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Introduction to Partial Classes
I've recently written a beginner's article explaining what partial classes are and how to use them. My Partial Classes Tutorial walks you through how how partial classes work, how to create partial classes, when one would use partial classes, and a few Read More...

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XNA Game Studio 2.0 Released
So I've dropped the ball on XNA. I've been meaning to read and learn about XNA for a while now. Microsoft has done something truly revolutionary here. They're taking efforts to encourage the little guy to write games for their console. As far as I know, Read More...

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A New Face for RegExLib
With some recent efforts from an excellent designer named Craig Palenshus , everyone's favorite regular expression library has received a nice visual upgrade. You'll notice the site is much cleaner and more presentable now. The overall design is excellent Read More...

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An Explanation of Interfaces in C# for Beginners
I recently authored an article for ASP Alliance in which I describe the basics of how interfaces work and how to use and create them in C# . I tried not to describe in great detail exactly how everything works, because that will prevent beginners from Read More...

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Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 Released
In my attempt to add to the monotony, I'll say that not long ago Visual Studio 2008 was released to all of the MSDN subscribes. With the news spreading so quickly the downloads are all taking forever. Good luck! Scott Guthrie , as usual, posted some good Read More...

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Visual Studio Extensibility
While I was at DevConnections last week, I watched an interesting demo showing off Visual Studio's extensibility. In the demo the visual studio shell is being used to edit Lua script; the scripting language used by World of Warcraft for designing custom Read More...

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SimpleCMS on CodePlex
A couple of weeks ago Steve Smith and I released SimpleCMS as an open source project on CodePlex . SimpleCMS is, as the name suggests, a Simple Content Management System. It is a small ASP.NET 2.0 Plug-in which allows dynamic creation of simple pages. Read More...

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