The Daily Six Pack: May 14, 2015

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Windows 10 Editions Introducing Windows 10 Editions, Tony Prophet Other May 2015 .NET Security Updates, The .NET Fundamentals Team WPF Commanding: Enable Disable Button with Command Property, Mahesh Sabnis How does Task Manager compute Up Time,…

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The Daily Six Pack: May 11, 2015

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: GitHub Inside Visual Studio GitHub Inside Your Visual Studio, Phil Haack Other Targeting the .NET Framework 4.6 RC, Rich Lander WPF Animation – Easing Functions, Richard Carr TGIF Episode 2 – Visual Studio Analyze, David McCarter Visual Studio…

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The Daily Six Pack: November 11, 2013

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Visual Studio 2013 Code Maps Code Maps in Visual Studio 2013, MVP Blog Other Switching from Windows to Mac: What I learned, Owen Williams Tools for developers to simulate a slow Internet Connection, Senthil Kumar…

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Ten Minutes With… Sean Sexton

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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

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Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 Expert Development Cookbook – Reviewed

Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 Expert Development CookbookVisual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 Expert Development Cookbook – Being a programmer, I love technology related books. (Any programmer that doesn’t read is flawed. Sorry, it’s a fact, you will never grow.) I try to read as often as I can. I enjoy reading on-line, easily digestible content and therefore the more concise an article is, the better.

But with books, I often find that I simply scan through them because the content is so long winded or doesn’t get to the juicy bits quickly enough. If it were a spy novel, sure… build suspense, but don’t do that in a tech book I’m reading.

I want the information presented in an easy manner that is easy to understand or explained well. I am probably the most fussy of readers out there. Nicky Scrooby is a journalist friend of mine and that girl reads a lot. I doubt that I would ever come close to her with the sheer volume of books she reads. But nevertheless, I do try get a healthy dose of tech via well written books. (more…)

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Securing Your .NET Applications – A Summary Review Of Visual Guard

Visual Guard Summary NovalysI think any developer will agree with me that adding security features to an application can be an absolute pain. This is especially true if you don’t have a set template or module that you can slot into your application.

Well with Visual Guard from Novalys, the integration of security features is no longer a slog. Visual Guard makes this process very easy to do indeed. In a two part review, I looked at the functionality of Visual Guard. Below you will find a Visual Guard Summary which highlights areas of interest in my previous two detailed review posts (Part 1 & Part 2) of Visual Guard. (more…)

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