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CodeRage III virtual Developer and Database Conference

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:08:00 GMT

It's here! And, we're so glad you've decided to join us. We're looking forward to seeing you at the Opening Keynote on Monday, December 1st at 5:00am Pacific and during all the rest of the sessions this week. Some sessions to look forward to RAD Studio Product Address, How to Mashup your Delphi Applications with Web-based Forms, 100 Delphi IDE Tips and Hints, Advanced Swing Development using JBuilder 2008 Swing Designer and more...

Expand the Power of Your BI by Maximizing Functionality

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:55:03 GMT

Unleash the power your BI systems already hold - just waiting for you to capitalize on their functionality. Learn when, where, and how to implement these BI features in this free online event - December 17, 2008. Discover how you can enable enterprise BI on the Microsoft SQL Server BI stack.

Make Image Buttons A Part Of Input Fields

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:22:52 GMT

If you ever saw how products like Microsoft CRM look like you probably noticed there are input fields that have "embedded" image buttons inside them. If your clients saw that, there is a probability that they will want to have it in their applications.

Microsoft Virtual TechDays 2009

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:03:48 GMT

Microsoft Virtual TechDays is back - don't miss on this opportunity to get trained on the latest Microsoft technologies. You have the opportunity to learn and explore how Microsoft products and tools can help you quickly address your most time-consuming development challenges. Join fellow developers, architects, IT Professionals, designers and project managers at this online event to interact with the best-in-class technologists attending the event.

NxtGenUG SQL Server 2008 With Eric Nelson

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:02:29 GMT

We'll take a look at what's coming down the line for database developers with SQL Server 2008. We'll look at changes to the core engine and the T-SQL language, changes in the toolset and we'll also take a good look at what's coming with ADO.NET V3.0 in terms of the new Entity Framework and the new Microsoft Synchronisation Framework. If you're a SQL Server developer, come along and see what's in store for 2008.

Dustin Campbell on the Future of VB in VS2010

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:28:25 GMT

Dustin Campbell, a self-professed "IDE guy", is speaking at the .NETDeveloper's Association of Redmond this evening, on the future ofVisual Basic in Visual Studio 2010, and I feel compelled, based on myearlier "dissing" of VB in my thoughts of PDC post, to give VB a littlelove here.

Explorations into "M"

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:15:03 GMT

Having freshly converted both the Visual Studio 2010 and Oslo SDK VPC images that we received at PDC 2008 last month to VMWare images, I figure it's time to dive into M. At PDC, the Addison-Wesley folks were giving away copies of "The 'Oslo' Modeling Language" book, which is apparently official canon of the "M" language for Oslo, so I flip to page 1 and start reading

SQL Server Scheduled Backups with NAnt

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:30:57 GMT

When installing and using production web applications, backup is always a must. I have written about SQL Server Backup before and this post would expend on that. The main goal here is to create a solution that periodically backs up your database.

C# 4.0 Feature Focus - Part 1 - Optional Parameters

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:19:47 GMT

Welcome to the first post in my new C# 4.0 Feature Focus series. Today we'll start by taking a look at optional parameters, a long-standing request from the community that made it to C# 4.0. By itself, the feature is definitely useful but in conjunction with the mission to make COM interop easier, there's even more value to it.

First In-Depth Look At Microsoft's Oslo And The "M" Modeling Language

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:42:29 GMT

Microsoft's PDC is taking place this week and more details were shared with the attendees about project Oslo, an effort announced last year to drastically improve the use of models across the application lifecycle.

Overview of Databinding in Silverlight

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:09:20 GMT

The goal the below code is to bind data using XAML. So, for the example I used MLB Pitching stats for 2008, created a Pitcher object, then a PitcherCollection object, and finally used XAML to define an instance of the PitcherCollection. The result is the Page.xaml.cs does not have any code in it, but a list box is fully bound to a data source.

Deploying an ASP.Net MVC web application to IIS7

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:22:57 GMT

The next installment in my exciting series where I capture what I know about deploying Dovetail Mobile Agent which could be boiled down to How To Be a Web Server Administrator in the year 2008. Moving from IIS6 this time we take a look at getting an ASP.Net MVC application deployed to IIS7. Thankfully this is pretty easy.

