Console2 – A Better Windows Command Prompt – Scott Hanselman encourages you to embrace the console / command line way of life, taking a look at the latest release of Console2, a console replacement which offers a vast array of features above and beyond the standard command line experience.
NHibernate.Envers – a quick introduction – ‘Guardian’ takes a look at using the NHibernate.Envers project with the latest NHibernate (3.2) adding entity versioning to your applications easily.
Latest datajs changes – changeset 8334 – Marcelo Lopez Ruiz discusses the latest changes pushed into the Data.js library, not yet available in an official release. The new release adds support for custom cache sizes, combining caching with the Reactive Extensions, authentication improvements, and much more.
7 Apps In 7 Days – Jonathan Rozenblit highlights a series of posts from Atley Hunter, discussing a 7 apps for Windows Phone 7 in 7 days challenge he set himself. The posts give the background to the challenge and discuss the implementation of each of the 7 applications.
Windows Phone 7 App – ContactShare – Mike Taulty discusses the creation of Contact Share, a Windows Phone 7 application which uses QR Codes to send contact details between phone devices. Mike talks about the application, the investigations he did, shows the app in operation in a short video, and discusses some of the lessons he learned along the way.
Introducing Octopus, my MicroISV – Paul Stovell announces his new MicroISV application, an automated deployment tool which will combine convention over configuration and NuGet into an AppHarbor inspired way of easily deploying your applications.
Compiler directive #Pragma reference – Abhishek Sur takes a look at the #Pragma compiler directive, looking at the use of #Pragma Warning to control the compiler warnings given at build time, and #Pragma Checksum used to control versioning of source in PDB files.
Working with Microsoft Chart Controls – C. Miller takes a look at the use of the Microsoft Chart Controls from the System.Web.UI.DataVisualization.Charting namespace in ASP.NET MVC applications, building on previous articles on the Charting Control to get charts in your MVC application
Free Windows Phone 7 Development Webinars by Chris Williams – DevExpress are organising 7 Windows Phone Webinar’s over the next two month, starting on Thursday 9th June. These Webinars feature XNA MVP Chris Williams exploring the various aspects of XNA development on Windows Phone