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Friday, December 17, 2010

Windows Phone Learning Zone

CodeProject has started another series on Window Phone 7 development where you can find everything you need to start building applications for WP7. Microsoft's free development tools WP7 work in the familiar Visual Studio IDE.

You can download the free tools and learn how to use the different tools and controls, the application architecture and how to design for the Rich Mobile Web.
Find it all, including a free SDK, in the Windows Phone Learning Zone.

Download
the Windows Phone 7 Developer Toolkit

Designing and Developing for the Rich Mobile Web

Windows Phone in 7 Minutes

Getting Started with Windows Phone 7

The Windows Phone 7 Application Architecture

Windows Phone 7 Controls

Understanding the Windows Phone 7 Development Tools

Introducing Windows Phone 7

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Thursday, November 04, 2010

Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions

Mitch Tulloch, lead author for the Windows 7 Resource Kit, is a widely recognized expert on Windows administration, networking, and security and has been repeatedly awarded Most  Valuable Professional (MVP) status by Microsoft for his outstanding contributions in supporting users who deploy Microsoft platforms, products, and solutions.

Now you can download Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions Second edition by Mitch Tulloch for free. The book discusses following points:

Why Virtualization?

Server Virtualization

Local Desktop Virtualization

Remote Desktop Virtualization

Virtualization Management

Cloud Computing

This is 480 Page eBook. Download the eBook in PDF format or XPS format

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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Free eBook: Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

Well for those of you who want to learn about MS Visual Studio 2010 and are used to earlierMoving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 versions, here is another great effort from Microsoft and it is free. Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (Microsoft Press, 2011; 336 pages), written by Patrice Pelland, Pascal Paré, and Ken Haines.

The book is not a language primer, a language reference, or a single technology book. It’s a book that will help professional developers move from previous versions of Visual Studio (starting with 2003 and on up). It will cover the features of Visual Studio 2010 through an application. It will go through a lot of the exciting new language features and new versions of the most popular technologies without putting the emphasis on the technologies themselves. It will instead put the emphasis on how you would get to those new tools and features from Visual Studio 2010.

If you are expecting this book to thoroughly cover the new Entity Framework or ASP.NET MVC 2, this is not the book for you. If you want to read a book where the focus is on Visual Studio 2010 and on the reasons for moving to Visual Studio 2010, this is the book for you.

The book is written having three audiences in mind:

  • Part I is for developers moving from Visual Studio 2003 to Visual Studio 2010
  • Part II is for developers moving from Visual Studio 2005
  • And Part III is for developers moving from Visual Studio 2008

You can download a PDF of the book here and can help Microsoft by filling out a survey at http://www.microsoft.com/learning/booksurvey.

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ASP.NET Developer Guidance Map

ASP.Net Developer Guidance Map

J.D. Meier has introduced to a comprehensive resource for (new) ASP.Net Developers, guiding them to the road to learn ASP.Net. The developer guidance is available in the form of Code Samples, How Tos, Videos, and Training.

The ASP.NET Developer Guidance Map helps you kill two birds with one stone:

  1. It show you the key sources of ASP.NET content and where to look (“teach you how to fish”)
  2. It gives you an index of the main content collections (Code Samples, How Tos, Videos, and Training)

 

Mental Model of the Map
The map is a simple collection of content types from multiple sources, organized by common tasks, common topics, and ASP.NET features:

Download the ASP.NET Developer Guidance Map

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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Migrate to SQL Server 2008 R2 and Manage

So if you have decided to migrate your SQL Server database to SQL Server 2008 R2, Microsoft TechNet has collected resources for you to easily accomplish the job.
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There are many scenarios during an upgrade where you’ll want to migrate a SQL Server installation. We've collected a series of articles and resources that describe the processes and tools to make the task easier.
This set of topics includes information on how to migrate a reporting services installation, how to migrate integration services packages, and how to migrate data transformation services packages.
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Introducing Microsoft Office 365!

Office 365 is a new brand and a new way to think about productivity in the cloud. It is the next step in the future of productivity, bringing together Office, SharePoint, Exchange, and Lync in an always up-to-date cloud service. With Office 365, customers get the best productivity solutions on the planet for a predictable monthly cost, and their employees don’t have to change the way they work because they can use familiar applications like Office that they already know and love.

