Tips of the Day on .NET

My Web Pages Starter Kit

The My Web Pages Starter Kit is a dynamic content management system (CMS). It is designed to meet the needs of computer enthusiasts who want to deploy and maintain their own website – and it is also easy to modify the look and feel or even change/extend the feature set.
You can download the starter kit from here: http://www.codeplex.com/MyWebPagesStarterKit 

What's new in C# 3.0 - Part 1

Kah Fui (Software engineer from Entellium) is going to show you some of the new features in the C# 3.0 language.
In this first part of the What's new in C# 3.0 video series, Kah Fui will show you the following features:
- Local Variable Type Inference
- Object Initializer
- Implicit Typed Array

What's new in Visual Studio 2008 for Web Developers

Ever wonder what are the new features in Visual Studio 2008 for web developers.
In this short video, Poh Sze is going to show you three of the new features in Visual Studio 2008 for web developers.

What's new in Windows Mobile 6.0 - Device Security Manager

Poh Sze, from DPE Malaysia is going to show you what's new in Visual Studio 2008 for Device Developers.
In this video, she is going to show you the Device Security Manager.
Device Security Manager allows you to have a better understanding and manage device security settings. You can export the security settings, and even create your own custom security settings.
Besides that, you can use the Device Security Manager to manage the certificates on the device.

WCF & WF Sample Application - Layered Architecture - March Release

In the previous blog, I mentioned about the WCF & WF Sample Application - Layered Architecture

There is a new updated version on the Layered Architecture Sample on http://www.codeplex.com/Layersample.

This March release focuses in depth on using the HandleExternalEvent/CallExternalMethod (HEE/CEM) architecture to develop Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) solutions. It also demonstrates the following:

1. How to integrate WF and WCF together in an application.
2. How to implement IPendingWork effectively to ensure consistency between the application and workflow persistence store (what happens when a 2 year workflow process fails on the 5th month?)
3. How to send data and exception back to the client. (HEE/CEM is a disconnected architecture which means server errors are not notified to client).

 

What's new in Visual Studio 2008: Visual Basic 9.0 - If Operator

We have Patrick Yong to show us one of the new features in Visual Basic 9.0 - If Operator

Download the Microsoft® Windows Mobile LOB Solution Accelerator 2008

TechEd SEA 2008 is coming UP!!

Tech·Ed, Microsoft’s premier and largest annual conference in the South East Asia Region is back in August 11 – 14 at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre. Realize the full potential not only of the technology, but your own. Interact one-on-one with Microsoft technology experts and your industry colleagues. This year, stand a chance for an Exclusive Luncheon with Tech·Ed SEA 2007 rated No. 1 speaker, Steve Riley! How? Log in to www.techedsea.com. For registration enquiries, please email techedsea@crystaledge.net or call to +603 - 7958 5155. Come! Be a part of an awesome Tech·Ed SEA experience!

What's new in Visual Studio 2008 - ASP.NET AJAX (Update Panel)

Upgrade Visual Studio Trial Edition to Purchased Edition

To upgrade Visual Studio 2005/2008 Trial Edition

What's new in Visual Studio 2008 - Visual Basic 9.0 (XML Features)

Patrick is going to show one of the new features in Visual Basic 9.0 - XML Features

Upgrade Team Foundation Server 2008 Trial to Full Edition

Supported Upgrade Paths

You can upgrade Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server in the following ways:

·        From a prerelease version to the released version

·        From the trial edition to the workgroup edition

·        From the trial edition to the full edition

·        From the workgroup edition to the full edition

For more information, see the following links:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms404844.aspx

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms404852(vs.80).aspx

Features Comparison on Visual Studio 2008 Family

For those want to find out more on the features comparison on the different version of Visual Studio 2008, visit this site: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vs2008/products/cc149003.aspx.

Here are the list of categories on the features comparison:
General
Basic Tools
Data-Related Tools
Platform Tools
Advanced Tools
Item Templates

To find out what's new in Visual Studio 2008, see this link.

Get Started on Visual Studio 2008

What's new in Team Foundation Server 2008 - Offline Support

Sin Min, Visual Studio Team System MVP, is going to show you one of the new features in Team Foundation Server 2008 -- offline support for version control.