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Windows Phone 7 Line Up Announced

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 06:00:52 GMT

A definitive list of all Windows Phone 7 Devices (and their carriers) set for release in early November

Automating Web Deployment using Windows Installer XML (WIX)

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:00:52 GMT

Deployment of web sites is usually done by copying the compiled ASP.NET web site files into the target virtual directory using Copy Web Site or Publish web site features in Visual Studio and manually creating and configuring the Web Site in IIS. Though this method is simple, it involves lot of manual effort in verifying the Pre Requisites, Creating/Modifying or Configuring the Web sites in IIS. We can automate this whole process by building a simple Windows Installer Package using WIX.

WhyLinuxIsBetter.net needs better reasons

Sat, 23 May 2009 13:36:56 GMT

I enjoy going in debates with Linux fans, and I always enjoy reading about Linux and how it evolves, and how every single calendar year Linux fans consider it Linux Desktop year, however this time I need to write this reply on what is listed on http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/ because some of the reasons just don't make sense, and it is always the same Linux 2009 vs Windows 9x kind of reasons I will go through them one by one, and remember this is my own opinion from my experience, it is not by any means Microsoft's opinion

IIS7 Rewrite module CTP

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:58:02 GMT

Finally a neat solution for the nasty problem IIS url rewriting, this solution doesn solve the problem only for ASP.net, but because it works on IIS level, it can be used with PHP, ColdFusion, ASP Classic, ..... etc

Meet the C# 4.0 team

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:16:05 GMT

... and some dude from the VB team. Anders and the guys in room 2543, building 41 (where C# was born) talk about the new features that will be in the next version of C#. I so wanted to blogspam this one. Enjoy your direct link.

IronPython Studio

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 06:01:02 GMT

IronPython Studio is a free full IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for the Python programming language. It is based on the existing IronPython example that is included in the VS SDK. IronPython Studio is based on the Visual Studio 2008 Shell runtime (royalty free) and can be installed without requiring any version of Visual Studio.

C#.Next, What do you expect?

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:04:50 GMT

I have been searching for any clue about the next version of C# and what the features to be included, and I finally found something on Charlie Calvert's blog.

Using WebHttpBinding & JSON Support in WCF

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:11:09 GMT

Create a simple chat application From the page: "One of the most ineteresting and useful features is the JSON support and how easy you can enable the JSON support for your current WCF services by changing the configurations"

Object Orientation In JavaScript II [Inheritance]

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:01:02 GMT

well there are two ways inheritance can be implemented in JavaScript

free e books

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 03:01:04 GMT

Microsoft has opened 3 MS Press books completely FREE for public.

LINQ let Keyword (How did I miss that)

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 06:01:04 GMT

This is strange, because I've been working with LINQ for almost 2 years since (March 2006 CTP), and I've never noticed the new keyword "let" which is used inside LINQ queries to create temporarily variables.

Microsoft Parallel Extensions (PFX) or PLINQ is now a CTP

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 06:54:01 GMT

At last now we can play around with PLINQ :)

Catch hackers red handed using http modules

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 04:19:34 GMT

Here is a nice trick to help you to detect hackers in action while trying to hack your web applications. The idea is very simple, we want to set a layer there between your application and the internet to watch the web traffic for anything suspicious. These suspicious things might be a query string that contains a XSS script or a SQL injection query. So we will monitor the web traffic that is passing through that layer for well known and common patterns of attack methods that most hackers use to scan your web applications for vulnerabilities. We will use http modules to implement that layer, here is some dirty code to demonstrate the idea.

Free Google Charts API Released

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:46:05 GMT

I'm not sure if this is .NET related enough, but it's got the potential to be very useful for any web development. You just pass the data and chart parameters on the QueryString and it returns a PNG with your chart. Pretty nifty.

Microsoft Live Labs - Volta

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:01:03 GMT

The Volta technology preview is a developer toolset that enables you to build multi-tier web applications by applying familiar techniques and patterns. First, design and build your application as a .NET client application, then assign the portions of the application to run on the server and the client tiers late in the development process. The compiler creates cross-browser JavaScript for the client tier, web services for the server tier, and communication, serialization, synchronization, security, and other boilerplate code to tie the tiers together.

PLINQ = Parallel FX = PFX = The new Concurrent World

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:01:02 GMT

?Microsoft is developing a number of technologies to simplify the expression of parallelism in code. An example of this work is Parallel Extensions for the .NET Framework (PFX), a managed programming model for data parallelism, task parallelism, scheduling, and coordination on parallel hardware.

BlogEngine.NET needs translators

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 18:31:03 GMT

We are just about to ship the next release, but we need help translating a resource file (.resx). If you can, please help out. You will be credited with name and URL on the official BlogEngine.NET website.

Performance consequence of DateTime.Parse()

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:01:01 GMT

This post explains the performance cost of using DateTime.Parse() and goes on to explain a possible solution.

SOA via WCF - Part 2-

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:11:46 GMT

This is the second part of my presentation in SilverKey Demo Day 2 (SKDD 2) last July, for the first part, Check Here, you will also find the presentation slides & samples

Calculating Baseball Statistics With LINQ

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:46:01 GMT

Unfortunately, like most Microsoft-authored samples, they are focused around boring business use cases. Maybe it's just me, but I like seeing innovative language features demonstrating something other than calculating the average price for in-stock products (yawn).

One Shell Command to delete all svn hidden folders

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:31:02 GMT

If you are using Subversion source control, you will be familiar with the .svn folders that SVN adds to any folder under the source control, these folders are used to keep track of the current state of the folder, but sometimes, I want to copy my code and get rid of these folders, and instead of doing this manually which becomes a headache if you have a very deep hierarchy of folders, this is a Shell Script comes to the rescue

The most common software security mistakes

Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:16:02 GMT

Through my humble experience with software development I've seen developers making fetal security mistakes without even feeling that they are doing something wrong. So I've decided to gather these common mistakes in a list so it would be easier to avoid. Through this article I will give examples regardless to the used technology but the concepts applies to all technologies. So here we go

Don't rely on obfuscation

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:31:02 GMT

A white paper demonstrating the weaknesses of managed code obfuscation known protection techniques

SOA via WCF - Part 1

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 22:01:43 GMT

# Part 1- Service Oriented Architecture * Background * Motivations * What is a service ? * Message Exchange Patterns (MEP's) * Industry Standards * Web Standards

.NET Presentations I would actually attend

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:01:02 GMT

Including gems such as "A guide to Resharper because I want a free license" and "Pimp Your UI With AJAX - Javascript doesn't suck, but *you* do"