.NET Tools
I don't see the WebMatrix as the smartest path to learning more enterprise web frameworks, skills and tooling IMHO.
Hard to beat Adobe Fireworks for both vector and bitmap editing for general web graphics design.
Q2 Update of Telerik's Extensions for MVC has additional "controls"!
While we are on the subject of browsers, Safari 5 supports extensions now and you can build them yourself using HTML 5, CSS 3, and Javascript!
Firefox 4 Beta has better support for HTML 5 and CSS 3.
JetBrains has released its beta version of a .NET Code Coverage Tool. These guys are rockin' with new product releases!
Looking forward to SQL Server CE 4, but let's not forget the wonderful SQLite!
For Web Developers interested in developing database-driven websites using the Microsoft Stack, you may be interested in a new web development tool by Microsoft, called WebMatrix.
The NoSQL discussions in the .NET Developer Community really have me thinking. Realizing more and more how valuable and amazing the OSS community really is!!
In case you missed it, LightSpeed 3.1 now has Visual Studio 2010 support. Hands down a fantastic O/R Mapper!
These are a steal at the introductory price. Check out the latest IDE's from JetBrains! Inexpensive, unbloated, and feature-rich!
NDepend v3 Released. If you are interested in code quality and code metrics, I highly recommend checking out NDepend!
LLBLGen Pro Version 3 Released.
Download the Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010.
Unity 2 and Unity 2 for Silverlight have been released on Microsoft Downloads. Thanks to those who attended my presentation last night!!
Both have been released as RTM.
MSDN Subscribers can download Microsoft Office 2010.
SQL Server 2008 R2 Released!
Interesting announcement from Microsoft yesterday.
Just found this today as I need to get some PHP apps on Apache over to a Windows Server.
Download the Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 separately.
Released same day as Visual Studio 2010!
Adobe updates Dreamweaver CS5.
New Service Pack Released.
April 22nd for those interested.
MonoTouch 2 supports iPad.
Using this in production now for a client website. We will see if it makes an impact.
Seems like a neat Visual Studio 2010 Add-In.
An updated version of SubSonic was released.
The RTM release of the IIS URL Rewriter.
Lots of good resources coming out of Mix on Windows Phone Development.
Web Platform Installer came in handy this past week.
Interesting tool for simple development on the Mac.
JetBrains rebranded their developer IDE's as WebStorm and PhpStorm.
The IIS SEO Toolkit throws a number of violations that can easily be fixed or ignored when analyzing your websites. Don't despair :)
Quick tip to showing the developer tools.
Microsoft just released version 0.8.
JetBrains is churning out a lot of IDE's lately. I wonder what is next.
Having a bit of fun with Espresso and PHP Development on the Mac. More learning than anything else.
A handful of Enterprise Library 5 DAAB Tutorials. Some interesting changes.
Microsoft updated their All-In-One Code Framework with various samples for the .NET Developer.
Still in public preview but looks promising.
Using Mercurial Version Control System now on a small client project. Here are some handly links for those interested in getting started.
Another option for integrating Twitter into your applications.
Free PDF reader for Windows.
For those of you leveraging Microsoft Office in your applications.
Don't really need to pay for it if you don't want to.
ReSharper 5 beta has been released.
Noticed it was temporarily pulled from Microsoft Downloads when about to download.
Nice improvement to the tool.
Can't wait to try this out.
Lots of really nice changes in LightSpeed 3.0!
A handy tool if you have nothing else for creating a bootable device.
Neat Windows Shell Extension...
Develop Bing Applications.
Don't forget to check out the online gallery of extensions for Visual Studio 2010.
Open source solutions to help you with those wirings and customizations in ASP.NET MVC.
Handy tool for viewing model returned by service point.
131 Code Snippets you may be interested in.
Another tool on the market from Telerik.
New Version Just Released!!
A new product from the Mono Project.
A new release to the SDK and Tools.
Updated version of Paint.net released.
For those looking to build websites that interact with maps.
Looks like a mighty useful extension for IIS 7.
Updated version just released.
Noticing more developers developing Facebook Applications.
Worth checking out if you are looking for components for your ASP.NET MVC projects.
Caliburn 1.0 was released earlier.
ReSharper 5 nightly builds have initial support for VS2010 beta 2.
A couple of great blog posts for those getting started.
Got this working this morning using a few test scenarios. Spend more time with it later.
A list of new features in JetBrains ReSharper 5.0.
Recently updated and placed on CodePlex.
VMware Fusion 3.0 coming on October 27th!!
Cool new program for independent web developers.
A walkthrough of the AntiXss 3.1 sample application.
Adds a couple of new methods to sanitize input.
Oren announces the release!
Handy open source tool while playing with SQL Azure for the first time last night.
A new release and nice screencast on the new features.
Great news for the NHibernate Development Community...
This is just cool for those of you doing PHP.
Changed my Twitter Client on the Mac to Tweetie!
Cool library for accessing Twitter in your applications.
