Web 2.0

Visual Studio 2008 stack

Microsoft online collaboration tool

New online collaboration tool from Microsoft.
Microsoft SharedView Beta

how COM aware clients talk to .NET components

see here..

C# 3.0 features

New Language Features for C# 3.0

• var keyword - Declares a variables that will be created as the type that it is set to. This is particularly useful for LINQ, but it can also be used in foreach...

foreach(var cus in customers) // cus is strongly typed as a Customer type.

• Object initializers - Allows you to initialize an object by setting properties.

var cus = new Customer() { Name = "Boeing" };

• Collection initializers - Similar to object initializers, but used to load a collection. Any Add method exposed by the the collection can be used to define the initializer. This allows you to add elements to lists as well as dictionaries or any custom Add method that you create.
• Auto-implemented properties - Allows you to define a property without having to define the field or the get and/or set. The code is inferred by the property.

public string Name { get; set;}  // this is expanded by the compiler to be a standard property with corresponding field

• Anonymous types - Allows LINQ to automatically create a type when transforming data. The type is not directly available from code, but you still get Intellisense to help you use the object.
• Lambda expressions (=> operator) - This is basically a lightweight version of anonymous methods. A lambda expression can be passed as a parameter to another method, just define a delegate that matches the lambda expression.
• Extension methods - Allows a type to "attach" methods to another type. To do this, add the this keyword in front of the first parameter in a static method.

public static string DoSomething(this string s) // This can be called like this - var something = "Hi".DoSomething()

• Partial Methods - I didn't quite catch how this works, but it seems like it allows designer generated code to define a method that you can implement.

 

REST - An Architectural Style, Not a Standard

REST is an acronym standing for Representational State Transfer.

Description: A representation of the resource is returned (e.g., Boeing747.html). The representation

places the client application in a state. The result of the client traversing a hyperlink in Boeing747.html

is another resource is accessed. The new representation places the client application into yet another

state. Thus, the client application changes (transfers) state with each resource

representation --> Representational State Transfer!

Differences between IIS versions

http://blog.crowe.co.nz/archive/2005/08/05/158.aspx

 

LINQ Architecture

Microsoft Sliverlight 1.1 developer reference

Microsoft sliverlight 1.1 developers reference

 

Securing web services using SOAP extensions.

securing webservice

Good article on SOAP extensions in .net

http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid26_gci810805,00.html

Test blog

This is just a test article

My Team

Wayanad - Kerala

XML Notepad 2006

Check this.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnxmlnet/html/xmlnotepad.asp

It also has a xml diff tool build in.

Nrithyagramam - Dance School

 

A quick review of what's new in .net 2.0.

List of .NET 2.0 and C# 2.0 new features - The Code Project - Book Chapters

ASP.NET 2.0 "How do i" videos

Super high quality video series on ASP.NET 2.0 - the How Do I video series

Caching (Part 1)

Caching (Part 2)

Create a Full-Featured Customer Login Portal

Data

Form Building for a "Contact Us" Page

Localization

Master Pages and Site Navigation

Membership and Roles

Profiles and Themes

Tips and Tricks

Web Parts and Personalization

merawindows.com

New interesting Microsoft site focussed on Indian audience:
http://www.merawindows.com

C#: converting string into Stream

Most of the times when u deal with XML content and DataSets you might have a situation to load the XML content in string format in a DataSet and Dataset does not have any overloaded method of taking string as an parameter so this code will help you convert the string to stream which you can pass as a parameter to the DataSet.LoadXML(Stream s) method.

"string data = 'This is test data';
byte[] bytes = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(data);
MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream(bytes);"

Now "stream" contains the ascii bytes that make up the original string.