Yahoo Groups blocked in India

Lately, I haven’t been able to access the Yahoo Groups (groups.yahoo.com) from back here in India. There are tons of .NET-related groups which I browse once in a while to respond to queries, get answers to my own questions and share custom code snippets. Unfortunately, following an…

F# Compiler

Following an e-mail from a friend, I browsed the information on the F# compiler [http://research.microsoft.com/projects/fsharp] (a Microsoft Research project). Seems pretty cool but not something I would like to get a taste of right-away. There’s already too much – more relevant (atleast for me) to…

Unit Test Your .NET Data Access Layer

Learn how to use NUnit and some related tools for successfully support testing a Data Access Layer for ASP.NET applications. Test driven development (TDD) has grown in popularity recently, especially with the growth of the Extreme Programming (XP) methodology. NUnit is a unit testing tool built for .NET, which…

Web-based Database Administration

Maybe this is old news for some of you guys. Anyways, I’ve been using two such ASP.NET applications which allow remote database administration via a web interface. It’s very useful when you don’t have ready access (specially on client locations) to SQL Server Enterprise Manager or…

IBM Rational Solution for .NET Developers

Recently I recieved?the product evaluation CD for IBM Rational XDE Developer Plus (.NET Edition). XDE combines visual modeling, runtime analysis and testing from inside the Visual Studio .NET IDE. Some?other XDE features are: * Roundtrip engineering (Visual C# .NET, Visual Basic .NET, and ASP.NET) * Automatic or on demand…