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5 podcasts that every .net developer should be listening to

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:46:01 GMT

A list of the best .net podcasts on the web

Interview Questions for DotNet, C#, OOP, ASP.net ... etc

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 06:46:02 GMT

These are the most important 20 interview questions, which should be like 1+1 for any developer.

Overview of Customizing Community Server

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:01:01 GMT

A good introduction to the architecture of Community Server and how it can be customized.

ASP.NET 2.0 Override debug=true in web.config by machine.config

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 07:31:01 GMT

Deploying web applications can become a painful task if you have to check for a number of settings that you have to modify your code to make it work in production environment. There are chances that developers might miss something if there are a lot of deployment pushes. Features like debugging, tracing, error message display could be a big performance issue if they are turned "on" the production environment.

Ranking in SQL Server 2005

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:16:01 GMT

How to do ranking in SQL Server 2005

LINQ Farm: LINQ to SQL Beginners Video

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:31:01 GMT

This short video contains the basic information that you need to use LINQ to SQL to connect to a relational database using the Feb CTP or later pre-release versions of Visual Studio Orcas. After watching this video you should find it easy to create your own LINQ to SQL queries.

The IDE does NOT make the developer

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:46:01 GMT

Just a brief comparison of the highs and lows of both SharpDevelop and Visual Studio as well as a discussion of why and why not the quality of your IDE should even matter to a developer.

Reg file to add a shell command - Remove SVN Folders

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:31:01 GMT

The Subversion source control client maintains your local state in hidden folders named .svn inside your project, which can be a problem if you want to copy or share the project directory. This REG file adds "Delete SVN Folders" to the context menu for folders. When you select it, it removes all folders named .svn inside the folder and it's children.

Great AJAX, WPF, RSS and Gadgets content

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:16:01 GMT

As you know MIX07 will be at Las Vegas on April 30 - May 2nd this year. I'm sure this would be the best conference for me, but can't afford to go there, bouuuuhhh :-( If you feel like me, you'll be happy to know that you'll find lots of free content to download (Videos, Powerpoint, Demos, Hands-On Lab) about these topics : Windows Presentation Foundation ASP.NET AJAX Gadgets RSS WPF /E

WPF/E and ASP.NET AJAX AlbumViewer Application Now Live

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:01:01 GMT

Back in December I released a sample application that demonstrated how WPF/E and ASP.NET AJAX could be integrated to view albums returned from an Amazon.com Web Service in a simulated 3D type view. I finally made some time to get the application running live so feel free to take it for a spin.

Wrap Your Name Value Variables

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:16:01 GMT

ASP.NET gives a developer a lot of loosely typed key-value collections in which to stash stash variables, depending upon persistence needs. The short list includes ViewState, Session, Application and HttpContext.Items. These collections can come in very handy when one needs to keep an object around outside of a single request or shuttle things between different bits of the http pipeline. But it comes at a price-these collections are loosely typed, just returning Objects. Moreover, there is no compile-time checking to ensure that you are requesting the right key in the right place. Errors can lead to crashes at best, and interesting data corruption at worst. Here is a handy technique to avoid such issues.

Some handy shortcuts for Windows Vista

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:01:01 GMT

Some handy keyboard shortcuts for Windows Vista.

TWiki - Enterprise Wiki & Collaboration Platform

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:46:01 GMT

What is TWiki? TWiki Release 4.1.1 Welcome to TWiki, a flexible, powerful, and easy to use enterprise wiki, enterprise collaboration platform and knowledge management system. It is a Structured Wiki, typically used to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base, or any other groupware tool, on an intranet or on the internet. Web content can be created collaboratively by using just a browser. Users without programming skills can create web applications. Developers can extend the functionality of TWiki with Plugins. Tell a Friend "We use TWiki internally to manage documentation and project planning for our products." said Eric Baldeschwieler, Director of Software Development of Yahoo! "Our development team includes hundreds of people in various locations all over the world, so web collaboration is VERY important to us. TWiki has changed the way we run meetings, plan releases, document our product and generally communicate with each other. We're great fans of your work!"

DotGNU Portable.NET

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:31:01 GMT

DotGNU Portable.NET, an implementation of the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI), more commonly known as ".NET", includes everything that you need to compile and run C# and C applications that use the base class libraries, XML, and Systems.Windows.Forms. Currently supported CPUs: x86, ppc, arm, parisc, s390, ia64, alpha, mips, sparc. Supported operating systems: GNU/Linux (on PCs, Sparc, iPAQ, Sharp Zaurus, PlayStation 2, Xbox,...), *BSD, Cygwin/Mingw32, Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX

Open Source Directory

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:16:01 GMT

A lot of open source projects including source code. Really cool metric analysis for Open Source software - may be they analyze CVS to generate this.