Fred's Brain Waves

Emergent Design: The Evolutionary Nature of Professional Software Development

The other day I listened to a very informative webinar with Scott Bain. He talked about lean programming and designing as you go through the dev cycles.

To view the iPod Video go here.

Code Formatting Utility for Blog

This code formatting utility facilitates for formatting code for 1) C# 2) VB 3) html/xml/aspx 4) t-sql 5) msh Convert Code to Html format for Blog posting

Automating the code writing process using macros

When writing code and documentation for source files, there is lots of manual work. Often you follow a specific code standard and some code you write quite often with small changes. Dan Handevik has developed a set of Macros for easing your daily work.

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Macro to enable Code Analysis and define FxCop rules

This is a great little macro that can save some time. More

Scott Hanselman's 2005 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List

This is a great list of tools.

Improving Application Performance in .Net

Application performance has always been a concern for Web Application developers. This article contains guidelines and tips for maximizing application performance in ASP.NET.

Some Cool Tips for .NET

These are some tips for commonly faced problems in .NET

A Crash Course on ASP.NET Control Development: Template Properties

Dino Esposito continues his series on ASP.NET 2.0 controls development with this look at how to create template properties in a custom control. More

Subclassing Pages and Master Pages in ASP.NET 2.0

Sometimes the simplest things in ASP.NET 2.0 turn out to be the hardest things to implement. One example is trying to have a shared property across all your web pages. For example, let's say that you want to have a User object that is on all of your pages and that object be initialized on Page_Load. More

ClickOnce: Bringing Ease and Reliability to Smart Client Deployment

Who said client deployment has to be difficult? The ClickOnce technologies baked into Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 make distributing your application either online or offline much easier. More...

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Common Web Project Conversion Issues and Solutions

Reviews both Visual Studio 2005 Web project and ASP.NET 2.0 framework changes that affect Web project conversion, and then discusses common issues and solutions for converting using Visual Studio 2005. More

Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Project Preview

The Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Project Model is a new web project option for Visual Studio 2005 that provides the same conceptual web project approach as VS 2003 (a project file based structure where all code in the project is compiled into a single assembly) but with all the new features of VS 2005 (refactoring, class diagrams, test development, generics, etc) and ASP.NET 2.0 (master pages, data controls, membership/login, role management, Web Parts, personalization, site navigation, themes, etc). More

Upgrade info for ASP.NET 1.x to 2.0

ASP.NET 2.0 contains a wealth of new features and capabilities for ASP.NET developers. Learn how to best use the new features and explore the changes to the architecture in ASP.NET 2.0. More

Essential Tools for .Net and Visual Studio

Visual Studio Add-Ins Every Developer Should Download Now

Ten Must-Have Tools Every Developer Should Download Now