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Signs of a GOOD Manager / Team Lead

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:16:02 GMT

Characteristics / attitudes / process of good management & leadership: 1) Have a passion about technology but

Common Language Runtime Beginner Series Part 1:-CLR Basics

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:05:46 GMT

CLR or Common Language Runtime is a very important part of whole .net Framework and its utter importance is not seen by most of us as it works behind the scenes.This beginner series of my articles will help you to know what actually CLR is in simple terms and what are its basic features.As of now this articles tells the basics about the CLR and why is it useful over others.

27 Free Must-have Online Collaboration Tools

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:46:12 GMT

hese days teams can be dispersed all over the globe. With outsourcing, telecommuting, distance learning and complex project collaboration, it's often helpful to have tools that can assist with the various collaborative tasks need to be done by dispersed teams. I've put together a great list of 27 free...

Sharing Master Pages amongst Applications by Embedding it in a Dll

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:56:22 GMT

If you need to share Master Pages across applications and you don't want to create a ton of virtual directories, [here] is a way to do that. You can embed the Master Page as a Resource in your Dll and use VirtualPathProvider mechanism to call the Resource.

The problem with SVN

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:01:02 GMT

Are you working on the most recent code? Read more...

Taking a look at the various ways to implement Binding in Asp.Net MVC

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:46:13 GMT

A short screen casts that takes a look at the various ways to implement Binding in Asp.Net MVC

New ASP.NET Charting Control

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:31:03 GMT

From ScottGu's blog. Brand new, Free, ASP.NET 3.5 chart control. It looks very nice!

What Gives? Microsofts Code Generation Tool

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:31:12 GMT

In a world of Microsoft and third party applications, out comes t4. t4 is a code generation tool that can compete with CodeSmith, but its FREE and built right into Visual Studio. It has been years since the first edition with very little publication of the actual application. t4 is a free code generation engine from Microsoft that underpins the Domain Specific Languages and Software Factory toolkits.

Adobe Flex reaches out to .NET developers

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:01:19 GMT

An Adobe partner have today announced a free plug-in to allow .NET developers to write Flex front-ends to their applications entirely within Visual Studio, with full debugging and editing support.

Update on Silverlight 2 - and a glimpse of Silverlight 3

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:16:21 GMT

ScottGu unveils the plans for Silverlight 3, shipping next year

Preventing Double Form Posts

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:01:09 GMT

Most posts on this topic focus on disabling the submit button that causes the post. This works fine when you only have one submit control. But, if you have multiple buttons and/or link buttons that can cause a post and want to avoid potential conflicts if a user clicks a second submit control before the first one has been processed then this is really simply approach.

SubSonic 3.0 Preview 2

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:16:04 GMT

Rob Conery: Over the last week I've made massive improvements and upgrades to SubSonic 3.0 and the templates that it comes with. I haven't been this obsessive and inspired since I created SubSonic in the first place, and I have to tell you I am more than stoked to see this pull together.

Writing Tests to Catch Memory Leaks in .NET

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:16:02 GMT

Although Microsoft will claim that it is "not possible to have a memory leak in managed code", most seasoned .NET developers will laugh at that statement. It turns out that it is very easy to leak memory -- just keep a referencing object around longer than the referenced object, and you can leak. Here is a way to write tests to catch leaks.

XNA Game Studio 3.0

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:01:20 GMT

The good folks who put together our gaming tools have released XNA Game Studio 3.0.

jQuery Intellisense Updates from Microsoft

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:46:21 GMT

With Microsoft's recent releases of the jQuery Intellisense file plus the hotfix released this week using jQuery in Visual Studio has become a lot easier and more convenient. Here is a little more detail on what you need and how it works.

SubSonic 3.0 Preview 1: Linq Has Landed

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:16:16 GMT

Rob Conery explains some features of SunSonic 3.0 Preview 1

A case study of bad API design: ASP.Net MVC Routing

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:10:14 GMT

I am doing a spike in ASP.Net MVC now (and I'll talk about this at length at another time). I hit the wall when I wanted to do something that is trivially simple in MonoRail, limit a routing parameter to be a valid integer.

SQL Server 2008 New Features

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:23:52 GMT

This article explains you 50 new features of Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

C# Structs

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:16:02 GMT

What are the benefit of structs in C#? When can they improve performance and memory use? See examples and benchmarks as well as screens from CLRProfiler and the Visual Studio debugger. Is this is the best struct article in the world? Maybe!

C# 4.0 New Features Part 2.1 - default parameter intrigue

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:46:02 GMT

Do default parameters work the way you think they do? Probably Not!

LINQ To SQL Gets Kicked to the Curb... Needs A Good Home!

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:16:02 GMT

Great post on why L2S needs to be supported by the community and why a L2S targeted at the community is a good idea.

C# 4.0 New Features Part 2 - default and named parameters

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:16:03 GMT

New feature in C# 4.0 number 2, default and named parameters! Look at what they are, and how they are used in C# 4.0.

WPF Toolkit adds Ribbon Control to .NET 3.5 SP1

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:31:03 GMT

The first release of the new WPF Toolkit was released today. This toolkit includes a new Ribbon control as well as the following: new WPF DataGrid, DatePicker/Calendar, and VisualStateManger. The coolest feature of this Toolkit (IMO) is the new Ribbon control. In .NET 4.0 there will be a ribbon control baked in, but thanks to the WPF Toolkit we have access to utilize the new Ribbon control today in WPF with .NET 3.5 SP1!

Generic Variance in C# 4.0

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:46:12 GMT

A simple description of the new variance support for generics in the yet-to-be-released C# 4.0.

Looking for a Lot of .NET Code Samples - They Are Right Under Your Nos

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:16:11 GMT

You have a wealth of code samples on your computer, here is how to find them!!!! An Easter Egg from Microsoft.