Spell checker update 2.2 – The Visual Web Developer Team Blog announce the release of Spell Checker 2.2, a Visual Studio Add-in for VS2008 SP1 which adds spell checking for HTML Comments, ASP.NET Comments, along with comments in your code behind.
Create a Vista Gadget Using Visual Studio IDE (updated) – Alexey Prosyankin shares a Visual Studio Add-in and templates for creating Vista Gadgets more easily in Visual Studio. I’ve had a play with creating gadgets in the past, and this certainly looks a lot easier than the manual process.
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Addicted To MEF – Part 2 – Justin Etheredge continues his series on the Microsoft Extensibility Framework with a look at the ability to point the framework at a folder and have it load in all exported items.
Try/Catch Performance – Jeff Certain takes a look at the performance impact of using exceptions for defensive coding rather than implementing your checks using normal programming techniques
Dealing With Rounding Errors in Numerical Unit Tests – Ade Miller looks at how xUnit allows you ro replace the equality comparison of Assert.Equals with your own method, and shows an implementation which allows for approximate numerical comparisons.
24 ways – 24Ways, the advent calendar for web devlopers, returns for its 4th year, with daily web development articles leading up to Christmas.
Introduction to NHibernate, Part 1 – Ian Cooper starts an introductory series on NHibernate, in this first part he looks at the standard getting started topics, basic mapping, configuration and logging.
First Look At NHibernate Profiler – Davy Brion takes a first look at Ayende’s NHibernate Profiler with a nice overview of the functionality and plenty of screenshots.
A quick look at MEF with F# – Luis Diego Fallas explores the Microsoft Extensibility Framework using F# as his programming language
The UML Model Explorer – Skinner gives a screenshot based tour round the UML features of Visual Studio Team Systems 2010
Upgrading from SQL 2000/2005 to 2008 – Chris Koenig highlights a 490 page white paper detailing all the best practices steps for upgrading from SQL Server 2000/2005 to SQL Server 2008
