Bert Jan van der Steeg Database Management for SharePoint 2010 With each revision, SharePoint becomes more a SQL Server Database application, with everything that implies for planning and deployment. There... 10 May 2011 13 min read
Michael Sorens Web Testing with Selenium Sushi: A Practical Guide and Toolset How does one test the user-interface of a web application? Too often, the answer seems to be 'clumsily, slowly, and... 09 February 2011 35 min read
Michael Sorens Taming Sandcastle: A .NET Programmer’s Guide to Documenting Your Code The most effective way to document .NET code so that others can understand it and use it, is to use... 13 September 2010 55 min read
Andrew Clarke SmartAssembly: Eating Our Own Dogfood Quite often at Red Gate, we are some of our own most enthusiastic software-users. SmartAssembly is a case in point.... 16 July 2010 6 min read
Jeremy Jarrell Multi-Tier Performance Tuning with ANTS Performance Profiler 6 When you are developing a database application that, by its very nature, suffers from I/O bottlenecks, you need to get... 23 June 2010 7 min read
Michael Sorens Creating WPF Prototypes with SketchFlow Prototyping with Sketchflow transforms what was once a frustrating and time-consuming chore. With SketchFlow, WPF prototypes can be created and... 18 June 2010 44 min read
Jeremy Jarrell Mutation Testing You may have a twinge of doubt when your code passes all its unit tests. They might say that the... 17 June 2010 14 min read
Khawar Yunus Obfuscating Silverlight with SmartAssembly If you are in the .NET Software business, you have a problem. .NET assemblies can be read, and debugged, by... 02 June 2010 4 min read
Michael Sorens Essential Tools for the WPF Novice When Michael sets out to do something, there are no half-measures; So when he set out to learn WPF, we... 19 May 2010 18 min read
Geoffrey Braaf .NET Reflector Pro to the rescue Almost all applications have to interface with components or modules written by somebody else, for which you don't have the... 19 April 2010 6 min read
Nick Harrison Reflector Pro Cometh Reflector 6 is here. Nick Harrison is a long-time Reflector enthusiast, and has been responsible for writing an add-in. As... 25 February 2010 9 min read
Carl Niedner ANTS Profiler Saves Me From A Sordid Fate A bit of string concatenation never hurt anybody, right? Think again. Carl Niedner has been designing software since 1983, and... 18 February 2010 5 min read
Chris Allen Profiling SharePoint with ANTS Performance Profiler 5.2 Using ANTS Performance Profiler with SharePoint has, previously, been possible, but not easy. Version 5.2 of ANTS Performance Profiler changes... 24 December 2009 5 min read
Michael Sorens A Unified Approach to Multi-DataBase Query Templates While trying to get the information he needed out of various SQL, MySQL and Oracle environments, Michael finally got tired... 30 September 2009 22 min read
Damon Armstrong Beating up my Code with ANTS Performance Profiler Ty Anderson assumed that his cryptographic library was perfect until he tried it out with ANTS Performance Profiler. Within twenty... 17 July 2009 16 min read
Laila Lotfi Profiling the Memory Usage of a .NET Application with ANTS Memory Profiler 5 We were recently taken to task by a reader who felt that the one place he'd expect to find a... 04 June 2009 8 min read
Brian Harris What can Software Designers Learn from Video Games? Part 2 Developers of software that is used in the office need to be aware of what Games Developers are doing to... 15 May 2009 15 min read
Shereen Qumsieh Working With the ANTS Profiler to Optimize SharePoint When a page in SharePoint takes 30 seconds to load, it is time for any developer to be concerned. There... 20 April 2009 9 min read
Geoffrey Braaf Solving Performance Problems in an ASP.NET application with ANTS Profiler You have a Data-Access Layer that is generating dynamic SQL, and you haven't the time to understand the implementation of... 31 March 2009 6 min read
Brian Harris What can Software Designers Learn from Video Games? Application Developers and designers often seem addicted to playing video games. Is this wasted time? Perhaps not, if they are... 05 March 2009 9 min read
