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VS2010 Beta 1 now on MSDN for Subscribers

Tue, 19 May 2009 01:25:24 GMT

Microsoft today has released Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and .NET Framework 4.0 to its MSDN subscribers. Visual Studio 2010 is a monstrous and the most awaited release which is surely set to have a big impact on Microsoft platform developers in a positive way!

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 for MSDN Subscribers

Tue, 19 May 2009 07:46:09 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 is now on MSDN along with .Net 4 Beta 1. Some highlights from the information: .Net 4.0 Cloud Development - Windows Azure which is basically utility computing where you pay by the hour for your usage. Parallel Development - Not sure if this only means PLINQ for .Net developers or if they are only talking about C++ devs. TDD Improvements - Editor changes for building test cases first, and then writing the code. ASP.NET - CSS grids and design surfaces changes, more Javascript debugging improvements. C++ Compiler - Lots of changes for C++ development, including MFC. Sharepoint templates New Project Templates Windows 7 - MFC updates for Ribbon UI, and WPF changes. Application Model Changes - Reverse existing codebases, and lots of changes in Architect Edition to support more model types (including Class Libraries finally). Test Runner - This is potentially huge as it allows testers to submit bug reports complete with callstacks and traces that you can actually use to resume an app at the error point to avoid the dreaded No Repro on bug reports. I have seen this demo and it is quite impressive. We will see how it actually works though.

Somasegar Announces That Visual Studio 2010 Beta Released to MSDN Sub.

Tue, 19 May 2009 01:13:27 GMT

Get it while it's hot, Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 has been released for MSDN Subscribers. Now's the time to get that Empower for ISV or BizSpark membership to work!

ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 2

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:16:03 GMT

Release Candidate 2 for ASP.NET MVC is now available

Free ASP.NET Security Screencast Series

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:06:18 GMT

Pluralsight is a .NET training company that use to only offer on-site instructor lead courses. However, beginning late last year they launch a new version of their website with the main feature being On-Demand video training. Even though this on-demand training feature isn't free, they have provided some free training for you to sample. Last week I sat and watch their entire ASP.NET Security training series and I really learned a lot.

TheBeerHouse MVC Beta Now on CodePlex

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:01:14 GMT

Tired of bitching about Oxite? Here's a new MVC sample application to sink your teeth into -- an MVC version of the famous TheBeerHouse Starter Kit.

Detecting Session Timeouts using a ASP.Net MVC Action Filter

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:01:49 GMT

This article shows one way on how to detect a session timeout in an ASP.Net MVC application. The implementation uses a MVC action filter to detect when a session has timed out redirects the user to a Login page.

SQL Server 2008 Express with Management Tools

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:01:02 GMT

SQL Server 2008 Express database was released last week; but now Microsoft just released the Management tools and the Advanced Services additions that give you SQL Server 2008 Express Reporting Services

New ASP.NET MVC Videos and Tutorials

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:01:02 GMT

15 new ASP.NET MVC videos were just published at the http://www.ASP.net/mvc website. The first 10 videos are basic tutorials on the ASP.NET MVC framework. If you haven't had a chance to play with ASP.NET MVC yet, these tutorials are a great introduction. The second set of 5 videos is part of an ongoing video series: ASP.NET MVC Pair Programming. In these videos, I pair with a prominent community expert to build an entire ASP.NET MVC application from start to finish (because of time constraints - a very, very simple application). The goal is to emphasize the process of building a web application instead of the product.

A simple jQuery Client Centering Plugin

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:31:12 GMT

Centering content is a useful client side UI feature especially when working with pop ups or popup windows when displayed for the first time. Here's a little jQuery plug in that handles centering in the window and in other container elements easily.

40 CSS/JS Styling and Functionality Techniques

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:16:02 GMT

Designing effective web forms isn't easy, as we need to figure out more practical styling and functionality techniques to provide a great user experience. Recently there have been a number of noteworthy techniques such as styling different form fields, live validation, Context highlighting, trading options from field to another, slider controls and more - using CSS and different Javascript libraries. Below we present findings of search to more than 40 tutorials and demos to showcase the capabilities and robustness of CSS and Javascript.

