sfeldman.NET

If you are starting with R# (which you should definitely consider in case you are a professional .NET developer and not use an alternative), this plugin might be helpful to start with all the shortcuts.

This is one handy tool I really liked – web sequence diagrams online. No installations, quick, simple, free (except advance stuff).

Mocking HttpRequest and HttpResponse is not complicated with HttpRequestBase and HttpResponseBase introduced in ASP.NET. I had to mock ServerVariables property of HttpRequest and run into an issue – I was accessing an indexer property and didn’t know how to do this. Gladly, ran into a post that mentioned that indexer is actually utilizing a virtual Get() method. Reflector has confirmed that.

Writing a Custom ConfigurationSection is not a big task, but can be very challenging if you forget some details. I loved this post as it reminded me that you have to have both the Section tag and the collection within it tag… dah!

Working with remote team members can be sometimes challenging. Working with temporary team members is even more challenging. IT can sometime get in your way when you need screen sharing, and you need it fast. Typically I’d go first with the official route – IT provided service (in case company provides that service or has acquired it), VNC (if IT supports it), or something else, more creative.

Life is a book. Each one of us is an author. Every year is a chapter. Every New Year eve we wish to start fresh, to begin a new chapter in our life. Let me wish you to live your next year in a such way, that you would be proud to add another chapter to your life book, proudly looking at the passing year and building on top of that many other chapters, full with love, happiness, great achievements, and people so dear to your heart.

Thank to Oren Eini, now I have another tool under my toolbelt – ESENT database. Fully transactional database, deployed with all windows, just add managed wrapper and good to go. Moral of this post – there’s so much under my nose that I am not even aware of…