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Signs of a GOOD Manager / Team Lead

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:16:02 GMT

Characteristics / attitudes / process of good management & leadership: 1) Have a passion about technology but

27 Free Must-have Online Collaboration Tools

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:46:12 GMT

hese days teams can be dispersed all over the globe. With outsourcing, telecommuting, distance learning and complex project collaboration, it's often helpful to have tools that can assist with the various collaborative tasks need to be done by dispersed teams. I've put together a great list of 27 free...

Adobe Flex reaches out to .NET developers

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:01:19 GMT

An Adobe partner have today announced a free plug-in to allow .NET developers to write Flex front-ends to their applications entirely within Visual Studio, with full debugging and editing support.

Some Common Operations using LINQ To XML - Part II

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:16:14 GMT

In this article, we will explore some common 'How Do I' kind of examples using LINQ to XML. This article is the Part II of the 3-part LINQ to XML series.

Silverlight Zoom Control

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:55:27 GMT

Silverlight Zoom control is developed in Silverlight 2.0. You can use this control for Zoom-in and Zoom-out on any Silverlight controls like Image, Grid and Canvas etc.

ASP.NET AJAX 4.0: Observing updates to POJOs

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:38:46 GMT

First of all, if you haven't already done so, download the ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 Preview 3 now and try it out! And after you're done with that, come back here, or there , or there , or there , and let us know what

Disable automatic private modifier in ReSharper

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:54:35 GMT

ReSharper by default adds a private modifier to your global class variable. You can change it.

jQuery Intellisense Updates from Microsoft

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:46:21 GMT

With Microsoft's recent releases of the jQuery Intellisense file plus the hotfix released this week using jQuery in Visual Studio has become a lot easier and more convenient. Here is a little more detail on what you need and how it works.

Morning Dew Quick Review - Balsamiq Mockups for Desktop

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:46:03 GMT

Balsamiq Mockups for Desktop from Balsamic Studios LLC is a simple, easy to use tool for creating UI mockups with a hand-drawn look to them. Balsamiq is a Micro ISV founded by Giacomo Guilizzoni, formerly a Senior Software Engineering Lead for Adobe. Mockups for Desktop is an Adobe AIR application with a small footprint.

A Quick and Dirty Bar Code Image httpHandler

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:06:22 GMT

A Quick Walk Through Demonstrating how to create a custom httphandler to server bar code images.

A first look at Duck Typing in C# 4.0

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:31:03 GMT

A complete end-to-end C# 4.0 example with source code using IDynamicObject and MetaObject in order to generate a fully dynamic type using a Dictionary as storage. It also shows how a dynamic type can enter the static typed world and act just like a typed class - dynamically. :)

Microsoft PDC 2008: Day 1 Wrap-Up

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:22:23 GMT

Ray Ozzie took center stage this morning at the Day 1 Keynote at PDC 2008 and everybody knew he had at least one surprise up his sleeve.

Where You Can Find Me at PDC 2008

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:51:46 GMT

I'll be arriving in Los Angeles for PDC08 in two days. Be sure to catch my daily PDC articles on DZone's .NET Zone next week!

Some Thoughts on Oslo

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:31:10 GMT

The concept of modelling software in an abstract manner to ease the process of creating the real thing has been around for a while. And in all that time it's never really taken off in the mainstream. So it's pretty exciting to hear Microsoft has decided to give it a go - Microsoft have always been clever when it comes to examining the landscape, taking out the best bits, and building something that stands out from the rest. Let's hope they learn the lessons of others and produce something that's really different.

Ballmer's "Cloud OS" == Live Mesh?

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:05:22 GMT

It certainly sounds to me like David Treadwell is equating Live Mesh to Windows in the cloud. Listen carefully and let me know what you think.

Mono 2.0 Released

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:01:15 GMT

The Mono Project has released version 2.0 of Mono, enabling developers to run their .Net 2.0 applications on Linux and OSX.

Three Simple Rhino Mocks Rules

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:46:13 GMT

Jimmy Bogard shows how he uses the new Rhino Mocks syntax, and three short rules for using it.

Visual Studio Team Data and Team Developer SKUs to Merge

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:14:35 GMT

One thing I took away from Dan Fernandez' interview of Norman Guadagno, which can be found here, is that Microsoft is merging the Team Data (aka Data Dude) feature set into the Team Developer edition. This applies not only to Visual Studio 2010, but also Visual Studio 2008 Team Developer Edition.

ASP.NET MVC Request Flow

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:46:02 GMT

I looked all over the net for a good diagram that outlined the major classes involved an ASP.NET MVC request. I couldn't find one, and so I created this one. If you want to get a very high level overview, then check it out.

Microsoft Unveils Next Version of Visual Studio and .NET Framework

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:07:14 GMT

"Microsoft Corp. today provided the first look at the next version of its developer tools and platform, which will be named Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0. Microsoft described the next release through the following five focus areas: riding the next-generation platform wave, inspiring developer delight, powering breakthrough departmental applications, enabling emerging trends such as cloud computing, and democratizing application life-cycle management (ALM)."

Visual Studio Team System 2010 Week on Channel 9

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:00:17 GMT

Find out the all the details about the topics that will be covered in videos this week here. Here is the welcome video from Brian Keller.

Silverlight: Write and Win! Contest - Time to Vote!

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:53:16 GMT

It is time to vote which article should win the contest...

Visual Studio Integrates with JQuery Framework

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:49:02 GMT

On the face of it, this is an unprecedented move by Microsoft. Nobody would have even dreamed of seeing an open source project being adopted by the Big M... exciting times!

Building a Framework for Silverlight Line-Of-Business Applications

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:29:23 GMT

Silverlight is one of the major new technologies from Microsoft near release and will potentially have a huge impact on the Microsoft development community. Developers are rapidly looking to Silverlight to solve major challenges and limitations as posed by existing technologies (such as Windows Forms and ASP.NET). WPF uptake has been lukewarm at best, however the similarities it has with Silverlight could very well give ...

Microsoft Announces Visual Studio 2010. Developers Respond.

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:01:13 GMT

Microsoft's development environment offers new tools for Agile development, software testing enhancements and improved support for cloud computing. Microsoft showed CIO.com a sneak peek, and the author invited developers to chime in with their feedback.