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Vb.Net one better than C#

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:31:02 GMT

This is the first time I have envied VB over C#. Here's a thing that is useful and you can do in Vb.Net, but not in C#.

Know Every HTML Tag There Is

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:16:09 GMT

The question is do you know all the HTML tags? Do you know exactly how they work and what each tag does? And the most important of all, how each tag acts in each browser?

Launch Firefox Instead Of Internet Explorer When Debugging

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:46:02 GMT

This article tells you how to launch Firefox instead of Intenet Explorer when running an ASP.NET web application in debug mode. This is something I needed to troubleshoot a project that presented a problem only in Firefox.

Matt'sFeedback on ASP.NET AJAX Roadmap

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:16:02 GMT

Matt Berseth sharing his ideas and feedback about ASP.NET AJAX Future.

"Using" magic or working with type aliases

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:01:02 GMT

Generics in C# allow us specify and construct rather complex types. But the more types we put into generic type the more clumsy it becomes. Learn how one can deal with complex generic types.

So What's Your Personal (Developer) Brand?

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:46:02 GMT

I am increasingly being asked by members of my team how they can further themselves within the company. While this is certainly an option - and a popular one - it is not the only track to follow. You could choose to become a technical specialist, an architect or even a technical salesperson. But whatever path you choose to follow your ability to achieve it will be dependent on how you develop your own personal brand - in other words the way you portray yourself to others will directly reflect the opportunities that are presented to you.

Running Applications in IronRuby

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:46:03 GMT

Simple as that. Shows you how to get a Ruby app running in IronRuby. Who doesn't want to write Ruby on .net!?

Getting started with custom SharePoint Event Receivers

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:16:03 GMT

In this post I describe how to create a custom SharePoint Event Receiver using the Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint Services.

Asp.Net: write, read, deleted and append cookie

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:46:03 GMT

asp.net use cookie code.

Creating full-blown WPF applications within minutes using Vidyano

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:31:03 GMT

Vidyano is a new product that allows you to literally create WPF applications, optionally running on top of Windows Workflow, within minutes. The July 2008 CTP, as well as a quickstart tutorial, just became available as public downloads. The screencast is a quick overview on some of Vidyano's initial features, it also shows you how to apply a workflow state machine as an engine behind a pagecontroller. More info and tutorials will become available in the upcoming days/weeks.

Evolution of C# delegate syntax from .NET 1.x to 3.5

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:16:02 GMT

Evolution of C# delegate syntax from C# 1 - C# 3.

A .NET Assembly for Cloning Objects with Arbitrary Field Value Changes

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:01:03 GMT

Rick says "The IcManipulator is based on Whizzo's Object Cloning IL Code. Instead of just blindly copying fields my code grabs values out of a hash table and places them in lieu of the old values. In this way private fields in a class can be altered." Free download Alpha 1 of the IcManipulator is available.

Open Source ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Portal - new and improved

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:46:03 GMT

A new release of Dropthings, open source ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX portal. Features many performance and scalability techniques and a new design. Showcases: - 10 ASP.NET Performance and Scalability Secrets. - Fast ASP.NET page rendering by deferred script loading. - Load large amount of Javascripts in batch and thus load AJAX sites a lot faster. - Fast Streaming AJAX proxy that solves double downloading problems and continuously streams content from external domain. - Making best use of cache for high performance website. - On-demand UI loading on AJAX websites.

Getting Started with TDD

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:31:02 GMT

Getting started with Test Driven Development can be challenging. In this blog post, Steve offers some advice on how to get started either for a brand new project or one that already in maintenance mode.

Creating/Using Code Snippets in Visual Studio 2008

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:16:14 GMT

Microsoft Regional Director for Belgium Peter Himschoot recorded a Chopsticks video explaining how to use the code snippets in Visual Studio 2008. Playtime: 14 minutes.

Exploring ShadeTree Features, Part 1: Static Reflection with Reflectio

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:31:08 GMT

Some beautiful code.