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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

Taking the Magic out of Expression

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:31:12 GMT

Concise introduction to expression trees.

Next-Generation Rich Client with Vidyano

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:16:14 GMT

The Vidyano team just made the release candidate version of their next-generation in rich client software available. Applications build with Vidyano take advantage of technologies such as WPF, Workflow, LINQ to SQL, Entity Framework, Add-Ins, etc. Vidyano drastically reduces the complexity of these technologies by adding wizards, designers and custom tool generators to the Visual Studio environment.

Continuous Integration Display Wall

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:16:16 GMT

Awesome 4 monitor display wall for visualizing a CruiseControl.NET build process.

Creating a Silverlight Fade In and Out Popup Window

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:16:03 GMT

how to create a pupup window in silverlight without using the popup control

Update on Silverlight 2 - and a glimpse of Silverlight 3

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:16:21 GMT

ScottGu unveils the plans for Silverlight 3, shipping next year

Cloudship: Membership Provider for the Cloud

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:46:02 GMT

Planning to move to the Azure Cloud, but already tied to the Membership API? This article guides you to build a complete Membership provider library which can be leveraged by existing application to link to Microsoft's cloud platform Windows Azure with no friction.

Cloud Computing (and Azure) - Right for your site?

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:16:02 GMT

A quick overview of cloud computing options and benefits from a web hosting standpoint.

Microsoft kills Linq to SQL

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:01:13 GMT

Ayende (aka Oren) expresses disbelief at Microsoft's decision to effectively kill off LINQ to SQL.

LINQ To SQL Gets Kicked to the Curb... Needs A Good Home!

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:16:02 GMT

Great post on why L2S needs to be supported by the community and why a L2S targeted at the community is a good idea.

Delete entity or collection in Linq to SQL without getting them

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:16:15 GMT

In order to delete an entity or a collection of entity in Linq to SQL, you have to first get them and then delete them. This requires additional database roundtrip. Here's a strongly typed maintenance free way to delete entities directly using their primary key.

Silverlight Toolkit Overview and Examples

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:46:03 GMT

If you've used ASP.NET AJAX then you've likely used controls from toolkits such as the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit in your applications. Microsoft has also released a Silverlight Toolkit with new controls and functionality that can be used in Silverlight 2 applications.

Silverlight Toolkit Released on CodePlex!

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:46:07 GMT

The Silverlight Toolkit is a collection of Silverlight controls, components and utilities made available outside the normal Silverlight release cycle. It adds new functionality quickly for designers and developers, and provides the community an efficient way to help shape product development by contributing ideas and bug reports. This first release includes full source code, unit tests, samples and documentation for 12 new controls covering charting, styling, layout, and user input.

C# 4.0 New Features Part 1 - dynamic keyword

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:01:14 GMT

A quick look at the new "dynamic" keyword in C# 4.0 and its implications for application development.

Windows Azure is born

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:46:12 GMT

Ray Ozzie announces the new new for the new Windows-in-the-cloud.

Free Winforms and ASP.NET Chart Controls

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:31:02 GMT

Directly from Microsoft

QuakeLight, the Silverlight port of Quake, is coming...

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:01:09 GMT

QuakeLight - Silverlight Port of Quake... 3D with Silverlight - w00t!

Silveright 2 GUIMark - Big Performance Boost in Silverlight 2 RTW

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:32:12 GMT

GUIMark is one of the few independent benchmarks out there that compare several web/RIA technologies. Back in Silverlight 2 Beta days, Silverlight was serving up a paltry 7-8 FPS. With Silverlight 2 RTW out, I updated the original code to get it to work and there are dramatic improvements to the rendering pipeline inside Silverlight 2 RTW. Check out the article for details.

Frame-based Bitmap Animations in Silverlight

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:47:32 GMT

A quick tip for those who are animation with raster graphics in Silverlight.

ASP.net MVC goes Beta

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:31:05 GMT

Hot on the heels of Silverlight, MVC is out of preview and into Beta today.

Silverlight 2 Released

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:16:25 GMT

Today we shipped the final release of Silverlight 2. You can download Silverlight 2, as well the Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend 2 tool support to target it,

Achieving POCO s in Linq to SQL

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:01:02 GMT

How to get rid of Persistence Related code and making L2S Still work !

Windows Strata: Microsoft's Cloud OS?

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:01:02 GMT

Microsoft PDC session lists hints at the name of the new Cloud OS

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.

ASP.NET website Continuous Integration+Deployment using CruiseControl.

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:31:04 GMT

You can setup continuous integration and automated deployment for your web application using CruiseControl.NET, Subversion, MSBuild and Robocopy. I will show you how you can automatically build the entire solution, email build report to developers and QA, deploy latest code in IIS all using CruiseControl.NET every N minutes.