Alternative IDEs to Visual Studio.NET

I came across dotnetcoders.com while searching for a UI component on Google. The site hasn’t been updated in months but I did find some nice articles on their site: Alternative IDEs to Visual Studio.NET Demystifying Regular Expressions MCAD/MCSD.NET Certification Guide Guide to UML Diagrams…

Craftsmanship

Joel Spolsky has a very interesting new article on (Software) Craftsmanship?where he?rightly?points-out — “Writing code is not production, it’s not always craftsmanship (though it can be), it’s design.” Also, Amit Kalani has written some preparation books for the MCAD and MCSD…

Software QA/Testing and UltraGird for Avalon

Rob Davis has put together an extensive and very insightful Glossary and Technical FAQs section on Software QA/Testing. [via Siva Rama Krishna] Today, I also came across this control (for Avalon) called UltraGrid. UltraGrid for Avalon is a functional grid control that supports hierarchical data, column sizing, multi-column sorting…

PDF's on-the-fly and Code in Indigo

iText# (iTextSharp) is a port of the iText open source java library written entirely in C# for the .NET platform. iText# is a library that allows you to generate PDF files on the fly. It is implemented as an assembly. [via Jay R] BTW, the buzz is that?upto 60K…

SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services

Have you tried the beta release of SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services yet? If so, please leave a comment on what you think of it. How does it compare to Crystal Reports 9? By the way, the Crystal Reports .NET enterprise reporting solution videos (WMV) present a good overview –…