Got everything up and running on Windows 7 and VMware Fusion 2 on Apple MacBooks.
Busy week mentioning 3rd party control vendors and ASP.NET MVC.
Example of retrofitting ASP.NET Webform Server Controls in an ASP.NET MVC Website.
Love this tool! A new release.
Jump on this deal folks!! It is normally $995.
I used to use Vault for my personal needs all the time.
I love Aspect-Oriented Programming :)
The NHibernate Development Team is on a roll!
New maintenance release available.
Really looking forward to Windows 7!!
NHibernate 2.1 was officially released! Check out some other NHibernate Resources as well...
For those looking for UI Controls...
Playing with AutoMapper Formatters...
Latest version just released.
Grab the recent release of this O/R Mapper.
Spark View Engine released as 1.0!
A less invasive Entity Framework as an add-on to the .NET Framework 4.0.
Really enjoy using Cucumber and RSpec for Rails Development. Inspiration for ASP.NET MVC Development.
For those of you with better things to do before now :)
Nice interview with the lead developer of RubyMine.
If you are interested in Rails development, check out JetBrains RubyMine! Awesome Rails IDE!!
JetBrains released ReSharper 4.5.
This came in so handy today.
Officially available to the public!
Depending on the situation, template-based code generators can be invaluable...
Nice tool from the developers at Mindscape to administer SimpleDB.
Subtle changes in identity key generation for entities can give you that added boost of performance in your O/R Mapper...
Let's look at eager loading using the LightSpeed O/R Mapper from Mindscape as we discuss O/R Mapper performance tips and techniques.
Microsoft should have provided this with .NET 3.5 SP1...
Small businesses need a hand up...
Good way for children and adults...
A tip on improving NHibernate Performance...
Macworld gives Fusion an eddy award if that means anything to you.
Simple example of creating a pie chart.
Finally installed the new version.
Must have utility for converting those home movies on dvd.
Still in beta but perhaps worthwhile...
Just released as a release candidate...
An example based on a request from a reader.
Now that LINQ To SQL is dead...
Don't forget about downloading the recent release.
I mentioned a similar solution on CodePlex earlier.
The profiling tools have been updated.
I always like these kinds of tools.
Seems like there is a toolkit for everything now :)
I love mentioning free stuff!
Congrats to Jeremy on the release of StructureMap 2.5!
A nice gift from Microsoft.
A reminder on this very cool open source project to help you with such tasks.
And the hits keep coming this week!
A wee bit closer to some trial downloads...
Just noticed a new drop of Unity today.
Come out to the ASP.NET MVC Firestarter Event in Tampa on November 17th.
All that time spent learning jQuery pays off more than I imagined :)
I stand corrected. Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 sounds better than I previously thought.
Another update to the EF POCO Adapter.
I am waiting for the free trials to become available to see if the upgrade is worth it.
Huge number of new features to make switching to a Mac easier than ever!
Download it sometime next week.
It's a real bummer that new ReSharper releases screw up xUnit support.
Red Gate released ANTS Profiler 4.
JetBrains Releases ReSharper 4.1!
Nice NHibernate Wiki with several chapters on learning NHibernate and O/R Mapping in general!
Download the latest AJAX Control Toolkit to support .NET 3.5 SP1.
UrlScan assists with SQL Injection Attacks on your Websites.
CodeSmith 5.0 is currently in beta 2.
A free WPF DataGrid Control from Microsoft.
VMware Fusion has a handy way to mount ISO Disk Images.
Install works fine in all environments, but those with SP1 Beta need to run the Service Pack Preparation Tool.
Download ANTS Profiler v4.0 Beta.
A new beta version of VMware Fusion is released.
The Microsoft .NET Micro Framework 3.0 Beta has started.
Visual WebGui was recently released as version 6.1.
Subsonic 2.1 was released with a number of new features to help with those database-driven ASP.NET websites.
I converted a few of the screencasts to the iPhone ( m4v ) Format using Camtasia. In the future I will get better at this.
LLBLGen Pro has optional LINQ To SQL Templates to generate LINQ To SQL Classes.
As someone who has written a simple O/R Mapper - Hayden.ActiveRecord - I can tell you that writing a simple, opinionated O/R Mapper is easy and fun! But...
You just don't see such great documentation and guidance from other open-source projects :)
Check out Developer Express' AgDataGrid Suite currently in beta 1.
The new LightSpeed 2.0 O/R Mapper adds a sweet Visual Designer with Database Round-Tripping and LINQ Support.
You can download the Composite Application Guidance for WPF ( PRISM ) RC1, which isn't expected to change much before its release in a couple of weeks.
Let us not forget about another open-source, rockstar dependency injection tool, Autofac, now with Castle DynamicProxy2 Integration.
A few quick samples of using the Ninject InlineModule, Factory Methods, and Providers.
An example of doing AOP Method Interception using Ninject and Castle's DynamicProxy2.
I ran across a possible bug in the Ninject 1.0 Dependency Injection Framework when mapping open generic types as singletons. Same bug existed in Unity 1.0 but was fixed in 1.1.
