While in Chicago to speak at PHP | Tek , I got to do a Podcast (in a bar) with on of the The Thirsty Developers I hope you will [ CLICK HERE ] and listen !

I got an email last night from Eduardo. Eduardo "Love's VB.NET", but is concerned about his long term career prospects because he keeps hearing about C#. The Pie Chart from the Telerik Survey suggests that C# has surpassed VB.NET as the .NET...

Most people haven't had a chance to play with Microsoft Surface. It's one of the coolest technologies in a long time ! [ Click HERE to watch the video. ]

While at TechEd 2008 I got to spend some time in the "Fish Bowl" with Georgeo Pulikkathara . Georgeo interviewed me on Microsoft's Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) and my upcoming Developer Security Activities. Please [ click HERE ] to check...

ComponentArt releases Charting 2008.1, introducing advanced AJAX interactivity, dual 3D rendering engines, and a wealth of core charting features. Grate for AJAX style data visualization ! Visit the Charting Gallery for live demos .

Microsoft has released an advisory for the recent SQL Injection attacks which points to several tools that will help identify and block these type of attacks. The goal of this blog post is to help our audience identify the best tool depending on their...

Since most of us Geeks are caffeine addicts...... "Coffee consumption has been linked to various beneficial and detrimental health effects, but data on its relation with death were lacking," says Esther Lopez-Garcia, PhD, the study's lead author...

This years Reader's Choice Awards conducted by ASPnet Pro Magazine showed some great appreciation for DevExpress' recent work. Their awards included..... Product of the Year - DXperience ASP.NET Best Component Set - DXperience ASP.NET Best Grid - ASPxGridView...

Baseline Magazine [ Click HERE ] has outlined the 5 Big Security Threats that Anti-virus software and firewalls MISS. 1 Trusted Users and Partners 2 Web Application Vulnerabilities Gartner estimates that 75 percent of today’s attacks are carried...

Today the XNA Team has launched Dream-Build-Play 2008 . In Dream-Build-Play 2008 you can build your dream game to compete with other game developers around the world. This year’s contest will feature Xbox360 development only and to ensure that everyone...

Microsoft Silverlight Streaming offers free and inexpensive hosting services that make exposing your video and audio content as easy as pie. An article by Rob Blackwell   Read the article HERE at Devx!

I recently had an email exchange with someone asking me about how to approach writing their own WYSIWYG editor control for web applications. Perhaps an interesting academic exorcize, or maybe he has some very specific application  but it got me thinking...

OK you AJAX Masters ! Check out ScriptLoader ScriptLoader is a framework to manage your and third-part javascript libraries. It will make you easier to call any script library(your or third-part) without injecting any dirty code.for that,you just configure...

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I was supposed to leave on Wednesday for Mix Essentials South Africa next week. Unfortunately, my paternal grandmother died early this morning and I'll be forgoing the trip to stay home, support my family and see Muth (as she was called - short for Mother...

[ Subscribe to me at www.MisfitGeek.com ] BradA referred me to some Internal Coding Guidelines hat I thought I'd share... Table of Contents 1. Introduction..................................................................................................

Those smart guys in Microsoft Patterns and Practices have released the BETA version of their WCF Security guide.  The guide, Improving Web Services Security: Scenarios and Implementation Guidance for WCF , is our Microsoft playbook for Windows Communication...

Silverlight, AJAX and PDF Invoices Cement SplendidCRM as the Ideal CRM Platform for Companies that have Standardized on the Microsoft Technology Stack RALEIGH, N.C.--( BUSINESS WIRE )--SplendidCRM Software, Inc., a pioneering provider of Microsoft-centric...

This spring I did a series of 4 videos on File Uploading in ASP.NET. Here is the series ..... How Do I: Simple File Uploads in ASP.NET 17 minutes, 17 seconds How Do I: Multiple File Uploads in ASP.NET Version 2 16 minutes, 9 seconds How Do I: Multiple...

I LOVE component suites ! I regularly use web components from Infragistics, Telerik, ComponentOne, Dundas, eXceed, and others. I recently tool PureComponents Ultimate Suite for a Spin ! The first thing that struck me ........ The Price = $79 Need the...

Last year we held a Web Cast series for aspiring architects that was attended by over 1200 individuals and covered a number of strategies that can help developers and IT professionals to transition to the architect roles. The Aspiring Architect Series...

The folks at DevExpress are releasing a FREE DataGrid for Silverlight. Here are come of the features..... Data Grouping against multiple Silverlight Grid columns Data Sorting against multiple Silverlight Grid columns Comprehensive Summary Computation...

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The IIS team has released the Beta 1 (Go Live) release of the Microsoft Web Deployment Tool! The tool provides deployment and migration support for IIS 6.0 and 7.0. It incorporates many features that enable web server administrators to deploy, sync and...

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