MyXaml

Just came across this nice open source tool called MyXaml (dev blog), which?offers declarative markup (XUL-like)?capabilities to .NET 1.1 and 2.0, and ASP.NET applications. The website includes the product download (open source), documentation and articles on XAML.…

Signal-to-Noise #8

Code Reviews – Sample chapters [#2 and #6] from Karl Weigers’ book on Code Reviews. [via Joseph Cooney] Web Services vs. Remoting, by Chris Taylor SQL Server Yukon – Articles, Code, and other Resources for Yukon Developers at CLRSQL.com. [via Randy Holloway] WinFS -?architecture diagram (below)…

Signal-to-Noise #6

Sample chapters (Part 1 and Part 2) from O’Reilly’s ADO.NET Cookbook Ted Neward shares his thoughts on the talk Joel Spolsky gave on “Designing Applications With The User in Mind” at UCDavis Microsoft Interview Questions by Chris Sells. [via Jason Salas] New article…

Signal-to-Noise #5

The Unofficial Microsoft Weblog Now we?know a little more about “Microsoft Venus” (i.e. ASP.NET 2.0). Matisse 6: The Ultimate .NET Database (PDF). There’s?even a?new .Text DbProvider available for Matisse database. I wonder if any web hosts support Matisse as yet…

Signal-to-Noise #2

The Republic Day (Mon, 26th Jan) is near while the odd rains in and around New Delhi will hopefully not confine people indoors?during this long weekend. To me, the most amazing sight in the city this time of the year is the evening view of the Rashtrapati Bhavan (Presidents…

WinFX 247

I didn’t knew up until today that Matthew Reynolds (dotnet247.com) has already launched WinFX247?(beta). The new site?holds WinFX (that will?be .NET’s big brother?when Longhorn comes out) namespace reference, newsgroup discussions and .NET 1.2 Structure. Cool stuff!…

Longhorn Review @ CNET

John Morris from CNET recently reviewed Microsoft Windows Longhorn. Its more of a non-developers point-of-view but a good read. John also mentions that the retail market cost of Longhorn will be the same as that of XP (according to Bill Gates). I feel that the cost & the delivery time…

Software QA/Testing and UltraGird for Avalon

Rob Davis has put together an extensive and very insightful Glossary and Technical FAQs section on Software QA/Testing. [via Siva Rama Krishna] Today, I also came across this control (for Avalon) called UltraGrid. UltraGrid for Avalon is a functional grid control that supports hierarchical data, column sizing, multi-column sorting…