Writing error free application is difficult. Error occurs at runtime due to unexpected user input, environment dependencies and other reasons. You must take care of all known conditions that leads the application to crash. Crashes cause user frustration...

It happens to you if you are a developer or debugger running VS 2008 and trying to use JavaScript intellisence for your favorite JS library. This just does not happen *only* to jQuery but any Visual Studio JScript document (- vsdoc.js ) You wont get intellisence...

Did you ever wonder how AutoEventWireup="true" works in ASP.NET Pages? The page class basically hooks different generic event handler methods to the page life-cycle. Such as Page_Load Method get’s called if present. OK!! It’s called using reflection...

One of the major feedback from the development community was about the complexity of setting up development environment. Microsoft Listened! Now you would  not need a Windows Server 2008 box to be able to develop applications for SharePoint with...

Have you already started developing web apps on the new ASP.NET MVC framework? If yes, then you may be wondering how ASP.NET MVC framework works. Here is an walkthrough to dive you deep into the framework‘s internal concepts. MVC framework is not new...

New Features This section describes features that have been introduced in the MVC 2 Preview 2 release. ModelMetadata and ModelMetadataProvider Classes The ModelMetadataProvider class provides an abstraction for obtaining metadata for the model within...

The ASP.NET MVC is designed for Performance and extensibility and testability in mind. MVC 1.0 comes with handful of HTML extensions that allows you render textboxes, dropdowns and other controls. While you are creating a DropDownList or List box you...

Download Windows Virtual PC from Microsoft Download Centre. You may also get readily available Windows XP virtual PC to run along. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx Select your OS type and language for Windows XP Mode. Save the...

ASP.NET MVC support is not released as part of Beta 1 but will be included in Beta 2 http://www.asp.net/learn/whitepapers/aspnet40/ Core Services Extensible Output Caching Auto-Start Web Applications Permanently Redirecting a Page The Incredible Shrinking...

If you are developing a SharePoint feature and adding custom actions to various menus, the following is the table containing Default Custom Action Locations and IDs. DisplayFormToolbar N/A Location corresponds to the display form toolbar of lists. ExportEventToolbarButton...

Nothing surprising that you said no when someone asked to install WSS (Windows SharePoint Service) on Windows Vista. WSS has a strict restriction of Windows Server 2003 SP1 or Windows Server 2008. However, Bamboo Solution team have developed little hack...

  PowerCommands 1.1 is a set of useful extensions for the Visual Studio 2008 adding additional functionality to various areas of the IDE. The source code is included and requires the VS SDK for VS 2008 to allow modification of functionality or as...

Read Kirk Allen Evans's Blog on this. http://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans/archive/2008/04/12/using-the-virtual-earth-control-in-sharepoint.aspx

Ian Morrish has a nice list on it - http://www.wssdemo.com/Pages/websites.aspx

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Embedded edition of SQL Server that comes part of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Service 3.0 basic installation is left with less documentation. This edition of SQL Server is also called as Windows Internal Database. Here are few things you may like to...

Here is a quick and dirty way of getting data from SharePoint List to database.   Add a Web Service Reference to http://<your site address>/_vti_bin/lists.asmx Lists.asmx is part of SharePoint web services group, which lets you access list...

It has been couple of weeks since I have been using Windows Live Folder Share . There is an cool utility that runs at you desktop tray and let you access your system data anywhere. You just need an Email ID to make all this work. You might miss integration...

  Do you know you can copy path of bunch of files from windows explorer in Windows Vista. Simple - Select files, hold shift & right click. You are right there. All files path are copied to clipboard. "C:\Website1\Security\Registation.aspx"...

from IE blog - The IE8 Developer Tools are the next step in helping make developers more productive in Internet Explorer. In this post I'll introduce you to what's available in IE8 Beta 1 and point you to more detailed information about the tools. Integrated...