The Dotnet Ninja

What's next for .Net

Thu, 02 Mar 2017 11:32:55 GMT

Key Takeaways

.NET is positioning itself for cross-platform development with .NET Core while .NET Standard 2.0 brings in the missing pieces
Streamlining the cross-platform tooling and educating the community to eliminate confusion is the next step to drive .NET Core and .NET Standard adoption.
Roslyn has a major impact on .NET, enabling new features to be delivered much faster. Roslyn also enables developers outside Microsoft to use to build their own tools based on its public APIs.
The .NET community is now warmed up to open source and increasingly contributing on compilers and system libraries.

Read the detailed panel discussion here

https://www.infoq.com/articles/virtual-panel-dotnet-future?utm_campaign=rightbar_v2&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=articles_link&utm_content=link_text

Download free ebooks

Tue, 21 Jun 2016 05:19:21 GMT

Download free ebooks on hot technologies. The Succinctly series of ebooks from Syncfusion gives you the essential content in just 100 pages!

https://www.syncfusion.com/resources/techportal/ebooks?utm_medium=neudesicJune16

Free Visual Studio 2012 ebook

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:48:00 GMT

Check out this great ebook featuring the best time-saving features in Visual Studio 2012 and ASP.NET 4.5. Written by top engineers at Telerik, it explains several great features like

JavaScript Intellisense

CSS Intellisense

ASP.NET and Web API (overview and CRUD operations)

Strongly Typed Data Binding

Page Inspector (new debugging tool)

And much much more

Check it out here

http://blogs.telerik.com/blogs/posts/12-07-03/fresh-off-the-press-time-saving-features-in-visual-studio-2012-and-aspnet-4-5-free-e-book.aspx

Check out the new revamped Experts Exchange!!!

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:53:00 GMT

Are you an expert in technology? Check out the new revamped Experts Exchange and gain recognition for helping out the technology community.

Check out my profile http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_747139.html

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Killer website optimization tips before going live!!!

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 04:42:00 GMT

You've built a great website with all the latest and greatest technologies and now it's time to go live!!! Obviously you want the best performance from your websit.

Check out these killer website optimization tips before you go live!!! It's a great series of articles with some parts yet to be published. Have this checklist hndy before you deploy any website and get great performance and ROI!!!

http://blog.gfader.com/2011/07/website-check-list-part-1-aspnet-4.html

Software Testing with Visual Studio 2010

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 03:13:00 GMT

Today I will review the new book "Software Testing with Visual Studio 2010" which is available from Packt publishing here

http://www.packtpub.com/software-testing-using-visual-studio-2010/book

This is a great book which explores several testing features in Visual Studio 2010.

Visual Studio 2010 has software testing tools built in. You can now execute automated tests within the Visual Studio IDE. This book explains the various aspects of software testing which can be done with Visual Studio 2010

Developers can get familiar with the Visual Studio tools and techniques to create automated unit tests, using automated user interface testing, code analysis, and profiling to find performance bottlenecks and improve the quality of the code.

There are several tools built into Visual Studio such as Test List Editor, Test View, Test Results, Test Configuration user interfaces, Test Center, and Lab Center to easily manage and maintain multiple test cases, and Test Results in integration with Team Foundation Server.

It provides an overview of different types of testing which help with testing software applications throughout different phases of software development. Detailed procedures for creating the Test Plan, Test cases, and Test Suite used for manual testing are explained. Manual tests can be created by recording the user action and running the test with data inputs. You can also create automated tests by recording user actions. Unit testing is covered in great detail right from creating the unit test classes and methods upto using different types of assert methods and parameters for testing the code. Passing a data source with a set of data and testing the code is also explained in detail. Web Performance Testing, an integral part of modern mission critical applications is also covered very well. It explains the basic method of web testing using Visual Studio Team System and features such as adding rules and parameterization of dynamic variables. Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 ultimately provides many new features for the Web Performance Testing such as adding new APIs to the test results, web performance test results in a separate file, looping and branching, new validation and extraction rules, and many more. The book also covers many other important topics such as Advanced Web Testing, Load Testing, Ordered and Generic Tests, Test Reports, MSTest – the command line testing tool, Test and Lab Center, etc.

