Some good links August 20

.NET
Boxing/Unboxing In .NET
System Setup for .NET 3.0 and .NET 3.5
NGEN perf boost in red bits
The .NET Show on Silverlight
Callbacks, ConcurrencyMode and Windows Clients
Enterprise Library 3.1
C# static constructors are called on demand, not at startup
Analyzing .NET Patches
Materials on .NET FAQs List
10 Things You Should Know About Microsoft's Silverlight
Extension methods and .NET 2.0

LINQ
Multiple Enumeration of LINQ results
LINQ to SQL in Beta 2
LINQ to SQL (fka DLinq): What's new in Orcas beta2
Inserting new records with the ListView & LinqDataSource
LINQ to SQL (Part 6 - Retrieving Data Using Stored Procedures)

Web
Make your ASP.NET application extendable
ASP.NET Orcas Designer Customization
Master Page Reuse Across Applications
ASP.NET 2.0 FileUpload Server Control
How Do I: Determine Whether an Asynchronous Postback has Occurred?
Storing And Displaying Image From Database
Cool new ASP.NET 3.5 and Silverlight demo application
Strong password checker online
Developing IIS7 modules and handlers with the .NET framework
Make your web application run faster
GridView and Paging Alignment
Workflow + InfoPath Forms, Form is not workflow enabled??

Tools
DatePicker in ASP.NET 2.0 and AJAX Control Toolkit
Nevron .NET Vision Q2 2007 now available - AJAX Support, Gauges and many more
VS 2008 Tools menu

Other
Prepare for growing projects
Reading to Be a Better Developer - The Coding4Fun DevKit
Generic Methods
Smart enumerations
Design Patterns
Fading Forms In and Out
Silverlight Controls
Automatically GAC an assembly after a build and include debug info.
The Daily Grind 1207
Design Patterns
When BizTalk meets SharePoint, it makes sense…
ESB Guidance
What is the order of evaluation in C#?
Why the debugger will not hit your breakpoints?
E -Books Collection( Free Torrent Download)
Microsoft Interview Questions
Running FxCop and the quirks
CopySourceAsHtml in Visual Studio 2008
SOA in the Real World
Microsoft Biztalk Server 2006 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007
Using managed code to detect what .NET Framework versions and service packs are installed
Building LINQ Queries at Runtime in F#
A couple SharePoint logging tricks (Dev Environment only)
Mixing VS2008 with VS2005

Experts exchange solutions

This is a list with solutions provided by the experts in the http://www.experts-exchange.com/ for the last week.Remember that if you want to see the solution you must register in the site first.

.NET

Dialing/Displaying Phone numbers on a PDA Phone
Build options in VB2005
kill keyboard mouse
is process active from process ID
Marshal array of strings
How to pass a dynamic two-dimensional array from c# to c++
Check if the program is in developing mode
physical html files on fly asp.net vs2005
Restore Application/VB.Net 2005
DataSet, BindingNavigator and DataGridView
Crystal Report Export options
VS2005 : Saving after each change

C#
kill keyboard mouse
is process active from process ID
How to pass a dynamic two-dimensional array from c# to c++
Check if the program is in developing mode
physical html files on fly asp.net vs2005

VB.NET
Encrypting / Decrypting String Data
Timed out. This may have occurred because all pooled connections were in use and max pool size was reached. cmd.Connection.Open()
Restore Application/VB.Net 2005
DataSet, BindingNavigator and DataGridView

ASP.NET
Export part of webpage to Excel
How to Implement Right Click Event
Encrypting / Decrypting String Data
server side redirection
Timed out. This may have occurred because all pooled connections were in use and max pool size was reached. cmd.Connection.Open()
OO ASP.net - trying to understand the principles of using objects with ASP.net
Error when attempting to write out XML file

Some good links August 13

.NET Framework 3.5
http://dotnetguts.blogspot.com/2007/07/net-framework-35-new-features.html

http://shailkpatel.blogspot.com/2007/06/new-stuff-in-net-framework-35.html

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/04/CLRInsideOut/#S6

.Net framework version comparison
Adventures in .NET 3.5 Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV
ASP.NET 3.5 controls
LINQ Changes from Orcas Beta 1 to VS 2008 Beta 2
Speed Test: A No-Code LINQ-Based ASP.NET 3.5 Page
Introduction to Visual Basic 9.0 Features
Changes in the .NET BCL between 2.0 and 3.5
Relaxed Delegates

