For those interested in pursuing certification(s) on .NET Framework 3.5, Microsoft has released a set of exams for various .Net 3.5 technologies. I often get asked about these exams and how to study for them. In this post I will try to answer the first part. This post lists all currently available .Net 3.5 exams [...]

As a programmer I love my enums. I find code written using enums to be more readable than without them. However, there has been and there still is a disconnect between lookup tables in a database and enums in code. One has to restore to some creative trickery to get them working in harmony. Recently [...]

Microsoft Online Services is out of Beta and ready for prime time. List of products offered through online services is impressive. You can either go for BPOS (Business Productivity Online Standard Suite) which includes Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Communications Online and Office Live Meeting. Or you can subscribe for individual products such as CRM, [...]

For many startups one of the biggest hurdles is money. The cost of software cannot be justified. Thus attraction towards open source. Microsoft has taken care of this problem by launching a program called BizSpark. You can enroll yourself if you are a startup with less than one million USD in revenue and less [...]

Where are we today?
Since its inception as Avalon I have dedicated countless hours to the technology we now know as WPF. I can probably say that I am one of the few people who have worked on WPF at a commercial level at least in Australia. This is because the number of projects using WPF [...]

As a part of my job I often travel around Sydney so I use a Vodafone mobile Internet connection to keep myself connected. At home I connect to my wireless network. Recently I faced a problem with my new laptop. The issue was that I could not connect to wireless network at home. After many [...]

Developer Express the company that produces some of the best third party control libraries for .NET also have two very popular products for developer productivity. These products are CodeRush and Refactor Pro retailing for approximately $250. They have now released a free edition of CodeRush called CodeRush Xpress which can be downloaded here.
Even though Xpress [...]

An exciting news I found while reading Marquee de Sells is the launch of Oslo Developer Center. I have been following Oslo story for sometime now and I have to say that information has only trickled so far. Oslo Developer Center is the first step in taking the covers off Oslo and educating the [...]

I have encountered an issue with Word 2007 many times. The issue is that when I open a document, I cannot click anywhere within the document. I can however click on the ribbon, status bar and the chrome but somehow not on the document. I also cannot select anything in my document.
The solution to fix [...]

I am running a LINQ To SQL Training day on Saturday November 8th at Microsoft Office in North Ryde. The course is FREE for anyone to attend but there are only 20 places available. So if have not yet jumped into the wonderful world of writing LINQ queries. If you are considering LINQ To SQL [...]

CTP of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework is now available for download. Visual Studio 2010 takes the world’s best IDE to the next level by innovating on many fronts. Here is an overview from the download page.
Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 mark the next generation of developer tools from Microsoft. [...]

As of 14th October 2008, Mainstream support for .NET Framework 1.1 has ended. However extended support will be available till October 2013. We’ll most likely be in .NET Framework 12 by then. Or will there even be .NET?