Office 365 builds on the foundation and investment our Microsoft Online Services partners have already made in the cloud business. For all Microsoft partners, it provides new and additional revenue opportunities. Here’s how:

  • With Office 365, Microsoft is offering a new class of applications and scenarios scenarios that meet the needs of organizations of all sizes
  • Office 365 provides increased opportunities for partners to develop complete customer solutions
  • Office 365 provides the opportunity to broaden and deepen your engagement with SMB customers with new offerings
  • Office 365 enables a familiar connection point, Office, to start your cloud conversations
  • Office 365 provides new platform capabilities to improve deployment and reduce migration overhead, and provides you continuous management of customer accounts

Visit the Microsoft Office 365 at the Partner Network site! http://bit.ly/8DOKBk

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Monday, October 18, 2010

.NET Development for OS X

Rabi Satter, blogged about starting .Net development for OS X or other Apple devices; an excellent step by step article to start with. According to him:
Yes you read that right. This entry will show you the basics of building a Mac application in .NET. How can this be .NET is a Microsoft Windows technology? … I mean the Mono Project a Novell project that has ported .NET to Linux and other platforms including Mac OS X. What follows is a step by step guide to using .NET and no PCs were killed in the writing of this blog entry.





The tutorial leads you from setting up your machine to HelloMac application. Here you can find the entire article.
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Free eBook: Petzold’s Programming Windows Phone 7

Just in time for VSLive in Redmond, here’s a second draft preview eBook of Charles Petzold’s upcoming Programming Windows Phone 7! The first preview eBook contained six chapters. This one contains eleven chapters (and 265 pages):
643352_win Phone.inddPart I   The Basics
Chapter 1   Hello, Windows Phone 7
Chapter 2   Getting Oriented
Chapter 3   An Introduction to Touch
Chapter 4   Bitmaps, Also Known as Textures
Chapter 5   Sensors and Services
Chapter 6   Issues in Application Architecture
Part II   Silverlight
Chapter 7   XAML Power and Limitations
Chapter 8   Elements and Properties
Part III   XNA
Chapter 20   Principles of Movement
Chapter 21   Textures and Sprites
Chapter 22   Touch and Play

You can download a PDF here (38.6 MB) and you can download the ebook’s sample code here (5.03 MB).
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Thursday, October 07, 2010

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Upgrade your blog to WordPress.com!

Nearly six years after launching its own blog publishing platform, Microsoft is effectively ending development of Windows Live Spaces and announcing a partnership to upgrade users of the service to WordPress.com.

Windows Live + WordPress.com
Spaces users will have six months to move their blogs to WordPress.com using a specially developed migration tool that will shift their posts, photos and other media to WordPress blogs. The migration will also redirect existing Spaces URLs to new addresses on the free WordPress.com platform. The companies will offer a service called Messenger Connect for WordPress.com users to share posts with their Windows Live contacts, attempting to take the place of the existing integration between Spaces and other Windows Live services.

It is however, still unclear, that how to migrate and merge your spaces feeds to WordPress, if you already have a WordPress blog?
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Thursday, September 16, 2010

Internet Explorer 9 Beta

Help share a more beautiful web. Download the Beta. Windows Internet Explorer 9 Beta.Deliver the Beauty of the Web

It's no secret: just having a presence on the Web is not enough. The new Windows Internet Explorer 9 Beta browser leverages the power of the PC to deliver rich Web experiences, together with unparalleled performance.

What sets Internet Explorer 9 apart? It saves development time and effort through HTML5 compatibility and deeper compliance with industry standards. It will delight your customers with performance that matches the apps on their PCs. It delivers enhanced integration with the Windows 7 operating system. And it is safer than ever.

Ready to start?
Experience Internet Explorer 9
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Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Couple of fixes for Visual Studio

Microsoft Connect site collected all (OK most of ) the fixes for Visual Studio. You can download them as per your need from this link, however, you should pay attention to the Terms of Use, since you cannot redistribute them.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Facebook and Windows Live Messenger Integration for Outlook

Here is another update regarding Microsoft Office Outlook Social Networking Connectors, now available for Windows Live Messenger and Facebook.

