BarCamp Manchester was a very enjoyable experience – thanks to all involved in setting it up.
Software
- Power Up your Visual Studio 2008 with the new, free and with source, PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008 – Greg Duncan highlights a useful set of command extensions for Visual Studio 2008
- IronRuby IDE – The Visual Form Designer – SaphireSteel show off their latest alpha release of their IronRuby IDE. The Personal Edition is free forever!
- Windows Vista Controls for .NET 2.0 – This windows Vista styled control toolkt has just had its 1.3.0 release made public
- Paint.NET v3.30 Beta 1 is now available – My favourite quick and simple paint program has had its latest beta released
Information
- How to Serialize a MailMessage – Keyvan Nayyeri shows how you can add XML Serialisation to things like the MailMessage
- Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework – Daniel Moth shows how you can make your code utilise multicore processors, using the Parallel Class and Linq
- Invoking a .NET program on Device Insert – Damon Payne shows how you can make your .NET programs become an option in the launch list you get upon plugging in a device
- Correct event invocation – This little tip looks like something that we should all consider in our multi threaded applications
- Virtual by default is better – Hans-Eric Grönlund talks about the differences between C# and Java in this long running argument
- 2008: Declaring and instantiating a value – Louis Davidson remarks on a wonderful change made in SQL 2008 – I often find that I type code this way, try and run it and get and error – looks like I will enjoy 2008
- Case Insensitive String Comparison is Teh Suck – Ben Scheirman talks about his dismay at the length of the code you have to write to do case insensitive string comparisons.
- Tricky Programming on Multi-Core Processors – Another Parallel FX example, this one shows how the quick sort and matrix multiplication can be made parallel