C# 14 shipped with .NET 10 LTS and Visual Studio 2026 in November 2025. The C# 14 new features are not small tweaks. Indeed, they change how we write code every day. Extension members let us add properties and operators to existing types. File-based apps let you run a .cs…
A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: New Domain Names The web is about to explode thanks to new domain names, Josh Benson Other Good News and Bad News for Windows Phone, Paul Thurrott Portable Class Libraries just got REALLY useful…
A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: .NET Security Security Driven .NET – A practical book for .NET security engineers, Stan Drapkin Other Controlling Skype with C#, Gabriel Szabo T-SQL Count of Tables, Views, Stored Procedures and Functions, Jason What Developers…
I had the pleasure of chatting to Sean Sexton about all things code, life and a little in between. Sean maintains an excellent blog that is well worth visiting if you are into C# or WPF.
Bio
Software developer in the Twin Cities area, passionate about .NET technologies. Equally passionate about my own personal projects related to family history and preservation of family stories and photos.
Blog: 2,000 Things You Should Know About C# and 2,000 Things You Should Know About WPF
Twitter: @spsexton
A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Snowden Doubles Tor Usage Tor usage doubles after Snowden's surveillance revelations, Tim Sampson Other 1,138 behind the scenes photos of the Star Wars Trilogy Interesting Podcasts for .NET Developers, Senthil Kumar Download .NET Universe…
StyleCop Code Analysis How-To is a nice read. At only 57 pages long, you can expect to work through the book in no time. I had the chance to check it out and I really enjoyed the read, not to mention learning a few things I didn’t know.
The book is aimed at .NET Developers that want to discover what StyleCop can do for them. Therefore it is written with .NET developers in mind.
The book is published by Packt which is also a bonus for me, because I really enjoy their style of formatting books they publish. As you can imagine, being only 57 pages in length, the price is also less than other titles in the Packt stable.
You can download sample chapters from the site and read reviews. For those that don’t know what StyleCop does, here is a quote from their CodePlex page. (more…)
Prosecuting Edward Snowden - The story of intrigue and spy vs spy. There is a lot to say about the subject, and no matter what your personal point of view is on the matter, he will probably be caught. Bruce Schneider writes a great article on Prosecuting Snowden. If you…
Visual Studio 2013 Features have certainly been in the spotlight in the past few weeks. Since the Preview has been released there have been a flurry of blog posts on some of the new shiny things that go bling in the Visual Studio 2013 features universe. Ed Blankenship brings us…
SkyDrive Pro for iOS, Windows 8 / RT was released by Microsoft on Friday. It looks the same as the standard mobile app, but provides a handy way to access your SkyDrive Pro-based files in Office 365, SharePoint Online, or SharePoint 2013. Speaking of Office 365, have you taken a look…
Xbox One, need I say more. The ridiculous restrictions imposed on it by Microsoft have finally been resolved. I wonder who even figured that imposing restrictions such as that would hold ANY water. In fact, the gamer community is stronger than any corporation. But well done to Microsoft for listening.…