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New MSDN article: A Programmer's Introduction to Visual Studio .NET "Whidbey"

This article gives a brief overview of "Whidbey" and what we can look forward to in the next release. One statement, in particular, jumped out at me and I couldn't resist a quick quip: Auto-Save and Restore: With the Whidbey release of Visual Studio .NET, you can have your projects automatically saved...

Published Wed, Dec 31 2003 5:51 PM by paul.laudeman
.NET Debugging Resources

I've created a new Debugging category for tips relating to debugging and troubleshooting .NET applications. Since my current project is a Winforms based app, my first two posts cover breaking on unhandled exceptions and troubleshooting deployment runtime errors . Look for more soon! .NET General How...

Published Mon, Dec 29 2003 6:15 AM by paul.laudeman
Changes to Functionality in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2

Changes to Functionality in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 This document focuses on the changes in Windows XP Service Pack 2 and its implications for developers. Examples and details are provided for several of the technologies that are experiencing the biggest changes. Future versions of this document...

Published Sun, Dec 28 2003 12:13 PM by paul.laudeman
CodeSmith 2.5 Release Candidate Available!

If you haven't heard of CodeSmith before, it's a great code generation tool that you can use to automate about any type of code that follows a similar pattern. For more information about this tool, Mark Bonafe put together a presentation on CodeSmith for the Hampton Roads WeProgram.NET user group. Click...

Published Wed, Dec 24 2003 9:04 AM by paul.laudeman
ASP.NET and J2EE Struts compared

MSDN recently released an article on ASP.NET and Struts: Web Application Architectures . Good read.

Published Wed, Dec 24 2003 8:09 AM by paul.laudeman
Rotor "Whidbey" SSCLI to be released

Rotor Whidbey here we come.. Joel confirms there will be a Rotor (SSCLI) release for Whidbey… What are you hoping to see with it? I just noticed that at least one of Eric ’s readers uses it as opposed to our product documentation… What do others use it for? What would you like to use...

Published Mon, Dec 22 2003 1:46 PM by paul.laudeman
C# Cookbook's Regular Expression chapter

C# Cookbook's Regular Expression chapter The long-awaited 'phantom' C# Cookbook from OReilly will be available in Jan '04. It has a sample chapter on 'Regular Expressions' available for download.. something to read during the cold Norwegian evenings ;-) [via WebLogs @ ASP.NET ] Using Regular Expressions...

Published Sun, Dec 21 2003 5:53 AM by paul.laudeman
Security checklists for .NET code

Srinath Vasireddy, Program Manager of the Patterns & Practices group at Microsoft, recently mentioned a few good links to security checklists available on MSDN : Arch & Design security review: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnnetsec/html/THCMCh05.asp Security...

Published Sat, Dec 20 2003 12:24 PM by paul.laudeman

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Survey on handling long running operations from ASP.NET - interesting answers!

HOWTO - deal with long running operations from ASP.NET web pages (.aspx)? We asked this question sometime back at our workspace; check out the answers . Please share your experience and tips/techniques/resources that you have come across. [via WebLogs @ ASP.NET ]

Published Sat, Dec 20 2003 12:12 PM by paul.laudeman
New! Adventures in Visual Basic .NET: A Simple Business Rules Manager

Adventures in Visual Basic .NET: A Simple Business Rules Manager Rocky Lhotka shows how you can use delegates to build a simple rules engine to centralize the validation logic in your application. [via MSDN : Visual Basic ]

Published Sat, Dec 20 2003 12:08 PM by paul.laudeman
Developer survey for Longhorn testers

Ed Kaim has announced a survey available over at BetaPlace to complete if you are testing and demoing the Longhorn bits released at the PDC. If you have an opinion and want to be heard, this is a good opportunity.

Published Sat, Dec 20 2003 12:06 PM by paul.laudeman
New Feedsters tool helps blog searches

For those of you who haven't taken a look at Feedster, it is a search engine for blogs. Scoble reports on a new tool to help searches: One more: Feedster has come out with a web based aggregator . Scott is doing some interesting stuff over there. I track what all the blogs are saying about various things...

Published Sat, Dec 20 2003 12:02 PM by paul.laudeman
Finally, a CSS like styling approach for your Windows applications using XAML

I'm truly surprised that no one has really come up with a good solution for consistently applying the same look and feel through a Windows Forms application. Sure, you can derive controls and then override the construction of them to provide that look and feel, but doesn't that seem like more than a...

Published Fri, Dec 19 2003 4:59 AM by paul.laudeman
Keeping abreast of the latest news: free tools to do the legwork for you

Are you hard pressed to stay abreast of all the latest news? Do you want to know when a web page changes so you don't have to visit it on a regular basis to check for changes (think MSDN 's Developer Tools Roadmap )? Here are a few free tools you can use to do the legwork for free: Google's News Alerts...

Published Fri, Dec 19 2003 4:55 AM by paul.laudeman
Don Box tries the dogfood and finds it not so palatable

Don Box argues that giving up his Emacs habit for writing .NET code in Emacs is forcing him to dogfood VS.NET and find ways to improve the editor to the point where he'd gladly give up his old hat. Luckily, Don has a direct line of communication to the internal teams at Microsoft to be heard and fortunately...

Published Fri, Dec 19 2003 4:50 AM by paul.laudeman

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New MSDN article: A Programmer's Introduction to Visual Studio .NET "Whidbey"

.NET Debugging Resources

Changes to Functionality in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2

CodeSmith 2.5 Release Candidate Available!

ASP.NET and J2EE Struts compared

Rotor "Whidbey" SSCLI to be released

C# Cookbook's Regular Expression chapter

Security checklists for .NET code

Survey on handling long running operations from ASP.NET - interesting answers!

New! Adventures in Visual Basic .NET: A Simple Business Rules Manager

Developer survey for Longhorn testers

New Feedsters tool helps blog searches

Finally, a CSS like styling approach for your Windows applications using XAML

Keeping abreast of the latest news: free tools to do the legwork for you

Don Box tries the dogfood and finds it not so palatable