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Logging with Castle Windsor, the Logging Facility and log4net - Casey

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:42:00 GMT

Good info on hooking in Logging with Castle and Log4Net.

Austin DDD Book Club wrapped up - Jimmy Bogard

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:35:46 GMT

Talks about a book club on DDD that was started up in Austin and its benefits.

ScottGu: Unit Testing with Silverlight

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:16:02 GMT

One of the important capabilities we shipped with the Beta1 release of Silverlight 2 was a unit test harness that enables you to perform both API-level and UI-level unit testing. This testing harness is cross browser and cross platform, and can be used to quickly run and verify automated unit tests.

VB.net, oh how I hate thee, let me count the ways...

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:01:02 GMT

A developer who is forced to work in VB.net finally hits the tipping point. Oh, and that developer is me.

No, They Can't That Away From Me.

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:01:04 GMT

JP at CodeBetter with some interesting ideas about information sharing in the workplace.

ASP.NET Repeater, Templates, Whitespaces and Visual Studio » Advanced

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:20:55 GMT

Blog post talks about how when using a repeater control you may run into extra spaces in the <separatortemplate> element. For example, a list like "a, b, c" would appear as "a , b , c". Seems to be a problem with parsing of the aspx file content. Good read, helped me figure out what was wrong with my repeater.

TDD vs. Design discussion

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:16:01 GMT

Blog entry from JP Boodhoo about when to use UML diagramming and how it fits in to the TDD/Agile paradigm. Good read.

LINQ to SQL tutorial series

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:46:01 GMT

Tutorial by Scott Guthrie of MS on some new features of the .NET Framework 3.5 and Orcas.

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Source Code Released

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:16:01 GMT

From Scott Guthrie - "As I mentioned last week when ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 shipped, we are publishing the full source code to the ASP.NET AJAX product. This includes the source to the server-side ASP.NET integration (including the UpdatePanel, UpdateProgress, and ScriptManager controls, as well as the source to the Network Serialization code). The client-side ASP.NET AJAX JavaScript library (which we also call the "Microsoft AJAX Library") is being released under the Microsoft Permissive License (Ms-PL). This grants developers the right to freely customize/modify the library, as well as to redistribute the derivative versions of the JavaScript library for both commercial and non-commercial purposes. "

Visual C# 2005 Keyboard Shortcut Reference Poster

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:16:01 GMT

This poster contains the default keybindings for Visual C# 2005, and is available as a PDF download in either color or grayscale for you to print.

How to Enable MS Ajax Extensions v1.0 on an existing site

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:01:01 GMT

Jay Kimble updates his popular Ajax How to

SVN + Visual Studio Pluggin + HostingPlayground == Keeping your source

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:31:01 GMT

If you're like me, and you do a lot of little/not-so-little projects on the side, you've started noticing that you're getting quite the source library started. And if you're like me, you also occasionally have the nightmare about your hard drive crashing before you get that chance to back your source up to a CD/DVD or whatever else you keep backups on.

Nothing But Net - A .Net Developer Bootcamp

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 11:10:46 GMT

Great new course by J.P. Boodhoo. He mentions that if there is enough interest in varying areas of the US that he would take it on the road. Please comment or contact JP if you're interested. I would love to get something going in the DC/Hampton Roads area of Virginia.

MS Releases VPC Image for Running IE6 & 7 simultaneously

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 04:31:02 GMT

Microsoft has recently made Virtual PC 2004 a free download; we 've taken advantage of that by releasing a VPC virtual machine image containing a pre-activated Windows XP SP2, IE6 and the IE7 Readiness Toolkit to help facilitate your testing and development.

TabStrip within ASP.NET 2.0 - Building a Composite Control

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:01:02 GMT

A WebForms TabStrip control.

A web developer's browser

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 01:31:02 GMT

Sweet browser tool to check page size etc in an instant...

TDD Anti-Patterns

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:01:01 GMT

While not being entirely constrained to dot net, the article gives a useful set of anti-patterns for determining when your TDD smells bad.

Performance of foreach vs. List.ForEach

Sat, 07 Oct 2006 08:01:02 GMT

Today I was iterating a List<int> using a foreach-loop and feeling a bit smug in knowing how much more performance-conscious I was being than if I'd tried doing the same thing with an ArrayList filled with ints. Thanks to the wonder of generics, the C# compiler neatly avoids numerous boxing operations by using a System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerator<int> instance instead of the older System.Collections.IEnumerator. Then I got to thinking: "is this really the fastest way?" Upon investigation, it turns that, no, it isn't the fastest way.

Model View Presenter mutated: Observable View

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:01:01 GMT

One of my crusades of the past year has been to break myself and my team of the habit of embedding domain logic into the code-behinds of our ASP.NET pages...

Good Agile, Bad Agile

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:01:02 GMT

An interesting perspective on the good and bad of agile methodologies.