I installed an updated version of the NUnit VS add-in (aka: TestDriven.Net) today and discovered this little tool called NCoverExplorer. Curious, I started to dig into it and that lead me to NCover. NCoverExplorer is a GUI interface to NCover...
Man, this thing is dense. I was able to get a very snazzy sample up and running with Castle.Windsor in under an hour, but it’ll take quite a bit of time to get the same demo working with ObjectBuilder. Admittedly,...
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Man, I can remember just a few months ago when NHibernate had almost no documentation (and what little it had was terrible). Now it’s a 145-page beast. Okay, not...
A little more than a year ago, I did my first sample project with NHibernate during some extended down time at Immedient. At the time, the project was still in the .x releases (I believe I started with .8). The...
So far as I can tell, there are only three free, “lightweight”, open source .Net blogging engines out there: dasBlog. This is what my blog is using. It’s okay, but definitely lacking in some respects like proper XHTML markup, database...
Think you can write a better web mail interface? I know I do :-D. I’ll have to take a look at it a bit more when I get a chance. If you’re interested, here are a few good starting points...
This is definitely something I’m going to have to download and play around with in the next few weeks.
Actually, very few .Net developers that I’ve worked with know what a typed DataSet is let alone how to create one. It’s one of those perplexing things that always baffles me as typed DataSets are not a bad way to...
I’ve been doing some WinForms work lately (I’m primarily a WebForms developer) and had a lot of trouble working with the WinForms DataGrid. Primarily, the DG just seemed very difficult to customize in terms of behavior and look & feel. ...
I going to have to take a look at this Composite UI Application Block from Microsoft’s patterns and practices group. It actually looks very similar (at least from a 10k foot view) to the architecture/design implemented by Omar Al Zabir...