"The Video of my Mix TalkOne of the demos in my Mix 11 talk "An Overview of the MS Web Stack of Love" was showing how IIS Express and Visual Studio SP1 (as well as WebMatrix) can make working with SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) a heck of a lot easier."

"Thanks to the collaboration of: An interactive Dependency Graph, A Dependency Structure Matrix, Interactive Code Querying possibilities CQL , Menus available in the Visual Studio Code Editor Window right-click menus, Menus available in the Visual Studio Solution Explorer right-click menus "

"In case you are not aware, a developer preview version of Visual Studio vNext has been released yesterday. I just played an hour with it and it seems that performances are finally here! The same way I skipped Vista to jump from XP to Wnd7 that I love, I am (as much as I can) skipping VS2010 and I'll jump from VS2008 to VS2012 that I'll hopefully love. A few random notes:"

"OpenWrap lets you search for and consume packages in your projects, and resolve for you the various dependencies that each of those packages contain. This will let you easily install your latest open-source framework as easily as typing o add-wrap nhibernate.core."

" WebPutty gives you a syntax-highlighting CSS editor you can use from anywhere, the power of SCSS and Compass, a side-by-side preview pane, and instant publishing with minification, compression, and automatic cache control. "

"Sass makes CSS fun again. Sass is an extension of CSS3, adding nested rules, variables, mixins, selector inheritance, and more. It's translated to well-formatted, standard CSS using the command line tool or a web-framework plugin."

" Scott Allen explains how to create unit tests for applications making use of the ADO.NET Entity Framework 4.1. "

"A simple user interface to automate the batch processing of comparing Sql Server table data using the tablediff.exe utility that comes with Sql Server 2005/2008. "

"You have spent many sleepless nights trying to understand, in advanced detail, how to leverage the event-driven model of ASP.NET control cycle to work the way you want."

"Software development has come a long way over the last few decades. We've gone from extremely laborious, protracted exercises to create even basic functionality (punch cards anyone?), to the drag and drop, WYSIWYG environment of today. We've also gone from a very small number of enthusiast programmers to literally millions of individuals writing software worldwide (there were over 1.3 million software engineers in the US alone in 2008). And we're all looking for ways to make building software even easier."

"The tablediff utility is used to compare the data in two tables for non-convergence, and is particularly useful for troubleshooting non-convergence in a replication topology. This utility can be used from the command prompt or in a batch file to perform the following tasks:"

"In Singletons are Pathological Liars we discussed the problems of having singletons in your code. Let's build on that and answer the question "If I don't have singletons how do I ensure there is only one instance of X and how do I get X to all of the places it is needed?""

"bcrypt is an adaptive cryptographic hash function for passwords designed by Niels Provos and David Mazières, based on the Blowfish cipher, and presented at USENIX in 1999.[1] Besides incorporating a salt to protect against rainbow table attacks, bcrypt is an adaptive hash: over time it can be made slower and slower so it remains resistant to specific brute-force search attacks against the hash and the salt."

"JustMock Free Edition is a developer productivity tool designed to make it easy to create mock objects. JustMock Free Edition cuts your development time and helps you create better unit tests without requiring you to change your code. It allows you to perform fast and controlled tests that are independent of external dependencies like databases, web services, or proprietary code. "

"Just as it does with file system data, Veracity's decentralized database keeps the full history of the database. Every version of every record is retained in history, with log information about who made the change and when. Veracity also supports push and pull of "database changesets", including the ability to automatically merge (at the level of a record or of a field) and resolve constraint violations."

"Security Vulnerability Assessments are an important step in ensuring your server does not get hacked. Why use HackerTarget.com?"

"This article describes an All-In-One Code Framework sample that is available for download. This code sample demonstrates how to use complex type, which is one of the new features of Entity Framework 4.0 (EF4). This code sample shows how to add complex type properties to entities, how to map complex type properties to table columns, and how to map a Function Import to a complex type."

"Visual Studio 2010 Web Deploy alleviates most of the manual aspects of application deployment by adding a few UI based configuration pages and context menu integrations in Solution Explorer. Upon opening the project's properties, navigate to the Package/Publish Web tab on the left to display deployment options on the right."

"The basic texts for developing SQL code tend to leave unsaid the basic techniques for building routines such as stored procedures in TSQL. Phil is well-known for his more lengthy and complex stored procedures, so we asked him to explain in more detail how he goes about developing things like that without the comfort of Visual Studio "

" I first saw Yahoo's 13 Simple Rules for Speeding Up Your Web Site referenced in a post on Rich Skrenta's blog in May. It looks like there were originally 14 rules; one must have fallen off the list somewhere along the way. "