Geek Food Drive

geekfooddrive.com — More than 35.5 million people in the United States and Canada will go hungry during the holidays. The Challenge: For all user groups to hold a food drive at their meeting this month. There is plenty of need, especially this year! read more...

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Why you REALLY need to think about your interfaces

brian.genisio.org — When you write your interfaces in C#, you might be casting them in stone. You REALLY need to think about how you write your interfaces. Avoid interfaces with concrete parameters such as Dictionary<> and List<> and prefer interfaces such as IDictionary<> and IList<>. Here is why! read more...

add a comment | category: C# | Views: 682

Visual Studio snippet designer

blogs.microsoft.co.il — Recently Microsoft released source code and compiled version of previously internal tool, that helps to create and manage code snippets in Visual Studio IDE read more...

add a comment | category: Visual Studio | Views: 306

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1

published 4 months, 28 days ago, submitted by johnrummell 4 months, 28 days ago

microsoft.com — It's finally here! I haven't seen an official announcement yet, but I did a search for "Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1" on Microsoft's Download Center and found the following downloads added today: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (exe) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fbee1648-7106-44a7-9649-6d9f6d58056e&DisplayLang=en Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (iso) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=27673c47-b3b5-4c67-bd99-84e525b5ce61&DisplayLang=en read more...

6 comments | category: Visual Studio | Views: 731

What's up with SQL Server 2008 Express editions

published 4 months, 30 days ago, submitted by wisemx 5 months ago

blogs.msdn.com — Microsoft has announced the release of SQL Server 2008 and that means it time for another post about SQL Server Express. The press release indicated that SQL Express is already available, but those of you who have followed the link have found that it is not actually there. Nothing to worry about, has a dependency on the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and we need to coordinate the release to the web for both of these which will take a few more days. I'll blog about it when we release it and you can watch the Express web site for updates; when we release it, it will be available from that site. There will be three editions of SQL Express, each one adding to the functionality of the previous one; you simply pick the edition that includes the set of functionality you need and install it. The information I posted about SQL Express RC0 is still valid, but I'm reproducing the feature comparison table here to include the third edition: read more...

add a comment | category: Database | Views: 353

Visual Studio Theme Generator

published 5 months, 1 day ago, submitted by dengar007 5 months, 1 day ago

frickinsweet.com — A fun little ASP.NET MVC Application I wrote to generate Visual Studio themes based off of 3 given colors. I have always felt that selecting every color to make a decent theme is way too repetitive. This web application automatically chooses complements / contrasts based off your initial color selections (and uses jQuery to let you preview your theme before creating). Check it out and let me know what you think. read more...

2 comments | category: Other | Views: 441

Animated Collapsible/Expandable BlogEngine.NET Widgets

kvnc.net — A sample solution for Animated Collapsible or Expandable Widgets in BlogEngine.NET read more...

add a comment | category: ASP.NET | Views: 138

How to migrate dasBlog to BlogEngine.NET

kvnc.net — Reasons and migration steps from dasBlog (old and handy) to BlogEngine.NET (new and shiny) read more...

add a comment | category: ASP.NET | Views: 110