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A MSBuild 4.0 task factory that demonstrates hosting Windows PowerShell

A great article on how to use Windows desktop switching APIs from C# ... (as a side note, you can import this class into PowerShell and just go crazy)

RabbitMQ is a cross-platform implementation of an Advanced Message Qeuing Protocol (AMQP) broker (similar to MSMQ). There's a .Net client, and it allows you to decouple your routing and an message storage, and do so in a cross-platform way.

« While much attention has been focused on high-level software architectural patterns, what is, in effect, the de-facto standard software architecture is seldom discussed. This paper examines this most frequently deployed of software architectures: the BIG BALL OF MUD. A BIG BALL OF MUD is a casually, even haphazardly, structured system. Its organization, if one can call it that, is dictated more by expediency than design. Yet, its enduring popularity cannot merely be indicative of a general disregard for architecture. »

How Windows Phone 7 implements the viewport meta tag and associated tags device-width

TreeBrowse is a simple tool that makes browsing directory indexes much easier. It shows a tree hierarchy of files and folders that can be navigated.

Beautify, unpack or deobfuscate javascript.

The WPF control for Bing Maps has been released (in beta)

This post covers how to setup mercurial(HG) as are local source control repository to sit in front of a Team Foundation Server .

The Windows Developer Preview Samples Gallery contains a variety of code samples that exercise the various new programming models, platforms, features, and components available for the BUILD conference.

ExtensionMethod.NET is a database of C# 3.0, F# and Visual Basic 2008 extension methods. It contains many user-rated extension methods that will expand your code library immediately.

Andrew Binstock opines: Unless we relearn portability skills, the C++ renaissance will be a short affair...

PowerUp is a simple, language neutral, Powershell based build and deployment framework

An example of creating runspaces using WS-Managment to execute PowerShell script

This example shows how to create a runspace that uses WS-Management-based remoting to run commands on the local host. This same code could be used to connect to a remote computer.

A Fluent interface wrapper for calling PowerShell in a way that LOOKS like C# ;-)

Imagine that you have a complicated dependency graph, and you've just modified a source of one of the assemblies, or you just got the freshest bits from the source control. Now you want to use the local version in your project, while you wait for your modification to make it to NuGet, but you still want to use the other dependencies managed by NuGet ... and merge the recent updates to the ones that you build locally.