Of all the links shared today, I have to say that I am most excited about the Free Visual Studio Tool, Brace Completer. I can even hear the audible hurrah from all the C# developers out there. Peter Vogel has the low down. Brandon LeBlanc discusses the Windows 7 Service…
Twitter has become a really big part in many people's lives. It has become one of the most recognized names in Tech. But I bet you that you didn't know (most of) the 7 things Eli Langer will enlighten us on in his article. Then, Senthil Kumar enlightens us on…
A little while ago, I wrote a post called Visual Studio 2012 Tips Part 1 – PowerPoint Storyboarding in which I discussed creating StoryBoards with the PowerPoint add-in that comes with Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate.
It helps you design your application’s interface and allows rudimentary interactivity through the use of hyperlinks between the slides. Well this is all good and well, but what if you don’t have Visual Studio? What if you’re not a .NET Developer?
Enter PowerMockup. I have been using it for a few days now, and I have to say that I am incredibly surprised at how easy it is to create interactive UI designs. In no time at all, I was able to create stunning interfaces and made me realise what an indispensable tool this actually is for a developer. (more…)
Welcome to a new week. Larry Lieberman talks about building apps for both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. Then, James McCaffrey presents one of the basic building blocks of a neural network (This is a nice read). The Open-Closed Principle... Modules should be open for extension and closed for…
Today is Saturday, and I hope that you are having a great weekend. For your reading pleasure, Peter Vogel talks about printing code to support code review while David Ramel talks about the BIDS Templates coming to Visual Studio 2012 in SSDT Update. Microsoft seems very keen to get developers…
So much has been said regarding the demise of Google Reader, that it is clear the impact will be a big one on many people. Personally, I have started looking into Feedly and NewsBlur (although NewsBlur is having some teething problems with all the sudden traffic). I like Feedly quite a…
If you are developing a Windows Phone 8 application, you will want to look at Adam Denning's post on using SQLite Database Engine. Scott Hanselman has a very amusing post on technology fails in films... "It's a Unix System... I know this". Pinal Dave brings us another bit of sage…
When I started programming as a career, I did so in VB.NET. It was my preferred language of choice and I never thought of trying C#. When I changed jobs back in 2007, I forced myself to take a leap of faith and use C# exclusively. (more…)
Have a look at the incredible ASCII Art Generator by Sean Sexton. This is surely to give any geek hours of fun! Then there are also a few sites for testing your code snippets. Perhaps EA should give that a try, because the launch of Sim City made a few…
It isn't often that I come across a blog so enjoyable such as 2,000 Things You Should Know About C# and the excellent posts by Sean Sexton. Head on over there and have a look. Joe James shows us how to hook into System Events using managed code and Markus Greuel…