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I just have to admire the effort they took to promote Visual Studio 2005. I really like #144, #156 and #195 videos. Link to Visual Studio 400 Differences

Anders Hejlsberg shows his true identity Do behave!

You might have read something about Linq but this is even beyond that: YODA the Programming Language

If you're thinking Generics in .NET 2.0 and Anonymous Delegates are a piece of cake, this is for you. Time to learn something new. Sriram Krishnan shows you how to use these to do a little Functional Programming in C# called Currying. Before you read it (and try it) you should first read the Wikipedia on Currying. And if you're interested in ...

I decided to promote my post on DataSets and Web Services to be an article  from now on. Triggered by the sheer number of hits (via Google) this article seems to answer a lot of questions.  

For all of us that enjoy writing a game and other serious applications: The DirectX SDK (june 2005) is out. Hmmm, a bit of a reminder for me that I need to spend more time on hobby programming instead of doing serious stuff in my own time… I'm really struggling to get shadows in my 3D engine and a more flexible design. More on this later…

Paint is one of those 'old' familiar applications that hardly change from Windows version to version. Many times I start it just to do some quick pixel fiddling and when I need something extra I go for Paint Shop Pro. Recently I've become very fond of Paint.NET: it's free, looks cool, is extendible, is has been written in C# and you can get the ...

Ok, here they are for all you avid .Text bloggers: The Simple Text Blog Editor Extensions  for Internet Explorer and RssBandit.Install only at this time (read the readme.txt first!) I might reveal the source in a little while; I want to check them first and add some extra comment. Please, do NOT link to the download but to this ...

Using a very unknown feature of Internet Explorer I have created a set of three tools that allow users of the Simple .Text Blog Editor (STBE) to quickly launch the STBE with a new post containing a hyperlink to the page, post or hyperlink that was clicked in Internet Explorer or RssBandit.   So I built: a plugin for ...

I created a plugin for my favorite BlogReader: RSSBandit. With this plugin you can right-click a post and launch the Simple .Text Blog Editor it will create a new post containing a link to the post you just clicked. If you're interested in this plugin let me know and I'll try to find a way of uploading it. Download here