From the monthly archives: November 2008
Amazon has launched a Microsoft Branded Store where you can browse through all Microsoft Press and other Microsoft related books. I am an Amazon addict and this has just given me one more excuse to spend more time on the site. I’m now waiting for them to sell Microsoft T-shirts and novelty items.
Sometime ago I wrote a post showing how to do dynamic sort with LINQ. That approach worked well with LINQ To Objects. Today I spotted a question on the forums where Levi asked a question about doing dynamic sorts with LINQ To SQL. My earlier approach will work once all the data is [...]
For those interested in pursuing certification(s) on .NET Framework 3.5, Microsoft has released a set of exams for various .Net 3.5 technologies. I often get asked about these exams and how to study for them. In this post I will try to answer the first part. This post lists all currently available .Net 3.5 exams [...]
As a programmer I love my enums. I find code written using enums to be more readable than without them. However, there has been and there still is a disconnect between lookup tables in a database and enums in code. One has to restore to some creative trickery to get them working in harmony. Recently [...]
Microsoft Online Services is out of Beta and ready for prime time. List of products offered through online services is impressive. You can either go for BPOS (Business Productivity Online Standard Suite) which includes Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Communications Online and Office Live Meeting. Or you can subscribe for individual products such as [...]
For many startups one of the biggest hurdles is money. The cost of software cannot be justified. Thus attraction towards open source. Microsoft has taken care of this problem by launching a program called BizSpark. You can enroll yourself if you are a startup with less than one million USD in revenue and [...]
Where are we today?
Since its inception as Avalon I have dedicated countless hours to the technology we now know as WPF. I can probably say that I am one of the few people who have worked on WPF at a commercial level at least in Australia. This is because the number of projects using [...]
As a part of my job I often travel around Sydney so I use a Vodafone mobile Internet connection to keep myself connected. At home I connect to my wireless network. Recently I faced a problem with my new laptop. The issue was that I could not connect to wireless network at home. [...]
Developer Express the company that produces some of the best third party control libraries for .NET also have two very popular products for developer productivity. These products are CodeRush and Refactor Pro retailing for approximately $250. They have now released a free edition of CodeRush called CodeRush Xpress which can be downloaded here.
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