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The future of .NET, Visual Studio and more

Mon, 26 May 2008 09:31:04 GMT

The career pages of Microsoft give hints what the future holds for us developers. This post picks out the interesting little details about future versions of Visual Studio, .NET Framework, SharePoint, SQL Server etc and analyzes a bit what they could mean.

Using BlogEngine.net as a general purpose CMS part I

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:46:03 GMT

In this series of posts, I will show how I converted a small website from just standard .aspx pages into a site where all pages are editable by Windows Live Writer and via an online interface. In Part I of this series I will just set some background on how I am approaching the creation of this lightweight CMS.

20 Famous Software Disasters

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:31:02 GMT

"To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer." -Paul Ehrlich

SQLite on .NET - Get up and running in 3 minutes.

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:16:02 GMT

The quick and dirty guide to setting up SQLite with .Net in 3 minutes. Small, fast, and ass-kicking like a transactional Jackie Chan. Good background information and tutorial to get you from download to querying in no time flat.

Ajax Control Toolkit - Multipart Series Article

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:01:02 GMT

A multi-part series article on Ajax Control Toolkit.

DotNetKicks "Kick It" plugin for Windows Live Writer

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:46:02 GMT

I want a DotNetKicks "kick it" image+link on some posts, but not all - and there is no automated way to do that. So I created an "Insert Kick It Counter..." plugin for Windows Live Writer to insert a placeholder, and a Wordpress plugin to insert the image+link when the placeholder is found. Hopefully somebody else will find it useful also!

SubSonic ASP.NET Providers

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 22:16:03 GMT

I am announcing the SubSonic ASP.NET Providers (now only Membership and Roles) using the SubSonic DAL and the official Beta 1 release.

43 Exceptionally Useful AJAX Applications

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:46:03 GMT

Usability on websites is exploding right now. AJAX has enabled web developers everywhere to add functionality to their sites like never before. They've gathered 43 extremely useful AJAX applications for use on any website.

Scott Guthrie announces ASP.NET MVC framework at Alt.Net Conf

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 14:01:02 GMT

Some more information from ALT.NET on the new ASP.NET MVC framework.

10 awesome Windows Live Writer plugins for developer

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 00:31:02 GMT

I've made this list of 10 plugins for Windows Live Writer. Some of these plugins will help beatify your published code, while others will help you create code archives or retrieve a link from MSDN.

Eliminating the jump to top of page behavior of the Ajax Toolkit's Rat

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 02:01:02 GMT

The Ajax Control Toolkit provides a number of Ajax-enabled server controls and extenders that make it very easy to add Ajax functionality to any ASP.NET driven site. One of these controls is the Rating control. One issue with the rating control is that when clicked, the user experiences a jump to top of page behavior. This article examines how to eliminate this issue.

More than 100 Web 2.0 Online Generators

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 09:31:02 GMT

Here the list of online generators specifically for web 2.0 design: enjoy it!

Watermarking PDF documents using HttpHandlers

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:31:20 GMT

This article shows how to watermark PDFs using the open source PDF generation library iTextSharp, C#, and ASP.NET.

.NET TOOLBOX: 25+ Tools and Tips For Working With .NET

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:06:52 GMT

Microsoft is going to be letting developers take a look at the source code for .NET, but for those of you still in the trenches, coding away, we've gathered 25+ tools to help you with your daily tasks.