My latest article “Make your Skype Bot in .NET” is available for reading at CodeProject. This article is intended for beginners.
Read: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/SkypeBot.aspx
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The Windows Installer XML (WiX) is a toolset that builds Windows installation packages from XML source code. The toolset supports a command line environment that developers may integrate into their build processes to build MSI and MSM setup packages.
See more details: http://wix.sourceforge.net/
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Some of you remember one of my old post (I removed the post that time itself due to some issues) regarding my market value
Now the latest offer is 20.4 Lakhs. So this is 3rd time in my life I get an offer without negotiation. As usual told them ‘1-2 years later please’… I [...]

This sample code snippet gives you a kick start (Hello World ;)) on Microsoft Patterns & Practices Enterprise Library – Data Access Application Block.
Remember that there a more than one way to do most steps. I am not going to confuse you by writing all.
 

First you need to download and install Enterprise Library. I used [...]

Got these links from MSDN news letter today. Thought I must share here.
 
Building ASP.NET Web Parts for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Create a Microsoft ASP.NET Web Part project from scratch and run it within a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site.
Creating and Testing Features with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Use Microsoft Visual Studio to create a custom [...]

Microsoft’s own social networking platform is ready! It is especially for India!
Visit and Joint now! - http://wlplanet.com/
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A quick answer will be “to make development environments more productive, consistent and standardized”. As an addendum, it accelerates project cycle times, reduce costs.
It is important that companies must update their applications for compatibility with rapid evaluation of  technologies such as mobile devices, software as a service etc. Customers must be happy even after [...]

Check this link from Microsoft Patterns & Practices - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms998208.aspx
 
You must read the TFS Guide -http://www.codeplex.com/TFSGuide if you try to be a .NET Architect. (ebook available for download)

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