I'm using WPF these days, and so reading and writing a lot of XAML markup. As with any code or text, reading and navigation are made easier with a clean format. In my XAML files, I've been putting the XML attributes aligned vertically, below their XML element. It looks like this: <ListBox Name="EntitiesListBox...

I'm not that much a fan of fluent interfaces , but in some cases they are well fit. A great example is the fluent repeater created by Adrian Aisemberg. It's also a good example if you don't know what a fluent interface is. Here is sample code that uses it: Repeat.Call<string>(Save).WithParameters...

I've been quiet lately about PageMethods because other projects kept me busy and contrarily to what I wished, I haven't been able to create PageMethods Pro last year. Considering the facts that other important projects will continue to keep me busy this year as well, and that several people have...

My article entitled Sample uses of LINQ, DLINQ and XLINQ is now available in English. In this article, we will see how to put LINQ, DLINQ and XLINQ in action. The goal is just to show how to use these technologies, and not to provide a target architecture or demonstrate optimal uses. The goal is not...

Two things well worth investigating coming from Joseph Cooney : m3rlin and Evolve . m3rlin is a templating code generator that uses ASP.NET style <% %> syntax. It hosts the ASP.NET runtime to perform the code generation. It uses XML as it's source of meta-data. Complete source as well as a binary...

Microsoft released a new application block entitled the Logging Application Block that builds on the Enterprise Instrumentation Framework (EIF). The logging block provides extensions to the EIF architecture that help to address the common usage scenarios for logging. These include: Formatting of event...

If you want to run your own weblog or host weblogs, you should definitely give a look at .Text . .Text is the weblog engine that runs this weblog. It has been created by ScottW who just announced he has released the source code on GotDotNet . Scott has done a great job, and the project moves now to a...

Quite a while after I created it (oh my god, almost one year ago!), I decided to release the source code of my Sequence Browser . The Sequence Browser integrates with Lutz Roeder's .NET Reflector . It displays kinda UML sequence diagrams for method calls. It's actually just a prototype, but I thought...

Hey, I didn't know about ASP.NET Starter Kits Beta . Cool !! The ASP.NET Starter Kits are sample ASP.NET applications that provide code to accomplish common Web development tasks. Each sample is complete and well-documented so that you can use the code to kickstart your ASP.NET development projects today...

Do you know LINQPad ? It's a really simple but great tool for testing LINQ queries. Not only that, but it can be used to test all kinds of C# and VB code snippets. Another great thing about LINQPad is that it comes with code samples. Until now the integrated code samples came from the C# 3.0 in a Nutshell...