Alternative IDEs to Visual Studio.NET

I came across dotnetcoders.com [http://www.dotnetcoders.com/] while searching for a UI component on Google. The site hasn’t been updated in months but I did find some nice articles on their site: * Alternative IDEs to Visual Studio.NET [http://www.dotnetcoders.com/web/Articles/ShowArticle.aspx?article=…

ASP.NET Exposed Roadshow and VS.NET Automation Samples

Maybe I’ve mentioned this one before but its worth it!?The creators of ASP.NET are coming to a city near you. This is your chance to receive FREE, in-depth training on Microsoft’s web development platform.?So do go catch the ASP.NET Exposed Roadshow [http://www.asp.…

Craftsmanship

Joel Spolsky has a very interesting new article on (Software) Craftsmanship [http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Craftsmanship.html]?where he?rightly?points-out — “Writing code is not production, it’s not always craftsmanship (though it can be), it’s design.” Also, Amit Kalani has written some preparation books for the MCAD…

Software QA/Testing and UltraGird for Avalon

Rob Davis [http://www.softwaretestengineer.com/] has put together an extensive and very insightful Glossary and Technical FAQs section on Software QA/Testing [http://www.robdavispe.com/free2/]. [via Siva Rama Krishna [http://geekswithblogs.net/srkprasad/]] Today, I also came across this control (for Avalon) called UltraGrid [http://www.infragistics.…

PDC Content and Multi-direction Treeview Control

FYI, the entire audio/visual content from PDC 2003 is available online [http://microsoft.sitestream.com/PDC2003/Default.htm] (via Microsoft). Also, Sean Gerety [http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/metablog/posts/3841.aspx] has an interesting idea for a multi-direction treeview control (mockup below): [http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/metablog/posts/3841.…

PDF's on-the-fly and Code in Indigo

iText# (iTextSharp) [http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextsharp/] is a port of the iText open source java library written entirely in C# for the .NET platform. iText# is a library that allows you to generate PDF files on the fly. It is implemented as an assembly. [via Jay R [http://weblogs.…

SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services

Have you tried the beta release of SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services [http://www.microsoft.com/sql/reporting/] yet? If so, please leave a comment on what you think of it. How does it compare to Crystal Reports 9 [http://www.crystaldecisions.com/products/crystalreports/net/default.asp]? By the…