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Tree Surgeon–Alive and Kicking or Dead and Buried? by Bil Simser

Tree Surgeon is a Visual Studio project generation tool originally written by Mike Roberts based on a series of blogs he wrote about building up a maintainable and testable development tree for .NET projects ( recreated here on the CodePlex site as Mike...
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What If Mad Men Landed the Microsoft Advertising Contract? by Bil Simser

Back in the day, Marvel had a wonderful comic book series. It was called What If and featured titles like What If Spider-Man Joined the Fantastic Four, What If Captain America Became President, and What If Conan the Barbarian Walked The Earth Today? Here...
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Code to Interfaces. Right. What’s an Interface? by Bil Simser

The premise of coding to interfaces has been around for awhile now. The concept is simple. Given a definition of something you create things based on that definition. That might be a horrible description of an interface but I didn’t want to go all Computer...
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Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC 3, Logging, and Depency Injection by Bil Simser

I started a new ASP.NET MVC project recently and wanted to give you a little insight on kicking off new projects. There’s some setup time you want to spend setting up your solution and getting the plumbing in order before you dive into writing unit tests...
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Broken Windows Phone Marketplace by Bil Simser

Recently the Windows Phone Developer Team posted an article about how App Insights work and specifically how Free, Top, and New apps work . It’s all accurate, a good read, and (to an extent) will help you improve your app’s ranking in the Marketplace...
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Farseer tutorial for the absolute beginners by Bil Simser

This post is inspired (and somewhat a direct copy) of a couple of posts Emanuele Feronato wrote back in 2009 about Box2D (his tutorial was ActionScript 3 based for Box2D, this is C# XNA for the Farseer Physics Engine ). Here’s what we’re building: What...
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Introducing SharePointR by Bil Simser

Recently there’s been a lot of great press on a async signallying libarary called SignalR . SignalR is the brainchild of Microsoft employee David Fowler and helps you build real-time, multi-user interactive web applications. The last year I’ve been working...
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Displaying Large Text Files in Windows Phone Apps by Bil Simser

Have you ever needed to provide instructions or help for your Windows Phone app and found yourself creating gobs of XAML and writing it in the Visual Studio designer into a TextBlock control? Not very efficient is it? Here’s a technique you can use that...
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Official and unofficial apps in the iOS, WP7, and Android marketplaces by Bil Simser

The last few months have seen people complaining about the lack of "official" apps in the Windows Phone marketplace. In fact a couple of months ago I wrote about this very thing here and if we really needed these official apps or could get by with third...
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PrairieDevCon 2012 Sessions by Bil Simser

As a follow-up to yesterdays note about my Windows Phone Developer Workshop (there's still room for more peeps!) here's a list of regular sessions I'm presenting at PrairieDevCon 2012 . SharePoint Client Object Model: Accessing SharePoint Externally Using...
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