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Employ refactoring via Visual Studio to write better code

Refactoring is the practice of making your code cleaner and clearer without affecting the functionality. Find out what's included in Visual Studio's Refactor menu, and discover a couple of Visual Studio add-ins that bring refactoring to the Visual Basic community. Read more »

Take advantage of code snippets in Visual Studio 2005

Visual Studio 2005 brings auto-complete for code snippets to C#, J#, and XML, as well as additional features for Visual Basic. Read more »

Creating custom Visual Studio 2005 code snippets

Reuse common code blocks in your applications through Visual Studio 2005 code snippets. Read more »

Road test: .NET development without Visual Studio

This month we put five IDE alternatives to Microsoft's Visual Studio against each other. Is there an alternative for .NET developers? David McAmis puts the candidates to the test. Read more »

Create shortcut menus for forms in VB.NET using ContextMenuStrip

This VB.Net tip will show you how to implement shortcut menus for a form using the ContextMenuStrip control. Read more »

VS.NET Debugging Made Easy, Part 1

In this first installment on debugging in Visual Studio .NET, Australian tech writer Nick Wienholt shows you how cut down the debugging blues. Read more »

Develop JavaScript with the JSEclipse plug-in

JavaScript developers have been clamoring for development tools for years. Tools like Firebug and Venkman answer the call, but there are more options available. Read more »

Faster, smaller, clearer: Python iterator tools

With Python's itertools module you can quickly and simply perform some of the more complicated operations you'll need to do on lists. It will make your code perform better and become easier to read. Read more »

Flexing some muscle

Macromedia's Flex allows developers to create rich presentation layers for Internet applications using Flash. We'll show you how to get your first Flex application up and running. Read more »

Install, configure and integrate PHP and MySQL on Windows

PHP and MySQL are a powerful combination when it comes to providing dynamic content to your user base. Get the step-by-step instructions for installing and configuring these products in a Microsoft Windows environment. Read more »

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    Opera has thrown a little more love at device developers by announcing an updated version of its software development kit on Wednesday at CES. Read more »

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    In this week's roundup we take a look at Google's new technology -- Native Client, its Android phone, news from the world of web browsers and more. Read more »

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