" Are you tired of fighting with overly complex ORMs such as Entity Framework and NHibernate? Are you tired of poorly generated SQL or having to change your business objects to work with your ORM? Do you miss the power and performance of ADO.NET and SQL, but not the manual tedious work? If so FluentData might be the framework for you."

"In this blog post I'm going to write about the Entity Framework 4.3 Database migration and how to use it without using Code-First or Entity Framework as an OR-M at all."

"Git Extensions is the only graphical user interface for Git that allows you control Git without using the commandline. It comes with a manual and video tutorials to get you started quickly. "

"This release contains additional assertions on IEnumerable, String, and Type. Additionally, a helper method was added, AssertHelper.AssertFailed(), to allow consumers to create their own custom assertions."

"A new release of Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework is available on Feb 6th. We expect that its 8 new code samples covering typical programming scenarios in Windows Azure, Directory Services, Hyper-V, TFS, WDK, and Windows SDK would ease your development work."

"Basically, I've been aware for a while that some people use the terms currying and partial function application somewhat interchangably, when they shouldn't. It's one of those topics (like monads) which I feel I understand to some extent, and I've decided that the best way of making sure I understand it is to try to write about it. If it helps the topic become more accessible to other developers, so much the better."

"Harness the power of Dropbox to connect your app to almost any computer, smartphone or tablet, plus the web. Easy online storage for your mobile or web app and a growing audience of more than 45 million users True cross-platform support for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and the web Simple sharing for files and folders, file versioning, search and more"

"I recently wrote a Type.GetInstance() extension method, and used the opportunity to play around with Expression Trees, which I'd recently read up on in C# in Depth. Here's the set of extension methods I came up with, which allow you to quickly create an instance of a Type from the Type itself; like this:"

"Duration - 19 months to complete a blog series, for crying out loud! Content - approaching 50,000 words, not including all the discussion in comments. Effort - some of the posts, such as transport layer security, probably approached 100 hours of reading, trialling, experimenting and finally, writing and proofing. This is why there was a four month "hiatus" before that post!"

" Initializr is an HTML5 templates generator created by Jonathan Verrecchia to help you getting started with a new web project based on HTML5 Boilerplate. Initializr will generate for you a clean customizable template with just what you need to start! "

" Send requests to your app to trigger server-side processes or pull data from any public resource for your app to process "

"A few months ago, I described a workflow that lets you use NuGet without committing the packages to source control. This has been a very popular workflow, and generally works quite well."

"TL;DR: In C# use [DebuggerDisplay("")] on your classes and follow better practices."

"Database development is many aspects behind in comparison to regular application development. If you look how database development is integrated with regular application development or development processes it becomes even more obvious that there is room for improvement in this area. When asked, you will find that many database developers are spending their valuable time writing, maintaining, and testing database deployment scripts. The practices may vary, some write them by hand, some use schema comparison tools to generate the script and modify that, and some went all the way to create their own tools to generate these kinds of deployment scripts."

"DBAs and developers alike find it hard to effectively develop, deploy and manage a data-tier application throughout its lifecycle. SQL Server developers today want to create a data-tier application they can test, declaratively deploy across multiple instances while the system deals with version upgrades. SQL Server DBAs on the other hand want to know deployment requirements a priori and they too want the system to perform some of the mechanical upgrade operations instead of managing data-tier applications via a bunch of scripts. In this video we will dive into Microsoft's investments in the SQL Server data-tier application space and demonstrate the concepts and tools that simplify development and deployment of data-tier applications using Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server Management Studio in SQL Server 2008 R2."

"Everyone's up in arms to embrace distributed version control as the new must-have tool for the developer in the know. Though many people have not yet migrated from Subversion, those that have almost invariably extoll the virtues of their particular choice. But though all of the major DVCS's have features that set them above the previous generation of centralized systems, none stands head-and-shoulders above the others as Subversion does among the last generation: each of them was designed for a specific purpose, and each of them will serve those with different habits, workflows and development styles differently. Having used both git and Mercurial for the better part of a year, I've had the opportunity to compare the two. It saddened me to see a Twitter-based debate flamewar erupt over which is better, so I thought I'd do my best to try and ease the tension - with analogies!"

"IETester is a free (both for personal and professional usage) WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE10 preview, IE9, IE8, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Windows 7, Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process. "

"Wouldn't it be nice to receive a gentle tap on the shoulder if you're about to add code that will come back and haunt you later-in the form of a bug that could take days to find and fix later in the development process, code that's virtually impossible for your team members to reuse and extend, or a defect that impacts security, reliability, or performance in the field?"

" Authored by Patrick Smacchia, the creator of NDepend."

"[ Globe Icon ] Using CSS to style semantically meaningful (X)HTML markup is an important key to modern web design practices. In a perfect world, every browser would interpret and apply all CSS rules in exactly the same way. However, in the imperfect world in which we live, quite the opposite frequently happens to be the case: many CSS styles are displayed differently in virtually every browser. "