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Break Away From XML Configurations with ConfigR

Configuration files within ASP.NET applications can often seem a bit convoluted. Sections strewn all over the place, settings with nothing but strings everywhere and last but certainly not least, it’s all in XML. While this can be just fine for most scenarios, some developers may want or need

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Introducing Glyphfriend

During the Microsoft MVP Summit in November of this year, Mads Kristensen [https://twitter.com/mkristensen] held a session on Visual Studio Extensibility and walked through the process of creating extensions for Visual Studio that can do all sorts of things and make the lives of developers easier. Extensions can

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Using the NuGet Package Explorer to Create, Explore and Publish Packages

Although there is often some debate regarding its pronunciation, I believe that most of us can agree that NuGet is pretty great. In the past few years, NuGet has become one of the easily and most commonly used tools within a .NET Developers bag of tricks and rightfully so. Long

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Debugging Deeper through Reference Source

A little over a month ago, the ASP.NET team announced several changes and updates to the .NET Reference Source and in this post we are going to discuss how to actually integrate it into Visual Studio so that you can step into the actual .NET Framework source when debugging

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Introducing Bing Code Search, an easy way to find code samples from within Visual Studio 2013

Time is valuable and sometimes taking the time to open up a new browser tab to search for an example of code to do something can be a pain (because we can also be lazy). Thankfully, Microsoft’s Language Experience team created a product just for you: Bing Code Search.

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The Newest Fiddle Sibling : .NET Fiddle!

Earlier this year, I wrote a short post [http://rion.io/2013/03/10/a-few-tools-for-helping-others-online/] that covered different tools that you can use from the comfort of your favorite browser to help create examples, prototypes and just tinker in general. This post serves to introduce the newest member of the

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Semantic Merge Emerges (from Beta)

In an earlier blog post [http://rion.io/2013/07/07/merge-smarter-with-semantic-merge/]this year I provided a brief overview of Semantic Merge [http://www.semanticmerge.com/], which is an incredibly tool from PlasticSCM [http://www.plasticscm.com/] that makes the process of merging code both smarter and “prettier” through easy-to-understand

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Regular Express Yourself using RegExpBuilder

Regular expressions. There are typically two polarizing reactions to the above statement. The first may result in a charge of attempted murder against your mouse and the other may have nested closer to your screen saying "Yes? Tell me more!". This article is primarily going to focus on

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Merge Smarter with Semantic Merge

Any experienced developer at one time or another has encountered issues when merging their code and has been met with that nasty conflict icon. A new product from Plastic SCM [http://www.plasticscm.com/] called Semantic Merge is hoping to get rid of that little red guy once and for

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Line Counting Trickery within Visual Studio

Line counts have always been one of the most common metrics associated with software development projects, albeit not a very meaningful one [http://stackoverflow.com/q/184071/557445]. Although Visual Studio is Microsoft’s flagship IDE, there are often a few features that many users would like to be able

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Using Pex and Microsoft Code Digger to Better Understand and Test Your Code

Code is a bit like an animal. If a great deal of effort is placed into training the animal (through proper design practices, testing methodologies and reviews) then it can easily be domesticated by an experienced developer and can do just about any trick that its owner desires. In contrast,

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Integrating and Using GitHub in Visual Studio 2012

With so many source control options out there, it can be a daunting task in choosing one, especially that you enjoy using and integrates well with your development environment. In recent years, the open-source mecca GitHub [http://www.github.com] has taken over as a premier repository for allowing users

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Improving Productivity through Trello

If you have ever found yourself juggling several development projects at once and bouncing from solution-to-solution making minor fixes, changes and improvements, then you know how easily it can be to just get overwhelmed or off-task in situations like these. Everyone has their own methods of handling these scenarios and

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Handy Development Tools for Assisting Others From Your Browser

While I was performing my usual duties on the forums, I received a response regarding one of the examples that I had used for an answer and I thought I would elaborate a bit more on it and some of the other tools that I find myself commonly using. But

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The Web Developer Checklist : A One-Stop-Shop for Improving the Web

I've been searching for some time for a single resource that I could go to check a variety of best practices and methods of improving the performance of my sites and applications and I can now mark that off of my list. Mads Kristensen [http://madskristensen.net/] and