Archive for April, 2008

Microsoft.NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit

The .NET Framework 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the .NET 3.5 Enhancement features including: ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, ASP.NET AJAX History, ASP.NET Silverlight controls, ADO.NET Data Services and ADO.NET Entity Framework.
The .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training kit builds on [...]

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How PHP can help you improve your PHP coding skills?

By default you will have below setting in php.ini file:

error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE

This means, show all error except notices and coding standard warnings
Comment/remove it and and use only E_ALL in your php.ini file.

error_reporting = E_ALL

This you can achieve through your php source files also. But you will not remember to add [...]

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Beginner’s WPF Animation Tutorial - on Codeproject

My “Beginner’s WPF Animation Tutorial” articke on CodeProject available at http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/WPFAnimation.aspx

(I reported this here earlier with another link which was under - non-edited contributions of codeproject)
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Prototype JavaScript Framework

URL: http://www.prototypejs.org/

Prototype is a JavaScript Framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications.
Featuring a unique, easy-to-use toolkit for class-driven development and the nicest Ajax library around, Prototype is quickly becoming the codebase of choice for web application developers everywhere.
Lastest version (as on 21 April 2008) is 1.6.

Tutorials available at http://www.prototypejs.org/learn
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DataSets vs. Collections

There is a good article on DataSets vs. Collections by Dino Esposito
If you read this article, you will start using (Generics) Collections instead of DataSet/DataTable for database access.

Here is the URL: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163751.aspx
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New Data Types in Microsoft SQL Server 2008

There are few new data types introduced in Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
Eg: DATETIME2, DATETIMEOFFSET etc.
Here is a good link for this: http://devlicio.us/blogs/sergio_pereira/archive/2008/04/06/the-new-data-types-in-sql-server-2008.aspx
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MVP Summit 2008 Photo

Here is a good link: http://alpascual.com/blog/al/
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Free and Discounted Software from Microsoft

Here is the list - http://microsoftstartupzone.com/content/FreeSoftware.aspx
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C# & Visual Basic Language Specification

C# 3.0 Language Specification Word Document can be downloaded at http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/5/0/9503e33e-fde6-4aed-b5d0-ffe749822f1b/csharp%203.0%20specification.doc
Same way, you can download Visual Basic 9.0 Language Specification at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=102846
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Unity Application Block released

The Unity Application Block (Unity) is a lightweight, extensible dependency injection (DI) container. It facilitates building loosely coupled applications and provides developers with the following advantages:

Simplified object creation, especially for hierarchical object structures and dependencies;
· Abstraction of requirements; this allows developers to specify dependencies at run time [...]

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