.NET & Windows

Using Sealed in CSharp

Another potentially useful but not very popular keyword in CSharp is the sealed keyword.  While not a keyword that you will need to use often, it is a...

0 replies - 780 views - 12/08/08 by DaveMBush in Articles

Introducing jBlogMvc

In this part, I announced jBlogMvc the ASP.NET MVC and jQuery blogengine which I build in order to learn more about the two new technologies, and discuss the...

0 replies - 771 views - 12/03/08 by Amr Elsehemy in News

Silverlight Glass Button

Martin Grayson wrote an amazing tutorial about how to create a WPF glass button using blendin his blog. He explained each and everything in very details with...

0 replies - 3177 views - 11/21/08 by Michael Sync in News

Book Review: Silverlight 2 in Action - Free Copy For The Best Comment

Have you guys read Silverlight 2 in Action book?

2 replies - 2941 views - 11/20/08 by Michael Sync in News

XML Documentation File For Your .Net Project - It’s Important

For the last month, I was working on an imagery infrastructure library. Some of my effort was to well document each class, method and property so that the...

0 replies - 1105 views - 11/19/08 by shaharDev102 in News

10 Ways To Shoot Yourself In The Foot - Part A

There are several things a software developer can do to make his life much more difficult in the future. One day, some pieces of an old code may make us sorry...

0 replies - 1903 views - 11/14/08 by shaharDev102 in News

Eliminating Postbacks: Setting Up jQuery On ASP.NET Web Forms and Managing Data On The Client

So you're stuck with Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.NET Web Forms. You want to flex your ninja skills. You can't jump into ASP.NET MVC or ASP.NET AJAX or an...

1 replies - 10994 views - 11/12/08 by Jon Davis in News

Explorations into "M"

Having freshly converted both the Visual Studio 2010 and Oslo SDK VPC images that we received at PDC 2008 last month to VMWare images, I figure it's time to...

0 replies - 865 views - 11/11/08 by Ted Neward in News

C# 4.0 Feature Focus - Part 2 - Named Parameters

In the previous episode of this feature focus series we talked about optional parameters. Today we'll cover another feature introduced in C# 4.0,...

0 replies - 4250 views - 11/11/08 by bdesmet in News

Three Great Reasons Why Even Lonely Developers Need Source Control

Sometimes, when you're a lone developer on a project you skip some of the important facets of developing as a group. Like iteration planning, bug tracking, and...

1 replies - 5517 views - 11/07/08 by sarajo in News

SQL Server Scheduled Backups with NAnt

When installing and using production web applications, backup is always a must. I have written about SQL Server Backup before and this post would expend on...

0 replies - 3246 views - 11/07/08 by Boyan Kostadinov in News

More PDC 2008 bits exploration: VisualStudio_2010

Having created a Window7 VMWare image (which I then later cloned and installed the Windows7 SDK into, successfully, wahoo!), I turned to the Visual Studio 2010...

0 replies - 600 views - 11/06/08 by Ted Neward in News

First In-Depth Look At Microsoft's Oslo And The "M" Modeling Language

Microsoft’s PDC is taking place this week and more details were shared with the attendees about project Oslo, an effort announced last year to drastically...

0 replies - 2158 views - 11/06/08 by vambenepe in News

Thoughts of a PDC (2008) Gone By...

PDC 2008 in LA is over now, and like most PDCs, it definitely didn't disappoint on the technical front--Microsoft tossed out a whole slew of new technologies,...

0 replies - 666 views - 11/03/08 by Ted Neward in News

Microsoft PDC 2008: Day 3 Wrap-Up

Announcments from Microsoft Research The PDC 2008 Day 3 keynote was presented by Rick Rachid, senior vice president of Microsoft Research. Eight different...

0 replies - 970 views - 10/31/08 by alashcraft in News