If you’re not familiar with the Microsoft Outlook Social Connector – it’s a free plug-in for Microsoft Outlook 2010 that allows you to keep track of your friends and colleagues activities on Social Networking sites such as LinkedIn and MySpace, from within Outlook itself. There’s a great blog article over at MSDN talking about the benefits of the Outlook Social Connector and how to set it up.
The Facebook connector (available for download here), once installed, adds the ability to see Facebook Status Updates for your contacts directly from within the Microsoft Outlook e-mail pane – you can expand or minimise the “More Information” panel from any e-mail as you like.
Although the installation process is straight and easy, here is a how to where Doug Thomas has the answers to all of your Outlook Social Connector questions! Check out this helpful video on configuring the OSC and if you still have questions afterward head over to the Office blog to post them: http://bit.ly/d4qkXp
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Thursday, August 12, 2010

DevArt's CodeCompare, Code comparison tool

CodeCompare is a totally free tool and an absolutely new way of source code comparison. It offers enhanced Visual Studio Editor, IntelliSense and syntax highlighting, code folding, advanced code comparing and merging functionality, and simple source control system integration - these are the features you were looking for all the time and finally they are at your fingertips!

Devart offers two products for source code comparison:
  • CodeCompare provides basic functionality and solves most of the tasks referred to the source comparing.
  • CodeCompare Pro provides additional features: Structure Comparison and Difference Explorer. Structure Comparison helps you to trace actual changes, even if methods are moved to another location. Difference Explorer helps you to review changes in the code structure and navigate between them.



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Saturday, August 07, 2010

5 Trillion Digits of Pi

A new world record is achieved by Alexander J. Yee & Shigeru Kondo, who calculated value of Pi up to five Trillion digits.

3.
1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 : 50
5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679 : 100
2962457053 9070959679 6673211870 6342459769 2128529850 : 999,999,999,950
2976735807 0882130902 2460461146 5810642210 6680122702 : 1,000,000,000,000
9354516713 6069123212 1286195062 3408400370 1793492657 : 1,999,999,999,950
8386341797 9368318191 5708299469 1313121384 3887908330 : 2,000,000,000,000
3840840269 5893047555 2627475826 8598006396 3215856883 : 2,699,999,989,950
9256371619 3901058063 3448436720 6294374587 7597230153 : 2,699,999,990,000
8012497961 5892988915 6174704230 3863302264 3931687863 : 2,699,999,990,050
3126006397 8582637253 6739664083 9716870851 0983536511 : 2,699,999,990,100
5628334110 5221005309 8638608325 4364661745 5833914321 : 2,999,999,999,950
9150024270 6285788691 0228572752 8179710957 7137931530 : 3,000,000,000,000
5209957313 0955102183 1080456596 1489168093 0578494464 : 3,999,999,999,950
3638467628 3610607856 5071920145 5255995193 8577295739 : 4,000,000,000,000
2597691971 6538537682 7963082950 0909387733 3987211875 : 4,999,999,999,950
6399906735 0873400641 7497120374 4023826421 9484283852 : 5,000,000,000,000

The hardware/OS used to calculated such a huge number was:

Hardware: Shigeru Kondo's Desktop
Shigeru Kondo's computer had the following specifications:
Processor
2 x Intel Xeon X5680 @ 3.33 GHz - (12 physical cores, 24 hyperthreaded)
Memory
96 GB DDR3 @ 1066 MHz - (12 x 8 GB - 6 channels) - Samsung (M393B1K70BH1)
Motherboard
Asus Z8PE-D12
Hard Drives
1 TB SATA II (Boot drive) - Hitachi (HDS721010CLA332) 3 x 2 TB SATA II (Store Pi Output) - Seagate (ST32000542AS) 16 x 2 TB SATA II (Computation) - Seagate (ST32000641AS)
Raid Controller
2 x LSI MegaRaid SAS 9260-8i
Operating System
Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise x64
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Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Introducing MSVS LightSwitch™

Microsoft is launching Visual Studio® LightSwitch™, the simplest way to build business applications for the desktop and cloud. LightSwitch is a new member of the Visual Studio family focused on making it easy to develop line of business applications. LightSwitch helps you solve specific business needs by enabling you to quickly create professional-quality business applications, regardless of your development skills. 
LightSwitch is optimized to combine data+screens idea by providing developers with tools to not only connect to an existing database, but also create database, tables and associated screens.
Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta will be available on August 23. Come back at that time to download it, plus check back before then for additional LightSwitch videos.
However, a very good preview/introduction is blogged by Jason Zander detailing development using LightSwitch.
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Sunday, August 01, 2010

12 Absolutely and Insanely Essential Utilities For Programmers

Jesse Liberty is a Senior Community Program Manager for Microsoft, focused on Silverlight and Windows Phone 7. He has collected 12 Absolutely and Insanely Essential Utilities For Programmers and listed them on his blog.

