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ZedGraph: A flexible charting library for .NET

Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:37:00 GMT

Here's an open source charting library for .NET that provides a high degree of configurability.

MonoDevelop gets the Visual treatment

Tue, 07 Mar 2006 03:25:00 GMT

A Gtk visual editor component has been added to the MonoDevelop SVN repository. You can see the designer, named Stetic, in action either by checking out the screenshot or downloading the source for yourself. With MonoDevelop moving right along and Mono 1.2 (with MWF support) right around the proverbial corner, the .NET opensource community is coming on strong.

Sparkle January 2006 CTP Released

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 02:01:00 GMT

No more manually coding XAML!

MSDN TV: ASP.NET "Atlas" First Look

Sat, 21 Jan 2006 13:01:00 GMT

Nikhil Kothari provides a brief overview of ASP.NET "Atlas", a framework to build rich Web apps on top of ASP.NET 2.0. The demo shows an app that uses the new server controls from the December CTP to incrementally enrich standard ASP.NET pages and an app that shows client-centric app development.

Flexible and Plug-in-based .NET Application using Provider Pattern

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 08:01:00 GMT

This paper demonstrates creating a flexible, extensible, plug-in-based .NET application (JOM - Smart Job Manager). JOM is an asynchronous job processing engine built using the MS Provider design pattern and the .NET technology available today.

WPF January CTP Available

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:31:00 GMT

Libraries, SDK, Cider, and a Go-Live license available.

Channel 9 Video: Microsoft Max

Wed, 18 Jan 2006 10:01:00 GMT

Robert Scoble sits down with project Max Group Program Manager Piero Sierra and friends to find out more about Max.

Ajax Patterns Wiki

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 05:01:02 GMT

This wiki is a great resource for various Ajax patterns. It also has a comprehensive page listing the various Ajax frameworks for .NET.

Building a DAL using Strongly Typed TableAdapters and DataTables

Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:31:00 GMT

Scott Guthrie walks us through using Visual Studio 2005 to build a data access layer for the Northwind database. He will be using the resulting DAL in soon to be published tutorials including master details, filtering, sorting, paging, 2-way data-binding, editing, insertion, deletion, hierarchical data browsing, hierarchical drill-down and optimistic concurrency.

Data Paging with the ASP.NET 2.0 DataList Control and ObjectDataSource

Mon, 16 Jan 2006 19:01:00 GMT

A hands on walk through by Scott Guthrie on how to implement efficient data-paging using an ASP.NET DataList or Repeater control