How to Parse and view Outloook .msg Files programmatically

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:16:02 GMT

This article shows that how can you parse and view Outlook .msg files using your own code in C# applications where Microsoft Office Outlook is not required for it. A separate Outlook msg Viewer DemoAspose.Network library. (attached with this article) is also available to guide you for parsing and reading Outlook .msg files using

Say What? VB 9.0 Error "BC36593: Expression of type 'X' is not query..

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:15:37 GMT

What Do VB 9.0 Error "BC36593: Expression of type 'X' is not queryable." And C# 3.0 Error "CS1936: Could not find an implementation of the query pattern for source type 'X'." Really Mean? While preparing for another one of my posts, soon to be published, I received the following

Managed Synchronization Primitives and Thread Apartment States

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:36:50 GMT

The managed synchronization mechanisms, including Monitor, WaitHandle.WaitAny, ManualResetEvent, ReaderWriterLock, Thread.Join, GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers and the rest of the family are not just a thin platform adaptation layer on top of the Win32 API. The CLR needs to know exactly which threads are currently waiting for a synchronization mechanisms for a variety of reasons. To mention two of them:

Microsoft .NET 3.5 SP1 Released: More Controls, Streamlined Setup...

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:11:24 GMT

The .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) delivers more controls, a streamlined setup, improved start-up performance, and powerful new graphics features for client development and rich data scaffolding, improved AJAX support, and other improvements for Web development.

Core .NET Refcard Available - Download Now

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:58:28 GMT

The .NET Framework has been growing steadily since its birth - the API for .NET 3.5 is far bigger than that of .NET 1.0. With so much to remember, you'll find this refcard useful for those core pieces of information which you need so often but which (if you're like me) you can never quite recall without looking them up

SelectMany: Probably The Most Powerful LINQ Operator

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:24:29 GMT

Hi there back again. Hope everyone is already exploiting the power of LINQ on a fairly regular basis. Okay, everyone knows by now how simple LINQ queries with a where and select (and orderby, and Take and Skip and Sum, etc) are translated from a query comprehension into an equivalent expression for further translation:

Practical Concurrency Patterns: Immutability (Freezables)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:29:35 GMT

Another very simple pattern builds on the foundation of the Safe-Unsafe Cache pattern. What is the easiest way to protect data from multi-threaded access and to incur the minimal performance cost while doing so? Making it read-only!

Curry for Dummies

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:09:26 GMT

Functional programming concepts aren't that hard but sometimes a little abstract. In this post I'll try to demystify the concept of currying, or - in simple words - partial function application. If you wonder where the name "curry" comes from, it's named after Haskell Curry, one of the creative minds behind functional programming

Linq : Folding Left, Right And The LINQ Aggregation Operator

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:24:54 GMT

A few days ago I blogged about Curry for Dummies, outlining one of the typical techniques employed in functional programming. What I didn't say back then is I'm about to reuse the "Curry" function with formal substitution mechanism for this subsequent blog post.

How IE8 Enables Silverlight Deep Linking and Browser Back/Forward Nav

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:02:15 GMT

One of new features in the next version of Internet Explorer (IE8) was created specifically for AJAX applications and can add significant functionality to Silverlight applications as well. Here is the description of the feature (from Better AJAX Development)

Build Your SubSonic DAL With NAnt

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:44:33 GMT

SubSonic is a .NET ORM (object relational mapping) tool with plenty of extras. In the ORM market, it can be compared to other tool such as Linq and NHibernate. I chose SubSonic over NHibernate, because of the ease of configuration or Linq, because I am still programming for .NET 2.0. That being said, there are three different ways to generate your data access layer using SubSonic

C# Refcard Available - Download Now

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:47:34 GMT

A C# MVP since 2003, Jon Skeet wrote this reference card for use in whatever type of C# project you're working on, and whichever version of C# you're using. It covers many topics, from the basics of string escape sequences to the brave new world of query expressions and LINQ in C# 3. Features include String Literals, Delegates, Declaring Events, Generics, Extension Methods, Query Expressions (C# 3), Hot Tips and more.

Visual Studio 2008 And .NET 3.5 Keynote Interview

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:16:40 GMT

TechEd Developers with Soma Somasegar, Corporate Vice President, Developer Division - details the news announced for developers in today's keynote. Soma encourages developers to get prepared for Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5. He also talks about the new opportunities for partners and explains how developers and end users will benefit from the Microsoft Sync Framework.