Below is a screencast that shows how to debug an application using the new 'Go To Reflector' functionality in TestDriven.NET2.0. I'm using Grant Drake's NCoverExplorer as a target for the debugger. Once attached I use Reflector to view one of the loaded modules. I then set a breakpoint on the AboutDialog's OnLoad method. The first time I open the ...

It's been a popular debate since the inception of .NET, if C# is better or VB.NET is better as a programming language.And for whatever be the reasons and the differences between the borh , the debates have always concluded with the note that "It's the developers choice.'This is one documents that details the differences well ...

After nagging about it for a long time, it seems Microsoft finally understood that getting a hotfix for VS.NET 2005 was too cumbersome for a lot of people (outside the US, calling PSS isn't a picknick). So they decided to start a pilot program to see if downloadable hotfixes will make a difference! It's on MS Connect, so you've to have a MS ...

PowerShell exposes some pretty cool features via XML files, such as custom formatting and type extensions.The only problem I see right now is that those XML files have no namespace whatesoever. That may sound useless to you, but it's the very reason why you don't get ANY intellisense/validation support for those files from withing Visual ...

I'm going to be presenting on Custom Providers in ASP.NET at the November 6th meeting of the Atlanta Cutting Edge .NET User Group. This is pretty much a repeat of my session at the 2006 Atlanta Code Camp, but I keep getting lots of requests for it. The primary goal is to introduce ASP.NET custom providers and discuss why you should care about ...

Scott did an awesome job last night at the North Dallas .NET User Group. He started with a great Tips & Tricks talk and finished with a talk on LINQ.The Tips & Tricks were great, lots of little cool features that are in .NET but most people don’t know about as well as some sweet new AJAX functionality and controls. He then went into ...

Posted at Ardent Dev by Derek Hatchard (Go directly to post): I'm pleased to announce that Mike Mullen and I have launched a new developer-oriented podcast / netcast. The first show just went up a few hours ago: Show notes for the nameless developer podcast Download the MP3 Until we come up with a catchy name, the shows are being posted at ...

I was discussing debugging of Javascript on one of the ASP.NET Ajax forums recently and thought I'd share how I go about it, as you'd be surprised how many people are unaware of this capability. Note: This only discusses getting the debugging process going, not other debugging techniques such as using tools like Fiddler and others... Scenario: A ...

Ayende has a great post on building webapplications (with a dash of TDD) using the Castle RC2 release, some things stand right out here in that testability and patterns are baked right in (with the VS projectssupporting this structure).

We recently had this question posted to our forums over at LVS: Dear Forum Experts: I am looking for very specialized solution: I have various Items which I store into a table in a Relational DB.I would like to do a custom calculation, specific for each item at it's instance. Because the calculation is specific for the item, and items are soo many ...

A nice new source of practical and advanced information on building Click Once deployments has been developed by Brian Noyes for the MS Patterns and Practices team. Here is the description blurb: Deploying client applications with ClickOnce requires a lot of procedural steps to accomplish and there are many variations in the way development ...

Scott gave a whirlwind presentation to a standing room only crowd at the North Dallas Dot Net User Group tonight. A wide range of topics were covered from IDE tips and tricks to ASP.NET tips to MS AJAX to LINQ and DLINQ (I still like to call it DLINQ rather than LINQ to SQL). I'm still not sure how all this got packed into a little over 2 hours. ...

Just released!Visual Studio 2005 IDE Enhancements are a set of Visual Studio extensions that are designed to make you more productive. These enhancements are directly integrated into the Visual Studio IDE. This set of enhancements includes Source Code Outliner, Visual C++ Code Snippets, Indexed Find, Super Diff and Event Toaster tools. All these ...

Some time ago Sonu Kapoor, webmaster of dotnetslackers.com, asked me to write an article about my Visual Studio add-in GhostDoc.It took me some time to find an empty spot in my busy schedule, but the article is now finally online. It is an introduction to GhostDoc that may be interesting for those who haven’t tried GhostDoc yet and would ...

Three sessions will be presented by Jonathan Cogley and John Morales of Thycotic Software at the WinProTeam User Group meeting in Vienna, Virginia tonight. Theme: Data Access Strategies for your .NET Development 1. ADO.NET Interfaces and how to be database agnostic Ever wanted to support Oracle and SQL Server for your software product? We will ...

I'm happy to announce that Excentrics World Server Controls has hit version 2.0.3. This version focuses primarily on Microsoft AJAX Extensions, Beta 1 support enabling developers to utilize the Excentrics World Server Controls through a compatibility layer. The full change-list is as follows: Full compatibility with Microsoft AJAX Extensions, Beta ...

Rob Howard asks "Which is more difficult?"Steve, if you liked the "Writing Maintainable Code over Architecting for Reuse and the Future" part of Jeremy's manifesto, you'll love Rob's post.

Don't forget, if you're in Dallas (or within a couple hundred miles) be sure not to miss Scott Guthrie's talk at the North Dallas .NET User Group!

Looking through the slides from Mono Meeting2006 and while looking at Miguels I noticed an announcement for asub projectcalled Olive. This looks like a Mono support for WCF andWCS, quite cool to see.

I will be presenting some of the work I did for the patterns & practices Mobile Client Software Factory. It's been very fun to work on that project, and I plan to share as many tips & tricks on how the amazing Orientation Aware Control does it magic as attendeeds dare to ask ;-). After doing extensive research, I think this control is ...