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Ian talks about L2S Being killed

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:16:13 GMT

great post from Ian on the choice of EF over L2S decision from Microsoft.

LINQ To SQL is Dead - Read Between the Lines

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:46:13 GMT

David Hayden with some great points on the Linq to SQL announcement and some ideas on how the project could be saved.

Microsoft kills Linq to SQL

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:01:13 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!

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:16:02 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.

PageGlimpse.NET API

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:10:53 GMT

PageGlimpse is a service providing developers with programatic access to thumbnails of any web page. The thumbnails can be virtually used in any kind of applications that require the display of website screenshots: web sites, windows/linux/mac applications, iPhone/mobile utilities, browser plugins, etc.

Request for Help: Need better guidance for beginners

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:01:02 GMT

A call to harms for helping beginners. This time from a pro that realizes the need.

Important questions a developer should ask a prospective employer

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:01:08 GMT

A list of questions that software developers should ask a prospective employer during their interview process. Similar to the Joel test, but more in-depth.

Yahoo! BOSS .NET Library

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:01:30 GMT

Provides .NET developers a library for accessing the BOSS search API.

DotNetKicks integration into the "New" Blogger.com

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:46:01 GMT

Integrate that cool looking DotNetKicks image link into the new Blogger templates.

Create reusable user controls in ASP.NET

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:01:02 GMT

By adhering to the principles of object oriented programming when designing user controls, you can maximize the maintainability and reusability of the controls. The key is to remember that despite ASP.NET looks very different from C#/VB code libraries, it is still programming and in programming you code using well proven principles. ASP.NET is no different.

Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:46:01 GMT

SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 has been released

YouTube.NET API

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:31:01 GMT

A .NET component for interfacing with YouTube's API.

C# 3.0 - An Introduction

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:31:02 GMT

Lets take a look at some of the language enhancements in C# 3.0