March 24, 2008 10:49 AM
Posted by: Brein Matturro
C#,
General Microsoft news,
VS 2005 and .NET 2.0According to Wikipedia, a kludge (or, alternatively, kluge) is a clumsy or inelegant solution to a problem or difficulty. In engineering, a kludge is a
March 21, 2008 11:04 AM
Posted by: YuvalShavit
.NET Web services (Windows Communication Foundation)Dino Chiesa, who previously wrote about how not to write a REST app, finally spills his guts on how to go about doing so. The basic metaphor in WCF is that services receive and respond to incoming communication, and clients initiate those communications. The REST service is an application that...
March 17, 2008 11:00 AM
Posted by: YuvalShavit
Ajax,
VS 2008 and .NET 3.5,
Windows Presentation FoundationNow that VS 2008 is out of the box, so to speak, it appears that a new era in Windows development is upon us. Language-Integrated Query is one of several game-changing technologies now supported in the Microsoft software kit. Although it is still early and there is a lot of learning to do, LINQ is...
March 12, 2008 2:26 PM
Posted by: Brein Matturro
Ajax,
VS 2008 and .NET 3.5Visual Studio 2005 provides an Web site application template to create AJAX enabled ASP.NET Web sites.
However, when you use Visual Studio 2008, you will not find this template in the New Web site creation templates. The reason for this is that Visual Studio 2008, by default creates a .NET...
March 11, 2008 10:52 AM
Posted by: YuvalShavit
.NET programming downloads,
General Microsoft news,
VS 2008 and .NET 3.5Bill Gates has been popping up a lot lately - at the Office Developer Conference, at the SharePoint Conference, and so on. An interesting leg on his journey - this is, after all, a
March 7, 2008 3:00 PM
Posted by: Brein Matturro
ASP.NET,
General Microsoft news,
VS 2008 and .NET 3.5,
WinFormsThe way you use Master pages has changed in Visual Studio 2008. Remember, how in Visual Studio 2005 when you add a new Web Form in ASP.NET applications - you get to choose a master page to apply to the Web form. If you choose to use a Master page - then the page that is added, when you check...
March 3, 2008 3:40 PM
Posted by: YuvalShavit
Methodologies (Team Development, Agile and so forth),
VS 2008 and .NET 3.5NOTABLE THIS WEEK - There is little question that tools these days are subject to rolling releases. Noris there much question that bosses still look for reasons to put off new migrations. Developers want to get their hands on the newest stuff so they are ready when the tools and runtimes are truly...