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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

50 Useful Tools and Resources For Web Designers

Smashing Magazine, once again collected 50 most useful tools for you if you are a web developer/designer. This is another great effort by , editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine.
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Friday, July 16, 2010

Authenticate ASP.Net application using Social Sites Credentials

James Senior's blog details the new social API Web Application Toolkit for .NET web developers. If you’re not familiar with Web Application Toolkits (WATs) then here’s a summary:
FREE Web App Toolkits help ASP.NET web developers complete common web development tasks and quickly add new features to your apps. Whether it’s Bing Maps integration or adding social capabilities to your site, there’s a toolkit for you. For the full list of Web Application Toolkits check out this website.
 Here is a summary of the work they've done in this release:
  • Added a new Social API Web Application Toolkit
  • Updated all the WATs to be compatible with Visual Studio 2010
The code examples can be found here.
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

WebMatrix and a PHP tutorial

During the last week, MS announced the launch of all new tools for developers to ease them creating and deploying websites.

  • IIS Developer Express: A lightweight web-server that is simple to setup, free, works with all versions of Windows, and is compatible with the full IIS 7.5.
  • SQL Server Compact Edition: A lightweight file-based database that is simple to setup, free, can be embedded within your ASP.NET applications, supports low-cost hosting environments, and enables databases to be optionally migrated to SQL Server.
  • ASP.NET “Razor”: A new view-engine option for ASP.NET that enables a code-focused templating syntax optimized around HTML generation.  You can use “Razor” to easily embed VB or C# within HTML.  It’s syntax is easy to write, simple to learn, and works with any text editor.

Together they are termed as WebMatrix, the all new tool for development and deployment integrating the above mentioned technologies. This new tool, WebMatrix, and the first preview beta of it is now available for download.
As usual ScottGu's blog is detailing the use of WebMatrix and creating simple applications utilizing these tools. While Brian Swan is leveraging the power of WebMatrix to another step by explaining how to create PHP websites using WebMatrix.
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Thursday, June 17, 2010

jQuery Essentials

An excellent presentation addressing jQuery Essentials by Marc Grabanski.
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Worldwide Launch: ‘Make it Great’ with Microsoft Office 2010

Input from 9 million beta downloads went into creating Office 2010, now available on new computers and in more than 35,000 retail outlets around the world.

Virtual Press Kit:   Office 2010
Try or Buy:  Make It Great Website




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Monday, June 14, 2010

How To Permanently Delete Your Account on Popular Websites

Cameron Chapman is a professional Web and graphic designer with over 6 years of experience. She writes for a number of blogs, including her own, Cameron Chapman On Writing. She’s also the author of Internet Famous: A Practical Guide to Becoming an Online Celebrity. Today she is talking about how to delete your accounts on popular websites.
She has rated the difficulty level of removing your account on the scale of 1-5, five being the most difficult. According to her, removing your account from Wikipedia and WordPress is impossible, while the easiest one is PayPal. Facebook on the other hand is the most difficult one rated five, whereas, MySpace stands at four.
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Thursday, June 10, 2010

Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tool Extensions

Another news from Scott Gu, who just blogged about the cool new VS 2010 Productivity Power Tool Extensions.
Highlight of this is the Add Reference Dialog:
This new Add Reference dialog caches assembly information – which means it loads within a second or two (note: the very first time it still loads assembly data – but it then caches it and makes it fast afterwards). The new Add Reference dialog also now includes searching support – making it easier to find the assembly you are looking for.

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Office is now live on SkyDrive!


Today, Office Web Apps on SkyDrive are now available to everyone in the US, UK, Canada, and Ireland. Still more to share next week when Office 2010 is released to consumers, including how Office 2010 + SkyDrive + Office Web Apps give you the best productivity experience across the PC, phone, and browser.

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Defensive Database Programming (Free eBook)


The goal of Defensive Programming is to produce resilient code that responds gracefully to the unexpected.
To the SQL Server programmer, this means T-SQL code that behaves consistently and predictably in cases of unexpected usage, doesn't break under concurrent loads, and survives predictable changes to database schemas and settings.






