General Development In DotNet

" 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. "

"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."

"What really blew me away about Rx is how it allows you to handle complex async interactions declaratively. No need to chain callbacks together or worry about race conditions. With Rx, you can easily compose multiple async operations together. It's powerful."

"Firefox Inspect in 3D is Clever, Beautiful"

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

"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:"

"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. "

"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."

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

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.

"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."

"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."

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

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

" 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."