.NET & Windows

In The Brain of Mike Hadlow - Rhino Mocks and Automocking

Mike Hadlow talks about Rhino Mocks, which is currently the most popular Mock Object Framework for .NET. The talk focuses mostly over the new features that...

1 replies - 1348 views - 05/07/09 by alashcraft in Videos

Top 10 Open Source Projects for .NET Developers

There are many useful, practically essential, open source solutions available to .NET developers. This is a list of the ones that have been the most useful in...

1 replies - 9385 views - 05/04/09 by alashcraft in Articles

Top 10 .NET Twitterers

Or is that Tweeters? Twitter has become a fantastic tool for me to keep up with what's going around in the developer communities. It all comes down to...

0 replies - 4345 views - 04/28/09 by alashcraft in Articles

Why You Should Upgrade to .NET 3.5

A pathology I’ve noticed in many large organisations is inertia in failing to keep up with recent versions of development tools. It’s not uncommon to find...

0 replies - 1741 views - 04/07/09 by mikehadlow in News

LINQ and The Matrix – Introducing MLinq

Today we’ll take a look at project “MLinq”, a very simple way to perform symbolic matrix calculations based on LINQ expression trees.   ...

0 replies - 712 views - 02/11/09 by bdesmet in News

XAML Guidelines and Best Practices

Everyone has their own opinion on how source code should be structured and formatted.  What really matters when it comes to code is not saving the CPU a...

0 replies - 1038 views - 02/10/09 by cschuman in News

Back to Basics – Zip in .NET

In today’s post I’m going to share a problem I solved this week. The solution was to use the framework’s System.IO.Compression namespace and the...

0 replies - 578 views - 02/09/09 by gilf in News

How to use Ninject with ASP.NET MVC

By default, the ASP.NET MVC framework instantiate controllers calling their default constructor. This makes using Dependency Injection impossible. But, as...

0 replies - 1602 views - 02/06/09 by Simone Chiaretta in News

How Do We Measure Maturity In Software?

When I saw a post by Jeffery Palermo entitled “Is Classic WebForms More Mature Than ASP.NET MVC?” I immediately thought “Aha! I know exactly what he...

0 replies - 1109 views - 02/04/09 by justin_etheredge in News

Building a WPF Application: Part 3

Application Architecture I'm going to back up and bit discuss my overall approach to structuring this WPF project. So far the solution consists of four...

0 replies - 1253 views - 02/03/09 by bennage in News

Building IronRuby with Mono on OSX

IronRuby comes in 2 flavours of SCM and apparently also with 2 flavours of project layout. I spend most of my time on the mac and I wanted to be able to...

1 replies - 833 views - 02/03/09 by casualjim in News

using - There’s More There Than You Are Using

If you’ve spent more than a day programming in CSharp, you have already discovered the need for the using directive: using System; using...

0 replies - 783 views - 02/02/09 by DaveMBush in News

Managed Preview Handlers

To set context, a preview handler in Windows Vista and/or Outlook 2007 is a component that provides a preview window for a specific file type (or set of file...

0 replies - 756 views - 01/29/09 by sashag in News

.NET Fireside Chats - Brad Abrams and Krzysztof Cwalina

DZone recently had an opportunity to sit down with Brad Abrams and Krzysztof Cwalina, authors of 'Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and...

0 replies - 3564 views - 01/27/09 by alashcraft in Articles

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate

As Scott announced a few minutes ago, finally ASP.NET MVC 1.0 went to Release Candidate stage and the first and most likely the only release candidate build...

0 replies - 602 views - 01/27/09 by keyvan in News