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A Programming Job Interview Challenge #5 - Records Sorting

Mon, 26 May 2008 14:01:02 GMT

This post is the fifth in the series of programming job interview challenge. How to sort records with not enough physical memory?

Microsoft Source Analysis for C# Released

Fri, 23 May 2008 18:31:14 GMT

From post: "Source Analysis is similar in many ways to Microsoft Code Analysis (specifically FxCop), but there are some important distinctions. FxCop performs its analysis on compiled binaries, while Source Analysis analyzes the source code directly. For this reason, Code Analysis focuses more on the design of the code, while Source Analysis focuses on layout, readability and documentation."

A Programming Job Interview Challenge

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:31:02 GMT

Recently, I ran into an interesting job interview question in C++ which I want to share. Lets take a look at the following code...

Standalone Silverlight Applications (Moonlight)

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:16:03 GMT

"Last year we created a framework to run Silverlight applications as native applications. At the time we called those applications moonlight desklets. The desklets are Silverlight applications that run in standalone mode, with full access to the entire Mono API stack (as opposed to be limited to the .NET subset for the web) and that can optionally render without frames."

Finding a C# library to decode MP3's

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:46:02 GMT

Mp3Sharp bills itself as being able to "decode MP3 Files natively in .NET using a Managed application written in C#." Perfect! And it does just that. It's pretty darn easy.

Silverlight and Firefox 3

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:46:03 GMT

A post on the status between Silverlight 2 beta and Firefox 3 beta. (Hint: Beta + Beta = Crash)

The Linq let keyword

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:31:07 GMT

Make your Linq queries more readable using the "let" keyword.

Visual LINQ Query Builder - VS 2008 Add-In

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:31:02 GMT

Visual Linq Query Builder helps you create Linq to SQL queries for your programs

.NET Developers: Recommend Your Favorite Open-Source Projects

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:31:02 GMT

VSLive speaker Jeffrey McManus is asking .NET developers for help with recommendations on their favorite open source tools.

February / March 2008 Recap - Jon Galloway

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:46:02 GMT

Good recap of the last two months for developers

Is It Possible? .NET Applications for iPhone?

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:31:09 GMT

It seems that soon we will be able to write .NET applications for the iPhone

Pash - cross platform PowerShell

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:16:15 GMT

Pash is a portable PowerShell implementation written using pure .Net 2.0. It compiles on VS 2008 as well as on Mono. Provide a rich shell environment for other OSes, as well as a hostable scripting engine for rich applications. The user experience should be seamless for people who are used to PowerShell on Windows.

An IronRuby Digg Client

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:55:59 GMT

A port of the article by Scott Guthrie: A first look at silverlight 2 With all the code written in IronRuby and xaml.

Drag and drop from explorer window - component

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:52:12 GMT

Shows how to add drag and drop functionality from the Windows shell (Explorer) to a Windows Forms project using a free component.

Free subversion + wiki at assembla.com

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:09:11 GMT

A tip if you are looking for a free SVN hosting.

Observations on VS2008, .NET v3.5 after four months

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:26:18 GMT

"I'm happy to say that my experience in production has been mostly positive."

The importance of System. Environment.NewLine

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:46:03 GMT

When using \r\n can screw you!

Using Linq to access the file system

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:32:50 GMT

A quick sample on how to use Linq to access the file system.

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.

Using the Observer Pattern

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:01:04 GMT

This article walks through a C# example of implementing the Observer design pattern using an interesting video game example

Mike Snow's Silverlight Blog

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:01:02 GMT

Blog containing a tutorial series on developing a game using Silverlight. Hot!

Getting Started with WPF

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:13:25 GMT

Strategy and links to get started with WPF as quickly as possible without drowning in the massive amount of content available.

Regular Expression Generator

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:31:08 GMT

Generate regular expressions from sample text input

Anders Hejlsberg Film Festival: The C# and other VSL Teams at the Movi

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:10:48 GMT

It's a bit rainy and snowy today in Redmond. What an excellent time to curl up by the fire and watch a movie! Here are some suggestions.

Novell Introduces MonoDevelop 1.0 and also Releases Mono 2.0 Beta

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:37:28 GMT

Mono 2.0 beta supports C# 3.0 (minus LINQ to SQL) and most of Windows Forms.