I finally gave

Language Integrated Query (LINQ) Series

60 minutes of my time.  Check out this interview  with Beth Massi from the Microsoft VB Team

This question comes up from time to time , to time . If you understand how redirects work, then you also know it is "not possible" to redirect into a new window, because a redirect on the server causes a special HTTP response to be sent to the users browser, the client. The browsers native implementation interprets the special response code and sends the user off to the destination. There's no built-in mechanism or standard for specifying a new window. The only way to open a new window is for it...(read more)

Eilon has an interesting post about using the new anonymous object initializer syntax in APIs that take dictionaries. The end result looks very much like the JSON parameterized function calls that are very common in many JavaScript frameworks, which shows once more how C# is getting many of the nice features of dynamic languages while remaining statically-typed. While I wouldn't use that just to get named parameters like those frameworks are often doing, it looks well-justified in this context because the parameter it's being used for is actually not predetermined.

http://weblogs.asp.net/leftslipper/archive/2007/09/24/using-c-3-0-anonymous-types-as-dictionaries.aspx

HTTP File Downloader Class for .NET (HTTPFileDownloader)

The ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit provides a set of AJAX controls to spice up your Web site, and as a shared-source project you can use its infrastructure to create your own cool controls and extenders. Be sure to grab the newest release of the Control Toolkit, as it contains a number of bug fixes.

This article presents code that augments any INPUT box with an auto-suggest feature, AJAX-capable

Future of Web Apps have a run a great set of events in both the US and the UK - and there's one coming up in London on Oct 3-5. Just to give you a taster, there are speakers from

• Digg
• Flickr
• Facebook
• WordPress
• FeedBurner
• Yahoo
• Adobe
• Microsoft

Not bad eh? Even better - Developer Fusion has organised a 20% discount off the full ticket price, which brings the two day conference pass down to less than £200. Give me a shout too if you're going to attend - I'm planning to make it.

Object Oriented AJAX class and objects structured for ease of use and maintainability for multiple requests.

A nice article written by DotNetGuts discuss these points about Web Services in .NET

• What is Web Service?
• History of Web Service or How Web Service comes into existence?
• Example of Web Service
• Web Service Communication
• Advantages of Web Service Communication
• Terms which are frequently used with web services
• Example of Creating Web Service in .Net
• Example of Testing Web Service in .Net
• Few Facts about Web Service in .Net

Read it @ DotNetGuts

A DRAMATIC drop in information technology enrolments has cost universities about $100 million in four years, according to a study.

Keith Combs posted information on several upcoming October IIS7 related webcasts.

http://blogs.technet.com/keithcombs/archive/2007/09/22/key-iis7-trainings-in-october.aspx

Looks like schools in-session regarding IIS7 this October!  See you there.

In my previous post about XAML and its future as a domain model/DSL serialization format, I've argued that System.Configuration as well as Enterprise Library Configuration (part of the core of EntLib) will soon become irrelevant.

The caveat is that now you need to design your classes a bit differently. No more constructors where you validate the required input. Now everything is a property get/set, and validation needs to be done at a separate point in time (ISupportInitialize.EndInit), as well as on every property set (if you only want to allow the setter to be called before initialization is completed) and before every method (if you depend on the properties being initialized). ...

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The GridViewGuy has been busy lately! These tutorials target different aspects of the .NET framework. Check the full list here......(read more)

.NET StockTrader is an end-to-end sample application for .NET Enterprise Application Server technologies. It is a service-oriented application based on WCF and ASP.NET, and illustrates many of the .NET 3.0 technologies for building highly scalable, rich "enterprise-connected" applications.

It may seem unrelated, but if you haven't read Fowler's article on DSLs (from Google cache if it's down like now), please do so now. It will help you understand why XAML goes far beyond WPF and presentation.

Configuration is typically nothing more than a DSL (external DSL in Fowler's terms) that serves to setup the variable parts of a certain runtime library or framework. For example, while a logging framework has many "static" or invariant components (i.e. logging "pipeline" execution, interaction between components, registration of variable components, etc.), there are variable parts which determine the runtime behavior, such as concrete trace listeners attached to given trace sources, the specific file a file listener will write to, and so on. ...

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Create an AJAX-based auto suggesting textbox or textarea with no database or server side scripting needed.

Environment Variables Manager (EnvMan) is a tool written in C# .Net intended to handle the administration of Windows Shell Environment Variables. It is designed to replace Control Panel System Environment Manager and easily manage long variable values.

A custom WebControl that emits CSS to turn create a stylable ASP.NET panel with rounded corners.

A simple Windows framework that beginners and intermediate programmers can use as an alternative to MFC. It makes learning to program for Windows easier.

The Article will guide you with complete knowledge of how to add a google map in your webpage with knowledge of JAVASCRIPT