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Has .NET Reflector Saved Your Bacon?

We think Reflector is a fantastic tool, and we know you do too. We'd love to hear about the times you've used it to save...

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Annotating Code with .NET Reflector and Review Add-In

Ben Hall takes a look at a simple add-in to .NET Reflector that helps team development work in a number of ways, and show how...

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Software that Crushes your Soul

Stephen confesses his anger at Visio, which he is having to use all day, every day, in order to design software. Unlike the average 'angry...

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First Steps with .NET Reflector

If you are new to using .NET Reflector, or you are wondering whether it would be useful to you, you'll appreciate Jason Crease's quick run...

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.NET Reflector: Soup to Nuts

.NET Reflector is almost an intrinsic part of the .NET Framework, a free tool for browsing the contents of a .NET assembly. When Lutz Roeder...

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Software Tool Design: Remote User Testing

If you are developing a software product, you'll know that the sooner you can get feedback from the users, the better. But, what sort of...

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Software Tool Design: Design by Sketching

Developers can get so used to relying on computers for everything that they can forget how useful it can be in the design process to...

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Testing Times Ahead: Extending NUnit

If you want to get serious with Unit Testing, then you'll need to understand how to extend the NUnit framework in different ways for your...

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The Waffle Generator

Sometimes, silly programs have a less obvious useful purpose. Andrew Clarke takes his classic 'Waffle Generator', and provides it in various forms, including a CSS...

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Extending MSBuild

Because MSbuild underpins the Visual Studio 'build' process, you can use MSBuild to explore and extend the build process to suit your needs. If you...

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Top HAT

If there is one thing that developers and users always seem to disagree on, it is the relative importance of documentation. We take a look...

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Gathering RSS Feeds using Visual Studio and RSS.NET

If you would like to learn how to build and customize your very own Windows service to retrieve posts from multiple RSS feeds, and then...

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Exploring LINQ, SQLMetal and SqlTac

If you're a .NET developer, working with or without a database on the back-end, your world is about to change. The emergence of LINQ and...

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Tracing memory leaks in .NET applications with ANTS Profiler

With only 24 hrs to go to the release of his brand new C# 2005 CRM application, Mike Bloise encountered severe memory leak issues. This...

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Using BITS to Upload Files with .NET

Although FTP is commonly used to transfer files over the Internet, it's somewhat unfriendly to firewalls. Phil Wilson shows you how to create a BITS...

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The cost of poor website performance

The business impact of varying page download time has not, until now, been defined. This article provides data that allows website owners to understand the...

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