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Developer training, a real (non)success story

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:31:09 GMT

Helping new Developers catch-up

ASP.NET MVC Framework Road-Map Update

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:31:02 GMT

Scott gives an update to where ASP.NET MVC is going

Free VS 2008 Training

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:29:21 GMT

For those of you ready to build up your Visual Studio 2008 skills, InnerWorkings is giving away a free sample of their training for you to try out. This offer includes 2 hours of quality hands-on learning on the important new features of C# 3.0 and VB 9.0. Check out the following link and get your free sample today: http://www.innerworkings.com/promotions/b2d5f7cf-42a8-47b0-98f1-88c740472bac/visual-studio-2008-promotion

Getting to Know Silverlight

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:37:04 GMT

One of the most talked-about aspects of Silverlight is its undeniable technical accomplishments. In an age of 50 megabyte downloads, Microsoft managed to squeeze large parts of WPF and a mini-CLR into a tiny browser plug-in, currently under 5MB. Not only that, but it runs in the three major browsers (Firefox, Safari and IE) and more amazingly on the three major operating systems, with Microsoft supporting Windows and Mac OS X and Novell's Mono project providing a Linux runtime.

Silverlight Roadmap

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:31:02 GMT

check out the details

Useful resources for developers exploring VS 2008 RTM

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:06:55 GMT

Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is history and Microsoft actually hit its public milestone for the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) version. Gasp! So how about some useful resources for .NET developers looking sideways at the benefits of using Visual Studio 2008? Check out my recommendations...

CodeBetter mission statement

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:44:55 GMT

CodeBetter.Com exists in order to help foster awareness of better practices, superior tools, proven methodologies and techniques within the software development community.

ASP.NET MVC Framework - ScottGu's Blog

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:16:02 GMT

ASP.NET MVC Framework described by ScottGu.

New features in C# 3.0

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:06:16 GMT

In a .NET developer survey we ran, C# 3.0 topped the list with a 70% first preference rating, followed by LINQ and VB 9.0. But where do you start with C# 3.0 and all the new language features? Here is the list of core features that we came up with: * Anonymous types * Object and Collection initializers * Extension methods * Auto-Implemented Properties * Lambda Expressions * LINQ Extension Methods * Basic & advanced LINQ queries Master all those and you're well on the way...

.NET Framework 3.5 Is Shared Source

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:46:25 GMT

Microsoft's .NET Framework 3.5 is going to be released open source.

Community Convergence XXXII

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:13:18 GMT

Welcome to the thirty second issue of Community Convergence. I write these posts to keep you up to date on the latest information from the C# team. The biggest news right now is probably not C# specific, but nevertheless lots of my fellow team members have been excited to see that a Windows 2008 Release Candidate is available for download. Note that further down in the this text I call out a post from Scott Hanselman on this subject.

Creating your first ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Application

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:16:02 GMT

Over the last year or so, AJAX has taken the web development world by storm. AJAX is short for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML and is an approach to building dynamic web applications that behave less like the static web pages we're used to and more like desktop applications.

Free Silverlight Training - MediaElement & VideoBrush

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:04:30 GMT

If you want to know more about Silverlight, InnerWorkings has coughed up 1 hour of free hands-on learning: * Creating a simple Silverlight control (30 minutes) * Using MediaElement & VideoBrush to control video content (30 minutes)

InnerWorkings tackles Transact-SQL for developers

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:09:11 GMT

We help developers learn to code fundamental Transact-SQL activities such as making queries, sorting and filtering, and using table joins. Delve into control-of-flow language and using functions to manipulate data. Hands-on, practice-based, just for developers looking to learn T-SQL.

Learn to AJAX-enable an existing ASP.NET website

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:00:39 GMT

Learn how to AJAX-enable an existing ASP.NET web page using AJAX Extensions. The UpdatePanel control provided by the framework makes it really easy to start with AJAX programming by defining the areas of the page you want to update independently without a full page reload. Free download from www.innerworkings.com.

Learn LINQ (Language Integrated Query) in Six Steps

Tue, 29 May 2007 09:05:16 GMT

Six steps for getting a handle on LINQ

Learn C# 3.0 in 7 digestable pieces

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 06:57:01 GMT

Sahil has broke the new C# 3.0 down into 7 digestable small peices. 5 minutes each, a good definition of what each item is, alongwith what they mean.