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ReSharper 4.0 has just hit beta! I have been using ReSharper for about a year now, and it is an awesome productivity boost. You can really concentrate on writing code, and let ReSharper take care of the little stuff, as well as some pretty major refactoring Read More

This is the tool any serious .NET developer must have. I should perhaps qualify it with saying Visual Studio.NET developer.I've installed the 3.0 beta, as I spend quite a bit of my day in VB.NET now and it has better support than the 2.5 version (plus Read More

I'm not a big fan of posting links to links, but I like this guy and it's not like I'm going to be driving millions of punters his way. This is the argument for TDD. I've not seen it put so succinctly, and this follows it up with some concrete evidence, Read More

I have just spent two days chasing down a production bug that didn't occur in the development environment. When I had given up and decided to pepper the source with logging and put in a few judicious empty Try/Catch blocks I finally stumbled across the error. AND IT WASN'T ME!!! Sort of. Read More

I've seen techniques similar to this in the past, and I know I'm going to "wish I could remember where I saw the code" at some stage in the future, so here it is for the BAS.Thanks, Ayende. Read More

No, not some sicko post-appocalyptic robot fantasy, but Microsoft Virtual PC, the newly released (as in liberated) desktop virtualisation software. Read More

I've just read an interesting post on Jeff Atwood's site, Coding Horror. He questions why database engines can't self-tune tables by adding indexes. Read More

I didn't know what I was missing until I got into log4net, and now I use it everywhere. I just feel naked without putting logging into classes. It's saved my life several times over. Read More

I've been doing a bit of webservice development lately, and in the process I stumbled across ProxyTrace from PocketSoap. This is a very nifty free tool. All you have to do is set the proxy on your webservice call to an instance of ProxyTrace running on the same machine and you'll get a straight-forward trace of the back-and-forth between your consumer and the webservice. Read More