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Analyzing Assemblies with Reflector Publish Date: Feb. 20, 2007
It's tough to to understand how a class, method, or entire assembly fits into your overall system. In this excerpt from Windows Developer Power Tools , James Avery and Jim Holmes show you how to use Reflector freeware to explore any .NET assembly and find its dependencies and callers, or dive down and explore an entire assembly.
The Case for Freeware and Open Source Windows Tools Publish Date: Jan. 19, 2007
In Windows Developer Power Tools , James Avery and Jim Holmes tell you about scores of incredibly useful, freely available tools for Windows developers. In this article, they tell you about some of their favorite ones.
What Is .NET Publish Date: Sep. 6, 2005
.NET is probably one of the more muddled and mismanaged brands in the history of Microsoft. Elucidator James Avery clarifies things by describing the two chambers at the heart of .NET: the Common Language Runtime (CLR) and its essential components, and the Base Class Library (BCL) and its major features.
What Is Visual Studio Publish Date: Aug. 22, 2005
What can you really do with Visual Studio? James Avery discusses some of the various applications you can build using Visual Studio, some of its most compelling development features, and what you need to know to get started writing quality applications in Visual Studio. James is the author of Visual Studio Hacks .
Refactoring with Visual Studio Macros Publish Date: Jun. 20, 2005
Refactoring is a method of improving your code without breaking or modifying the external functionality of your application. Refactoring has been growing in popularity partially because it is one of the key practices of extreme programming and because it goes hand in hand with test driven development. Refactoring consists of a plethora of different small changes (or “refactorings”) that you can make to your code. These changes are small enough to quickly test and have a low risk factor, but in total, they increase the overall quality of your code base or application. In this new article,James Avery discusses a macro approach to refactoring.
