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.NET Performance Counters
Recently while catching up on technical reading I ran across the subject of performance counters. I must admit that I had not looked closely at this subject in the past and thought it was time to do so. If you are not sure what performance counters are and what they provide simply put they have [...]
Five C# Code Snippets
A snippet is a small section of text or source code that can be inserted into the code of a program. Snippets provide an easy way to implement commonly used code or functions into a larger section of code. Instead of rewriting the same code over and over again, a programmer can save the code [...]
Microsoft Certified Professional Training
A Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) certification would be one area where you can set yourself about your peers as a Microsoft professional. A variety of IT fields may become available as an individual seeks the schooling and training necessary to obtain a MCP certificate. There are a number of different ways that you [...]
The Microsoft Certified Application Specialist Study Guide
The Microsoft Certified Application Specialist Study Guide will allow you to demonstrate your expertise with the 2007 Microsoft Office system! This comprehensive study guide covers all the Microsoft Certified Application Specialist exams for Microsoft Office, including Word 2007, Excel 2007, Outlook 2007, PowerPoint 2007, and Access 2007. For each exam, you ll build the skills [...]
Visual Studio 2010: The Next Generation Of The IDE From Microsoft
Visual Studio 2010 is bringing both greater quality and robust tools to the .NET software developer like nothing ever done before. As a .NET developer I have been using Microsoft’s Visual Studio IDE since version 6.0 and I have continued with this IDE since the introduction of Visual Studio .NET roughly nine years ago. Microsoft [...]
How To Obtain Environment Details With .NET 3.5
Have you ever found yourself needing to obtain environment details concerning the server where your application resides? If so, take a look at the System Namespace and specifically the Environment Class which provides information about, and means to manipulate, the current environment and platform. A little later in this article I provide a working example. [...]
Charting Controls In ASP.NET
Recently I inherited a legacy Microsoft .NET 1.1 web application that employed charts via a third party vendor. Since I am working to best support this project I thought I would turn my attention to the Chart Controls for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 that I recalled first reading about from Scott Guthrie, aka @ScottGu. As [...]
UML Modeling and Visual Studio .NET 2010
First things first. If you have been living under a rock you may be surprised to learn that Visual Studio .NET 2010 RC is available for download. I have been looking at this IDE since the public beta was made available and the release candidate is fast and stable. Give it a spin for yourself. [...]
Best Practices: Visual Studio .NET Project Naming Standards
If you have not adopted a best practice when it comes to naming your solution and projects within Visual Studio .NET, I urge you to take a moment a think about this subject. As anyone will tell you best practices are worth their weight in gold and why would anyone not want to review what [...]
Win A Microsoft Surface Table
I recall when Microsoft Surface was first unveiled and I must admit I would love to have one of these sitting in my home? If you feel the same way then now is your chance to win one!
The Microsoft Surface is a 30-inch tabletop multi-touch display that uses a camera-based vision system to interact with [...]
Snazzy File Uploading With .NET and JQuery
I must admit that more often than not when I run across an option to upload files the interface leaves a lot to be desired. Why is this? Should end users not be presented with eye candy as well as immediate feedback when it comes to uploading data?
Simply JavaScript – Free 150 Page Preview! Learn [...]
PowerShell 2.0 Under Windows 7
It is important to note that Windows 7 is the first operating system which shipped with PowerShell as part of the operating system. Visit the Windows PowerShell Blog for a listing of versions and downloads as well as a wealth of other information.
To access PowerShell all one must do is open the Run dialog or [...]
Pivot From Microsoft Live Labs
I have no more invites to share. The five I had went quick
Have you heard of Pivot from Microsoft? If not you are missing out on a great mechanism of interacting with large, medium, or small amounts of data. Pivot is currently available by invitation only to a small technical audience and you can request [...]
Critical Path Training SharePoint Content
Critical Path is known for their training and if you are a seasoned SharePoint developer or if you are just getting started then you should register with Critical Path and check out the guides and code samples they provide and in most cases at no cost. While I am on the subject of training, check [...]
How To Create A Bootable Windows 7 Virtual Hard Disk (VHD)
In this article I will cover creating a bootable Windows 7 VHD. If you missed the previous article on creating a VHD titled How To Create a Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) in Windows 7 you may want to take a few minutes and visit this article first. You may be asking yourself why would I [...]
How To Create a Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) in Windows 7
What is a virtual hard disk?
Virtual hard disk (VHD) is a disk image file format for storing the complete contents of a hard drive. The disk image, sometimes called a virtual machine, replicates an existing hard drive and includes all data and structural elements. It can be stored anywhere the physical host can access.
There are [...]
Microsoft 2010 Betas Available For Download
If you’re a developer or just curious about the next generation of Office, SharePoint, Project, Project Server, or Visio then you will be excited to learn that Microsoft has the beta publicly available for download.
Office 2010 for IT Pros
With Microsoft Office 2010, your people get a wide range of powerful new ways to do [...]
Introducing the ASP.NET Ajax Library Beta
There is so much breaking news coming out of PDC2009 that it is very had to keep up with everything. Thank goodness for Twitter otherwise I would find it much more harder to keep up with real time news.
Simply JavaScript – Free 150 Page Preview !: Learn how easy it is to use JavaScript [...]
Professional Developer Conference (PDC) 2009
Unfortunately I was not able to attend PDC2009 but I am keeping track with friends that I know who were as well I am keeping tabs on the speakers such as Scott Hanselman and Scott Davis, via Twitter.
Here are a number of topics that I find interesting and possibly you will also:
Reactive Extions for .NET [...]
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