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Hey Admins! Taking some of the pain out of analyzing perfmon captures. – Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) tool looks like a really useful tool for those of us who spend time looking at performance problems.

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Quick Tip: Failing Your Builds Based On Coverage Data – A quick NCover tip in video format – Failing the build on code coverage sounds a little harsh, but could be a useful trick.

Do .NET 2.0 SP1 Binaries Fail Without SP1 – Paul Wilson talks about a possibly scary problem with Serialisation and .NET 2.0 SP1. There is some good value in the comments too

Understanding IoC Container – Sean Feldman gives an introduction to how IOC works with lots of code samples

Does the order of columns in an index matter? – Some simple samples that explain a little pf how indexing works in databases – It always surprises me how many developers know so little of this kind of thing

Quick Attach and Detach Debugger – An interesting use of VS macros for manipulate the .NET debugger, and attach to specific process

Ruby Has Ranges, and So Does C# – Ranges seem to be a Ruby feature people get very excited about – this short piece shows how similar effects can be obtained in C# and F#

Getting over the TDD hump – A discussion of the process of introducing TDD