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ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 Release

Wed, 28 May 2008 06:16:07 GMT

From ScottGu's weblog - "This morning we released the Preview 3 build of the ASP.NET MVC framework. I blogged details last month about an interim source release we did that included many of the changes with this Preview 3 release. Today's build includes some additional features not in last month's drop, some nice enhancements/refinements, as well as Visual Studio tool integration and documentation."

CSS Message Boxes for different message types

Fri, 23 May 2008 01:01:04 GMT

Can you believe this: Few days ago I went to my bank to check my credit score with the Credit Bureau. The bank official typed in my personal data and sent a request. Web application responded by displaying a yellow message box with an exclamation icon saying that data processing is still in progress. He checked several more times, but he didn't notice that at one moment the message changed to "Account available". But the message box hasn't changed. He continued to check a few more times and eventually he realized that the request was successful. I don't know what was in the minds of developers and designers who created this application, but it certainly wasn't the user. This poor bank official was really frustrated. I can't imagine what the rest of the application looks like.

7 tricks to simplify your programs with LINQ

Mon, 19 May 2008 17:31:03 GMT

Ever since I learned about LINQ, I keep discovering new ways to use it to improve my code. Every trick makes my code a little bit faster to write, and a little bit easier to read. This posting summarizes some of the tricks that I came across. I will show you how to use LINQ to: initialize an array, iterate over multiple arrays in a single loop, generate a random sequence, ...

ASP.NET 3.5 Book from Amazon for only $16

Wed, 07 May 2008 00:16:04 GMT

ASP.NET 3.5 Book from Amazon for only $16

Use Twitter To Stay On Top Of The .NET Programming News

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:31:02 GMT

Do you use twitter? If you don't you should, it is a great way to find out what is happening in the programming world. Here is a list of some well known programmers and their twitter URL. Phil Haack, Jeff Atwood, Scott Hanselman, Dare Obasanjo, John Lam and many more are on this list

First Look At Silverlight 2

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:46:02 GMT

Scott Gu annouces Silverlight 2 and describes a sample application that should be of interest to anyone developing web applications to consume data from public APIs.

Top 10 Best Practices for Production ASP.NET Applications

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:01:02 GMT

A list of some things to pay attention to when dealing with production ASP.NET applications.

VS 2008 Web Development Hot-Fix Roll-Up Available

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:16:03 GMT

VS 2008 Web Development Hot-Fix Roll-Up Available, as posted to ScottGu's blog. Numerous fixes, including the "source code editor freeze" issue that a few people have experienced.

Scotts new Linklist - ASP.NET, WPF, AJAX, VS, .NET

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:31:02 GMT

A new linklist from Scott.

.NET Framework Library Source Code now available

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:46:02 GMT

Scott Guthrie announces that the .NET framework source code can now accessed in Visual Studio

Dynamic LINQ (Part 1: Using the LINQ Dynamic Query Library)

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:46:03 GMT

While writing type-safe queries is great for most scenarios, there are cases where you want the flexibility to dynamically construct queries on the fly. For example: you might want to provide business intelligence UI within your application that allows an end-user business analyst to use drop-downs to build and express their own custom queries/views on top of data.

Silverlight Roadmap

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:31:02 GMT

check out the details

Scott Guthrie: Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Released

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:16:03 GMT

Scott's announcement on the release of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5.

Visual Studio 2008 RTM available for download

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:46:03 GMT

MSDN subscribers can now download final RTM version of Visual Studio 2008.

Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite RTM now available on MSDN

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:01:03 GMT

According to Frans Bouma VS 2008 has started to appear on MSDN Subscriber downloads. Comment if you can see it on there (I can't yet :D)

ASP.Net MVC Framework Part 1

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:31:02 GMT

Scott Guthrie provides some great insight into the upcoming ASP.Net MVC framework.

"Click to Activate" in IE going away!

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:01:03 GMT

Update for IE to be included in Vista SP1, XP SP3 and standalone update available starting in December.

Adding Row Number to SQL SELECT result

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:16:04 GMT

This article will explain how we can add sequence row number to a SQL select query starting from 1 onwards. This can be achieved by using built in SQL function ROW_NUMBER(). This function simply generates row number for each row in the result. You can specify the partition and order by criteria.

Visual Studio 2008: New Features Worth Mentioning

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:31:02 GMT

There are tons of new features in Visual Studio 2008. These are the most compelling reasons to upgrade.

ScottGu VS.net performance tips for machine

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:16:02 GMT

Specifically - "what type of machine do you recommend I get for doing development with Visual Studio?"

Scott Guthrie Stories

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:31:02 GMT

Index to articles on CSharp and Web development by Scott Guthrie

VS 2008 JavaScript Intellisense for Silverlight

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:46:02 GMT

Justin-Josef Angel earlier today released an awesome Silverlight 1.0 JavaScript Intellisense CodePlex Project that helps dramatically with this. It includes some nice annotated JavaScript helper methods that provide the ability to work with any XAML element in Silverlight with full intellisense in VS 2008.