Resharper is great. I believe that most developers that use it within the .NET environment can attest to its many merits and how it can make your life easier and you more productive. However, I recently noticed a minor power struggle occurring within Visual Studio and Resharper over Intellisense and

Any experienced developer at one time or another has encountered issues when merging their code and has been met with that nasty (typically red) conflict icon. A new product from Plastic SCM called Semantic Merge is hoping to get red of that little red guy once and for all by using a merge that actu

Line counts have always been one of the most common metrics associated with software development projects, albeit not a very meaningful one. Although Visual Studio is Microsoft’s flagship IDE, there are often a few features that many users would like to be able to easily access once in a while

I really like the NLog library and I use it pretty often in my projects. Some time ago I wrote a post in which I showed you my preferred debug and production configuration. Other day I presented you a simple…Read more ›

If you have ever worked extensively with any kind of system that involves names, addresses or basically any kind of arena that allows users to enter data, then you might find this helpful. Users often don’t have any concern with how things might appear within an application and there may be a

Regularly express yourself using RegExpBuilder

How to use a Cookie-Aware WebClient to Persist Authentication in ASP.NET MVC

Recently, while working on one of the Windows Azure migration engagement, we were need to have a simple and portable utility scripts that manipulate on various Windows Azure Storage (WAS) services APIs like “Get all blob metadata details from selected containers”.  This is further enable

The latest Windows Azure SDKs v1.7.1 and 1.8  have a nice feature called “StartCopyFromBlob” that enables us to instruct Windows Azure data center to perform cross-storage accounts blob copy.  Prior to this, we need to download chunks of blob content then upload into the destination stor

In this post we will look at how to handle exceptions. We will be covering the following areas Using the standard F# helper functions Try With Try Finally Raising Exceptions Reraising Exceptions Custom Exceptions     FailWith Probably the easiest path into Exception handling in F# is by using the he