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BlogEngine Theme:Vertigo2

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:19:53 GMT

New BlogEngine Theme

7 of my favorite jQuery plugins for use with ASP.NET

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:46:04 GMT

Seven of my favorite jQuery plugins to use with ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX, based on my own successes and failures using them over the past year and a half.

Object Oriented Programming With JavaScript

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:01:03 GMT

In this article we are going to take an introductory look at how OO JavaScript works. I am going to assume you are familiar with Object Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts such as encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism.

SQL Server 2008 - Cheat Sheet - One Page PDF Download

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:31:02 GMT

Very frequently I have been asked to create a page, post or article where in one page all the important concepts of SQL Server are covered. SQL Server 2008 is very large subject and can not be even covered 1000 of pages. In daily life of DBA there are few commands very frequently used and for novice developers it is good to keep all the important SQL Script and SQL Statements handy. I have attempted to create cheat sheet for SQL Server 2008 most important commands. User can print this in one A4 size page and keep along with them. This can be used in interviews where T-SQL scripts are being asked. Let me know your opinion and if you find this useful. Bookmark it for future use.

Clean-Up JavaScript sources Using JSLint from within Visual Studio IDE

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:33:22 GMT

Jason Diamond shows how to integrate JSLint (http://www.jslint.com/ by Douglas Crockford) into Visual Studio so that one can interactively clean-up JavaScript sources of common pitfalls without ever leaving the IDE.

Ideavine - An open source hosting project

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:01:03 GMT

Nate Kotahri and James Alveri has launched a new open source hosting service for .NET. it's currently hosting only two projects, Subtext a famous open source blogging engine and NInject, a dependency injection framework.

Visual Studio Snippet Designer

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:16:23 GMT

Matthew Manela, an engineer on our Online Tools team, has created and released a free, community-based tool called the Snippet Designer. His tool is a Visual Studio add-in that allows you to create and edit snippets from inside the IDE.

More Efficient SyntaxHighlighter

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:31:02 GMT

No more preloading SyntaxHighlighter when you don't need the scripts. I used the power of jQuery to dynamically load only the necessary brush scripts.

Windows Mobile Twitter Client - Quakk goes Open Source

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:01:49 GMT

If you're interested in participating with the development of Quakk or just want to have a poke around in the code, then you can download the source from Code Plex.

Visual Studio Snippet Designer Released

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:47:17 GMT

"The Snippet Designer was started as an intern project of mine during the Summer of 2006. The idea was to make snippet files (which were introduced to Visual Studio in 2005) a first class entity. Following this idea I created a Visual Studio plug-in which included an editor for snippet files and a search tool window to find snippets. The plan then was to release it on Codeplex but when my internship ended the project was forgotten about."

Visual Studio snippet designer

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:46:02 GMT

Recently Microsoft released source code and compiled version of previously internal tool, that helps to create and manage code snippets in Visual Studio IDE

Google Chrome updated to run Silverlight

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:46:03 GMT

Chrome latest build was released under the Developer chain, an alternative release cycle which let you update to interim builds of Google's Internet Browser, for testing purposes. On this post you will find an early review of the update which truly is an improvement to the beta release, check it out and get yourself switched to the Dev chain.

StackOverflow

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:16:04 GMT

StackOverflow - - is in public beta.

CodePlex launches support for TortoiseSVN

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:01:03 GMT

No longer do you need to host SvnBridge yourself, or use the Team Foundation Client or the CodePlex client. Now you can use your favorite SVN client and connect directly to your repository!

StyleCop was just released!

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:31:02 GMT

StyleCop was just released! A tool that does all the styling for you in VS 2008 and 2005. It helps you adhere to styling guidelines and standards of your Code. It is a Great tool.

Subversion Support Comes to CodePlex. Sorta'

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:01:02 GMT

A little publicized feature lets you use Subversion to access project hosted on CodePlex - without the need to run SvnBridge locally!

What if it's not in Environment.SpecialFolder?

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:31:02 GMT

The correct way to find the location of system folders not listed in Environment.SpecialFolder.

IPhone UI with Silverlight 2 beta 2

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:16:16 GMT

It's been quite a while since Microsoft has introduced the Beta 2 release of Silverlight. There are plenty of Silverlight enthusiasts who are passionate about this cross-platform browser application programming. They've already given us some useful and eye catching applications. Some applications have given us the feel that this is the future of web programming. I'm a great follower of WPF. In fact I've always been and will be. Silverlight has many things in common with WPF but also many different things missing, being a subset of WPF. For the last couple of days I was thinking about creating some eye-catching, innovative user interface but something common, something people have already seen. The idea was converting an existing user interface which was written using another platform, and of course using WPF.

Lutz Reflector now owned by Red Gate

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:01:05 GMT

Lutz Reflector, the free .NET disassembler every developer developer should have, has been purchased by Red Gate software. Red Gate has stated they will continue to provide the tool for free.

Easily build powerful client-side AJAX paging, using jQuery

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:31:14 GMT

An in-depth example of using jQuery to build client-side paging, including progress indicators, to page into any server side data source that can be JSON serialized by ASP.NET AJAX.

URL Rewriting Extension For BlogEngine

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:01:37 GMT

Get control over your URLs with this BlogEngine extension.

Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:16:02 GMT

Customers and partners worldwide confirm mission-critical applications, enterprise-class data warehousing support.

Maintain Browser History with AJAX

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:08:11 GMT

The article aims at understanding History Points in AJAX that allow the browser to keep track of AJAX steps and therefore move through them using forward and backward buttons.

Dependency Injection at a Glance

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:39:22 GMT

In the course of experimenting with the new MVC release for .Net, I stumbled across a post on the ASP forums where someone was explaining his approach to architecture using MVC. In reading further, I found that he was using dependency injection; a reusable design pattern presumably brought to .Net from Java world.

Visual Studio Item Templates

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:46:03 GMT

Sometimes we are using the same patterns of code over and over again. Those of us who are lazy (but smart) will create their own code snippets, if you are not familiar with this subject, read about how to create code snippets easily. But what if we need to create lots of classes with the same pattern? Code snippets may not be enough because they lack of some functionality which is needed to achieve our goal.