For kicks, let's use Ninject to inject dependencies into our ASP.NET Web Pages similar to how I mentioned doing it with Unity in my recent screencast. This examples uses Ninject, a dependency injection tool that was recently released as 1.0.
A screencast that shows one way to implement Unity into your ASP.NET Web Applications to inject dependencies into your web pages.
LLBLGen Pro v2.6 now supports LINQ, .NET 3.5 Framework, and SQL Server 2008. A lot of major enhancements packed in a minor release :)
Download the final release of JetBrains ReSharper 4.0! Life is good :)
It has been a busy couple of weeks with work and Tech Ed 2008. I just noticed JetBrains released the ReSharper 4.0 Release Candidate.
Download Sandcastle May 2008 Release to create MSDN style documentation for your assemblies.
A major release of the free Retina .NET O/R Mapper.
JetBrains ReSharper 4.0 Beta has been released!
ZoomIt is a screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations. Freakishly Addicting!
Download Unity 1.1 IoC and Dependency Injection Tool from Microsoft.
Download the Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 Service Pack 1.
Download the Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta.
JetBrains has unbelievable tools. dotTrace 3.1 provides support for the latest technologies.
Download CodeRush and Refactor! Pro v3.0.8. Numerous bug fixes.
Develop games for Windows, Zune, and the XBOX 360.
Expression Web 2's FTP Explorer to publish websites should be a TreeView.
Expression Design 2 is still missing those ever so important bitmap graphics tools. Sigh...
Coda is described as a one-window web development tool for the Mac that provides a Text Editor, FTP application, CSS Editor, etc.
Microsoft Expression Studio 2 was released today. I tend to favor Adobe Dreamweaver and Fireworks, but I need to give Expression Web and Design another look.
The Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Management Studio will provide T-SQL Intellisense. Let the party begin :)
Apple iWork '08 Keynotes is embarassingly easy to create attractive presentations for us developer types.
If you are interested in Castle ActiveRecord, The NHibernate FAQ has a new tutorial on getting started with Castle ActiveRecord.
Retina.net is an O/R Mapper for the .NET Framework that appears to be active once again on CodePlex.
I am curious as to who will release a new version first, the upcoming Code Analysis features that will be released from Developer Express, and the reaction of the .NET Developer Community.
I thought I would mix things up a bit and switch back from Subversion to Vault and use TeamCity as opposed to CruiseControl.net, but the Gods weren't on my side.
I just upgraded to FinalBuilder 6.0 and was reminded how I discovered FinalBuilder in 2006 and am still using it to automate my build process in 2008.
A list of various CSS tips and tools for customizing your website. I am bookmarking these CSS Techniques for myself as I always need tips on using CSS in my websites.
Visual WebGui is an AJAX Framework for creating enterprise AJAX web applications. It looks to be bringing drag-and-drop desktop development to web applications.
I haven't used the LINQ To CSV library, but the idea of using LINQ to query CSV Files is a pretty cool idea.
Rocky Lhotka released version 3.5 of his CSLA .NET Application Development Framework. You can listen to the public announcement on .NET Rocks!
The Visual LINQ Query Builder is a Visual Studio 2008 Add-In and designer that helps you create LINQ to SQL Queries in your application.
Microsoft Sync Framework is a comprehensive synchronization platform that enables collaboration and offline scenarios for applications, services and devices. I watched the Mix08 Video...
Joe Healy presented Silverlight at the Sarasota .NET Developer Group Meeting last night. Great turnout. I don't think there was an empty seat at the place. Afterwards, I was asked some questions regarding Free, Easy to Use, O/R Mappers for newbies, which turned into a good conversation...
eXpressApp Framework - Release Candidate 2 was just made available. As the name implies, this is a code generation tool / framework for creating entire winform and asp.net web applications with complete integration into Visual Studio. Compared to the Web Client Software Factory, Smart Client Software Factory, and Acropolis....
If you are interested in code generation and generating a data access layer for your .NET Applications, you may be interested in the recent release of .netTiers 2.2. Now supporting Enterprise Library 3.0 and 3.1. Read more...
If you are into code generation, it appears a new version of CodeSmith is out - version 4.1. I haven't downloaded it yet, but two bulleted features make me pretty excited: Visual Studio 2008 Support and LINQ to SQL Templates. Read more...
In Orcas Beta 2 we will see partial methods, which provides a hook for developers to “inject” code into partial classes without running the risk of that code being overwritten when the class is being generated in the future. Read more...
Over the past month I have been addicted to perfecting the build process using NAnt and FinalBuilder, and the result has been increased confidence of the quality of my applications and faster delivery of the latest builds so I can get continuous and immediate feedback on the most recent changes...
Castle's Windsor Container for Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection shows off some pretty impressive support for generics. Windsor is up to version 1.0 Release Candidate 3 and has become my container of choice. I tested out the support for Generics using a very simple configuration...
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