April 2006 - Posts
This is a compelling platform, if it works, and it’s now going open source in hope of garnering a greater number of developers contributing and using. The same folks built a DotNetNuke ("DNN") administration console based upon this. WinForms Over Web
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Here’s a tool that will help out those webmasters that haven’t updated their pages to conform to the mandated change to IE’s handling of Object tags. Mind you that the plaintiff in this could care less that they’ve only hurt webmasters and users in this
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Here’s a good example of great use of what’s to come in WinFX (part of Vista; add-on to XP/2003). It’s an application that provides online/offline access to NY Times online. Not only using WPF, but WCF (I think) for synchronization.
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It’s amazing how much storage you can have for relatively inexpensive cost with these new perpendicular storage drives. I’m thinking how I paid just as much for 10 MBs (that’s megabytes) that I can now get 75,000 times as much storage
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NDepend has been around for a while. The author of the tool has really done a great job with the 2.0 (in beta now) release. Very cool looking graphs, navigation panel, and query capabilities. If you’ve ever had to take someone elses crap code and
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Only Passionate People Win : Make sure your team is jelled before starting Agile . This post is reminiscent of what the book Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams emphasizes, and this goes back 7+ years with this edition (I don’t know when
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Code Camp Schedule . For being the most populated region in the country, it never ceases to amaze me the limited communal aspect of developers and things like code camps. It seems as if the NY/NJ metro region falls short in both hosting and providing
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The first thing to install is Team Foundation Server. It's a little involved, so take a quick look at the Team Foundation Install Guide first. It's a lot of text. Okay, it's too much text. Don't you wish you had the Cliff's Notes for the TFS install?
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Cool new IIS7 Features and APIs .
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Don’t run production ASP.NET Applications with debug=”true” enabled . Doing so causes a number of non-optimal things to happen including: 1) The compilation of ASP.NET pages takes longer (since some batch optimizations are disabled)
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Some ATLAS resources - Rick Strahl's WebLog . Nice list of resource/links/samples, etc. for ATLAS (MSFT’s AJAX framework for .NET 2.0). Now, Rick’s in Hawaii – honestly can’t see how anyone in Hawaii would find the time to do anything
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Used Cisco - Used Cisco Hardware . Cool, a place to get used Cisco routers and other equipment. Why do I need this?
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I want a Freeware Utility to ... 450+ common problems solved : eConsultant . This is a great list of valuable free tools from PDF generation, screen capture, HTML editors, File Management, etc.
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The first SP for SQL 2005 is here along with a bunch of add-on tools mostly focused on the express version. So, for those IT folks that state “I never install any MSFT product until the first SP is out” – well it’s out. Time to
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WWW SQL Designer . Very cool Web based SQL Designer that leverages AJAX for the UI. Very impressive tool that is helping make me an even bigger believer in what AJAX can do for web based UI.
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Object Mentor is the industry leader in transitioning enterprises, both large and small, to Agile Software Development. Our approach tackles the whole organization including Executive Management, Project Management, Quality Assurance, Business Analysis,
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Today automated testing plays a vital role in many software development projects. Automated testing has long been thought critical for large software development organizations, but is often considered to be too expensive and difficult to implement for
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One very cool feature of Windows Vista – especially for machines not natively equipped with the kind of horsepower to fully enjoy the rich visuals of Windows Presentation Foundation (Avalon) applications is ReadyBoost. ReadyBoost enables you to
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Today we released the source code for the built-in ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Role Management, Site Navigation, Session State, Profile, Web Events, and Web Part Personalization providers (basically all of the built-in providers that ship in the .NET 2.0
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This tool is intended for developers and IT professionals to simulate load on a BizTalk Server. Using this tool, you can simulate load to instrument performance and stress against a BizTalk deployment. In addition, this tool may also be extended by developers
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[Kevin’s] finally got around to finishing off BizUnit 2006 - v2.1, this version is targeted at BizTalk 2006 and Visual Studio 2005 and is built using .Net 2.0. I’ve been using the new unit testing capability in Visual Studio 2005 to drive
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IDesign serviceware download is a set of original techniques, tools utilities and even breakthroughs developed by the IDesign architects. The utilities are largely productivity-enhancing tools, or they compensate for some oversight in the design of .NET
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Try out a Microsoft Virtual Lab Express Virtual Lab Express is the fastest and easiest way to test drive Microsoft products and the Virtual Lab environment. These are 20-minute hands-on overviews of some of your favorite Microsoft products and developer
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But first things first, what is the Web Service Software Factory? Here's what Don has stated so eloquently on the community site: The Service Factory is a cohesive collection of various forms of guidance that have been built with the primary goal of helping
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BizTalk Server 2006 Documentor Eric Battalio's Blog : BizTalk Server 2006 Documentor .
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Here you can access comprehensive resources – from introductory to expert – that include both online and self-paced training, the latest technical articles, videos, evaluation downloads, Webcasts by Visual Studio Team System experts and more.
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.NET Languages . List of compilers, with links, available for .NET. Suprised no MUMPS…..
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Deploying Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Solutions Using Windows Installer: Walkthroughs (Part 2 of 2) http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odc_vsto2005_ta/html/OfficeVSTOWindowsInstallerWalkthrough.asp Quick Start #2:
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If your working with varied providers, remembering connection string parameters certainly shouldn’t be your top priority. In fact, my philosophy is not to remember anything, just remember where I can look it up when I need it. Here, These guys have
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HttpCompress The open compression engine for ASP.NET News Nov 15, 2005 - Version 6 for .NET 2.0 released! This is a pretty simple recompile of the version 6 source, targetting the 2.0 version of the .NET Framework. It now uses the built-in deflate and
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VS 2005 Web Application Project Release Candidate Now Available Today we published the Release Candidate of the VS 2005 Web Application Project on the web. You can download it now from here. VS 2005 Web Application Project Release Candidate Now Available
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How to explain Agile to your customers. Sounds reasonable, but it’s still a struggle with many customers on the faith part of the deal. Bottom line, it’s all in 2 week chunks of an engagement. The hardest part is getting sales folks to articulate
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Devscovery .
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.NET System.IO.Compression and zip files .NET Zip Library .NET 2.0 does Compression There's a new namespace in the .NET Framework base class library for .NET 2.0, called System.IO.Compression. It has classes called DeflateStream and GZipStream. These
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The biggest technical issue in why the new Intel based Apple computers won’t boot Windows is due to Windows lack of direct support of EFI. Which Apple states on this page: EFI and BIOS Macs use an ultra-modern industry standard technology called
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Installing and booting Windows XP from USB drive -- Guide Installing and booting Windows XP from USB drive -- Guide .
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Nice repository of MsBuild tasks. The MSBuild Community Tasks Project is an open source project for MSBuild tasks. The goal of the project is to provide a collection of open source tasks for MSBuild. msbuildtasks.tigris.org .
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Some might find it offensive, but who cares! CallCenterMovie.com .
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Good starting point for developing your own skins on CS2.0 It is a stripped down colour coded blog skin that other designers can easily use to create their own skins and work out how blog skinning works with CS 2.0. All controls have been stripped down
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