Some guys at work and others online, have been asking me for some suggestions on a free .NET web host. Free hosting may be a good way to play around and learn .NET (ASP.NET in particular) but by no means is it suitable and reliable for live production-level applications.…
I find the .NET Framework Class Browser [http://docs.aspng.com/quickstart/aspplus/samples/classbrowser/vb/classbrowser.aspx] very convinient. It has saved me a lot of time on a daily basis looking for namespaces, classes and interfaces. I remember the commonly used namespaces and their respective classes but information…
One of the development teams?at my office recently used the XML Resume Library [http://xmlresume.sourceforge.net] for a document management project in ASP.NET. Although it was a pilot project for a HR consultancy but?the guys here seem to be appreciating the usefulness of the library. Earlier,…
Lately, I haven’t been able to access the Yahoo Groups (groups.yahoo.com) from back here in India. There are tons of .NET-related groups which I browse once in a while to respond to queries, get answers to my own questions and share custom code snippets. Unfortunately, following an…
Following an e-mail from a friend, I browsed the information on the F# compiler [http://research.microsoft.com/projects/fsharp] (a Microsoft Research project). Seems pretty cool but not something I would like to get a taste of right-away. There’s already too much – more relevant (atleast for me) to…
Learn how to use NUnit and some related tools for successfully support testing a Data Access Layer for ASP.NET applications. Test driven development (TDD) has grown in popularity recently, especially with the growth of the Extreme Programming (XP) methodology. NUnit is a unit testing tool built for .NET, which…
Just to add a quick preface to Roy’s [http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/] post on Engineering Notebook: An Extreme Programming Episode [http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/posts/29546.aspx], for those who might wonder what extreme programming (XP) actually?is, a good starting point is ExtremeProgramming.org [http://www.…
Maybe this is old news for some of you guys. Anyways, I’ve been using two such ASP.NET applications which allow remote database administration via a web interface. It’s very useful when you don’t have ready access (specially on client locations) to SQL Server Enterprise Manager or…