Dev Notes

New * : ASP.NET 2.0 High Quality "How Do I" Videos

New high quality "How Do I" videos are now available here ....Cool Stuff !

Via Brian

Access Visual Studio 2005 Team System from Mac and Unix Systems

Teamprise is an eclipse plugin client which provides access to Team Foundation Services with in Eclipse IDE.

More here : http://www.teamprise.com/

Sudhakar

Developer Toolbar for Internet Explorer

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/09/16/469686.aspx

Lots of goodies are avaiable on this toolbar, Very impressive !

Download it

Webcast : Blogging from Developer Perspective...check who is doing that :-)

MSDN Webcast: Blogging from the Developer's Perspective (Level 100)

Developers and information technology professionals everywhere are starting weblogs (blogs), by the droves. You can use blogging and associated technologies (such as Really Simple Syndication) to expand your knowledge by keeping up on the latest news, information, and views from other developers. In this webcast, find out how to build your own blog presence, brand, and traffic, and see demonstrations of new services coming out that can help you blog effectively.

Register here

IIS 7 Documentation is avaialable for developers !!!!

IIS 7.0 Operations Guide

IIS 7.0 Technical Reference

IIS 7.0 Administration Reference

IIS 7.0 Extensibility SDK

[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.]

BillG is on Channel 9

http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=111598

Exclusive Podcast website is ready for developers :-)

Wow...its cooool :-)

http://www.devradio.com/

Listen to Jessy Liberty about a developer career evolution...

Important notes for developers on IE 7

Many of the web developers whom I met recently expressed thier main concern on Internet Exporer 7 as "Change in User Agent String"...If you wonder what the heck is that.. Read more about "User Agent String"

IE 7 team is proactively collecting very good feedback from developers and documenting the details on all the issues/concerns. That's a very good way to talk to developers in thier language. They have recently blogged a nice post on User Agent String issues in IE 7 and related documentation here.

VB6 to VB.NET Migration Guide is available...

Overview from Gotdotnet

Migrating Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 applications to Visual Basic .NET can be a non-trivial task. Many of the features and technologies of Visual Basic 6.0 have changed or become obsolete. Developing an equivalent Visual Basic .NET version of a functional Visual Basic 6.0 application often requires more than just learning a new version of the language and performing a translation. A deep understanding of the issues involved in migrating deprecated technologies is essential to a successful migration. Microsoft patterns & practices guide will provide proven assistance in the processes and techniques for successful migration of Visual Basic 6.0 applications to Visual Basic .NET.

Download from HERE

GotCodeSnippets.NET is Live !

The site, http://www.gotcodesnippets.net, is the idea from US Regional Director, Michael Palermo after getting feedback from several code snippet talks, and leveraging the code snippet feature in projects, assisting him in generating high productivity in code generation.

Back from vacation...

I am back from my looong vacation (13 days) and I should say it was hectic all the time :-)

So the things looked very catchy to me are...

1. PAG has released a new ASP.NET Security Practices paper for ver 2.0  
   http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/PAGPractices0001.asp
2. ILMerge Tool released
   http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=22914587-b4ad-4eae-87cf-b14ae6a939b0&displaylang=en
3. Two students from Virginia University did a study on Java Vs .NET Security
   http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~nrp3d/papers/computers_and_security-net-java.pdf

Whidbey Tip# 1 : How to use custome port for VS 2005 Internal Web Server

In recent sessions I did for ASP.NET 2.0, the one frequent question I got from audience is : How can I debug on random ports while my functionality of application depends on a specific port number? The internal web server uses random ports and exposes that as a property for your solution. So we can customize the port number very easily (shown below)

Chnage the property “Use Dynamic ports” to “false” and use your custome port number.

Escape from Yesterworld !

Very Good & Creative Idea :-)

Enjoy : http://www.escapeyesterworld.com

Heavy Rains hit the Heart of India

Mumbai, INDIA has record highest ever Rain fall in history of India yesterday. (Read here)

The effect ?

• 23 people killed.
• Important Tele conferences are cancelled
• One big national banking system was stopped due to breakage in communication network.
• Flight Routes are changed. Trains cancelled.
• Still people are not able to reach homes even after 30+ hours.
• Landslides
• Most famous TV shows are washed out from Broadcast.
  
  

Team System Rocks !