After you start to use extension methods and see all their benefits, you start thinking about how nice it would be to also have extension properties. When Scott Guthrie first announced them in New "Orcas" Language Feature: Extension Methods, someone imm[...]

Smashing Magazine has been lately posting some really wonderful photos in their site on their Monday Inspiration section: 35 Fantastic HDR Pictures (Really) Stunning Pictures and Photos Beautiful Black and White Photography Let There Be Light: L[...]

Updated on 2008/09/17: Fixed problem when skipping elements. Updated on 2008/09/15: Fixed problem when trying to read missing attributes. One of new features introduced in .NET 3.5 that I welcomed the most was LINQ to XML. The old DOM API was a bit c[...]

Did you know that the Avalon project (the original name of WPF) was started back in 2001, even before .NET Framework 1.0 was released, from the team that originally developed Internet Explorer 4 DHTML support and the XMLHttpRequest API that enables AJAX[...]

I've been lately looking at some channel 9 videos, and found a lot of great stuff there. Two that I found particularly interesting were these: Expert to Expert: Contract Oriented Programming and Spec# Ted Neward: On Java and .NET, Software Academics[...]

Can Erten created a very useful expression tree to CodeDom converter. He wrote about it here: Expression Trees-Lambdas to CodeDom Conversion. I created a visual studio debugger visualizer based on it. You can find it in attachment. Just copy the assembl[...]

Expression trees are one of the more powerful features of C#. They let you manipulate code in ways that almost remind you of LISP macros (but at runtime instead of compile time). Since I discovered them, I managed to eliminate almost completely the usag[...]