An Ajax calendar extender control that implements a highly customizable UI and a WYSIWYG designer preview

Interested in the future trends of digital design? Expression around the Clock is a global 24-hour event series taking place on October 4th, 2007. The tour will bring the worldwide interactive design community closer together.

This event will take place in 10 cities in the world, one in Canada: Toronto.
Lucky you! Hope next time it will be in Montreal...

http://www.microsoft.com/expression/events-training/globalevent/default.html

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

.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.

How to makeuse of IsPostPack Method inside UserControl? 

IsPostBack method will always be true inside user control. You can use following alternate method to by pass this isse

 protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e) {
base.OnLoad(e);
if (!IsUserControlPostBack)
{
///Write your code
}
}

//Make ReadOnly property.

protected bool IsUserControlPostBack{
get
{
   return this.ViewState["IsUserControlPostBack"] != null;
}

Hope this help..

Suresh Behera

This is a SQLite based Profile,Membership,Role Providers written in C# for .NET 2.0

In this short tutorial Chetan Kudalkar is going to discuss nested classes. Nested classes are classes within classes. Read more......(read more)

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

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

In this article Joydip provides a brief overview of Agile Software Development and its methods. Read more......(read more)

I want to give it a try. My idea is to take a look at one or two projects every week and post some conclusions of what I could learn of them. Here you have for example the latest Scott Hanselman's post showing his weekly results.  So if you have in mind a really cool source code stuff, please feel free to ping me (leaving a comment to this post or using the contact me link) and let me know where I can get it!  Thanks!

A list of 15+ FREE Add-ins for Visual Studio 2005. Some of these add-ins will help improve the quality of your code, while others will help you code faster.

15+ Free Visual Studio Add-Ins

The best part about working at Neudesic is the interaction you get with some of the most talented people in the industry. Recently, David Pallmann, one of our Architect Consultants, posted an invaluable series of blogs posts on WCF tips. Here are the links to his most recent posts: 

WCF Tips #1 - Service Interface Design

WCF Tips #2 - Service Class Design

WCF Tips #3 - Service Hosting

WCF Tips #4 - Configuration

WCF Tips #5 - Infrastructure

WCF Tips #6 - Instrumentation

WCF Tips #7 - Clients

To gain some real-world insight into WCF, check out these tips and subscribe to David's blog!

I'm happy to announce that you can now purchase my book The Art Of Unit Testing through the Manning Early Access Program. Currently, the first five chapters are available, but when you purchase the MEAP version you get the new chapters as they come in, before anyone else. Also, you can help make the book better and more accurate as a MEAP reader since the author forum can be used to discuss book topics you find interesting and I will be reading it at least twice a week (hopefully daily).

 

• What's with the ugly cover art? I'm working on it. We had to have something to start putting this online. The final print will have something which I can actually stand behind.
• What are the first five chapters about?

The way I see it, the book is divided into several parts. the first part (chapters 1-5) are about the basic tools you need to know to start writing unit tests in the real world. Everything from working with NUnit and the basic attributes of unit tests, and up to using fake, stub and Mock objects. There is also quite a full reference for using the Rhino.Mocks framework. The idea is that you can take someone with no unit testing experience whatsoever in .NET, and have them read those five chapters. then they have the basic knowledge to actually know what you're talking about when you say "Mocks" or "integration testing". They may even be able to write some real world tests using these chapters, even interaction tests.

Part I Getting started
 1. The basics of unit testing - FREE
 2. The first unit test - AVAILABLE
Part II Core techniques
 3. Using Stubs to break dependencies - AVAILABLE
 4. Interaction testing Using Mock Objects - AVAILABLE
 5. Mock Object frameworks - AVAILABLE

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

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.

This article discusses how to create an HTML Editor server control for use within an ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 environment.

Last year, I published a widely unread set of what I thought were humorous predictions for the technology world in 2007.  One of those items titled "AJAX 2.0" stated that Google would create a technology that makes it possible for web applications to access the local resources on the user computer, thereby recreating ActiveX.  This was an attempt at a joke aimed at the fervor with which the development industry jumped on the AJAX bandwagon after the technology had been around for years. 

However, I just read a blog post about Google's latest attempt claw its way out of the Internet and onto your desktop called Google "Gears" and sure enough its remarkably similar to what I described, in concept if not in implementation.  Hopefully, and given that this was released months ago and I'm just now hearing about it, the developer community will think twice before jumping on this technology and sending us back into the bad old days of browser based infectious diseases in the form of executable scripts.

 

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.