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Practical Software Engineering: Analysis and Design for the .NET Platform (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)
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Source Safe Web Interface
SSWI is a Microsoft Visual Source Safe 6 Web Interface.
It provides remote access to all the features of Visual Source Safe without the need to install software on the end user PC. SSWI is a fully web based system, that will work on any PC or MAC (OSX) with IE6+, Firefox or Safari and the Java runtime
SSWI allows the user to do check-out, recursive check-out's, check-in's and all the other Visual Source Safe functions remotely, from any location in the world, making it the ideal companion for remote workers, professional software developers or large development teams.
Take Avalon to the Next Dimension to Achieve 3D Effects
Find out how to use Expression, Microsoft's new XAML design tool, to build advanced user interfaces that incorporate 3D effects and inheritable control styling—and still interact seamlessly with your Visual Studio projects.
8 May 2006, 10:04:27 Source: Take Avalon to the Next Dimension to Achieve 3D Effects
Tags: Software
GUI
Inside MSBuild: Compile Apps Your Way With Custom Tasks For The Microsoft Build Engine
Learn how you can use MSBuild to customize your builds. Since it ships as a part of the .NET Framework, you don't even need to have Visual Studio installed on your machine.
3 May 2006, 19:00:00 Source: Inside MSBuild: Compile Apps Your Way With Custom Tasks...
Tags: Software
CLR Inside Out: The performance benefits of NGen.
JIT compilation has its advantages, but it has its drawbacks, too. NGen may help to improve the performance of your applications. Surupa Biswas shows you why and when.
5 Apr 2006, 19:00:00 Source: CLR Inside Out: The performance benefits of NGen.
Tags: Performance
Software
Test Run: Stress Testing.
Stress testing involves running tests under conditions of reduced machine or system resources. To reduce these resources for testing, you can run a tool called a stressor. This month we cover such a tool: EatMem.
TraceTool 6: The Swiss-Army knife of trace
A C#, C++, Delphi, and Java trace framework and a trace viewer: Tail, outputDebugString, event log, and with Log4J, Log4Net, and Microsoft Enterprise Instrumentation Framework (EIF) support. This comes with full support for Pocket PC development.
4 Apr 2006, 12:24:00 Source: TraceTool 6: The Swiss-Army knife of trace
Tags: Debug
Performance
Software
NTime - Performance unit testing tool
An article on a performance testing tool to test an application against its performance.
RC Converter 2.0-MFC to Windows Form Resource Converter using C#,VB.NET & C++/CLI
RC Converter by DudeLabs is the first automated solution for converting ATL and MFC resources to Windows Form resources in .NET. It can generate resource code in C#, VB.NET for Visual Studio 2003 and 2005 and in C++/CLI for Visual Studio 2005 only.
27 Mar 2006, 13:10:01 Source: RC Converter 2.0-MFC to Windows Form Resource Converter...
Tags: Software
Updater
This updater makes it possible to update your application easily with data in XML format. This way, you don't have to write your own updater.
MSMQ Studio
MSMQ Studio is a tool where you can manage MSMQ locally and remote, send and receive messages, view messages in XML, text and binary.