SQL Server 2008 Management Studio tip: Status bar Custom Colors

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:16:02 GMT

"Here is a handy tip for those of you who work often with multiple SQL Server instances: Custom Colors for the connection status bar."

An Open Letter to the ALT.NET Community

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:31:03 GMT

It seems as if everyone in .net land has chimed in on the whole Entity Framework "Vote Of No Confidence" petition recently, and up until now I have mostly stayed on the sidelines. As with any seemingly risky move, I was quite torn on the issue. And to a certain extent, I still am ...

Getting started with Visual Studio 2008 Remote Debugging

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:40:03 GMT

In the past, Visual Studio Remote Debugging was not the easiest thing to set up. Using VS 2008 this process is much simpler.

Downgrade a VS 2008 .sln or .csproj to VS 2005

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:46:02 GMT

I just had to convert a Visual Studio 2008 Solution and Project to Visual Studio 2005. It is actually pretty straight forward. At least in my case...

Kigg - A Digg like application developed in ASP.NET MVC

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:46:02 GMT

Learn how to develop a Digg/DotNetKicks like application in ASP.NET MVC, LINQ To SQL and ASP.NET Ajax.

Object Initializers

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:00:52 GMT

A new feature of Visual Studio 2008 and it's C# 3.0 is Object Initalizers. This compiler feature can be used to set the values of properties without the need to create a special constructors. Even though you must have 2008 to use this feature, you don't have to target the 3.0 or 3.5 framework as it works just fine with the 2.0 framework.

dnrTV Aggregator Part 2 - LINQ to XML

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:46:02 GMT

In Part 1 of this series I went over the creation of a Windows Service and it's remote client. For this installment, I will be covering the use of "LINQ to XML" to gather the feed, and the saving and loading of the XML configuration files. I'll also show some code to download and unzip the videos using SharpZipLib from ic#code.

.NET Graphical Resources

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:01:02 GMT

So you just got done prototyping that new Winform or WPF application and the interface is a bit lacking. You are a programmer, not an artist after all. Well, never fear, free icons are here (wow that really rhymed). All kidding aside, most of us are not good at drawing images and icons, so we need some resources for these items.

LINQ to SQL Part 3

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:51:43 GMT

We have seen a couple examples of how to use LINQ to SQL in the previous posts LINQ to SQL Part 1, LINQ to SQL Part 2, and how easy it is to use. The next question now becomes, What if your company strictly uses stored procedures for all of its data accessing? Companies today can have stored procedures number from the hundreds to the thousands. With LINQ to SQL, you can still call your stored procedures and even mix and match the type styles.

LINQ to SQL Part 2

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:46:02 GMT

In LINQ to SQL Part 1 I used a very simple query, almost too simple. This time I want to take it a step up and add a few joins into the mix, and show how to handle them. Below is a standard TSQL query that will to pull the employee name and his/her territory and region from the Northwind database.

LINQ to SQL Part 1

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:31:02 GMT

I'm sure everyone so far has at least heard of LINQ. If you haven't, it is Microsoft's new technology for Language Integrated Querying. LINQ is part of the upcoming 3.5 .Net Framework which will be part of Visual Studio 2008 ( codename Orcas ).

Microsoft Launch Event 2008

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:21:12 GMT

It is launch time again for Microsoft, and this time it is for Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008. The one here in Tampa is not until May 8, but as soon as I can register for it I will. You can get more information and register on their launch web site, Heroes happen {here}.

Free Web.config editor

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:31:02 GMT

A free tool that enables editing the Web.config.

Free Ebooks from MsPress

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:36:29 GMT

Last week a co-worker let me know about these free E-books from Microsoft Press. It looks as if the LINQ book is in fact the full book while the other two on ASP.NET and SilverLight 1.0 are excerpts. More information can be found at the Microsoft Learning Portal.