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Concepts behind the C# 3.0 language

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:16:02 GMT

Concepts in C# 3.0

What is SCRUM?

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:46:01 GMT

Scrum is an iterative, incremental process for developing any product or managing any work. It produces a potentially shippable set of functionality at the end of every iteration. Read on for more.

Installing Vista Business on Virtual PC 2007

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:01:02 GMT

A photo tour showing the installation process for setting up Widows Vista on Virtual PC 2007.

Url Rewriting in ASP.NET (ScottGu)

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:16:02 GMT

People often ask me for guidance on how they can dynamically "re-write" URLs and/or have the ability to publish cleaner URL end-points within their ASP.NET web applications. This blog post summarizes a few approaches you can take to cleanly map or rewrite URLs with ASP.NET, and have the option to structure the URLs of your application however you want.

Amazing Vista Wallpapers

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:16:01 GMT

Did you know that more than 10,000 images were evaluated during the Vista wallpapers selection process ? Some of them was from amateur photographers recruited from Flickr, and even Microsoft employees who enjoy photography! Photographer Hamad Darwish provide on his website a photo collection of images taken during Microsoft's Windows Vista photoshoot and did not make the cut into Vista's Wallpaper Collection.

The IDE does NOT make the developer

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:46:01 GMT

Just a brief comparison of the highs and lows of both SharpDevelop and Visual Studio as well as a discussion of why and why not the quality of your IDE should even matter to a developer.

Virtual PC 2007 Released

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:16:01 GMT

Download the full version of Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 (both 32-bit and 64-bit versions available)

The Importance of understanding font

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:40:59 GMT

A real world example of fonts gone wrong and how to avoid it

The design-time experience for the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:01:01 GMT

Some things that need to be said about the design-time experience of the Control Toolkit

Point CompareValidator's ControlToCompare Attribute at a HiddenField

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:26:18 GMT

The CompareValidator does not allow you to point it's ControlToCompare attribute at a HiddenField. This article shows you a graceful way to get around this.

Try/Catch annoyances

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:34:52 GMT

A suggestion on how try/catch blocks could be improved for clarity.

Download Microsoft AJAX Library Cheat Sheets

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:26:46 GMT

This is the REAL article.

iPhone from Apple - video, voice, pda and music

Tue, 09 Jan 2007 20:02:57 GMT

Apple's long awaited iPhone has been announced. It's small, sexy and full of features. What we dared not hope for, a genuinely smart phone

Happy 1st Birthday DotNetKicks.com

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:01:04 GMT

DotNetKicks.com is 1 year old today. Over the past year the community has steadily grown and the quality of the main feed has steadily increased. 1,385 of you links have been posted to the homepage over this time. Thanks for making the site what it is.

.NET Format String Quick Reference/Cheat Sheet

Sat, 06 Jan 2007 01:31:01 GMT

All standard and custom DateTime and number format strings (for use with String.Format(), .ToString(), etc) in one handy document.

.Net Skills Curve

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:23:41 GMT

.Net manners in development and evolving is very developer nature and decreasing the gap between what the developer need to know and what to deliver .

Using Visual Studio 2005 on Vista

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:31:03 GMT

Article summarizing what is necessary to make it possible to develop and debug with visual studio on Vista.

Vista Sucks

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 09:01:02 GMT

Milan Negovan is not happy with Vista.

Windows Vista Disappointment

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:01:02 GMT

excerpt: "After installing Windows Vista Ultimate RTM on my notebook computer this week, I believe that Windows Vista has accomplished its intended goal: To generate dissatisfaction with my current hardware."

Installing .NET 3.0 Framework on Windows XP SP2

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:57:45 GMT

Installing new stuff on your PC can be scary even when Microsoft offer assurances that everything will "probably" be fine. IThis article chronicles the installation of the new Microsoft .NET 3.0 Framework on Windows XP.

What a few keystrokes can do

Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:13:54 GMT

It's amazing how much code can be written with so few keystrokes.

ASP.NET AJAX AnimationExtender Using a Condition

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:05:25 GMT

The AJAX Control Toolkit AnimationExtender provides a framework for adding animation to web pages. One of the options is a Condition Animation which executes a script conditionally based on the boolean result of the provided conditionScript.

Handling Google Maps API Keys with ASP.NET MasterPages and Web.config

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 20:03:51 GMT

Juggling Google Maps API keys for a single application between multiple locations (local development, testing server, production server, etc...) can be a pain. Here's a trick that will simplify your life.

Adding an Onclick Event to a RadioButtonList ListItem

Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:30:52 GMT

The title says it all, except that the example code includes a ModalPopupExtender which contains the RadioButtonList. The onclick event populates a TextBox on the page.

Safari and Firefox Support Improved in ASP.NET AJAX Beta2

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:01:04 GMT

Support for drag and drop of ASP.NET 2.0 web parts has been added for Safari and Firefox.