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Find, Forgive and Forget Your Coding Indiscretions With NDepend

Microsoft developers hear a lot about tools that will make them write faster, more efficient, more refactored, more unit tested code all the time. People...

0 replies - 1791 views - 05/20/12 by Douglas Rathbone in Articles

How to Debug a Windows 8 Metro Secondary Tile

I've been working on Chapter 7 of my upcoming book, Designing Windows 8 Metro Applications with C# and XAML. This chapter focuses on tiles and toast...

0 replies - 1988 views - 05/20/12 by Jeremy Likness in Articles

Windows Phone Registration Issue Fixed For Devices Registered With a Different AppHub ID

Microsoft fixed a bug that was preventing phones that were unlocked under a different AppHub account from being re-registered with a new ID, unless the...

0 replies - 1706 views - 05/19/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

"Why I Hate Unit Testing"

The Telerik Blogs - Why I Hate Unit Testing "So you went to work for the cool company that wooed you with promises of cutting edge technologies...

0 replies - 1624 views - 05/19/12 by Greg Duncan in Articles

Update to Windows Phone Control Kit - ZuneCard

Zune API has been out there for a while – I documented it on Coding4Fun and even created a centralized project with all the known API calls. I like to keep...

0 replies - 1500 views - 05/19/12 by Den Delimarsky in Articles

Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Beta SDK Now Available

Visual Studio Gallery - Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Beta SDK The Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Beta SDK includes project templates, tools, tests, and...

0 replies - 1756 views - 05/18/12 by Greg Duncan in Articles

Microsoft MVC Best Practices

The ASP.NET MVC is becoming more and more popular each day.  As the application grows in size so does the maintenance nightmare.  Following are some...

0 replies - 3061 views - 05/18/12 by Merrick Chaffer in Articles

.NET 4.5 Baby Steps, Part 7: Regular Expression Timeouts

Introduction While the regular expression passing in .NET is damn fast, there are times where it can take too long for your needs. Until now there hasn’t...

0 replies - 1473 views - 05/18/12 by Robert Maclean in Articles

Simplify Syntax with Extension Methods

Extension methods were first introduced with LINQ in C#3.0. They are just a syntactic construct, but as we’ll see in this post they can make a huge...

0 replies - 2432 views - 05/16/12 by Anders Abel in Articles

.NET 4.5 Baby Steps, Part 5: Some More Interesting Blocks

Introduction We have seen the IDataFlowBlock, in three different implementations and now we will look at a few more. BroadcastBlock<T> In the...

0 replies - 2318 views - 05/15/12 by Robert Maclean in Articles

The Task: Async and Await in a Windows Runtime World

In my last blog post, I covered how to wrap your arms around the Task class and its relationship to the new async and await keywords. I mentioned that the...

0 replies - 2099 views - 05/15/12 by Jeremy Likness in Articles

Virtualization in WPF with VirtualizingStackPanel

First blogged about this on my previous blog site...

0 replies - 2744 views - 05/14/12 by Merrick Chaffer in Articles

Xamarin Designer for Android Now Avaiable for Visual Studio and MonoDevelop

betanews  - Xamarin Designer brings visual Android UX development to C#, .NET ".NET software development tool company Xamarin on Monday launched...

0 replies - 2094 views - 05/14/12 by Greg Duncan in Articles

Introducing Fog: A Library for Interacting with Azure from F#

Fog is a library that makes it easier to use F# to interact with Windows Azure through the Windows Azure SDK for .NET. It provides functions for many of the...

0 replies - 1716 views - 05/13/12 by Daniel Mohl in Articles

“Fitting” Performance into the Software Development Lifecycle

This is a short excerpt from Chapter 1 of Pro .NET Performance, scheduled to appear in August 2012. I might be publishing a few more of these before and after...

0 replies - 2307 views - 05/13/12 by Sasha Goldshtein in Articles