.NET News (Portal?!?!)

Mama Mia! [http://www.woodster.com/jumpstart/dotnet.aspx]?by Michael?Woodruff [http://woodster.typepad.com/] The General News [http://www.woodster.com/jumpstart/default.aspx] one is sooo cool, kind of geeky?with so much on a single page 🙂…

.NET India User Groups

MSDN .NET?India User Groups exist to help facilitate education and knowledge exchange among developers, architects and managers (residing/working in India) with an interest in Microsoft’s .NET technologies. They provide a great place for local developers to come together to learn about .NET technologies, to network with their…

VS.NET Full Screen Mode

Just discovered the full screen mode in VS.NET – Press Alt + Shift + Enter in the IDE to toggle between the normal and full screen mode. Sure looks awesome on a 17” monitor!…

Longhorn Bits

On October 27 2003, the day after the PDC starts, Microsoft will launch the “Longhorn” Developer Center [http://msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn/] on MSDN. The actual product is expected sometime in 2005?but all the buzz?reminds me of the hype that was before Windows 95 was launched. Ofcourse, this…

Sample Chapters

Srinivasa Sivakumar [http://weblogs.asp.net/ssivakumar/] has listed more than 500?sample chapters (in HTML/PDF format)?on his resource site [http://www3.brinkster.com/webguru/Sample.Asp],?from various books?related to?.NET. A great resource!…

Free .NET Web Hosting

Some guys at work and others online, have been asking me for some suggestions on a free .NET web host. Free hosting may be a good way to play around and learn .NET (ASP.NET in particular) but by no means is it suitable and reliable for live production-level applications.…

.NET Framework Class Browser

I find the .NET Framework Class Browser [http://docs.aspng.com/quickstart/aspplus/samples/classbrowser/vb/classbrowser.aspx] very convinient. It has saved me a lot of time on a daily basis looking for namespaces, classes and interfaces. I remember the commonly used namespaces and their respective classes but information…

XML Resume Library

One of the development teams?at my office recently used the XML Resume Library [http://xmlresume.sourceforge.net] for a document management project in ASP.NET. Although it was a pilot project for a HR consultancy but?the guys here seem to be appreciating the usefulness of the library. Earlier,…