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Here's the results, as promised, of the .NET Survey I took last week. Also, here's the disclaimer. I did this on a whim, it's not scientific, so the margin of error is +/-101%. That said, the results feel intuitively right to me, personally. It was a single question with 14 checkboxes. You were asked to ''check al the .NET Framework features ...

I've been getting more and more interested in how folks extend their applications using plugins and things. In my new ongoing quest to read source code to be a better developer, Dear Reader, I present to you twenty-fourth in a infinite number of posts of ''The Weekly Source Code.'' There's a lot of ways to ''extend'' an application or framework. ...

And so, Dear Reader, I present to you twenty-first in a infinite number of posts of "The Weekly Source Code." I'm doubling up this week, but the ASP.NET MVC Source was released today and I wanted to share more thoughts. I would also encourage you to check out TWSC 17 on Community ASP.NET MVC code. Read the Comments Look ...

Any problem in computer science can be solved with one additional layer of indirection. - David Wheeler Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke. ...

If you're new to this, each week I post some snippets of particularly interesting (read: beautiful, ugly, clever, obscene) source and the project it came from. This started from a belief that reading source is as important (or more so) as writing it. We read computer books to become better programmers, but unless you're ...

It's live and you can give it a try now! Ten minutes ago Shawn and Scott released the hounds. If you'd like to step through .NET Framework Source code, here's what you need to do. Install this QFE. Note, if you're on 64-bit Windows, read the description as there is a ...

My ninety-sixth podcast is up. This episode was recorded at CodeMash in Ohio last week. Dustin Campbell is a lead developer at DevExpress working on CodeRush and ''Refactor!'' He's also a gifted teacher and gave a great session on F# at CodeMash so I know I wanted to get him on the show. He's ...

My ninety-third podcast is up. Actually it was up two weeks ago, but I was on leave, so I'm catching up. In this episode, I talk to Jonathan 'Peli' de Halleux and Nikolai Tillmann from Microsoft Research about Pex, a Dynamic Analysis and Test Generator for .NET. Subscribe: ...

Kzu and friends have a new pet project called Moq, which may be the coolest derivative open source project name ever. But, before I get into that... There's lots of interesting Mock Object Frameworks out there. The ones that you'll always hear about (because they are awesome) are Rhino.Mocks and TypeMock ...

My ninety-second podcast is up. In this episode, I chat with Paul Vick, Principal VB Architect, and Paul Yuknewicz, a Senior Program Manager on the VB Team about the past, present and future of Visual Basic. Subscribe: ...