Russell Pooley's .NET Blog
.NET Tools, Source and Research
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New VistaDB release
VistaDB 2.1 database for .NET has been released
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MBR BootFX
Since starting my new job at MBRIT Ltd (www.mbrit.com) I have been extensively working on BootFX our open source framework for .NET development.
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Fiddler HTTP Debugger
I have never heard of the Fiddler tool for http debugging until I looked at the latest AJAX professional posts, no doubt will come in useful.
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string.format and all that jazz
Good blog entry about string.format at http://idunno.org/displayBlog.aspx/2004071401 the number of times I have spent hunting through MSDN to try and remember the differerent options.
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Debugging with Visual Studio 2005 and Exceptions
I don't know if anyone was aware but I found this gem in the new VS2005 debugger. First I will explain the original problem. If you were debugging in 2003 and your code hit an exception that was unhandled, your entire application would die and you would have to restart. In 2005 you do not need to restart, you can jump directly back to to the piece of code that created the original exception and run it again.
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SharePoint 2003 Help
Hello, what follows is what I believe to be a good set of resources for using SharePoint 2003 with .NET:
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SoftWire Free
Was just looking at SoftWire, never used it but fancied having a look to see how it worked, and it appears they are now giving it away for free.
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Useful XML serialization tutorials
Very useful site for tutorials on serializing object to and from xml.
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Nice samples on the Microsoft Regional Directors website.
Thanks to Rido for highlighting this http://weblogs.asp.net/rido/archive/2004/11/06/253371.aspx
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Object Relational Mapping Tools (ORM)
I have a question for the community as a whole. I am working on a commercial project that is in serious need of persistence, I have browsed the web and found many tools that will do what I want (nHibernate, DataObjectz.NET, WilsonORMapper) but I am still unsure.