Category Archives: Third Party Products

A third-party product is a reusable software component developed to be either freely distributed or sold by an entity other than the original vendor of the development platform. The third-party software component market thrives because many programmers believe that component oriented development improves the efficiency and quality of developing custom applications.

Free .NET libraries

  By Gaurav Agrawal | March 1, 2012 - 12:39 PM | ,
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I have used a lot of free .NET libraries, some from Microsoft itself! Which ones have you found the most useful? Package managers for external libraries NuGet (formerly known as NuPack) – Microsoft (developer-focused package management system for the .NET platform intent on simplifying the process of incorporating third party libraries into a .NET application during development) OpenWrap – Sebastien Lambla – Open Source Dependency Manager for .net applications Build Tools Prebuild – Generate project files for all VS version, including major IDE’s and tools like SharpDevelop, MonoDevelop, NAnt and Autotools Dependency Injection/Inversion of Control Unity Framework – Microsoft StructureMap … Click here to continue reading. →

Programming Related Online Free Books

  By Gaurav Agrawal | February 28, 2012 - 9:26 AM |
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Meta-Lists 25 Free Computer Science Ebooks Book Training – On Video Cheat Sheets (Free) CodePlex List of Free E-Books Free Tech Books Galileo Computing (German) How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Computing and Programming Microsoft Press: Free E-Books MindView Inc O’Reilly’s Open Books Project Sofware Program Managers Network TechBooksForFree.com Theassayer.org Wikibooks: Programming Graphics Programming DirectX manual (draft) Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming (draft) GPU Gems GPU Gems 2 – ch 8,14,18,29,30 as pdf GPU Gems 3 Graphics Programming Black Book ShaderX series Language Agnostic 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know Algorithms and Data-Structures (PDF) Algorithms (draft) The Architecture of … Click here to continue reading. →