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.NET Tools: Ten Must-Have Tools Every Developer Should Download Now

This article introduces 10 development tools that can increase your productivity, give you a better understanding of .NET, and maybe even change the way that you develop applications. The tools covered include NUnit to write unit tests, Reflector to examine assemblies, FxCop to police your code, Regulator to build regular expressions, NDoc to create code documentation and five more.

James Avery

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James Avery does it again with his popular list of developer tools. This time he covers the best Visual Studio add-ins available today that you can download for free.

James Avery

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Here we introduce you to some of the concepts behind the new F# language, which combines elements of functional and object-oriented .NET languages. We then help you get started writing some simple programs.

Ted Neward

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One-time passwords offer solutions to dictionary attacks, phishing, interception, and lots of other security breaches. Here's how it all works.

Dan Griffin

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Writing a Web application with ASP.NET is unbelievably easy. So many developers don't take the time to structure their applications for great performance. In this article, the author presents 10 tips for writing high-performance Web apps. The discussion is not limited to ASP.NET applications because they are just one subset of Web applications.

Rob Howard

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April 2004

Testing: Perform Code Coverage Analysis with .NET to Ensure Thorough Application Testing

When running your tests how do you know which parts of your product code are actually executed and tested? This article presents a complete system called Fundamental Function code coverage that operates at the method level. The author gives an overview of the system so you can understand code coverage principles, explains the key parts of the underlying code, and discusses how code coverage fits into the overall product development cycle. After reading this article you will be able to perform code coverage analysis on any .NET software system. James McCaffrey

Test-Driven C#: Improve the Design and Flexibility of Your Project with Extreme Programming Techniques

Test-driven development (TDD) should be on every developer's radar screen because a comprehensive set of tests makes for maintainable code and frees you from having to create a perfect design up-front. This article explains how to perform TDD and takes you step-by-step through a number examples to get you started. Will Stott and James Newkirk

Instrumentation: Powerful Instrumentation Options in .NET Let You Build Manageable Apps with Confidence

As systems grow and become more heterogeneous, so their complexity increases. The more code you write, the more that can go wrong. The more that can go wrong, the more you need a good instrumentation policy. In this article, the author looks at the various technologies available in the .NET Framework, such as tracing, logging, WMI, EIF, which are designed to help you. He will also look at the pitfalls you should avoid and provide you with the fundamentals from both a technical and managerial perspective so that you can instrument your code effectively. Jon Fancey

Stress Testing: Custom LoadGenerator Tool Identifies the Issues Your Application Faces Under Stress

It's easy to postpone stress testing when developing an application, and it's easy to forgo it altogether. Having an easy-to-use framework at your fingertips to conduct these tests can make the task far less painful. This article walks you through an application that eases the task of generating load for a variety of layers within an application. Brian Otto

Mobility: Add Keyboard Support to Compact Framework Apps by Trapping Windows Messages

The Compact Framework Control class doesn't provide direct access to Windows messages. However, with P/Invoke, a few lines of native code, and the Compact Framework MessageWindow class, it's still possible to access underlying Windows messages. This can be used to work around any .NET Framework features, including keyboard support, that are not included in the Compact Framework. Alan Pulliam

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Editor's Note: Testing, Testing 1 2 3 Each month dozens of readers turn to this page for the latest news on what the editors of MSDN Magazine are thinking. And we do our best to oblige with our hard-hitting yet pithy observations on the state of the world around us, the latest in XML fashions, what's coming up in the current issue, and more.	New Stuff: Resources for Your Developer Toolbox Infragistics is shipping NetAdvantage 2004 Volume 1, a toolset for developing commercial-quality user interfaces for the Microsoft® . NET Framework, ASP. NET, Tablet PC, and COM. NetAdvantage 2004 Volume 1 features Windows® Forms and ASP. Theresa W. Carey	Web Q&A: JScript Leaks, Getting the XmlDataDocument, and ASPX Includes Edited by Nancy Michell
Data Points: Creating Audit Tables, Invoking COM Objects, and More Dealing with error handling between T-SQL and a calling application, evaluating when a field's value has changed, and creating auditing tables in SQL Server™ are all common issues that developers must tackle. John Papa	Cutting Edge: Image Generation Service for ASP.NET 1.1 Dino Esposito	The XML Files: All About Blogs and RSS Aaron Skonnard
Advanced Basics: Synchronizing Multiple Windows Forms Ken Spencer	.NET Matters: Const in C#, Exception Filters, IWin32Window, and More Welcome to . NET Matters. This new column will delve into the ins and outs of the Microsoft® . NET Framework, answering readers' questions on various topics related to its extensive libraries, languages, and the common language runtime. Stephen Toub	Security Briefs: Beware of Fully Trusted Code The vast majority of managed applications run with full trust, but based on my experience teaching . NET security to developers with a broad range of experience, most really don't understand the implications of fully trusted code. Keith Brown
Bugslayer: .NET Internationalization Utilities As you saw in last month's column, . NET internationalization support is excellent and allows you to move your application to a world audience quite easily. Before you jump into this month's discussion, you may want to go back and read the March column. John Robbins	C++ Q&A: CD Burning and Device Discovery with IMAPI Paul DiLascia	Talking To…: Robert Green Talks About Communities for Visual Basic .NET MSDN Magazine recently talked to Robert Green, the Community Lead Program Manager for Visual Basic, about what to expect in the next version and how the Visual Basic team hopes to work more closely with the Visual Basic community.