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Phil Haack has a post introducing the ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update

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Last weekend I presented at the Cincinnati Day of Agile event on Introducing Pair Programming (see on slideshare). The event was nearly sold out with about 240 people in attendance, a mix of devs and PMs. The content and …

Orchard is a free, open source content management system built on the ASP.NET platform and suitable for blogging or other content sites. It is very extensible and easy to set up. In this article, Steve shows how to get …

When you create a new project in Visual Studio, it will usually

Sometimes your ASP.NET MVC application is going to throw unhandled exceptions. Do you think your users want to see a Yellow Screen Of Death and a stack trace, or maybe something a bit friendlier? In this article, Steve …

You may have heard the recent announcement that Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and MSDN subscribers now have access to the Visual Studio 2010 Load Test Feature Pack, which enables load testing of applications with unlimited …

Code analysis is one way you can keep your code clean and your technical debt low. One of the simplest ways to achieve this is to minimize blocks of duplicate code, usually the result of cut-and-paste coding. Atomiq is …

Last summer at the Software Engineering 101 event put on by NimblePros in Cleveland, I saw Kevin Kuebler do a demo using git or Mercurial to iterate from phase of the project he was building to the next.

.NET makes it easy to create strongly typed collections and expose them as properties of our classes. However, this generally results in a design that fails at encapsulation and exposes too much of the class's internal …