.NET & Windows

Video: Facebook .NET Programmers Group XNA Session

The recordings for the session I gave on XNA Game Studio 3.0 and the XNA Framework to the Facebook .NET Programmers Group have now been posted.  In this...

0 replies - 644 views - 06/25/09 by peekb in Videos

Windows API Code Pack 0.90

Incredibly, I haven’t got a chance to blog about the Windows API Code Pack yet – even though it’s been out on MSDN Code Gallery for a couple of months...

1 replies - 719 views - 06/15/09 by sashag in News

Video: Typemock Basics Tutorial - Lesson 2

Typemock Isolator "Decorators" feature allows you to extend the current testing framework with custom attributes, regardless if you are working...

0 replies - 541 views - 06/12/09 by alashcraft in Videos

Very simple IronRuby MVC sample application

Over the weekend I wrote a very simple task list application with IronRuby MVC and LightSpeed as an OR/M.  And I’ve just put a demo live. This demo is...

0 replies - 591 views - 06/10/09 by casualjim in News

The Coding4Fun Show – Ep 1 with Andy Beaulieu

The very first episode of my new Coding4Fun Show is now up on Channel 9.  This is a show I plan on doing monthly, interviewing developers creating fun and...

1 replies - 420 views - 06/09/09 by peekb in News

Video: Typemock Basics Tutorial - Lesson 1 (Part 2 of 2)

An introduction to using Typemock Isolator to break a constructor dependency and working in static methods. This is the second part of lesson 1 in the series....

0 replies - 587 views - 06/08/09 by alashcraft in Videos

WCF defaults stifles loose coupling

This is another post (<Rant>) about WCF default behavior and how it can make the life of developers miserable ( you can also check out “WCF defaults...

1 replies - 861 views - 06/08/09 by arnonrgo in News

AJAX Usage Among .NET Developers – 2009 Edition

Back in December 2007, Simone published an online survey about the usage of AJAX technologies among the .NET developers and after a short while, shared its...

2 replies - 989 views - 06/03/09 by keyvan in News

Video: Typemock Basics Tutorial - Lesson 1 (Part 1)

 An introduction to using Typemock Isolator to break a constructor dependency and working in static methods.  

0 replies - 579 views - 06/02/09 by alashcraft in Videos

Survey: Ajax usage among .NET developers in 2009

In December 2007, taking inspiration from a survey promoted by Ajaxian, I created a survey to understand in which environment .NET developers are using Ajax,...

0 replies - 384 views - 05/22/09 by Simone Chiaretta in News

Caricature ready for beta

The last couple of days I’ve been getting Caricature to a more releasable state. The code got a thorough cleanup and refactor. Caricature now knows how to be...

1 replies - 341 views - 05/20/09 by casualjim in News

db4o - A Q&A with Refcard Co-Author Eric Falsken

In coordination with the recently published db4o Refcard, DZone had the opportunity to chat with its co-author, Eric Falsken, a technical evangelist on the...

5 replies - 2407 views - 05/14/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News

Microsoft MEF Q&A with Hamilton Verissimo de Oliveira

I recently had an opportunity to bounce a few questions off the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) team at Microsoft. Hamilton Verissimo de Oliveira was...

2 replies - 3290 views - 05/12/09 by Aslam Khan in Articles

8 Essential Applications

The past couple weeks I got two new computers.  That means twice the installation fun.  On my main computer, I installed Windows 7 Beta along with all my...

0 replies - 1179 views - 05/11/09 by cschuman in News

XYZ Is Bad For Performance

After learning about the performance characteristics of .NET Reflection, you might be tempted to say that “Reflection is bad for performance”.  Roughly...

0 replies - 532 views - 05/11/09 by sashag in News