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Tuesday, June 08, 2010

CodeRush Xpress for C# and VB

CodeRush Xpress is freely available to all Visual Studio 2010 developers and offers a comprehensive suite of tools that enable you and your team to simplify and shape complex code - making it easier to read and less costly to maintain.


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Claims–based Identity and Access Control

Imagine a world where you don't have to worry about authentication. Imagine instead that all requests to your application already include the information you need to make access control decisions and to personalize the application for the user.
In this world, your applications can trust another system component to securely provide user information, such as the user's name or e-mail address, a manager's e-mail address, or even a purchasing authorization limit. The user's information always arrives in the same simple format, regardless of the authentication mechanism, whether it's Microsoft® Windows® integrated authentication, forms-based authentication in a Web browser, an X.509 client certificate, or something more exotic. Even if someone in charge of your company's security policy changes how users authenticate, you still get the information, and it's always in the same format.
This is the utopia of claims-based identity that A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control describes. As you'll see, claims provide an innovative approach for building applications that authenticate and authorize users.
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Hands-on Labs for Enterprise Library 5.0 and Unity 2.0 Ship

An updated set of hands-on labs were released for C# and VB.NET enterprise developers, including exercises for application blocks, Unity, interception and complex configuration scenarios. 
The set contains a guide to learn about the application blocks included with Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0 and practice how to leverage their capabilities in various application contexts. It includes Caching, Configuration Sources, Cryptography, Data Access, Exception Handling, Interception, Logging, Security, Validation, and Unity Hands-on Labs.
You can download the hands-on lab using this link, however to download Enterprise Library 5.0 please use this link.
An Introduction to Enterprise Library 5.0
Microsoft Enterprise Library is a collection of reusable application blocks designed to assist software developers with common enterprise development challenges. 
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Monday, June 07, 2010

Twitter what and how to do...


The other day I was talking with one of my senior colleague about web presence. We discussed the need of Twitting and thus I promised him to collect some resources about Twitter. Here are some links that discuss about Twitter, what and how to do...

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Wednesday, June 02, 2010

LinkedIn Launches URL Shortener, Enhances Sharing Options For Content

LinkedIn brings sharing to the professional conversation. Professional social network LinkedIn has been steadily expanding its presence outside of its platform through integrations with Twitter, and Microsoft Outlook and opening up the platform's API.
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An interesting Windows Twitter Client

Seems very promising, looks great, the MetroTwit is out as beta. MetroTwit is a Windows application you'll love to use.
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Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Facebook Clickjacking Attack Spreading Through ‘Likes’

A new clickjacking worm is spreading through Facebook via the ‘Like’ feature. The attack, which is said to have hit hundreds of thousands of users, uses a combination of social engineering and clickjacking exploit makes it appear as if a user has “liked” a link.
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Sunday, May 30, 2010

LLBLGen Pro v3.0 RTM has been released!

After two years of very hard work, version 3.0 has been released! 
LLBLGen Pro now is the most advanced O/RM Designer for .NET and offers, among other things, Entity Framework (v1 & v4) support, NHibernate support (hbm & FluentNH), Linq to SQL support, Model-first and Database-first development, .NET 4.0 support, Model views and much much more.


Click here for the full feature list or download the trial to experience the power of v3.0 yourself. Congratulations team for another nice effort.
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Friday, May 28, 2010

Making AJAX Applications Crawlable

Google Code is providing you with the info about making your AJAX applications crawlable. If you're running an AJAX application with content that you'd like to appear in search results, we have a new process that, when implemented, can help Google (and potentially other search engines) crawl and index your content. Historically, AJAX applications have been difficult for search engines to process because AJAX content is produced dynamically by the browser and thus not visible to crawlers. While there are existing methods for dealing with this problem, they involve regular manual maintenance to keep the content up-to-date.
Here at Google Code, you can find the details how to and examples with documentations, about incorporating the scenario.
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One Sure-Fire Way to Improve Your Coding

Here I found another good article discussing the improvements in coding...saying:
The most obvious way to improve your coding is to write more code. Everybody knows that. However, another activity which I guarantee will improve your coding is the complete opposite of writing. I will state this as plainly as I possibly can:
If you want to dramatically increase your programming skills you need to be reading other people’s code.
Maybe you believe that, maybe you don’t. You should. And if you’re willing to give it a shot, I believe you will be rewarded greatly for your time.
In this article I will help you choose what to read and give you practical advice on how to go about reading it. If you’re already a code reader you may find a few ways to get more from your efforts. If you aren’t, you absolutely must read on.
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DotNetNuke(DNN) source in C#


