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Enhance your .NET applications for Windows 7

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:00:01 GMT

Learn how to exploit the full range of new Windows 7 features direct from your .NET code, including jumplists, tabbed thumbnails, sensor platform APIs and DirectX

Creating Windows 7 Multitouch Applications

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:15:04 GMT

The Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers includes several sample applications that can help you get started with creating multitouch applications in managed code (C# or VB), native code or MFC. The managed code and native code samples require Visual Studio 2008 SP1, whereas the MFC samples require Visual Studio 2010 beta or higher.

Design Patterns - Which to use When? Take the Quiz!

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:15:00 GMT

I received several questions on how to pick a Design Pattern, which motivated me to write this post. As it was mentioned in the Design Patterns overview article, there is no rule of thumb in selecting a Design Pattern. Developers should not choose a design pattern and design a solution around it. Instead they need to analyze at a higher level, the problem they are attempting to solve and pick a Design Pattern that is most appropriate.

Look at Code Definition Window in Visual Studio 2008

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:00:00 GMT

This article explains about Code Definition Window and its features in Visual Studio 2008.

An introduction to UI Automation - with spooky spirographs

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:30:14 GMT

UIAutomation provides a robust way of poking, prodding and perusing any widget shown on the Windows desktop; it even works with Silverlight. It can be used for many things, like building Screen Readers, writing automated UI tests - or for creating a digital spirit to spook your colleagues by possessing Paint.Net and sketching spirographs.

Pay Attention to the Foreach Implicit Casting

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:15:00 GMT

In order to reduce an explicit conversion effort using the foreach statement, the C# developers decided to do an automatic conversion for us. We must pay attention to it...

Expression Studio 3 Released - Some Important Links

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:15:00 GMT

The wait ends. Expression Studio 3 is now available for a Free 60 days trial. Check out some important links

Expression Blend 3 and the New 'Make Into Control' Feature

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:00:02 GMT

Expression Blend 3 and Silverlight 3 have been released. The following article demonstrates how to use Expression Blend 3 to draw an object with a pencil and make that into a clickable button

Silverlight 3 Released! What is new/changed?

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:00:00 GMT

At last, Silverlight 3 is released! It has been a long road.wait a minute, actually it's only been 8 months since the last release! Whoa, that's some wicked supersonic Microsoft time there! Anyhow, we are finally released. A while back I wrote a post on What's New in Silverlight 3 and it still all applies. I'd encourage you to read that post as well. There are, of course, some subtle changes in a few things from an implementation side of things, but those are all documented in the release.

Google Talk (GTalk) Autoreply using .NET

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:00:01 GMT

In this article, we will see how you can develop a simple Gtalk client using .NET using which you can notify your users that you are away from your desk.

Sync Framework v2 CTP2 released

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:56:02 GMT

- Adds features that cater to new scenarios or scenarios that were difficult to support. - Reduces the amount of work required to develop providers. - Supports more data sources with new built-in providers.

Open Source or Die - The Real Future of Graffiti?

Tue, 12 May 2009 10:16:02 GMT

Telligent's Graffiti hasn't quite flatlined yet, but the signs aren't looking too good. Could OSS be the way to breathe life back into this once-promising CMS platform?

Where Are The Developer Machines?

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:31:04 GMT

Steve Smith posts about PCs for software developers, and how computer companies aren't targeting this section of the market. If a computer manufacturer made development machines, how should these computers be configured?

Creating your own site's search Engine

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:46:03 GMT

Setting up you search page for your web application is as easy as having a DB table where you retrieve data from by a simple query. I will illustrate the steps of setting up the configurations needed in this post, and will write another one for detailed stuff in custom search page.

Launch of Gandhinagar SQL Server User Group - Over 50 Attendees

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:16:02 GMT

Gandhinagar SQL Server User Group launch event was held on March 27, 2009. This successful, well-attended event received very positive and warm community response. This launch event, unexpectedly, saw over 50 database enthusiasts participating. It was really a moment of pleasant surprise when we ran out of chairs. The otherwise spacious room started getting smaller as more and more people joined in, and unquestionably, we felt ecstatic about it!

Starting out - The story of starting a software tools company

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:01:10 GMT

Not strictly about coding, this post talks about starting a business that builds tools for software developers (in this case, tools for developers on the Microsoft stack). Covers some of the lessons learned and experiences in the first few months.

SQL SERVER - Find All Servers From Local Network - Using sqlcmd

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:46:02 GMT

Very simple and very quick. Something when ran on your command prompt will surprise you with result. You may find servers running and active, which you are unaware of. Try it. Bookmark it! This is corrected link.

Exponentially Improve Performance to Start ASP.net 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 Debug

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:46:05 GMT

Stop the waiting when debugging your ASP.Net Web Applications! Here's a complete RAM Disk solution to save your sanity.

Use Event Aggregator to make your application more extensible

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:01:03 GMT

Recently, in KiGG/DotNetShoutout we have integrated Twitter, nothing complex, very basic thing like when a story is submitted or appears in the front page it will broadcast in Twitter and like our feed it will post the short url of the original story (Cant resist to do some shameless marketing for DotNetShoutout). Since it is a new requirement, initially I have modified the StoryService constructor to include the twitter client as a new argument and use it after the story is added in the database, the code is something like the following:...

Back to Basics: Interfaces

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:46:09 GMT

When it comes to object-oriented programming there are few concepts as basic and important as interfaces. Only recently though, and at a snails pace, have .NET developers started to take advantage of the simple benefits interfaces have to offer. This interest stems from the core role interfaces play in some pretty hot topics, including: dependency injection, unit testing and mocking (to name a few).

Collection Of Puzzles For Programmers

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:16:03 GMT

A nice collection of puzzles. Some are harder than others so there is something for everyone. You can choose any language you want, you will see that there are solutions in C#, Ruby, Python, Visual Basic, SQL, JavaScript, C++ and other languages.

A .NET Open Source Project Retrospective: Json.NET

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:16:18 GMT

A look inside the development of a .NET open source project. What went right and what went wrong and lessons learnt along the way.

Install SQL Server (Express) with your Application

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:31:03 GMT

A bootstrap to allow the deployment of SQL Server Express along with your Application

Checklist for high quality websites

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:16:02 GMT

A checklist for things to do that will highten the quality of any website.

The WPF Mindset

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:16:06 GMT

An excellent short example of how developing using WPF requires a different mindset to traditional winforms / ASP.NET development. A listbox is completely customised to layout markers on a map.