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Python Tools for Visual Studio turns Visual Studio into a Python IDE.  It's a free & open source plug-in for Visual Studio 2010 from Microsoft's Developer Division. PTVS enables developers to use all the major productivity features of Visual Studio to build Python code using either CPython...

This tool takes a WCF trace file and a WCF client proxy, or a WCF interface contract, and generates a unit test that replays the same sequence of calls found in the trace file. The code generated is easily modifiable so that data variation can be introduced for the purpose of doing performance testing...

Visual Studio 2005 has introduced a very nice feature called debugger visualizers which represents extensions to Visual Studio that drops in a custom user interface for visualizing types. This vizualizers allows you to visually view useful information about objects during debug which can often be a lot...

And that's happened, Microsoft Patterns & Practices group has released the Enterprise Library 4.0 for Visual Studio 2008. For those who are not familiar with this library, here are few notes. Enterprise Library is a collection of reusable software components (application blocks) designed to assist...

Microsoft Patterns and Practices Group has published a nice guidance for WCF security. Excellent set of Questions and Answers, separated in different categories such as: Design Considerations, Auditing and Logging, Authentication, Authorization, Exception Management, Hosting etc. Go directly to CodePlex...

Researching on this great feature in .NET 3.5, I found a lot of useful information for anyone who intend to take a deep dive in this area. Particular for me, after Microsoft flavors on LINQ (LINQ to SQL, LINQ to XML and LINQ to Entities) I found other providers which can have a great usability in everyday...

PowerCommands is a set of useful extensions for the Visual Studio 2008 adding additional functionality to various areas of the IDE. The source code is included and requires the VS SDK for VS 2008 to allow modification of functionality or as a reference to create additional custom PowerCommand extensions...

Architects and developers can use the Web Client Software Factory to quickly incorporate many of the proven practices and patterns of building Web client applications. These practices and patterns have been identified during the development of many Web client applications and their components. WCSF...

LINQ to Active Directory implements a custom LINQ query provider that allows querying objects in Active Directory. Internally, queries are translated into LDAP filters which are sent to the server using the System.DirectoryServices .NET Framework library. LINQ stands for Language Integrated Query and...