photo credit: justonlysteve I was lucky enough to be able to attend the first ever meeting of DevG, a DEVeloper Group here in the Isle of Man that looks to bring together developers from different backgrounds in a community event where people can share experiences, learnings and even pitfalls with...
If you’re a full-time developer, well, even a part-time one, you could get some great benefit by making use ot tool libraries and source code on the web. I came across SharpToolbox with over 1000 tools for .Net and JavaToolBox with over 666 Java tools and snippets. Fabrice has been...
If you haven’t had a chance to dable with .Net 3.0 here’s your chance. The .Net 3.0 Framework training kit for WF, WCF and CardSpace provides all you need to get started. It’s a set of hands-on labs, demos and presentations designed and used for several 4-day courses. Worth a...
I just found out from Scott Guthrie’s blog that ASP.Net AJAX 1.0 has just shipped. There’s been talk about Atlas and CTP versions of this thing floating around for some time now, but it’s nice to see the final version shipping and so much industry support. The whole AJAX initiative...
Came across this on Andy’s blog: Apparently the only language that Windows Vista currently supports is VB 6. This blog post goes into the detail, however it appears that the following are the Microsoft development environments that Microsoft will be supporting when Vista is launched: Visual Basic 6.0 (supported) Visual...
Think you know .Net? How many of these can you...
Very interesting post on Jon Flander’s blog on how to manually create your very own BizTalk assembly. “In BizTalk schemas are compiled into a .NET type. The type derives from Microsoft.XLANGS.BaseTypes.BaseSchema and has a read-only property named XmlContent that returns a string which is really just the XSD. When an...