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I was just about to head to sleep when I read this great post by Scott Guthrie.  Apparently, Microsoft will be releasing the source code for the BCL (Base Class Libraries), ASP.NET, WinForms, etc. when .NET 3.5 and VS2008 (aka Orcas) is released later this year.  I have to admit that I was looking forward to reading some of that code ...

Seriously, I think there are few things that Developers are more passionate about than the tools and toys they use to code.  Carl has compiled a great list of Free Visual Studio 2005 Addins.  You can read the list here.  The addins that I use on a (almost) daily basis for VS 2005 are (in no particular order): AnkhSVN CodeKeep ...

Just something I thought was a bit funny/interesting.  I was debugging someone's code earlier today and I happened to glance down at my threads in VS and noticed this: Any idea of what caught my eye?   Yup -  the text that says:  ''_ConfigurationFileWatherThread''.   After switching to the thread, I ...

If you've been a developer for any period of time, you have probably come across this question.  If you're given a one-to-many relationship in a table, what is the best way to insert those values into a database.  For example, let's say that you had a Person table and an Attribute table.  Each person can have more than one attribute ...

I was researching something this morning and came across a great blog entry from way back showing an update to the tried and true TypeOf and Ctype/DirectCast code.  I realized immediately that I could apply this little tidbit to my current code.  In-fact, I'm going to refer to an entry I made just a few short weeks ago. In this ...

As I try to clear up my blogging backlog, I came across this entry from Scott Hanselman about removing programming crutches.  This stems from one of his recent podcasts about becoming a better developer in Six Months.  I did a quick Google Search on some key words in that statement and it returned a lot of entries by ...

I've often asked this question - ''What IS the most popular development language right now?''  Antonio Cangiano attempts to answer this question using the Amazon sales rankings on various technical books.  You can find the results of his ''study'' here. I found it an interesting read.  Winning by a landslide was ...

Scott Dorman wrote up an interesting blog entry about programming for the lowest common denominator.  I found his statements pretty closely aligned with my own experiences of late.  According to his entry, there are something like 18 million hobbyist developers out there - which is not, in itself, a bad thing.  These people use ...