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44 Silverlight 2.0 Videos

2. August 2008

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Are you searching  for webcasts to learn about Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 ? well then, here is a good news for you all.Mike Taulty recently uploaded and amazing collection of Silverlight 2.0 screencasts on how Silverlight works, controls, File IO, networking, UI design,  data-binding, interacting with HTML pages, and more.if you want to have a good [...]

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Create PDF Files on the fly with C# and PDFSharp

24. July 2008

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Recently one of my colleague asked me is there anyway to programmatically merge huge number of PDF  files in to a single file, without using Adobe Acrobat libraries, well the answer is yeah. and there are a lot of off the shelve and open source libraries available for this. the best one I found is [...]

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FREE - Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition & Expression Studio For Students

17. April 2008

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Well Last February Microsoft Announced Dreamspark. which provides free downloads of professional developer tools for students. but it seems a lot of students doesnt know about it. so i thought i could inform you all, in case if you had missed it. DreamSpark is simple, it’s all about giving students Microsoft professional-level developer and design tools [...]

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MSDN Reader!! A Must Have Application!

26. February 2008

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www.windowsclient.net have released a new "Syndicated Client Starter Kit" designed to make it easy to create rich, syndicated multimedia and content experiences which engage the user, from documents and photos to videos and podcasts.you can read the story here. And this Starter Kit Show case includes an awsum MSDN Reader. The MSDN Reader allows you to [...]

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Visual Studio 2008, C# 3.0, LINQ, ASP.Net 3.5 Getting Started

18. February 2008

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these days I’m just playing around with Visual studio 2008 and its new features, C# 3.0 LINQ, Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight, ASP.Net 3.5 and much more. And trust me last few months, I have received a lot of emails regarding How to’s of these and requesting resources to learn these language improvements. well may be [...]

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VS 2008 Web Deployment Project Support Released

29. January 2008

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Last Friday Microsoft released the final RTW (release to web) support for VS 2008 Web Deployment projects. Scott Guthrie has written more on this on his blog. read it here.

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SQL Server 2008 Table Valued Parameters

23. December 2007

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Last two weeks I have been working on developing bulk data manipulations. And even before that I always wondered “What’s the best way to pass an array of values into a SQL Server stored procedure.” One option I found was OPENXML, which I blogged here. And I was trying out visual studio 2008 and SQL [...]

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ADO.Net & OPENXML to Perform Bulk Database Operations

18. December 2007

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Last week at my work I had to write a tool to process few hundreds of thousand email files and insert their details to the MS SQL Server 2005 database. Doing it in traditional way might require much connectivity to the database and will consume many resources. I was wondering what if I could insert [...]

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