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Monday, March 10, 2008 5:14 PM

Silverlight Podcasts

Sparkling client is a podcast about Silverlight and other RIA technologies. If you're interested in learning how to write great websites that use Silverlight, ASP.NET AJAX, and others, give us a listen. If you would like professional advice in these...
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Thursday, March 06, 2008 9:23 PM

IE 8 Beta1 and SL2.0 - Today

Today, I've downloaded IE8 beta 1 as well as Silverlight 2.0 installed on my laptop. This day have seen many products released at Mix 08 by great personalities like Scott Guthrie , Bob Familiar , Guy Burstein , IEBlog , etc. According to Jane Kim...
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Monday, December 17, 2007 2:40 PM

VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 Training Kit

The Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2008 features and a variety of framework technologies including: LINQ...
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Monday, December 17, 2007 11:05 AM

Microsoft Products at No Cost - Free

Who says that Microsoft manufactures products only to sell ?? Microsoft has many products that are free to download. As am into .NET and specially with Visual Studio, am aware that Visual Studio is free to download from Microsoft's website. Yes, that's...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007 5:59 PM

Laptop under $100

That's true, you read the title correct. BBC recently wrote about this on 6th Dec 08. Microsoft is working out towards the XP operating system to be a reality on the co called $100 laptop or XO. If things go as scheduled, $100 Laptop or XO will be...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007 3:19 PM

Servers at Home

Servers, no more belong to Office. All these days, wife's worry that their husband not only work wholly with LapTop, on top of this, Microsoft is coming out with one more product titling as " Stay at Home Servers ". Don't you believe...
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Monday, December 10, 2007 8:15 PM

ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview

The ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview provides a glimpse of new, powerful functionality being added to ASP.NET 3.5 and ADO.NET next year. This release delivers features that enable high-productivity data scenarios and creates the best server for rich clients...
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Thursday, December 06, 2007 4:24 PM

Calling .NET Component from a classic ASP page

After a long time, today, got a requirement from ASP page. Our current client has a major application written in classic ASP 2.0, and we have given him an extension functionality written in .NET with VB as programming language. Now, we have 2 different...
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Tuesday, December 04, 2007 4:00 PM

Live goes deep while searching

Most of the industry say that, Google is the top search engine and will give you lot of results when you search. But the missing point is that, Live Search gives you deeper search when compared to Google. Surprising !!!! i just did a small search for...
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Friday, October 12, 2007 4:07 PM

C# 3.0 - What's New : {Properties}-Part2

Property of the class can be considered as the mechanism of accessing the private variables of the class. In other words, properties act as wrappers to the private variables. Though, the new feature related to this is not so great from the point of technology...
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Saturday, September 15, 2007 6:26 PM

The importance of 'Return' keyword at JavaScript

Recently, while coding for a Text Field value padded with left zeros, realised the importance of the RETURN key word for the FUNCTION written in JavaScript. Before i mention the actual importance, let me describe you the situation. Scenario: A Text box...
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Friday, August 24, 2007 11:33 AM

C# 3.0 - What's New : {Implicit}-Part1

Recent development in my technical life is that, started working out with Orcas Beta 2. So, thought to blog about the latest happenings with C# language. The idea emerged to start a series of posts related to C# new features. This is the first of ever...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007 1:17 PM

Increase Web Pages Response time - tip

For the ASP.NET pages that has no user input it is a best practice to have the page register with EnableViewState=“false”. This will increase the response time to 200% of the default. Along with that, you can also do the one more important is that, anyhow...
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Monday, August 20, 2007 5:00 PM

Runtime Polymorphism

One of the frequently seen situations from a technical standpoint in a large scale of Business Layer objects is, invoking methods from different objects when they contain same method name. Today, am going to make it simple to give an example for Runtime...
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