SubMain acquires GhostDoc, releases new version, integrates it with CodeIt.Right – SubMain have taken on the GhostDoc tool, and have been further developing it to add in VB support, VS2010 support and done some re-architecting. Part of the agreement is that GhostDoc will continue to have a free version. Roland Weigelt, the orignial creator of Ghost Doc gives further details in his post The Future of GhostDoc
Nova Commons – Nova Software make their first release of Nova Commons an application architecture for MVC which pulls together a number of common patterns along with a number of other open source frameworks and tools
MsSqlSchemaDoc Version 4.2 Released – Henk Oberholzer announces version 4.2 of his Sql Server Schema Documentation tool. This release fixes problems with triggers linked to more than one event.
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Free ASP.NET 4.0 beta hosting available – Gunnar Peipman highlights the availability of free ASP.NET 4.0 hosting from the team over at ORCSWeb. The hosting is free until October, allowing you to host your .NET 4 creations making use of SQL2008 and all the new toys in the .NET Framework
Git For Windows Developers – Git Series – Part 1 – Jason Meridth starts a series looking at running the Git version control system on Windows machines. This first part runs through the setup and gets you up and running with your code in Git.
Why goto Still Exists in C# – Steve Wellens looks at s situation where he considers the goto statement to be vital to improve the readability and comprehension and simplicity of code.
Anti-Patterns and Worst Practices – Utils Class – Chris Missal continues his Anti patterns series with a look at the somewhat nasty catch all of a Utils class, suggesting that you should actually create classes for the particular purposes of your utility functions.
Abstract Class Vs Interface – Arati Kadi explores the differences between abstract classes and interfaces in this Code Project article
Fluent Silverlight – Part 1 – Gabriel Schenker introduces the work he and Ray Houston have been doing on creating a fluent interface for Silverlight to help improve the easy of working with Silverlight and implementing the Model View View Model. The Second part (Fluent Silverlight – Part 2 – Binding Properties) of the series explores property binding in their framework
NHibernate Mapping – <list/> – Ayende talks about the <list /> mapping type in NHibernate looking at its differences from other types of collection and looking at how the data is stored.
Is Code Complete? – Saurabh_Saxena gives a brief run down of a number of common key software development principles illustrating a number of them with code examples.