Reflector 6 is here. Nick Harrison is a long-time Reflector enthusiast, and has been responsible for writing an add-in. As he’d helped test the new version, Nick asked to review it for Simple-Talk. The team were anxious to know what he thought. They needn’t have worried. If you’ve ever been coded into a corner and [...]

 Microsoft Small Basic is intended to be fun to use. It is that, and more besides. It has a great potential as  a way of flinging together quick and cheerful applications, just like those happy days of childhood hacking.  Tetris anyone? It is a brave Microsoft employee that can stand up and say ‘I have [...]

A bit of string concatenation never hurt anybody, right? Think again. Carl Niedner has been designing software since 1983, and was shocked to find his latest and greatest creation suddenly plagued with long loading times. After trying ANTS Profiler, he discovered one tiny line of forgotten concept code was causing his pain. It’s an ancient [...]

Lutz Roeder handed over responsibility for development of .NET Reflector to Red Gate nearly eighteen months ago. “What’s been happening since then?”, one might ask. The answer is “Rather a lot,” as we found out when we sent Bob Cramblitt to the .NET team, also known as the “Managed Heap,” to find out. “It lets [...]

{smartassembly} is a tool for ensuring that the source code your commercial .NET application isn’t visible to anyone with .NET Reflector. Matteo, who writes for us about encryption in .NET, asked if he could write a review of {smartassembly} for Simple-Talk. Because we like the product too, and Red Gate Software had recently taken over [...]

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Whereas simple workflows are possible using Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer, you will soon reach the point where you will need to use Visual Studio. In the third article in Charles’ introduction to Workflows in Sharepoint, he demonstrates how to create a workflow from scratch using Visual Studio, and discusses the relative merits of the two tools [...]

SharePoint is an incredibly powerful platform when it comes to managing flows of data, and it seems odd that more people don’t understand or use that functionality. Charles Lee builds on his explanation of lists in SharePoint for beginners and gives you a clear, straightforward demonstration of how to build a custom workflow to automate [...]

While trying to get the information he needed out of various SQL, MySQL and Oracle environments, Michael finally got tired of endlessly flicking through reference manuals and having to work so hard just to formulate his queries. So he decided to build a cross-platform Query Template solution to make his life easier, and he even [...]

Bart tackles all the commonly asked questions about .NET Reflector ®. Each answer is done as a separate blog post so that your comments, contributions and  or supplementary questions can be put as comments to the various blog posts. For a general introduction to .NET Reflector, take a look at .NET Reflector: Soup to Nuts [...]