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Windows comming soon to Amazon EC2

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:01:15 GMT

This is big news! Amazon are to enable Windows Support on EC2. this will allow users to kick of Windows images for running SQL Servers, IIS instances and anything else (even HPC stuff) in the cloud! SWEET!

jQuery and Microsoft

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:01:02 GMT

ScottGu announce that Microsoft will be shipping jQuery with Visual Studio going forward. We will distribute the jQuery JavaScript library as-is, and will not be forking or changing the source from the main jQuery branch. The files will continue to use and ship under the existing jQuery MIT license.

ScottGu: Silverlight 2 Release Candidate Now Available

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:46:05 GMT

"This evening we published the first public release candidate of Silverlight 2."

Disabling a Submit Button During Asynchronous Postback

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:00:38 GMT

I wasn't able to find a good post about this online so I decided to blog my experience here in the hopes someone else looking for a similar solution will be able to find this useful. Title is pretty self explanatory.

Useful asp.net AJAX client side methods

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:20:27 GMT

An outline of methods that are bundled with ASP.net AJAX and work only when there is a ScriptManager on the page you are working on.

ASP.NET MVC Beta1 in a few weeks and v1 by end of year

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:01:07 GMT

A tweet in the morning, straight from Remix08 UK, where ScottGu is doing a presentation on ASP.NET MVC: ScottGu says feature complete MVC beta "in a few weeks". final v1 by end of year

Logging to the Database with Log4Net and ADO.Net

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:46:03 GMT

A short screencasts on performing logging to the Database with Log4Net and ADO.Net

StackOverflow

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:16:04 GMT

StackOverflow - - is in public beta.

Source Control for .NET Developers, The open source approach

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:31:03 GMT

A brief and good tutorial for .NET developers to implement source control for their projects inside Visual Studio.

JQuery, the very very basics - Lesson 1

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:46:02 GMT

JQuery is the star among the growing list of JavaScript libraries. A few of its characteristics are light-weight, cross-browser compatibility and simplicity. A task that would take 10 lines of code with traditional JavaScript can be accomplished with JQuery in just 1 line of code. I write to record the series of very basic lessons I learned about JQuery (my study source is the very readable book JQuery in Action).

Starting With jQuery - Dynamically Applying Rules

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:16:21 GMT

This series of posts on using jQuery with no prior knowledge comes to its fourth iteration. This week, we're going to build on the Validation plug-in by looking at how to add and remove rules dynamically.

Sending Email in a Development Environment without an SMTP Server

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:46:02 GMT

Very handy... I'm forever looking this stuff up :-|

Client & Server Side Validation in ASP.NET MVC

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:46:02 GMT

Emad Ibrahim talks about Client (with jQuery Validation Plugin) & Server Side Validation in ASP.NET MVC.

Easy way to improve your image gallery using jQuery

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:16:02 GMT

Let's say you are browsing a CSS gallery and you want to check out some new and beautiful website designs. And you are of course interested in some details - for example, which category design belongs to, what's the rating or whatsoever. This information could be rendered below thumbnail, but there are other, more attractive ways of displaying additional data. In this article we'll see how to improve image gallery with a simple trick.

List of countries, cities, languages

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:31:03 GMT

You will find in the following links list of countries, cities, and their languages in CSV format, you can import into any database:

ASP.NET MVC P5 released on Codeplex

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:16:12 GMT

Keeping on with the 6 weeks release plan, the ASP.NET MVC team quietly release P5 of ASP.NET MVC on Codeplex.

Remotely Log Off Remote Desktop Users

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:16:02 GMT

How to remotely log off remote desktop (terminal service) users when you get that annoying: "The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections."

New Image Generator control in ASP.Net 3.5

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:16:02 GMT

This week Microsoft have released a new control called ASP.NET Generated Image control to display image in ASP.Net page. This article will give you a kick start on this control and some of its features.

Exploring System.Web.Routing

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:31:11 GMT

An overview of the new System.Web.Routing namespace that was included in .net 3.5 SP1.

30 Common String Operations in C# and VB.NET - Part I

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:01:08 GMT

This article compiles some common String operations that we encounter while working with the String class. In Part I, 15 common string operations have been covered .

Visual Studio Tip: Split Views

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:01:08 GMT

There are a couple of ways to get a split view in Visual Studio. Both are incredible time savers that I use daily. The first is one that most developers will be aware of, but the second seems to be one that many do not seem to know about.

Clone Detective for Visual Studio

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:16:03 GMT

Clone Detective is a Visual Studio integration that allows you to analyze C# projects for source code that is duplicated somewhere else. Having duplicates can easily lead to inconsistencies and often is an indicator for poorly factored code.

Top .NET Developer Resources

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:10:40 GMT

A comprehensive list of resources which can be utilized to keep skills sharp and stay on top of the latest industry trends.

ASP.NET Browsers Filter!!

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:16:03 GMT

Yesterday .NET SP1 released and many new features for ASP.NET where added. But yesterday i also discovered a feature that ASP.NET has from version 2.0 Let's say we have a button. We can decide what value will the properties have for different browsers!!! And we can do that with this way...

Over 60 Free Controls from DevExpress

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:16:02 GMT

Once you register, you will be forwarded an Email with your login credentials to our product download portal. With this information in hand, you will be able to download and install all the controls and tools listed above free of charge. The applications you create with these controls can be distributed royalty free (see the EULA that accompanies the products for more information). Note that the installation you download will include evaluation versions of our entire product line. You can install these trials if you wish during the setup process. Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 are fully supported.