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NHibernate 2.0 is out

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:46:02 GMT

Directly from the blog of Ayende, NHibernate 2.0 is out!!

SQL Server 2008 Management Studio tip: Status bar Custom Colors

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:16:02 GMT

"Here is a handy tip for those of you who work often with multiple SQL Server instances: Custom Colors for the connection status bar."

Over 60 Free Controls from DevExpress

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:16:02 GMT

Once you register, you will be forwarded an Email with your login credentials to our product download portal. With this information in hand, you will be able to download and install all the controls and tools listed above free of charge. The applications you create with these controls can be distributed royalty free (see the EULA that accompanies the products for more information). Note that the installation you download will include evaluation versions of our entire product line. You can install these trials if you wish during the setup process. Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 are fully supported.

Skip lists are fascinating!

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:16:03 GMT

Skip lists are a fascinating data structure: very simple, and yet have the same asymptotic efficiency as much more complicated AVL trees and red-black trees. In this article, I discuss the asymptotic efficiency of operations on skip lists, the ideas that make them work, and their interesting use cases. And, of course, I give you the source code for a skip list in C#.

A TimeSpan editor for .Net

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:46:16 GMT

At last there is now an editor to enter a duration with the format you want and with the usability brought by Smart FieldPackEditor.Net. It can be used standalone, in the DataGRidView and in the PropertyGrid.

HydrogenCMS Released

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:16:02 GMT

The source for a new simple cms has been released using asp.net mvc.

ASP.NET MVC - Using Post, Redirect, Get Pattern

Fri, 09 May 2008 08:01:02 GMT

Moving away from the postback mindset and utilizing the Post, Redirect, Get pattern within ASP.NET MVC to achieve true separation and less chance of reposting form information.

LINQ to [AnyWhere]

Thu, 08 May 2008 15:02:09 GMT

Trying to create a compilation of all "Linq to something" projects ?

More Silk-style icons

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:46:05 GMT

Everybody's heard of the fantastic silky-smooth "Silk Icons" set from FamFamFam. This new set complements that original 1,000 png icon set with over 450 more of the same for use in Windows or Web applications.

ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 2): URL Routing

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:31:03 GMT

Last month I blogged the first in a series of posts I'm going to write that cover the new ASP.NET MVC Framework we are working on. The first post in this series built a simple e-commerce product listing/browsing scenario. It covered the high-level concepts behind MVC, and demonstrated how to create a new ASP.NET MVC project from scratch to implement and test this e-commerce product listing functionality.

The Gospel of the GUID - And Why It Matters!

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:16:03 GMT

There is only one commandment in the Gospel of the GUID: Thou shalt always use a GUID to uniquely identify a row in a table.

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.

Subversion via IIS

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:46:03 GMT

I have been working a few days on a solution to give access to an SVN repostory through IIS. I came up with a proxy handler between a working Apache environment and IIS. It works on http and https.

10 awesome Windows Live Writer plugins for developer

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 00:31:02 GMT

I've made this list of 10 plugins for Windows Live Writer. Some of these plugins will help beatify your published code, while others will help you create code archives or retrieve a link from MSDN.

More than 100 Web 2.0 Online Generators

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 09:31:02 GMT

Here the list of online generators specifically for web 2.0 design: enjoy it!

.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.

Essential Developer Productivity Tools List

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:46:06 GMT

After reading Scott Hanselman's Developer and Power User Tools List, I took inventory of my system and, surprisingly, found very little overlap. My utilities tends toward the developer productivity tools, the things that makes you lazy and make your life convenient.