General Development In DotNet

"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."

"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?""

"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."

"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. "

"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."

" 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."

"Joda Time is the industry standard date and time handling library for Java. Noda Time is an idiomatic port to the .NET platform. "

protocol buffers is the name of the binary serialization format used by Google for much of their data communications. It is designed to be:

"What social authentication solutions are available for .NET developers? What are their features? These are questions I was looking to get answered. I've provided my findings in this article, which focuses primarily on active solutions, that have compatibility with ASP.NET MVC. I've listed four solutions: a direct DotNetOpenAuth implementation example (several exist), SimpleSocialAuth, SocialAuth.NET, and a third-party, API-based solution called Janrain Engage."

"I've written before about one kind of memory leak the .Net Garbage Collector cannot protect against: those caused by event handlers keeping objects alive beyond their best-before date. Daniel Grunwald has a very comprehensive article on CodeProject explaining the problem in depth, and giving a number of solutions, some of which I've used in the past."

"Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) includes several projection operators but none that allow multiple items to be created from each item in a sequence. This article describes a custom operator that allows several selections to be made per item."

Hammock is a .NET CouchDB library modeled directly on NHibernate and strives for much of the same functionality while avoiding the vast complexity of mapping object data to a relational system.

Open Source Message Queue system that is entirely built in C# and .NET framework 3.5.

"Its our pleasure to share best resources/tools for developers and designe for every technologies as HTML5, jQuery, Javascript, PHP, etc. Every programming technologies/techniques provides the number of tools that helps developers and designers a lot in. Today we are going to presents the best development tools for .Net developers. These are the development tools that helps developers for their next project. Most of them are freeware and open source tools."

"Parser combinators are an idea that I enjoy every time I go back and look at again. They are an approach to building parsers by composing very simple atomic parsers into bigger and bigger units which can ultimately express real world grammars. This idea has been particularly popular in functional languages where the parsers can naturally be thought of as functions from input strings to parse trees, and composition of parsers is just function composition. This approach often leads to a simple syntax which makes the resulting parsers pleasantly declarative in that internal-DSL kind of way. "

"The 32-bit and 64-bit development story on Windows seemingly never stops causing problems for developers. It's been a decade since 64-bit processors have started popping up in the Windows consumer environment, but we just can't get it right. If you forget some of the gory details, here are a couple of reminders:"

TweetSharp is a Twitter API library that greatly simplifies the task of adding Twitter to your desktop, web, and mobile applications. 

"Like many developers, I happen to be a fan of using uniqueidentifier columns as primary keys on database tables (as opposed to the other common practice of using integers). While I don't do this all the time, in many cases I think it just makes sense, especially when the records in and of themselves don't share a "sequential" relationship to one another. I understand this is a rather controversial topic in some circles; with good arguments on both sides. Quite frankly, whether you personally agree with this practice or not is beside the point. For the purposes of this discussion, it's just important that you understand two things: one, that this done all the time; and two, that this scenario was not properly supported under Entity Framework V1."

" SQL Sentry Plan Explorer is a FREE tool that builds upon the graphical plan view in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to make query plan analysis more efficient. It is a lightweight standalone app that contains many of the plan analysis features introduced in SQL Sentry v6. It does not require a collector service or database. "

"Returns information from, or expressions based on, each row affected by an INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, or MERGE statement. These results can be returned to the processing application for use in such things as confirmation messages, archiving, and other such application requirements. The results can also be inserted into a table or table variable. Additionally, you can capture the results of an OUTPUT clause in a nested INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, or MERGE statement, and insert those results into a target table or view."