Jul 22, 2008, 6:04PM I'm a huge fan of screencasts for learning. There are an increasing number of increasingly sophisticated tools and libraries that we as developers have available and I'm leaning on screencasts to learn them. [#]

Jul 24, 2008, 11:24AM Fantastic – I expect to be using this in my presentation a lot over the next year. [#]

Jul 24, 2008, 10:00AM You can press Ctrl+Shift+F9, bound to Debug.DeleteAllBreakpointsto delete all the breakpoints you’ve created in your solution.  The command is found under the Debug menu.The option is also found on the Breakpoints window in the toolbar. [#]

Jul 22, 2008, 4:36PM One principle to follow when writing a unit test is that a unit test should ideally not cross boundaries.Michael Feathers takes a harder stance in saying…A test is not a unit test if: It talks to the database It communicates across the network It touches ... [#]

Jul 23, 2008, 10:00AM In the general development settings, I didn’t see this command under the Debug menu.  So, in case you want to use the keyboard to enable or disable a breakpoint, you can Ctrl+F9, which is bound to the command Debug.EnabledBreakpoint. [#]

Jul 21, 2008, 4:07PM Omar AL Zabir (author of Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5) updated his very cool ASP.NET AJAX Portal application with 3.5 features, Workflow Foundation and new C# 3.0 features.   Play with it here: http://www.dropthings. [#]

Jul 22, 2008, 10:00AM In the New Breakpoint window, there’s a checkbox “Use IntelliSense to verify the function name.”  Just as you would expect, this does a sanity check to ensure the function name is valid in your project.For example, if the function name doesn’t match an... [#]

Jul 20, 2008, 9:03PM Update: I updated the source today. It now has minimal support for layouts. It needs more improvement for sure.In June, John Lam wrote about a demo he gave at Tech-Ed 2008 where he showed IronRuby running on ASP.NET MVC. [#]

Jul 20, 2008, 3:24PM Have you noticed that when ASP.NET web application is accessed for the first time the response is slow? The reason for such behavior is batch compilation that occurs on the first hit.ASP.NET batch compilation is the process of compiling ASP. [#]

Jul 18, 2008, 4:32AM Visual Studio 2008 introduced plenty of compiler magic to .NET such as automatic properties: publicstring Name { get; set; } ... and class initializers: Product product =new Product() { Name ="Lemon Gin", Price=135 }; (Bruusi mentioned before why he... [#]

Jul 21, 2008, 7:59AM As we work with ASP.NET MVC on Stack Overflow, I find myself violently thrust back into the bad old days of tag soup that I remember from my tenure as a classic ASP developer in the late 90's. If you're not careful bordering on manically fastidious in... [#]

Jul 21, 2008, 8:27AM I was over at http://search.twitter.com earlier today and I noticed the Search Box in Firefox had a blue lit-up dealie:Hm...OK. What's that? I hit another site and didn't see it. Weird. Ok, View-Source then, what drives you little blue thing? [#]

Jul 18, 2008, 6:12AM NOTE: If you haven't read the first post in this series, I would encourage you do to that first, or check out the BabySmash category. Also check out http://windowsclient.net/ for more developer info on WPF.BACKGROUND: This is one of a series of posts on... [#]

Jul 19, 2008, 12:21AM NOTE: If you haven't read the first post in this series, I would encourage you do to that first, or check out the BabySmash category. Also check out http://windowsclient.net/ for more developer info on WPF.BACKGROUND: This is one of a series of posts on... [#]

Jul 18, 2008, 11:35PM NOTE: If you haven't read the first post in this series, I would encourage you do to that first, or check out the BabySmash category. Also check out http://windowsclient.net/ for more developer info on WPF.BACKGROUND: This is one of a series of posts on... [#]

Jul 19, 2008, 9:23AM I need to asynchronously call a few web services at the same time.VS 2005/2008 Web services proxy  generator creates several proxy class methods , including synchronous MyWebMethod(parameters) and asynchronous pair BeginMyWebMethod(parameters) and... [#]

Jul 22, 2008, 5:03PM Code UnCoverable by TestsEven for test-coverage addict (as me), there is some code that simply cannot be covered by tests. An example?public bool MessageBoxToDemandQueryDeletion(ICQLQuery query) { string unused; Debug. [#]

Jul 21, 2008, 10:00AM In case you want to set a breakpoint at a given function, and not at the current line, you don’t have to search for the function name to hit F9.  You can press Ctrl+B (general development settings) to do a Debug – Break at Function. [#]

Jul 22, 2008, 2:49AM In my last post about learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# we talked about variables. We covered local variables, global variables, and both instance and static variables in Ruby. In this post we are going do delve a bit more into Ruby classes and start... [#]

Jul 21, 2008, 4:57AM In a previous post I explained how to get Iron Ruby up and running and then in another post I explained how to run an app in IronRuby. If you haven't checked those out, then go do so!So, if you are like many C# developers you have probably been hearing a ... [#]