SQL Server Tips and Tricks

gatekiller.co.uk — The following are a wide range of tips and tricks I have collected over the years working with various versions or Microsoft's SQL Server. I always enjoy finding little snippets of code which are both simple and powerful. Why write complicated routines when one or two lines of code can do it? read more...

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Create amazing looking full-blown WPF applications within minutes

published 28 days, 21 hours ago, submitted by Setsuko 28 days, 22 hours ago

vidyano.com — The Viydano team just released their public beta, you can download it from the website for free. It allows you to create full-blown data-driven WPF applications within minutes, without sacrificing or limiting development freedom. This is their second release and going by the new features list, it looks like it came a long way since the last public CTP. read more...

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The WPF ah-ha Moment

weblogs.asp.net — In nearly every bit of WPF training material or weblog there is some reference to the "ah-ha" moment. The point at which all the new concepts you've been learning gel into a cohesive unit. For me, that moment was one or two months after I started developing WPF in earnest (by which I mean for users other than myself). The task was to display two different indicators of a business metric, a green up arrow and a red down arrow. read more...

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Great User Experience Example in a Business Application in Silverlight

published 2 months, 28 days ago, submitted by Yura 2 months, 29 days ago

blogs.msdn.com — DNR-TV has a great talk\demo with Billy Hollis on a next generation business applications in WPF and Silverlight. Billy is working with a customer to provide a temp worker to job matching services. So far the application is in WPF, but they are planning to create a Silverlight version as well. read more...

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55 Free High Quality Icon Sets

published 3 months, 1 day ago, submitted by drugarce 3 months, 3 days ago

smashingmagazine.com — A lot of freebie icons. Another great article from Smashing Magazine read more...

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Speed up Firefox when using Development Server

published 3 months, 19 days ago, submitted by aloker 3 months, 19 days ago

blog.andreloker.de — Using Firefox on Vista to view websites hosted by the Visual Studio Development Server can be unbearably slow. Pages take aeons (i.e. several seconds) to load while viewing the same site under IE does not suffer from this issue. Here's how to solve the problem. read more...

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Overview of concurrency in .NET Framework 3.5

igoro.com — An easy-to-digest high-level summary of concurrency on .Net: what are the different pieces, where they differ and how they relate. If you want to know the difference between a Thread and a BackgroundWorker, or what is the point of interlocked operations, read this article. read more...

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Give Your ASP.NET Applications Velocity

published 4 months, 2 days ago, submitted by zigamorph 4 months, 2 days ago

coderjournal.com — Scaling ASP.NET Application just got easier with a new technology that Microsoft has just released that they have dubbed codename “Velocity”. This product is still in the early stages of development, but it is meant as a direct competitor against memcache. read more...

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