Visual Studio.NET Service Packs are due this year, but their site is up already (The site clearly mentions it is still in process) http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/support/servicing/default.aspx Visual Studio 2003 Service Pack 1 ships Q2, 2006 Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 ships Q3, 2006
Frequently we desire to autopopulate some fields on our web form with the current logged in username and domain. How to get that information? Well, User.Identity.Name comes to the rescue. Set the text property of the field to User.Identity.Name and it will show the logged-in username prefixed by the...
Wohoo! Enterprise library for .NET Framework 2.0 has just been released. More details at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/?url=/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/EntLib2.asp Direct download link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5A14E870-406B-4F2A-B723-97BA84AE80B5&displaylang=en
While we are on the topic of System.Web.Mail , it is important to note a new namespace in version 2.0 of the .NET Framework. There is a brand new namespace for sending mail via managed code, it is called System.Net.Mail . Have no fear, System.Web.Mail is still accessible in v2.0 but it is deprecated...
Do you have some students who want to learn Visual Basic .NET or C# on their own? Or perhaps you want to learn them as part of your own professional development. Well if so, Microsoft has a free series of lessons for absolute beginners. They look pretty good to me. I am sure that may others will find...
With a plethora of blogs floating on the internet, it is hard to find the blogs which make a difference . Below is a collection of blogs of authors whose books we have read and blogs of people who make the technology. I spent some time to find out such information and post it so that it will be useful...
Yes, for a limited time (1 year), Visual Studio express editions are going to be free . SQL Server Express editions will be free always. More details at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/ Start downloading folks. Clarifications on the free offer at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/support...
.NET Compact Framework v2 is now ready and available for download ! As of today we have the English end-user download and the Platform Builder QFE available. Remaining language downloads will be released in the new few weeks as we get the localized download pages completed. .NET Compact Framework 2.0...
Did you feel that a powerful Collection library for public domain was missing? Well, its here now... Check out http://www.wintellect.com/powercollections/ A brief description: With .NET 2.0 comes the ability to implement what has been known in C++ as template classes. Generics are like C++ templates...