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April 2008
ADO.NET Articles, Tutorials, Examples: ASP Alliance
Articles on implemenation of ADO.Net
The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Site
In this tutorial we'll start from the very beginning and create the Data Access Layer (DAL), using typed DataSets, to access the information in a database.
ASP.NET MVC : The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Site
ASP.NET MVC provides a framework that enables you to easily implement the model-view-controller (MVC) pattern for Web applications. This pattern lets you separate applications into loosely coupled, pluggable components for application design, processing logic, and display.
Releasing the Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries - ScottGu's Blog
One of the things my team has been working to enable has been the ability for .NET developers to download and browse the source code of the .NET Framework libraries, and to easily enable debugging support in them.
Today I'm excited to announce that we'll be providing this with the .NET 3.5 and VS 2008 release later this year.
.NET Web Product Roadmap (ASP.NET, Silverlight, IIS7) - ScottGu's Blog
Over the next few months we'll be delivering a series of additional products that build on top of this VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 foundation, and make .NET development even better.
Web Service Software Factory
The Web Service Software Factory (also known as the Service Factory) is an integrated collection of tools, patterns, source code and prescriptive guidance. It is designed to help you quickly and consistently construct Web services that adhere to well known architecture and design patterns.
Service Station: WCF Messaging Fundamentals
Since the early days of XML, the software industry has relied on a little-known specification that provides a standard definition for the data found in an XML document. This specification, referred to as the XML Information Set (InfoSet), defines elements and attributes in terms of the information they contain, in a way that's completely independent of the byte representation.
Charlie Calvert's Community Blog : LINQ and Deferred Execution
This post covers one of the most important and frequently misunderstood LINQ features. Understanding deferred execution is a rite of passage that LINQ developers must undergo before they can hope to harness the full power of this technology. The contents of this post assumes an intermediate understanding of LINQ.
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March 2008
sfPlayground
Symfony for babies.
The definitive all-in-one installer for symfony Tired of multiple guides for every kind of OS out there? Confused with the tools needed? Not anymore! sfPlayground is a cross-platform installer that not only prepares your symfony installation, but also takes care of your existing web environment setup (Apache and MySQL).
February 2008
Introduction to Functional Programming in C#.
With the release of the 3.5 framework, we have a completely different coding style available (functional programming). We could actually do functional programming in the 2.0 framework, but the resulting code was ugly and hard to understand at a glance and thus hard to maintain. Now, with lambda method syntax and extension methods, we can produce very human-readable code written in a functional style.
