Visual Studio 2008 has lots of goodies in it, like LINQ syntax, CSS editing, and testing tools. There’s a lesser-known feature which I really appreciate though – the “Remove and Sort Usings” command in the C# editor. You activate the command by placing your cursor over the using statements and clicking on the right mouse-button.

Until recently I thought this was a well-known feature. After demonstrating it a few times, I found out it wasn’t. A long time ago, in an cubicle far, far away, someone created the .Net Framework. To cut a long story short, they simultaneously produced guidelines for creating Exception classes, which you should always use or [...]

Scott Guthrie has just announced that the source code for the .Net framework has just been made available for reference use. It will be particularly useful to see how the controls in ASP.Net and Windows Forms have been done. Detailed instructions for how to set it up are here. One caveat: it’s not available for [...]