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VS2008 Color Schemes

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:57:37 GMT

Very nice color schemes for VS 2008 for free, guy has also VS 2005 version and scheme for SQL Management Studio.

Gallery of Visual Studio Programmer Themes

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 05:16:02 GMT

Scott Hanselman gives us a fantastic run down of some of the best Visual Studio themes. This is the best consolidated list I have seen and there are screen shots with all of them.

December 16th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, VS, .NET, IIS

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:46:02 GMT

Scotts new links

Practical F# Parsing - Part 1, the Parse Buffer

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:16:03 GMT

A great first article on practical parsing with F#, demonstrating how to deal with a parse buffer providing the source of characters to be tokenized.

Free software projects need a pitch

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:01:03 GMT

Open source and free software projects still have much to learn from commercial software, the number one in my book being "the pitch"...

Code Metrics in Visual Studio 2008

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:16:03 GMT

Review of Code Metrics feature of Visual Studio 2008

Put your VS2005 Color Scheme into SQL 2005 Management Studio

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:28:59 GMT

A simple utility that will port your current Visual Studio 2005 Fonts and Colors settings over to SQL Server 2005 Management Studio. Great for those that like dark background!

Another Vibrant Ink Theme for Visual Studio

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:16:02 GMT

Rob shows off his new version of the version of the Vibrant Ink theme for Visual Studio.

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).

Microsoft and Zend taking PHP on Windows to the next level

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:31:03 GMT

Zend and Microsoft announce today that they will continue work on FastCGI and scalable PHP hosting on Windows Servers. Specifically, Zend has committed to redistribute FastCGI in Zend Core, its certified PHP 5 offering.

You got Boo in my Windsor!!!

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:16:06 GMT

Binsor combines the simple elegance of the Boo programming language with the power of the Windsor IoC framework. This post shows you how to get up and running with this technology in a matter minutes so that you can throw away those Windsor .config files forever!

The Future of BizTalk/WCF/WF

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:49:54 GMT

A look at what the challenges that a future BizTalk release with deep integration with WCF and WF might bring.

Behave# merges with NBehave

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:19:20 GMT

I am proud to say that Behave# and Morgan Persson's NBehave project have combined into one OSS project under the moniker of NBehave. We decided to keep the NBehave name because as Morgan kindly put it: "...it connects to the cousin framework(s) in other languages/technologies like RSpec/NSpec, JUnit/NUnit, Hibernate/NHibernate etc. so it would only be natural to have RBehave/JBehave and NBehave."

Rhino Mocks 3.2 has been released

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:32:29 GMT

Ayende released the famous Mocking-Framework RhinoMock v. 3.2. He says: "As you can see, there has been quite a few changes, most of them are bug fixes, but there are some new features." More at his post.

Validation in Monorail

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 04:31:52 GMT

A simple how-to describing all that needs to be in place to enable both client and server side validation using Castle Monorail

Keeping Developers Interested Beyond Daily Work

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:06:04 GMT

I got to thinking recently. Since I'm kind of just churning code lately without too many new or different things going on. I've taken to working on some side projects that I've come up with to make sure i'm staying current. This got me thinking about the question, "How does a company keep developers interested, intrigued, and in one place?" The software industry as a whole has a rather significant turnover rate, not because workers aren't treated well (sometimes they aren't) but because software developers often get bored.

Fixes for Common VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 Beta2 Issues

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 08:01:02 GMT

How to fix some common VS 2008 beta 2 issues

Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection with Castle Windsor II

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:16:02 GMT

Second article of a 4 parts series about IoC and DI with Castle Windsor Container. This article continues the discussion initiated in the previous one and tackles compulsory and optional dependencies, component injection and collections. Any feedback, questions, ratings are welcome and will be answered as soon as possible on the article page.

First Look at IronRuby

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:46:02 GMT

Over the last few years we've been working to make .NET and the CLR a great environment for dynamic languages. About 14 months ago we formed a dedicated group within my team that has been focused on adding richer CLR runtime support for dynamic languages, as well as delivering first class .NET implementations of popular dynamic languages.

Ruby.NET moves to open source community model

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:16:02 GMT

"As heralded previously, we are now ready to move to a new open source community model. While we at QUT will continue to be heavily involved in the project, we plan to transfer full control and ownership of the project to the open source community. To signify this new beginning, the new project will be named simply "Ruby.NET" (rather than "Gardens Point Ruby.NET") and a new licence agreement will be developed (by the community). A source code repository will be created external to QUT that will be directly assessable to developers in the community to make contributions."

Did Microsoft Violate TestDriven.NET's EULA in Enforcing Its Own EULA?

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:01:02 GMT

Phil Haack provides a useful analysis of the recent legal wranglings between Jammie Cansdale of TestDriven.NET fame and Microsoft.

Microsoft vs TestDriven.Net Express

Thu, 31 May 2007 02:01:01 GMT

Does TestDriven.Net violate Visual Studio Express EULA?

Expression Studio on MSDN today!

Sat, 26 May 2007 13:23:28 GMT

Expression Studio is available for Premium subscribers to MSDN Visual Studio Team Suite!

What you're not getting about Ruby and why it's the tits

Wed, 23 May 2007 14:46:01 GMT

A user named yesthatmcgurk left a comment on DotNetKicks where he/she said: I must be a complete loser, because I can't see where Ruby is such hot shit. I'd love to read a story, "What you're not getting about Ruby and why its the tits." Such a great comment that I had to get involved. One of the other commenters pointed to a post over on "Softies on Rails" that's really worth reading.

Is Microsoft Losing the Alpha Geeks

Tue, 22 May 2007 06:31:01 GMT

Scott Hanselman asks the question, Is MIcrosoft Losing the Alpha Geeks. To what? Ruby on Rails of course!