Earlier this year Microsoft released the Web Platform installer, currently available in version 1 or as a version 2 beta . I've been playing around with it for a few days and I think it is generally a step in the right direction. If you are doing web development on the Microsoft platform, it's well worth it to install this on any development .. more »

Jan recently asked: "Something I don't see being addressed that often - When you say you read a lot, is that on your own time, or do you actually spend time at work reading? I think spending time at work reading & learning is justifiable, although not always easy.. more »

The Code Project Latest Articles This article gives a quick overview of how Ajax helps with the slow parts of web applications and highlights one of the new approaches in ASP.NET..... more »

Having recently released our initial offering of Silverlight controls, we are starting to get a feel for the sorts of issues Silverlight developers commonly encounter in designing and developing their applications. One question which seems to pop u.. more »

How to use .NET Web Services in ExtJS...... more »

Code Camp Montreal Sessions are now online Code Camp Montreal sessions are now online. Heres the agenda: Dbut Fin Dtails Salle 1 Salle 2 Salle 3 8h00 8h30 Enregistrement 8h30 9h10 Session #1 Les entits, les modles et le UI : Silverlight David Lacerte Frameworks, meta-framework, framework de framewo.. more »

The purpose of this article is to explore how to add scheduling task to windows scheduler using c#.net. Most of the time we need do scheduling job in .net or any other system... more »

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. This series can be followed by using the .NET Languages C# and Visual Basic CLR Inside Out - Understanding the CLR Binder Microsoft to turn .Net Micro Framework code, support over to the community Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing ELMAH and Exception Driven Development FTW A Fast and Easy Way to Take an ASP.NET Application Offline - .. more »

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave At present, I am running Windows Vista Ultimate as OS in my computer. I have installed SQL Server 2008 developer s version in my computer.A couple of months back, I learnt that SQL Server Book.. more »

from APress. You can also find information about the book on Amazon. I am co-authoring along with George Dunphy, Harold Campos, Peter Kelcey, Sergei Moukhnitski and David Peterson. The book will be available this summer...... more »

Microsoft announces the Open Government Data Initiative (OGDI) Today Microsoft announced the Open Government Data Initiative (OGDI). The goal of OGDI is to encourage the publishing and use of public government data. See the press release here What's special about OGDI? OGDI enables government organ.. more »

I was looking for an old post of mine today so went back in "time" to try and find it... i passed through my list of posts for 2009 and got a bit of a shock.. I initially found a fix to PunkBuster's problems on the Windows 7 beta, which seemed to work for some, but not all. It became evident that the fix was rather related to the server you were .. more »

Also available as RSS feed: There was also several Azure related sessions at Using the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio to Build Cloud Services Introduction to the Azure Services Platform Building Web Applications with Windows Azure Connecting Applications across Networks with Micros.. more »

I have been selected as a Microsoft Expert for the Azure Track at TechEd North America 2009. Join Me at Tech Ed Connect 2009! Thursday, May 07, 2009 2:05 AM by.. more »

I need to add Captcha Control for couple of contact and submission forms to stop possible spam bots. I tried with the similar way I approched In previous website application developed in ASP.NET. But, Its even too easy to add Captcha capability in forms than we do for simple websites. DotNetNuke/DNN is having a built in Captcha control which can be .. more »

NOTE: This was cross posted from here. Ive been using jQuery quite a bit lately. Ive grown very fond of it. At the same time, I have been digging into ASP.NET AJAX 4.0. I just read a post from Bertand Le Roy that made me smile. In his post, he shows how you can.. more »

Another quick fix to a common problem asked in the ASP.NET Forums When trying to run Asynchronous operations in a ASP.NET page (ASPX) or a page calling a webservice that makes Asynchronous calls, you want to make sure the page is mark with the co.. more »

The purpose of this article is to explore how to add scheduling task to windows scheduler using c#.net. Most of the time we need do scheduling job in .net or any other system... more »

The Code Project Latest Articles This article describes an idea of the ASP.NET page transfer method that can be called like the Response.Redirect method and works as cross-page posting...... more »