Group items matching

in title, tags, annotations or url

This article about accessing Alternate Data Streams in PowerShell is very interesting because it shows how easy it is to EXTEND a TYPE in PowerShell with some simple XML and a few lines of code.  VERY cool.

Very good read (particularly their evaluation of weaving methods).

Although as a result their "Policy Injection" application block isn't as powerful as most of the straight-up AOP toolkits out there, it does have a *huge* upside: not only is the code produced by this supportable by Microsoft Product Support, it's now officially part of the Patterns and Practices recommendations!

The down side is that the only injectable objects are ones created through a "Factory" method (you can't just use the *new* constructor) this brings some performance hits ... but then, you get the ability to separate concerns and apply policies and even business rules after the fact!

Downloads for working with XML via the MSXML core services, including XML Diff and Patch, and the XSD Inference and C#/VB.Net code generators.

Create your own custom special effects and transitions for Windows Movie Maker ... or make custom transitions, buttons, and menu styles for Windows DVD Maker!

The new NetBeans Ruby plugin sounds relly impressive: "features that go beyond basic editing, syntax highlighting, navigation outline, project support and unit test execution" to include extensive code completion, integrated documentation tooltips and even semantic analysis and highlighting!

A great overview of T4 with links to articles and information about T4 (Text Template Transformation Toolkit) in Visual Studio

Lots of useful controls here for .Net devs

There's a contact synchronization sample highlighted here which includes synchronizing contacts between Outlook, Vista Contacts and VCard files. Not only do I need this app ... it really shows off the concept of data mapping between disparate data sources.

Everyone is agog over F# and getting all functional. Again...

A set of tools for automatic updates ...

Console Redirection for all Windows platform versions

Although it's nice to save the window position and size automatically ... it's frankly not worth an external library.  However, this is a good sample of how to do attached properties, and if you have a general utility library that you include in all your WPF apps, this would deffinitely be a useful addition to it.

A script to emit callback functions from powershell script.

DevAdvantage is a sort-of code reviewing tool.  DevMetrics a metrics reporting tool.

Tools for debugging with windbg, including dumping GC generation, looking for references, adding breakpoints and dumping variables, etc.

This might just be enough information to get started writing a replacement out-host, one that would be able to color-code things ...

A visual studio -like docking library for WPF ... with floating windows and everything

This is great information on codesigning, with links to more information, FINALLY, someone who gets how this is supposed to work.

An early (prerelease) article about Click Once. It's actually a good article with great source code examples so you can understand the various options for ClickOnce including automatic updates.