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Screencasting Tips for Beginners

Betsy Weber (Chief Evangelist) from "TechSmith Corporation" write an informative article.

watch it at :http://www.presentersuniversity.com/visuals_screencasting.php

(what is screencasting:http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/11/16/what-is-screencasting.html)

Analyze .NET assemblies using NDepend

Analyze .NET assemblies using NDepend: " NDepend analyses .NET assemblies of an application and generates reports containing design quality metrics, warnings and diagrams. More on reports in the Sample Reports section.

link: http://www.ndepend.com/
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Castle Project

http://www.castleproject.org/index.php/Main_Page

Visual Studio 2005 Express - FREE!!!

"We are incredibly excited to announce that effective April 19^th, 2006, all Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions including Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual J#, Visual C++, and Visual Web Developer Express will be free permanently! " -- http://blogs.msdn.com/danielfe/archive/2006/04/19/579109.aspx

The Information Technician

The Information Technician: "While attending a social event of enterprise architects I was asked (after being introduced) by a respectful CEO 'so Natty, what exactly are you doing for leaving?' usually I'm explaining about EA, EA domains and how I help to align IT to business, but this time I replied 'I'm an Information Technician!'. You could see the puzzle in the man eyes, 'You what?'
I'm an information technician. My job is to shape the way data organized, handled and maintained in the enterprise. My set of tools are business process modeling tools, data modeling tools, applications, systems, infrastructures and my experience. I use my tools to shape IT is such a way that it will fit, as much as it can, to business needs. The same as a dental technician will build dental crown/s that perfectly fit your mouth structure I'll build perfect IT solution that will fit your enterprise.
He smiled and went away, leaving me his business card. 'Give me a call!' he said 'I've got some rotten tooth in my mouth; I think you'll have a lot of work to do'. After a week or so I called that man. 'Ha, you're the information technician' he said. The call went on, but I'll write about it in another time."

XML for Fun: Building an XSL Transform Tool

XML for Fun: Building an XSL Transform Tool: "Get a jump on your XML development: Michael Campbell shows off his latest XML for Fun project that lets you perform XML transformations on the fly."

.NET Framework Tools

.NET Framework Tools: "Visit the .NET Framework Tools page or use the links at http://weblogs.asp.net/sbehera/archive/2006/02/06/437556.aspx

New Code Snippets for C#

New Code Snippets for C#: " * Application Code Snippets
* Collections and Arrays Code Snippets
* Connectivity Code Snippets
* Crystal Reports Code Snippets
* Database Code Snippets
* Datatypes Code Snippets
* File System Code Snippets
* Math Code Snippets
* Operating System Code Snippets
* Security Code Snippets
* Smart Devices Code Snippets
* Windows Forms Code Snippets
* XML Code Snippets
To download code snippets for all the categories and retain the directory install structure of these snippets, click here.
Tool for write Snippets click here.
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How to be a Good Developer or User

How to be a Good Developer or User: " 18 Ways to be a Good Developer, inspired by 20 Ways to be a Good User."

This week on .NET Rocks! and Mondays

This week on .NET Rocks! and Mondays: ".NET Rocks! - Mark Dunn takes us down the InfoPath

Mark Dunn joins Carl and Richard in the studio for another look at Infopath, framed for .NET developers. Mark, as you may remember, is the first co-host of .NET Rocks! and a good friend of the show.

http://dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showID=164


Mondays #44

Mark Miller outs the PTA lady, Karen gives nerds tips for picking up women, Carl gets a Prius, Mark finds the dumbah among us, and Richard has awesome toys.


http://mondays.pwop.com/default.aspx?showID=48




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New XML Features in VS 2005 and .NET 2.0

New XML Features in VS 2005 and .NET 2.0: "I attended a session hosted by Alan Griver a few weeks ago at the Israel C# Users Group (IVCUG).

It was a lovely talk, who's first part centered around the new XML features in VS 2005. Amazingly, I don't think I've heard anyone talk about these before, because most of it was brand new to me!

Here's a short list of the new cool stuff he talks about:

- XSL is actually compiled in IL, which means you can actually debug into XSLT statements. Which leaves me wondering - maybe someone should write a visualizer for XSL objects?

- There's a cool XML toolbar to let you do all sorts of cool stuff while editing and viewing XML files

- XML Snippets: This is a cool thing. Let's say you have an XML that contains something like this:

1 Roy

you can write this:


  and then press Tab. You'll get a 'snippet' sort of popped into your code editor that looks like this:

1 [Cursor]

How cool?

