting in December.

3 hot uses for HttpContext.Current.Items "They" won't tell you about.

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:16:02 GMT

HttpContext.Current.Items, arcane enough to give you guru-cred to the mid-range noobs, simple enough that it can be leveraged for good and / or evil. Awesome. 3 Tips for using it that aren't entirely obvious.

5 Reasons why SubSonic is Better than Sliced Bread

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:16:02 GMT

Toast your bread before you put gravy on it. Use SubSonic in your applications.

SonicCast - Validation and Customizing Validation

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:16:02 GMT

he topic of this SonicCast is validation, and I cover validation functionality provided by SubSonic, customizing SubSonic generated classes via partials and discuss how I customized SubSonic in my own attempt in emulating the Django/Rails validation style by implementing the open source .net Validation Everywhere project.

Rhino mocks - Some common scenarios

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:31:02 GMT

Part 2 of the Rhino mocks examples explaining a few of most common mocking scenarios

Version Control and "the 80%"

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:16:03 GMT

Ben Collins-Sussman, one of the original designers and developers of Subversion, discusses the challenge to keep Subversion simple yet practical.

Developer Notes For the ASP.NET MVC Framework

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:01:02 GMT

Review and sample code for the MVC framework. See how your projects and code will look like.

DesignByContract with Fluent Interfaces

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:16:04 GMT

I was reading through some blog posts and through a recent post, stumbled across this one from Bill McCafferty and took a look at the DesignByContract CodeProject article. This is just a simple utility class to pass in assertions and get an exception to be thrown with a message if the contract has been violated.

OSI Approves Microsoft License Submissions

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:16:02 GMT

The Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) and the Microsoft Reciprocal License (Ms-RL).

Crazy talk: Inline scripting and code-behind

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:01:02 GMT

Rob Conery says it's time to reconsider inline script in ASP.NET.

Writing custom LINQ provider

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 05:01:02 GMT

In this post, I will show how to create a sample LINQ provider.Creating LINQ provider can be far more complex, but here I will demonstrate the very basic one to start...

What Subversion 1.5 has in store for you?

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:01:02 GMT

It's been long time and we keep hearing a lot about Subversion 1.5. I am a bit curious and tempted to see what actually it has to offer us.

Want to Help Shape Multiple Monitor Support in Visual Studio 10?

Sat, 13 Oct 2007 09:31:02 GMT

Here's a chance to give your ideas on features that would make multiple monitor support awesome in Visual Studio 10 (after VS2008) - before product plans are set.

Uncommon C# Keywords

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:01:02 GMT

Everyone knows the basic C# keywords, but some are more obscure. This article dives into some useful C# keywords that you may have yet to encounter.

Watin Testing Pattern

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:31:02 GMT

Really nice approach for writing integration tests with WatiN.

ScottGu MVC Presentation and ScottHa Screencast from ALT.NET

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:31:09 GMT

Scott Hanselman talks about the conference and links to Silverlight videos of his presentation and Scott G's presentation on the new Model View Controller.

Boot vista from a flash drive

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:31:02 GMT

Detailed step by step to create a PE version of Vista that boots from a flash drive. Awesomeness.

Top 5 Application Security Vulnerabilities in Web.config Files

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:46:02 GMT

Top 5 Application Security Vulnerabilities in Web.config Files

Microsoft's MVC Framework for ASP.NET

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:59:49 GMT

Scott Guthrie announced last weekend at the ALT.NET Conference that an ASP.NET Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework is in the works. Some of the planned features reported: