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Download Free ebook - Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:45:00 GMT

Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 is a 10 chapter, 216 page book writtenby Ross Mistry and Stacia Misner. Microsoft has made it available as a free ebook

Hidden C# feature - string.Format Width

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:15:00 GMT

Hidden C# feature string.Format width

Useful SQL Script to generate Countries and US States

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:19:44 GMT

Useful SQL Script to generate Countries & US States -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm currently working on a project where I need to quickly insert a list of Countries and Us States into a database table. This is not the first time that I've needed to have a useful script handy for this sort of thing. I had a quick look around the net and couldn't find exactly what I needed. So, I've put together two scripts, one to create a table of US States and one to create a table of Countries.

How to run, ON THE CHEAP, an IIS7 hosted website on Amazon EC2

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Its beautiful.... This article shows step by step, with clear instructions and lots of images, how to host your asp.net website on Amazon's EC2. I'm shocked at how easy it is. 1) Create account 2) Select image 3) do a little dance 4) publish your website to the cloud

Visual Studio 2010 Released

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:00:05 GMT

The much awaited, latest version of Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2010 has now been released in conjunction with the latest version of the .NET framework (version 4). This is an exciting time for .NET developers as it also means that they will also be able to develop for Windows Phone 7 using their existing skillset.

VB.Net Web Page Link Grabber

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:02:48 GMT

There are several ways to get all the links in a web page document. But I like this approach because of its simplicity and straight forward implementations. The rest of the approaches are like text processing with regular expressions. But for this approach a little knowledge of HTML and WebBrowser control is necessary

Programming Windows Phone 7 Series by Charlez Petzold - Free EBook

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:15:00 GMT

I got excited when I heard that Charlez Petzold is authoring a Book called "Programming Windows Phone 7 Series". To add icing to the cake, he is already offering a draft preview of his eBook FREE of cost!

Map Windows Azure Blob Storage As Network Drive

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:53:44 GMT

Map Windows Azure Blob Storage As Network Drive and do drag and drop upload/download.

Cloud Storage War - Windows Azure Storage vs. Google Storage

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:51:25 GMT

So much happened this year for the cloud storage world. First was the Windows Azure Platform went from public preview to full production. Second was Google Docs opened up for any file type upload/download, effectively making it a GDrive in the cloud. How would these affect you?

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 for MSDN Subscribers

Tue, 19 May 2009 05:46:09 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 is now on MSDN along with .Net 4 Beta 1. Some highlights from the information: .Net 4.0 Cloud Development - Windows Azure which is basically utility computing where you pay by the hour for your usage. Parallel Development - Not sure if this only means PLINQ for .Net developers or if they are only talking about C++ devs. TDD Improvements - Editor changes for building test cases first, and then writing the code. ASP.NET - CSS grids and design surfaces changes, more Javascript debugging improvements. C++ Compiler - Lots of changes for C++ development, including MFC. Sharepoint templates New Project Templates Windows 7 - MFC updates for Ribbon UI, and WPF changes. Application Model Changes - Reverse existing codebases, and lots of changes in Architect Edition to support more model types (including Class Libraries finally). Test Runner - This is potentially huge as it allows testers to submit bug reports complete with callstacks and traces that you can actually use to resume an app at the error point to avoid the dreaded No Repro on bug reports. I have seen this demo and it is quite impressive. We will see how it actually works though.

My New Favorite Tool: OneNote

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:01:15 GMT

Review of Microsoft OneNote 2007 relating to the developer.

Who Thinks Like Database Professionals?

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:52:29 GMT

Interesting article that kinda hit home for me .. "..I was talking to my team this morning and we were wondering about some design decisions. One of the things that came out of the discussion was: Database professionals think differently. .."

6 Things Developers Should Know By 2010

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:16:02 GMT

A list of 6 things I think asp.net developers should know by 2010

12+ open source projects for .NET you probably didn't know about.

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:01:02 GMT

Here's a few of the better .NET open source projects which are making a difference to .NET developers worldwide, and it just shows that the open source .NET community is alive and well.

All Microsoft SDKs in one place!

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:16:02 GMT

Here's an almost complete list of all Microsoft SDKs for Azure Services Platform, Windows Desktop, Server Technologies, etc. along with their links in one place.

Why Windows 7 Will Save Microsoft

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:16:02 GMT

I was doing some thinking over the past few weeks and I came to a realization. Windows 7, with all of it's improvements in performance, new features, and more streamlined development process, will actually save Microsoft and redeem them from the whole Vista crash. So I decided to write up WHY Windows 7 will tromp every previous Windows version and why we should pay close attention to it.

BlogCumulus.NET - A flash based tag cloud.

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:45:41 GMT

A BlogEngine.NET extension called BlogCumulus.NET that adds a flash based tag cloud to your blog.

Chrome didn't survive long...

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:31:07 GMT

I uninstalled Google Chrome after considering the potential threads for privacy

Top 10 Things That Annoy Programmers

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:46:03 GMT

Programmers all have their personal pet peeves. Whether it's scope creep, Hungarian notation, or smelly coworkers, there are certain nuisances that we must put up with in our line of work. The following is a list of the top 10 things that annoy programmers, compiled from the results of my recent question on StackOverflow along with some of my own experiences as a programmer:

Scraping, or Programatically Accessing, a Secure Webpage

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:46:11 GMT

There are many secure websites out there that provide useful information but do not have a public API to access it's data. A prime example of this is the LinkedIn website. You might love to gather some info from LinkedIn, but their promise to deliver a public API has yet to come to fruition. The problem is, the pages with all the good data are secure, requiring the user to log in before accessing these pages. Let's say we want to scrape this data from these pages programatically? We need to authenticate to access these pages. We can do that by reusing the authentication cookie from the site that we receive when we log in with a browser.

Why I Am No Longer Supporting IE6

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:46:03 GMT

In the recent relaunch of this site, I created a new custom skin for Subtext. Since this is just a personal site, I threw things together fairly quickly, testing along the way with Firefox3 and IE7. Once I was getting closer to complete, I took a look at my new site in all the usual browsers, including IE6. Ugh, it looked terrible. I gave it some thought and made some decisions about supporting IE6. I'm not going to support it. Not on this site and not on others that I have a say in. I'm not talking about leaving my site unusable for IE6 users - they just won't get as good of an experience. I'm not alone with this decision. Read on to see why I am no longer supporting IE6.

How to run a software development company (INTO THE GROUND)

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:31:02 GMT

The series will cover the things you *shouldn't* do if you hold some sort of managerial stake in a software project. Sadly these tales will be from my own personal experience working for companies that have drifted into disarray. These examples will be embellished somewhat to drive the points home, but by and large, everything you will read in these posts will be true.

Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:16:02 GMT

Customers and partners worldwide confirm mission-critical applications, enterprise-class data warehousing support.

Microsoft and Open Source...A New Love Story

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:31:02 GMT

Brian Prince outlines the latest happenings between Microsoft and the open source community. Including sponsoring the Apache Software Foundation.

Sysinternals, now easier to get than ever

Sat, 31 May 2008 20:01:07 GMT

The sysinternals team has placed all their tools on a network share... on the internet. Now you can copy and run any of their tools from the command line. Anywhere. With no installs, website googling, unzipping or anything. \\live.sysinternals.com\tools\