As you can see this book is an invaluable resource for anybody testing Visual Studio 2010 applications.

Let Armadillo chase away your csharp bugs!!!

Sun, 20 Mar 2011 17:04:00 GMT

Let Armadillo chase away your csharp bugs.

Armadillo works within Visual Studio and alerts you to bugs when you change your csharp code.

Download the beta now!!!

http://www.armadilloverdrive.com/beta/

Learn ASP.NET MVC3 free!!!

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:25:00 GMT

Dive deep into ASP.NET MVC3 in this free course brought to you by Pluralsight and Microsoft. Learn about the new Razor view engine, unobtrusive AJAX , Nuget package management and more. Hurry, it's free only for a limited time!!!

http://www.asp.net/mvc/pluralsight

Win 2 years free web hosting for your site!!!

Sun, 06 Mar 2011 22:55:00 GMT

EggHeadCafe is giving away a free 2 year Personal Class Account to Arvixe ASP.NET Web Hosting! In fact, all members who enter the drawing below win a 20% discount off a Personal Class Account.

The nice thing about Arvixe is that they also accept Google checkout and Paypal.

http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials/aspnet/828f2029-b7be-4d15-877c-0d9e9ab74fc5/review-of-arvixecom-web-site-hosting.aspx

Use VS2010 to deploy your SQL Database

Sat, 05 Mar 2011 17:13:00 GMT

Did you know? You can use VS2010 to deploy your SQL databases.

To access the deployment tool in Visual Studio 2010 you must first navigate to the project's properties window and find the Package/Publish SQL tab, located just below the Package/Publish Web tab. Here you will find most everything you'll need for deploying SQL databases.

http://rachelappel.com/deployment/database-deployment-with-the-vs-2010-package-publish-database-tool/

Virtual FREE online mvc conference

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 15:30:00 GMT

Learn how to write awesome applications on top of the ASP.Net MVC framework in a FREE virtual conference on Feb 8

It's a community event and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to the jQuery project. All sessions will be recorded and made available free online.

http://www.mvcconf.com/

Visual Studio 2010 launched!!!

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:25:00 GMT

Yesterday Microsoft launched Visual Studio at the Visual Studio Expo in Las Vegas. Visual Studio 2010 has several great productivity enhancements for developers.

Watch the keynote and see how Visual Studio 2010 help developers "stay in the zone"!!!

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/watch-it-live

Then dive into all the cool new features yourself with the free Visual Studio 2010 Training kit.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=752cb725-969b-4732-a383-ed5740f02e93

Happy programming!!!

Dotnetrocks!!!

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:06:00 GMT

Dotnetrocks is a cool internet audio talk show for .Net developers. In DJ Style with cool musical effects, Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell explore various facets of the .Net framework and related cutting-edge technologies like AJAX, Silverlight, LINQ, Entity Framework, etc. with some of the most famous names in the technology world

Every episode also has a section called "Better know the framework" where you can learn a new aspect of the vast .Net framework.

Check it out at http://www.dotnetrocks.com

You can download the podcasts in different formats and take them with you on your mp3 player, iphone or Blackberry.

If you prefer videos , check out DNRTV http://www.dnrtv.com

Have fun exploring the .net framework with Carl and Richard!!!

Silverlight 4

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:52:00 GMT

Silverlight 4 Beta was released on Nov 18, 2009.

Here's everything you need to get started

http://silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight-4-beta/

Learn more about Silverlight 4 at Microsoft PDC

http://microsoftpdc.com/

Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:41:00 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Beta 2 has been released. Download it here.

http://ow.ly/FW7t

Get quickly upto speed on Visual Studio 2010 with this free training kit from Microsoft.

http://ow.ly/FWDU

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Course

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:15:00 GMT

Channel 9 has cool video training available for VS2010 and .net 4.0. Check out all the cool new features in C# 4.0, Visual Basic 10, F#, Parallel Computing Platform, WCF, WF, WPF, ASP.NET AJAX 4.0, and ASP.NET MVC Dynamic Data.

http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/VS2010/