An Adobe partner have announced a new plug-in allowing .NET developers to develop Flex applications from within Visual Studio

Sooner or later everyone needs to mess up with batch file Voodoo for some reason

Re-applying CSS to the DOM with IE6

Ryan plugs his Gravatar library into MVC in order to create a HTML view helper for building gravatar images.

Today IIS team has made the URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 Release To Web (RTW) available for download. This is a final, production-ready release that is officially supported by Microsoft.

You may have already read Justin Van Patten's post about the upcoming breaking changes to the String class for .NET 4.0. This change will affect the behavior of the String.StartsWith, String.EndsWith, String.IndexOf and String.LastIndexOf methods by changing them to perform an ordinal (byte-for-byte) comparison by default instead of a culture-sensitive comparison using CultureInfo.CurrentCulture. In addition, the default overloads of String.ToUpper, String.ToLower, Char.ToUpper and Char.ToLower will be changed to use CultureInfo.InvariantCulture instead of CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.

The software architecture of a program or computing system is the structure or structures of the system, which comprise software components, the externally visible properties of those components, and the relationships between them

In case you missed it: Microsoft released the second part of their support tools for jQuery in Visual Studio this week. The second part comes in the form of a hotfix for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 that provides built-in support for –vsdoc.js files to – when present – automatically provide Intellisense support in Javascript documents. In combination with the recently released jQuery Intellisense file that Microsoft released you can now very easily get jQuery Intellisense in Visual Studio.

DSkinLite is a powerful gui library to help you develop the user interface program. And we use dskinlite in our current project, so we will optimize it continually. It is a "lite" gui library,and use the xml file to describe how to skin a window.

Well, Windows 7 is going to be released by the end of next year. This is great news, because it seemed, that Microsoft finally understand how to get the best of Windows Vista and make it to work not only on monster machines.

Ryan Lanciaux discusses a class for retrieving Gravatar images -- this class was mainly written to facilitate using Gravatar with ASP.NET MVC.

We’ll probably never know (at least until Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz blogs about it). But the new deal, announced on November 10, between Sun and Microsoft is ironic, if nothing else, given the twisted history between the two over Java.

Small Basic is a project that's aimed at bringing "fun" back to programming. By providing a small and easy to learn programming language in a friendly and inviting development environment, Small Basic makes programming a breeze. Ideal for kids and adults alike, Small Basic helps beginners take the first step into the wonderful world of programming.

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Cloud computing and mult-core systems may mean changes to how we code. Even Microsoft says so. In the fifth part of a series on the topic, we look at parallelism....

Despite the fact that many developers would welcome more rendering-engine compatibility, anyone expecting Microsoft to switch out its “Trident” engine and replace it with WebKit in Internet Explorer (IE) — especially in IE 8 — is misguided.

Well, I am a programmer so here’s my take. There are two main issues: a simple problem with describing a set of CPUs to run on, and a more complicated problem with lock contention. Let’s look at the simple one first.

Yesterday, I have posted one article regarding finding out text differences, I got many mails on the same for that I would like to thank each and everyone for taking out your valuable time and letting me know about more useful tools in the web market. Adding to my previous article which I have posted yesterday, today I would like to share one more free-ware tool which compare directories or individual files very easily, and thanks to “Rich” for sharing this to me. And I would like to say this tool is awesome enough, the name of the tool is “WinMerge“,WinMerge is for windows only, it has got more features like Visual differencing and merging of text files, Flexible editor with syntax highlighting, line numbers and word-wrap, Handles Windows, Unix and Mac text file formats, Unicode support etc., detailed description of respective features has been depicted below: more at: http://www.developersnippets.com

This article walks you through the steps to build an application from scratch on the recently released Windows Azure CTP, Microsoft’s answer to cloud computing.

This article explains you new features of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008.

Addressing a developer conference in Sydney Australia, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the idea of using WebKit as the rendering engine within its web browser was "interesting" and added "we may look at that."

Decrease Coupling Increase Cohesion Eliminate Inappropriate Intimacy The Law of Demeter Tell, Don't Ask Say It Once and Only Once Wrapping Up Much of software design involves the ongoing question, where should this code go? I'm constantly looking for the best way to organize my code to make it easier to write, easier to understand, and easier to change later. If I structure my code well, I'll go on to fame and glory. Structure it badly, and the developers who follow me will curse my name for eternity.

Thoughts on the language-oriented sessions at the PDC 2008 conference, including Anders Hejlsberg and others. The Future of C#, and a panel on The Future of Programming Languages, and the common themes, trends, and issues that were discussed and debated. Included are links to the videos of the actual sessions.

Part 1 of Becoming a ReSharper Samurai - A short video on how to use various features of ReSharper to make you a better, faster coder.

This article explains 50 New Features of SQL Server 2008