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The most complete solution for Team System Code Reviews: a specific work item type and a Visual Studio add-in for a completely in IDE code review experience. TeamReview exploits the advantages of Team System and VSX to reduce waste and surface new business value from code reviews

WPF provides a suite of performance profiling tools that allow you to analyze the run-time behavior of your application and determine the types of performance optimizations you can apply. The following table lists the five performance profiling tools that are included in the Windows SDK tool, WPFPerf:

Windows only: The latest beta version of Google Chrome adds support for user scripts, but if you want to enable them you'll need to follow a couple of quick steps.

As Microsoft fucked up Brisbane's time with DST (We have no DST in Brisbane = ="), apparently there is no fix on the forum, so I've found the registry that deals with it.

C5 is a library of generic collection classes for C# and other CLI languages and works with Microsoft .Net version 2.0 and later, and Mono version 1.2 and later.

C5 provides functionality and data structures not provided by the standard .Net System.Collections.Generic namespace, such as persistent tree data structures, heap based priority queues, hash indexed array lists and linked lists, and events on collection changes. Also, it is more comprehensive than collection class libraries on other similar platforms, such as Java. Unlike many other collection class libraries, C5 is designed with a strict policy of supporting "code to interface not implementation".

ClearContext for Microsoft Outlook is an add-in that instantly files and organizes email. See messages, tasks and appointments organized by project.

CodePlex.Snippets provides the Visual C# developer with an extended set of code snippets designed to seemlessly integrate with Visual Studio 2008. Several of the snippets use features added to the C# programming language within version 3.0 of the language specification and therefore those snippets will not be supported by earlier versions of Visual Studio and the C# language compiler.

This site is intended to consolidate some of the disparate information on the web regarding Domain Driven Design, and specifically the series of blogs posts I started in 2009 on my blog at http://devlicio.us/blogs/casey entitled DDD: Step By Step.

This series of blogs has taken on a life of its own, however the blog medium was not ideal, and information has become fragemented across posts, comments and some replies in various forums.

Producing Open Source Software is a book about the human side of open source development. It describes how successful projects operate, the expectations of users and developers, and the culture of free software. The book is released under an open copyright: it is available in bookstores and from the publisher (O'Reilly Media), or you can browse or download it here.

This project is a tool to convert especially ogm and mkv files to avi, with subtitle and audio track selection, video resizing, bitrate selection and codec selection. It is centered around mencoder, with a commandline tool as well as a GUI for Windows.

Sculpture is a .NET open source Model-Driven Development code generation framework ideal for creating and managing .NET Enterprise Applications.
With Sculpture you can model your application components, and then transform this model to deployable components with your favorite technology.
Sculpture comes with a host of ready-made Molds (The word “Molds” comes from Molding) like (DAAB, NHibernate, LINQ, CSLA, WCF, ASMX, Windows forms, WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET, & ASP.NET MVC).
Sculpture provides starter kit wizard enables choosing among available technologies to start your project with all layers in no time.
Sculpture doesn't force you to adhere to a specific architecture, it contains a guidance package for building your own Mold or customizes existing ones. If you have a custom architecture, using this guidance package you can build a custom code generator with your favorite technology.

For a hobby that revolves around dead people, genealogy is remarkably popular: it's the fastest growing scene in North America. And a perfect study for our first Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) reference application.

Our designers employed every trick in the WPF book– styles, resources, templates, data binding, animation, transforms– to present an innovative visualization of the classic family tree, freeing our developers to concentrate on behind-the-scenes features like XPS, Windows Vista "light up", and ClickOnce for WPF.

T4 Toolbox is a library of code generation templates for Visual Studio.

These step-by-step guides help IT Professionals learn about and evaluate Windows Server 2008.

Google Code Labs is home to developer products that are still in their formative stages. Graduating from Labs is a big step, one that indicates long-term commitment on our part.

One of the best things about WPF is the advanced data binding support, the Binding class that is used to create data bindings has many interesting and useful options.
And I never remember the more advanced options when I’m writing XAML.
So I wrote a very detailed “cheat sheet” for the WPF Binding class, I hope you’ll find it useful.

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