Shaun first launched DotNetNuke on December 24, 2002.  I don’t think it’s a stretch to suggest that the first inquiry about a C# version came in on about December 25.  And they have continued to come in on a fairly regular basis igniting all sorts of “language wars” which continue to this day.  Scott Wiltamuth is the Microsoft Product Unit Manager for Visual Studio Languages and recently described the co-evolution of VB and C# from his point of view.

Right now, there are published packages of the C# source for version 5.4.1 and 5.4.2.  The team is working on adding this packaging to our automated build process so that new packages can be created quickly once the conversion has been done.  A normal turnaround should be just a few days after each regular release.
I personally prefer Telerik's Sitefinity CMS due to ease of use, however, the C# port of DNN might help some developers in producing better Websites/CMS.

Here's the entire story...
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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Firefox Sync for iPhone

According to Firefox wiki for iPhone, you will soon be able to sync your iPhone with Firefox on your desktop.

Firefox Home for the iPhone
One sentence summary: Bring your firefox experience to the iPhone.The app will be a read-only viewer that integrates with the Firefox Sync service on the desktop. 
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VS2010 support for iPhone apps in Apple keynote

Trip Chowdhry, an analyst with tiny Global Equities Research, contends that 7 minutes of the June 7 keynote by Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been blocked off for a presentation by Microsoft (MSFT) to talk about Visual Studio 2010, the company’s suite of development tools. 



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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

TwitterGadget for iGoogle, GMAIL and Google Wave

I am using TwitterGadget to read twitts from within iGoogle. TwitterGadget is a clean, robust, web 2.0 style client for Twitter.com, designed to submit and view status updates via your iGoogle homepage, Gmail account, within Google Wave, or directly in your browser. 
Some of the features include:

Auto Refresh
Customizable
URL Shortening
Symbol Insertion
Keyboard Shortcuts
Media Upload
New Tweet Alerts
Trending Topics
Twitter ListsGeolocation Support
Built-in Search
Built-in Translate
Easy ReTweets
Expand Short URLs
@reply Autocomplete
Shrink Long Tweets
Saved Searches
Block & Spam
And more...




























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Monday, May 24, 2010

Simple Share Buttons For Blogger

Simple Save And Share Button Codes For Blogger Or Blogspot. Add This Share Buttons To Your Blog Easily. It's Clean And Basic; Just Copy And Paste. There Are Popular Social Media Bookmarking, Social Networking And Blogging Site's Buttons; Twitter Retweet ( With Bit.ly URL Shortening ) , Facebook, Digg, Del.icio.us, Reddit, Linkedin, Blogger, Stumble Upon, Friend Feed, MySpace, Yahoo Buzz, Google Bookmarks And Google Buzz...
Read the entire article and a how to...
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Friday, May 21, 2010

Scott Gu: May 20th Links

Scott Gu has come up with another excellent series of his top links related to ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET, .NET 4, VS 2010, Silverlight.
Thank you Scott Gu.
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VS 2010 and .NET 4 Series at Scott Gu's blog

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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Extending NerdDinner: Adding MEF and plugins to ASP.NET MVC


The original NerdDinner Sample was very simple. Two samples, simple, in fact. Perhaps it's the new Northwind, as it's a good way to start working with ASP.NET MVC. However, it's not a perfect sample or an idealized example on how to do many things that users want to do.
Fortunately, there's been lots of cool folks in the community who have "forked" NerdDinner and done interesting stuff with it. Each of these samples is usually focused on a specific scenario, so they won't necessarily be merged with the trunk, but they are educational nonetheless.
Scott Hanselman has a blog upon Extending NerdDinner that details the addition of Microsoft Entity Framework (MEF) and plugins to ASP.Net MVC at his blog...