Web
Welcome to patterns & practices Web Client Guidance Community site
Make your web application run faster
SOAP Header Extensions How-To
The Remaining Nine "Working with Data in ASP.NET 2.0" Tutorials
Hosting ASP.NET for .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2 in Medium or Partial Trust
ListView and GroupTemplate Example
Using XML Web Services in Traditional ASP
How To: Create an ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit Extender Control to Extend a GridView
The asp:ListView control (Part 1 - Building a Product Listing Page with Clean CSS UI)
IIS/ASP.NET Settings and Virtual Directory Inheritance
LINQ
Querying XML documents with LINQ to XML
LINQ to SQL : Using Transaction
Using LINQ to XML (and how to build a custom RSS Feed Reader with it)
LINQ, Lambda, and Generics
LINQ samples
Tools
NxBRE -The open-source rule engine for the .NET
Diagrams with Reflector and the Graph Plugin (Part 1)
Capture Entire Web Page
JetBrains releases ReSharper 3.0
FlexWiki 2.0 Beta 2 Released
Dynamic Application Configuration Solution
West Wind Html Help Builder Update
Export from Database In Different Formats: PDF, Excel, Access, XML, HTML, FoxPro, CSV
The Code Project Browser Add-in for VS 2005
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SDK August 2007 Community Technology Preview
Other
Oracle bulks up .NET tools
Fixing a VS.NET 2008 Beta 2 ASP.NET Debugging Issue on Vista: "Strong name validation failed"
Dynamically invoke a method, given strings with method name and class name
Using the platform for XML (and how to create a custom RSS Feed Reader c)
Unit Testing Multithreaded methods
Introduction to Development Tools for Windows Mobile-based Devices
How to Debug MPI Applications in Visual Studio 2005 (Part 1)
How to Debug MPI Applications in Visual Studio 2005 (Part 2)
Great New ASP.NET 2.0 Data Tutorials Published
Localizing .NET Enums
An Intelligent Data Layer
ASP.NET GridView Image Command Button Problem (multiple PostBacks)
XmlWriter and Schema
Visual Studio 2008 Shell
Final TFS 2008 Feature List
Concurrency in .NET
.NET Rocks! - Introducing Acropolis
Interview
IIS and .NET 2.0 interview questions
Interview questions for .NET

NUnit 2.4.2 Released

Experts exchange solutions

These are the best solutions provided by the experts in the www.experts-exchange.com for the last week.Remember that if you want to see the solution you must register in the site first.

VB.NET

Autamatically installing a windows service
Simple Question Using WMI in VB 2005 .Net
Operator Overload VB.net Visual Studio 2005

ASP.NET
ASP.NET Postback advice?
HTTP 403 Forbidden after Upgrade Win XP Professional
Updating Profile Information for Authenticated Users
Determine Row Index - Template Control Buttons in Gridview
creating a TemplateField in a GridView dynamically
ASPx web page error - Failed to access IIS metabase
Public Declaration of SQLBulkCopy and csvDataReader

.NET
Enterprise Library for .NET
DateTimePicker validating event unreliable
Installing .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.0 x86 fail using microsoft update
C#: Reflection Method not Found

Other
What is the difference between JavaScript and the Java programming language?What is a cookie? What are the advantages and disadvantages of using cookies in a web application?
state management engine like experts-exchange.com
WYSIWYG Editors
How to create a C++ wrapper DLL to expose functions from a C++ .lib and .h (header) file?

Some good links August 06

Building LINQ Queries at Runtime
User bar code fonts in C#.net

ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Roles, Forms Authentication, and Security Resources

Partial Methods

Install a Windows Service in a smart way instead of using the Windows Installer MSI package

How long before ALT.NET becomes NOT.NET?

Improving Performance of Asp.Net Application

Using Reflection to Test Web Controls - Part I and Part II

Authentication and Session

Adding Custom Dialog to Visual studio .Net 2003 project

A brief architecture overview of VMware ESX, XEN and MS Viridian

A Developers Toolkit for C# and .Net

Agile Tools for .NET

Automated testing of ASP.NET web applications using Selenium

ASP.NET 2.0 Features - Ten things you might not know about ASP.NET 2.0

C# Language Specification

Cascade XSL

All Roads Lead to Rome (How you can maintain scroll position on postback)

Multi-threading in .NET: Introduction and suggestions

Basic Workflow Execution

Implementing a generic CSV file importer using reflection and attribute based programming in C#.NET

Sending mails:

http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/EasySMTP_package.asp http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/smtpmail.asp http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/techblaster.asp http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/Send_Emails_in_ASPNET20.asp http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/SendMailSMTPWebConfig.asp http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/Seding_Mail.asp http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/072606-1.aspx http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/080206-1.aspx

Life with Visual Studio 2008

SOAP messages exchange between .Net clients and Axis Apache web services

Generic sorting argorithm (QuickSort)

How To: Access Underlying Data of the ObjectDataSource

The EventPool revisited

.NET FRAMEWORK 3.0 is worth learning? by Niraj Yadav

Inside the Grid: Part 1

Generic TCP/IP Client/Server

Reading XML document fragments in .NET

Medium Trust and Visual Studio codename 'Orcas' Beta 2

How to extend the native MessageBox dialog in .NET

Experts exchange solutions

These are the best solutions provided by the experts in the www.experts-exchange.com for the last week.

Remember that if you want to see the solution you must register in the site first.