- The properties window for an XML file contains a 'schema' setting with a button that allows schema for the document form a bunch of preknown schemas (you can also add your own to this list). "

Code Snippets Manager Hidden in VS2005

Code Snippets Manager Hidden in VS2005: "This is a very good article about Code Snippet Manager in VSTO V2.0 by Kelvin. However, the 'Code Snippet Manager' is hidden in VS2005 by default (strange?!), so you can't do anything nor increase your productivity even though you'd read this article.
 
So what we have to do is to customize the menu by adding the Code Snippets Manager to the Tools menu 'manually'.
 
Before:

 
After:

 
Colt Kwong"

Upcoming Releases of Useful ASP.NET 2.0 Things

Upcoming Releases of Useful ASP.NET 2.0 Things: "A few people have asked me about what else is coming down the road in terms of downloads and other releases for ASP.NET 2.0.  Here is a non-exhaustive brain-dump of a few things coming out in the near future that we've been working on:

- Major Update to the Atlas Project: A pretty significant update to Atlas will be coming out soon.  It adds a number of pretty cool features -- including a lot of additional support to make common Ajax-style scenarios dead-simple with ASP.NET (previous refreshes of Atlas provided a lot of power features -- this refresh drop is also making common scenarios super easy).  It also provides the beginning of really nice integration of Atlas functionality into the server-control model.

- Updated VS 2003 Web Project->VS 2005 Web Site Migration Utility: This adds more support for migrating existing VS 2003 web projects to use the built-in VS 2005 Web-Site project model (specifically it better handles a number of cases we've seen with customers apps since VS 2005 shiped).  Our goal is to ship it this week (maybe as early as Tuesday).

- VS 2005 Web Application Project Refresh: A refresh of the new VS 2005 Web Application Project download will be coming out early next year.  The big feature we are looking to add with the next refresh is suppo"

2006 XML.com Reader Survey

2006 XML.com Reader Survey: "As you may know, we've been retooling our editorial focus during 2005 to focus on what the world looks like in the post-core-XML specification era; that is, what happens when we stop working so much on XML as with it? Toward that end, we've prepared a survey for XML.com readers, which I hope you'll take a few minutes to complete. One thing I can promise is that your responses on this survey will be carefully studied as I think about the editorial focus of XML.com during 2006."

Open Source Security Library in .NET

I tried the folowing component and it's great. if you need to use a security library or just http communication you can try that component.

from mentalis site:

The Mentalis.org Security Library is an add-on for the .NET framework. Its goal is to provide various security related tools to the C# and VB.NET developers. The library currently consists of the following subprojects:

• SecureSocket Library [SSL and TLS support]

• CertificateServices Library [Certificate Management support]

• Crypto Library [Cryptographic Transformations support]

It ships with extensive documentation that can also be viewed online. If you have questions about the library, you can ask them on the Security Library forum.

You can download the Mentalis.org Security Library over here.

Apple is Depending on Open Source for Security

Apple is Depending on Open Source for Security: "Apple has stated that they are depending on Open Source to spare OS X the security woes plagued by Microsoft.



The operating system update, due to debut in the first half of 2005, is based on the Unix platform, and Apple executives reckon the open-source nature of the product means it's inherently more secure than certain proprietary offerings.

Bertrand Serlet, senior vice president of software at Apple, said Wednesday that having a greater number of people keeping an eye on source code leads to better software security. 'A lot of security problems derive from the core,' he said. With open-source code, 'thousands of people look at the critical portions of source code and...check those portions are right. It's a major advantage to have open-source code.' (C|net via OSDir)"

DataGrid with built-in filter functionality

DataGrid with built-in filter functionality: "A reusable component which extends the DataGrid and adds functionality for real time filtering."

3D Pie Chart

3D Pie Chart: "Here's a nice free3D Pie Chart class on CodeProject. Version 1.4 (just released) includes some bug fixes and a demo app. Purty.

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Reports of Linux's death premature

Reports of Linux's death premature: "A recent Slashdot offering entitled A Look At Windows Server Outselling Linux pointed to a story on CoolTechZone with the absurd title of 'Linux is Doomed, Thanks to Microsoft.' The story, title and all, is one of the most egregiously wrong reports of the century. Here's why."