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  • NerdDinner.com and Two Views of ASP.NET MVC Views – K. Scott Allen talks about an area where developers split into two camps – those who love strings in views (or code in general) and those who hate strings. I think I probably fall somwhere in the middle, as a developer who dislikes strings but will use them
  • 6 Things Every ASP.NET Developer Should Know by 2010 – David Savage gives his 6 top skills / technologies / practices he thinks that developers should pick this year if they aren’t already using them.
  • DDD: Invariants or Contextual Validation? – Casey Charlton continues his journey through DDD giving some more clarification of how validation breaks into two parts, that of the invariant validation and that of the contextual validation
  • Hacking the Assembly Manifest – Elton Stoneman talks about changing the manifest of an existing assembly in order to change the versions of referenced code, and shows the steps required to achieve this
  • ASP.NET MVC + RSS ActionResult – JoE looks at the creation of a custom ActionResult in ASP.NET MVC to return RSS feeds of items easily.
  • Design Patterns for Dummies. The Memento Pattern – Vinay has a series of posts on implementing common design patterns. This post is about the Memento pattern, and links to the previous posts in the series.
  • Bridging open source and .NET with Mono – Tim Anderson talks about his experiences of writing an application and deploying onto mono on a Linux based system, and looking at the progress that has been made in Mono in recent years
  • NUnitEx : actual.Should().EqualTo(expected) – Fabio Maulo announces a new project, creating a more fluent api for NUnit, with a view to that possibily being the foundation for NUnit 3.0’s api.
  • Mirroring Subversion from Windows – Christopher Bennage looks a thow you can mirror subversion repositories on Windows – a useful trick as a number of developers I know run local subversion on a laptop and would like to have that more available on a desktop too.
  • All-In-One Code Framework – The MSDN Managed Newsgroup Support Team talks about the All-in-one Code framework, a resource which aims to contain baseline code samples and skeleton implementations for many Microsoft Technologies and techniques.
  • OO: Reducing the cost o…lots of stuff! – Mark Needham talks about how good OO practices can reduce the cost of most activites
  • CodeBox – A WPF text box control which contains support for syntax highlighting, with associated Code Project article talking about its implementation.