.NET

• Title : Very basic question on WinCVS setup...what is a repository?

ASP.NET

• Title : Very Slow Page Loads After Inactivity
• Title : Can I upload files to a server using ASP.NET programming, if so, is ASP.NET the best way to do this?
• Title : UpdatePanel is not a known element
• Title : Criteria selection: drop downs VS. radio buttons
• Title : How Build "One Moment Please" functionality
• Title : Unlocking the record of a table from asp.net 2.0

VB.NET

• Title : How to popup windows like MSN?
• Title : Need a solution for creating a report in vb.net, other then using Crystal Reports
• Title : Request.Form("whatever").Count equivalent in VB.Net ?

C#

• Title : Unlocking the record of a table from asp.net 2.0
• Title : Locating csc.exe from within my C# code (building/compiling classes at RunTime)

.NET Compact

• Title : Any way to disable/hide pocket calendar?

Some good links July 30

Moving Projects/Solutions between Orcas and Visual Studio 2005 - http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/posts/122975.aspx

Nothin but .NET - Tips and Tricks - Day 3 - http://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser/archive/2007/07/26/nothin-but-net-tips-and-tricks-day-3.aspx

How to Use Web.Config in ASP.NET and ASP - http://vgbsoft.blogspot.com/2007/07/how-to-use-webconfig-in-aspnet-and-asp.html

A Generic State Machine and Attempt to Generic Component - http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/GenericStateMachine.asp

AWUI - a simple web user interface library with AJAX support - http://www.codeproject.com/Ajax/awui.asp

Using AJAX to populate a drop-down list in ASP.NET - http://www.codeproject.com/Ajax/PopulatingDropDownLists.asp

Email templates - http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/mailtemplates.asp

Sorting collection of custom types generically - http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/sorting_custom_types.asp

Nice VS 2008 Code Editing Improvements - http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/07/28/nice-vs-2008-code-editing-improvements.aspx

Dynamic Message Display (ASP.NET) - http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/Dynamic_Message_Display.asp

Diffrence between Oracle and sql server 2000 - http://www.dotnetspider.com/kb/Article3289.aspx

VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 Beta 2 Released

Applications & Links

I'll try to update these lists with very cool applications and links to .net related applications and may be in future articles.

.Net applications
- C# and VB.NET Line Count Utility
- Spec# for Visual Studio 2005
- ToDoList 5.3 Beta Release (A hierarchical task manager with native XML support for custom reporting.)

VS Addin
- Exec inline Addin for Visual Studio 2005

External links lists
- http://spietrek.blogspot.com/2007/07/links-7232007.html
- http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottHanselmans2006UltimateDeveloperAndPowerUsersToolListForWindows.aspx
- ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio, Silverlight and IIS7
- ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio and .NET
- ASP.NET, Visual Studio, Silverlight, WPF and .NET
- http://spietrek.blogspot.com/search?q=Links

Interview questions

Long time ago Scott Hanselman post a blog's articles about ASP.NET Interview Questions and more generic questions about .net.
Today I have read another blog's post of Rodney Vinyard that gives more questions about interview about .Net framework - check it out.

New : Giving and taking an Interview (A brief article on interviewing both as an interviewer and interviewee)
New : IIS and .NET 2.0 interview questions Interview questions for .NET (Update 13/08/2007)

.NET Tips & Tricks by Michael Nemtsev

Today I've been reading about new features in .NET Framework, how the things can become better from a developer point of view and discovered an article written by Michael Nemtsev, Microsoft MVP that is collect a really huge list of facts and tips about .NET Framework - general issues, thrading, web applications, etc. Also this list become much more valued with the attached links with more information about each tip.

You must read and try to learn it as much as you can.

Count .NET projects lines

When developing an application using either C#, Visual Basic or C++ in .NET projects we discard to think about what is the amount of the code that we produce, what of the code is commented, etc.
However it is very usefull to have information how many lines of code are written in a file or in a project. Also how many lines of comments are included and so on.
This kind of information will not change anything in your project but should you direct you if the things are going well and can quickly answer you some simple questions - Is there any comments in this file/project? What is the total amount of code lines produced from the beginning of the project? What is the correlation between the autogenerated code and your 'true' code.

I've found a very nice utility that counts the number of lines in a C#, VB or C++ .NET solutions or projects related with the above questions.

Check this out.

How I am becoming a better developer, part 1 of infinity

Today I've read some very useful blog post that show me a Justice Gray's post about what and how a professional can be more than professional. Read this post! It's worth!! Also there are links to very cool and usefull books.

Create an ASP.NET ProgressBar

I was facing a lot of questions like "How to see the progress of uploading large files on my web site?" or "Can I integrate an upload progress in my web pages?" and etc. I have found a very good article for creating such progress bar on CodeProject but today reading the help.net blog finds out that it can be much easier to do that stuff. Check this article and make your life happier.

New (24/7/07): Here is another progress bar using ajax: AJAX file upload