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hornget - apt-get for .Net OSS

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:00:01 GMT

Hornget provides an apt-get like service for common .Net Open Source projects. Want the latest NHibernate, Castle ActiveRecord, Rhino Commons but don't want to go through the headache of the numerous build processes and dependencies? Hornget supplies a daily a build of a number of OSS projects trunks as a downloadable Zip to ease upgrading to the latest versions

Jumpstart TV Launches Free How-To Videos

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:01:02 GMT

Jumpstart TV has removed its login system and now you can watch dozens of how-to videos for free.

Sandcastle - DotNet Framework documentation generator

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 02:00:08 GMT

Today I found interesting CTP announcement from Microsoft - Sandcastle. Enjoy new framework for building msdn style documentation. I used NDOC in my previous projects, so it will be nice to compare new MS documentation generation framework with NDOC. Ah Microsoft we wait this product two long. I hope it will be well integrated to Orcas enviroment.

The .NET Show: IIS 7.0

Sun, 21 May 2006 14:05:01 GMT

Shipping with Windows Vista will be the latest version of Internet Information Services, which includes a broad collection of features and capabilities that have been anxiously awaited by both developers and IT Pros. Scott Guthrie and Bill Staples describe and demo new features in IIS 7.0.

Microsoft release CodePlex

Tue, 16 May 2006 19:45:00 GMT

You can use CodePlex to create new projects to share with your fellow developers around the world, join others who have already started their own project, or simply use the applications on this site and provide feedback.

Upcoming ASP.NET Releases in April

Sun, 02 Apr 2006 20:53:00 GMT

Upcoming ASP.NET Releases in April by ScottGu

4 ways to send a PDF file to the IE Client in ASP.NET

Sun, 26 Mar 2006 00:17:00 GMT

This blog entry shows you four different ways to send a PDF file to the IE Client. You also have the full source code zipped along.

Karmencita - object query language for .NET

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 23:09:00 GMT

Karmencita is an object query language for .NET . It's purpose is to allow easy querying from in memory structured data. Here is some sample code : // get an array of running processes Process[] proc = Process.GetProceses(); // initialize Karmencita with the type of object to be queries ObjectQuery<Process> oq = new ObjectQuery<Process>(); // write the query string query = "BasePriority > 3 and Responding = true and MainWindowTitle Like C%"; //run the query Process[] processes = (Process[]) oq.Select(proc, query);

K2.net 2003 Workflow

Tue, 07 Mar 2006 17:00:30 GMT

The BPM software solution for .NET. K2.net 2003 enables rapid solution assembly to optimize interactions between people, systems and processes and delivers visibility into process-driven activities to promptly identify ways of optimizing the process: addressing bottlenecks, introducing escalations and exception management. K2.net also helps customers derive significant value from their Microsoft investments by leveraging K2.net and its powerful and seamless integration across a range of products.

I coulnd't do regex coding without this

Fri, 03 Mar 2006 02:25:00 GMT

After discovering this tool, I just can not imagine doing any regex coding in .net without this. It is free, and saves you tons of debug time and compilations. All you need is to play with your regex on this tool, perfect it, and then write the code. just love it!

Consuming WebServices with SSL and HTTP BASIC Authentication

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 21:53:00 GMT

Excellent article on how to have web services check SSL certificate status and over-ride that default behavior based on the CertificateProblem enum. It also covers how to use BASIC authentication with SSL on the web service as well.

Using InfoCards for User-Centered Identity

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:50:00 GMT

As a taste of upcoming MIX06 sessions, Kim Cameron presents a thumbnail sketch of how InfoCards bring an architecture for identity to the Internet, a demo of how it works and a peek at how you integrate it into a Web page. See Kim's full session on this topic at the MIX06 conference.

Introduction to Web 2.0 Irish Lecture

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:08:50 GMT

An introduction to Web2.0 Technologies, Business & Marketing implications and code based demonstrations, teaching you to build Web2.0 asynchronous software on .Net and Enterprise Java platforms.

Ask The Pros: Keyboard Bashing With The Pros

Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:49:00 GMT

Some Visual Studio keyboard shortcuts

January CTP of Atlas Ready for Download

Thu, 09 Feb 2006 15:05:00 GMT

The January CTP build of Atlas was made available today and can be downloaded from http://atlas.asp.net. This is a pretty big release of Atlas that has a number of new and improved goodies. In particular, the Atlas team has spent a lot of time enhancing and fleshing out a number of the core scenarios around the new <atlas:updatepanel> server control -- including adding progress message support, error handling, support for Response.Redirects, and the ability to have some controls on a page perform regular full-page post-backs while others cause incremental Ajax updates of content.

IE Developer Toolbar Beta 2

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:20:42 GMT

The latest version of the IE Developer Toolbar is out and should work with the IE7 Beta 2 Preview.

DotNetNuke vs. SharePoint - a comparison

Thu, 02 Feb 2006 15:40:59 GMT

This is a really comprehensive overview of both technologies. Will help you make decisions about which to propose and implement.

Channel 9: Life and Times of Anders Hejlsberg

Thu, 02 Feb 2006 15:05:00 GMT

This episode features industry luminary, Anders Hejlsberg. Before coming to Microsoft in 1996 he was well noted for his work as the principal engineer of Turbo Pascal and the chief architect of the Delphi product line. At Microsoft he was architect for the Visual J++ development system and the Windows Foundation Classes (WFC). Promoted to Distinguished Engineer in 2000, Anders is the chief designer of the C# programming language and a key participant in the development of Microsoft's .NET framework. In this show, Anders is joined by a surprise guest.

A new dotnetkicks.com feature: View a user's kicks

Thu, 02 Feb 2006 03:33:00 GMT

Many people requested that I concentrate on implementing additional community features on dotnetkicks.com. I have just released an update which allows you to view or subscribe to any other users kicks. Just click on their username to try it out.

The top 10 most visited tips on Tip of the Week

Wed, 01 Feb 2006 18:29:00 GMT

Ten top .NET and VS.NET tips from Sara Ford

TCP/IP Chat Application Using C#

Wed, 01 Feb 2006 15:05:00 GMT

This is a LAN chat application with TCP/IP socket programming technology in C#. This application is a multi thread network application and works in non-blocking way. Public and private chat is implemented in this code.

Lots of Cool Tools to Checkout for ASP.NET 2.0, .NET 2.0, and VS 2005

Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:05:00 GMT

Scott recommends 7 tools for ASP.NET 2.0, .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005.

XboxKicks.com has been launched

Tue, 31 Jan 2006 03:33:00 GMT

I have added another site to the *kicks.com family: XboxKicks.com. It is a little thread bear at the moment, but I expect that it will be full of content within a week. You can use your dotnetkicks.com login for this new site too.

VS 2005 Add-ins and Extensibility

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:01:00 GMT

Virtual path providers are a new feature of Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 that enables serving many of the files of a Web site that are not stored in a file system. In this article, Victor Garcia Aprea creates a virtual path provider that serves a Web site stored in a .zip file

Virtualizing Access to Content: Serving Your Web Site from a ZIP File

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:45:00 GMT