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Check this out. It seems a fairly straight-forward Dependency Injection (IOC) example.

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The most memorable local eateries along the highways and back roads of America

Is user-generated content helpful to travelers? When the topic is restaurants, I think it can be. Such Web sites as Yelp.com, Chowhound.com and Roadfood.com offer solid information, posted by local foodies who know the scene, have tried many different eateries and write knowledgeably about their topic.

Good blog on functional programming and languages.

This is a really cool web image tool.

How do I configure a client to provide the certificate for certificate credentials?

You need to use the client credentials behavior to provide the credentials that the client will use to authenticate to the service. Here’s the basic template that you can fill out and stick in the behaviors section of your client configuration for client certificate credentials. You then need to reference this behavior configuration when you define the client endpoint.

The Stack Button is a custom control that determines its position in the parent StackPanel and renders its respected corner radius. The Buttons work for both vertical and horizontal orientations.

In short, Miro is a video "podcatcher"—software that uses video feeds to automatically download new episodes for you and keep track of what you've watched and not watched. Kind of like an inbox for your video subscriptions, here's what Miro looks like with a few subscriptions set up.

Looks like some good stuff on how to work with TFS…With the advanced concepts behind us it is time for us to discuss our guidance for branching structures which are optimized for large teams. With the release of Visual Studio “Orcas,” Microsoft’s Developer Division went to a feature crew model. This process was originated by the Microsoft Office team and has proven successful across the company. The feature crew model and corresponding feature branches will be the basis for our guidance in this section.

Want to see what TDD is like in a functional language? In this blog I will convert the Bowling Game example, as TDD’ed by Uncle Bob, to a more functional approach in Clojure

The goal of this article is to provide a fairly comprehensive introduction to the Clojure programming language. A large number of features are covered, each in a fairly brief manner. Feel free to skip around to the sections of most interest. The section names in the table of contents are hyperlinks to make this easier when reading on-line.

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Extreme ASP.NET Makeover – A Brownfield Development Series by MSDN Magazine

I have a solution with multiple project. I am trying to optimize AssemblyInfo.cs files by linking one solution wide assembly info file. What are the best practices for doing this? Which attributes should be in solution wide file and which are project/assembly specific?

There are three assembly version attributes. What are differences? Is it ok if I use AssemblyVersion and ignore the rest? This is follow up to What are the best practices for using Assembly Attributes?

BitmapCropper is a program to automatically crop images to the minimum required space by analyzing the bitmap and cropping it.
This program is a console program and needs .Net 2.0.

pdfforge.org is a site dedicated to our OpenSource projects that will help you in forging PDFs just as they are supposed to be. To get an overview have a look at our products.

…However, it is definitely the case that some users are experiencing abnormal and suboptimal performance when browsing. This post aims to demystify some of the problems we’ve seen that lead to poor performance, and help you resolve those problems. If your browser is lagging, please read on.

Excellent, brief description of what a TFS Workspace is…One of the concepts that people need to understand when they begin to work with Team Foundation Server Version Control is that of the Team Foundation Server (TFS) Workspace. So I thought I would write a series of blog-posts covering the basics of TFS workspaces, with this post being the first.

Among other notes, Workspaces Explained
A TFS workspace is a client-side copy of the files and folders in TFS source control. A workspace maps source control folders to local file system directories. When you make changes to files within the workspace on your local computer, the local changes, referred to as pending changes, are isolated in your workspace until you check them into the server as an atomic unit. The collective set of changes, checked in as a batch is referred to as a changeset.

In general you want to update the AssemblyVersion once per release, not per build. Since the AssemblyVersion is part of the assembly identity, references to your assemblies may include the AssemblyVersion number. If you are changing the AssemblyVersion per build then you could run into scenarios where components reverencing you assemblies would need to be update per build. Depending on what level of automated testing you have this could become a pain to maintain.

…Here's a simple scenario. I have three visual studio projects. Here's the source control tree.

Though they have not been tested nor are supported by the Subscriptions team, customers report that Daemon Tools offers such capability as well as Microsoft Virtual CD Control Tool.

Build process in Team Build is highly extensible. A custom step/task can be introduced at any build phase. The process of customization is very simple. I will illustrate this process with very simple example. Consider the scenario where a company want to use there own build numbering format.

Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

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After you understand why one should tweet, you should read the first 5 things you should do after registering for Twitter. Read about that here. Now, that you have the basics, here are some terms you need to know in order to make use of Twitter in the most efficient way.

Freeware from Attrice…Team Foundation Sidekicks is a suite of tools for Microsoft Team Foundation Server administrators and advanced users providing Graphic User Interface for administrative and advanced version control tasks in multi-user TFS environments.

I think this is the one for the cabin. Fleet Farm has the best price I can find and its local. Myabe should check Ace first.

Really cool…Project Tuva, an enhanced video player showcasing Richard Feynman’s “Messenger” lectures is available for all to try out. It’s the way I’d like to view talks and related information – check it out. Not only does it allow for web links, images, but it also integrates with the WorldWide Telescope control to help augment the example Feynman uses in the gravitational talk. Currently only the first lecture in the series “Law of Gravitation – an Example of Physical Law” utilizes all the annotations/links, but the do all have the transcripts, so you can search on something like “particles” and see where it is mentioned in all the different videos, and then jump directly to the location.

This is really cool…Bling is a C#-based library for easily programming images, animations, interactions, and visualizations on Microsoft's WPF/.NET. Bling is oriented towards design technologists, i.e., designers who sometimes program, to aid in the rapid prototyping of rich UI design ideas. Students, artists, researchers, and hobbyists will also find Bling useful as a tool for quickly expressing ideas or visualizations. Bling's APIs and constructs are optimized for the fast programming of throw away code as opposed to the careful programming of production code.