Jon Galloway and I have also added a few things to NerdDinner, taking it in a more social direction, as Jon's MVC Music Store today is a better "getting started" sample for ASP.NET MVC 2. We'll be doing a series of posts on the interesting things the community 
has added to NerdDinner as well as some of the ones Jon and I added and presented at Mix a few months back. Soon Jon and I will release an updated NerdDinner v2 on CodePlex (although it's been in the source code tab for weeks) with lots of fixes, new features. We'll also add many of these "one off" samples as well and host them on CodePlex.
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MS Office Professional Plus 2010 Trial


Office Professional Plus 2010 Trial is also out for download. Evaluate Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 in your lab environments and with Microsoft Office enthusiasts in your organization. When you download this 60-day trial software, you're automatically registered to receive valuable resources delivered at strategic intervals throughout the software evaluation period. If you are a TechNet Plus subscriber, log on to access your download.
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Download the SharePoint Server 2010 Trial



Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Trial is now available for download. Whether deployed on-premises or as a hosted service, SharePoint Server 2010 helps you cut costs with a unified infrastructure while allowing you to rapidly respond to your business needs. After registering, you will receive technical resources to help you evaluate SharePoint Server 2010. If you're a TechNet Plus subscriber, get your download. However, I'll update the links once it is opened for all.
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infolink addition for ads

These links are part of a pay per click advertising program called Infolinks. Infolinks is an In Text advertising service: they take my text and create links within it. If you hover with your mouse over these double underlined links, you will see a small dialog box containing advertisement related 
to the text marked. You can choose to either move the mouse away and go on with your browsing, or to press on the box and go to the ad page which is relevant to the text. Click here to learn more about Infolinks Double Underline Link Ads.

Your efforts to click the ads is highly appreciated.
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Monday, May 17, 2010

Google Urdu Translation

Another excellent effort by the gurus at Google. Google is now offering translation to and from Urdu.
Although in Alpha, the tool will definitely help researchers, students and lovers of Urdu language to work in a better way by incorporating Urdu to computers.
Here is the link to the translation site, where you can select Urdu in the drop downs.
Urdu Translation at Google.
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Friday, May 14, 2010

Introduction to SQL Server 2008 R2 Application and Multi-Server Management

A two hour learning clinic is being offered at Microsoft Learning Center. The clinic explores the capabilities of Introduction to SQL Server 2008 R2 Multi-Server Application Management. This will cover the following topics:

  • Introducing Application and Multi-server Management
  • Working with data-tier applications
  • Managing change in data-tier applications.
  • Managing data-tier applications.

Users completing this collection should have a basic understanding of SQL Server and relational database systems.
At the end of the course, students will be able to:

  • Create a Utility Control Point.
  • Enroll managed instances.
  • Create data-tier applications.
  • Deploy and manage data tier applications.
You can find the course details here...

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Thursday, May 13, 2010

Office 2010 Launch and a free eBook

First Look Microsoft Office 2010 by Katherine Murray is available for free to download here. According to the author:
This book was written while the software was in development, so you may find some variance in screen illustrations and procedures, but the overall story is the same: The key to the new features is freedom and flexibility—you’ll be able to see how to get more from your applications no matter how—or where—you choose to use them. Office 2010 is designed to help you express your ideas clearly and creatively, work seamlessly with a group to get things done efficiently and on time, and access and work with your files virtually anywhere with a similar look and feel whether you’re using your PC, browser, or phone.
To showcase these key points, First Look: Microsoft Office 2010 follows this organization:

  • Part I, “Envision the Possibilities,” introduces you to the changes in Office 2010 and shows you how you can make the most of the new features to fit the way you work today. Chapter 1, “Welcome to Office 2010,” gives you a play-by-play introduction to new features; Chapter 2, “Express Yourself Effectively and Efficiently,” details the great feature enhancements and visual effects throughout the applications; and Chapter 3, “Work Anywhere with Office 2010,” explores the flexibility factor by presenting a set of scenarios that enable users to complete their work no matter where their path takes them.
  • Part II, “Hit the Ground Running,” focuses on each of the Office 2010 applications in turn, spotlighting the key new features and showing how they relate to the whole. These chapters provide a how-to guide for many of the top features you’re likely to use right off the bat, and they offer inspiring ideas on how to get the most from your favorite applications.
  • Part III, “Next Steps with Office 2010,” zooms up to the big picture and provides examples to help you think through interoperability. How often do you use the various Office applications together? Customer research shows that people often don’t realize how well the applications work together as a complete system—which means they might be laboring over items they could easily incorporate from somewhere else. This part of the book provides examples for integrating the applications and explores Office 2010 security and training opportunities, as well.
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