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Goodbye .NET Reflector, Hello ILSpy!
I am one of those that was quite upset about the announcement from RedGate that .NET Reflector would no longer be free.  Particularly since it was given to them for free and they have only mucked things up from the original.  It was also my...

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Visual NDepend Blows My Socks Off!
I’m not easily impressed by even the best of software.  There is usually some little thing that ruins my user experience.  I tell you this so you know that what I say next is something special.  Visual NDepend is AWESOME!  Everything...

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Great WPF Editor
There is Expression Blend, Visual Studio, XamlPad that we are all aware of and use on a regular biases for creating our XAML. One that I am adding to the top of my XAML editor list is Kaxaml! This is the lightest weight most useful XAML editor I have...

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Easily Generate Business Objects From The Database
I know the title of this post is a little bit of a misnomer, business objects will never map 1 to 1 with relational database objects. However, when just starting out and when you get to control the schema of the database, it sure makes a good starting...

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Getting the Assembly Qualified Name for a .NET Object
Have you ever needed to add a line to a config file like: < type ="Config.RoleService, System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" /> These fully qualified types are not easy to figure out. The syntax...

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Avoiding Circular Dependencies
The term "circular dependency" may be foreign to some programmers (especially if you do Java as it is a pretty common practice). However, anyone who has done some scripting for a referential database knows that you have to run scripts in a certain...

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SmartRename :: File Renamer
Last week our camera card filled up. Like most people, we'd almost rather buy a new, bigger card rather than try to go through the process of getting the photos onto the computer, processed, and burned to CD's. We decided that with about 2GB of pictures...

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iGen :: Open Source XSLT Code Generation Application
I have decided to open source a project that I have been working off and on since 2003. I have always been a big fan of code generation and felt like I knew what it takes to do it right. iGen is actually the second separate attempt. My original attempt...

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Visual Studio 2008 RTM Changes to LINQ to SQL
For those who haven't heard Visual Studio 2008 has officially been released! That also means that the .net Framework 3.5 has also been released! For those who have done the Beta's there is a couple of method renaming that has happened that will...

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Debugging with Process Monitor
Now I am not much of a low-level debugger type. I've seen people use WinDbg like it was an extension of their hand! I am not one of those people but I would sure like to be. Lately I have been working on a project that does some pretty tricky code...

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