How I’ve put my wife into SVN

published 14 hours, 11 minutes ago, submitted by AdrianAisemberg 1 day, 8 hours ago

sharpregion.com — SVN and TortoiseSVN are really great tools. It is a shame that these tools are used only by developers. I believe that every home should use SVN to keep track of it’s files. The problem is that these tools are planned for developers. Using the file-system in windows is not a trivial task for everyone. In fact, sometimes people tend to be afraid of it. Not only using the file-system, but also using some client application that does not even have a window? And where do I get an SVN server anyway?!? Keep reading. you might find it useful. read more...

2 comments | category: Products | Views: 367

Thoughts on IronRuby and .Net Testing

blog.logeek.fr — Today it’s very clear to me that the same thing is going to happen: IronRuby or IronPython will be used for most of the daily code, while C# will gradually serve as an infrastructure. read more...

add a comment | category: Unit Testing | Views: 5

Next-Generation Rich Client with Vidyano

published 5 days, 10 hours ago, submitted by Setsuko 5 days, 13 hours ago

vidyano.com — The Vidyano team just made the release candidate version of their next-generation in rich client software available. Applications build with Vidyano take advantage of technologies such as WPF, Workflow, LINQ to SQL, Entity Framework, Add-Ins, etc. Vidyano drastically reduces the complexity of these technologies by adding wizards, designers and custom tool generators to the Visual Studio environment. read more...

add a comment | category: Windows Presentation Foundation | Views: 433

Windows 7 Developer Guide

published 7 days, 5 hours ago, submitted by Jemm 9 days, 8 hours ago

code.msdn.microsoft.com — "Build applications on a solid foundation; enable richer application experiences; and integrate the best of Windows and web services. The features and technologies of the Windows 7 operating system enable you to build the next generation of software applications. Download this guide to read descriptions of those features and see vivid screen shots from the pre-Beta version of Windows 7 released at PDC. " [docx and xps -download] read more...

add a comment | category: Windows Forms | Views: 249

Using the CCR to Provide Robust Interaction With WCF Services

thevalerios.net — This post provides a complete implementation of a WinForms client calling a WCF service using Microsoft Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR). We were able to write clean code that correctly interacted with the UI thread giving us a fully-responsive UI, were able to cache the service requests by posting them into the wrapper’s input port, we NEVER blocked a thread while waiting for asynchronous I/O, and handled all failure conditions cleanly. read more...

add a comment | category: C# | Views: 6

Using Lucene .Net to index and search website content

submitted by sirrocco 16 days, 16 hours ago

akcedo.com — An elegant solution for adding content indexing and search in a .Net application. read more...

add a comment | category: Architecture | Views: 18

Testing is hard but debugging just sucks A$$

published 16 days, 5 hours ago, submitted by Jemm 18 days, 14 hours ago

devlicio.us — "At the users group I asked the question to the group 'who creates automated tests as part of their daily development cycle?'. After I asked this question I followed it up with, and if you don't WHY, WHY, WHY, WHY...... Below are some of the answers I received (btw, not the first time I have heard these reasons)." read more...

1 comment | category: Unit Testing | Views: 345

RadControls for Silverlight Official Release

silverlightshow.net — Telerik announced the official edition of their RadControls for Silverlight read more...

4 comments | category: Silverlight | Views: 210