This is so hot of the press. SQL Server 2008 has gone RTM just few hours ago. I am heading over to MSDN Subscribers area for a delightful download.
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Visual Studio 2008 comes with an Image Library which contains thousands of icons, animations and images which you can use in your applications. You can find the Image Library at C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\VS2008ImageLibrary\1033
Just unzip VS2008ImageLibrary.zip file located at this location and you have most of the graphics used by Microsoft in many [...]

Visual Studio can be extended by using Addins. There already are many useful addins available. Some developed by Microsoft and many by Third Party vendors. Visual Studio Gallery is one place where you can find pretty much every addin and control library available. Some of my favourite are:

GhostDoc
Resharper
AQtime
CodeRush

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In this post I will show you how to perform dynamic sorting with LINQ. I will work with a simple collection of City class. City class is defined below.

public class City
{
public string Name { get; set; }
public string Country { get; set; }
}

The collection is initialised using [...]

Vish Viswanathan is conducting his famous TOGAF training course in Sydney and Melbourne in the month of September. I have attended his course in Sydney and I can confidently say that Vish is one of the finest trainers I have met. The best part of his course is the interaction among attendees. After the course [...]

Before a certification exam goes live it is released as beta. Beta exams are by invite only and there are limited number of places. These exams also run for a short period of time. Till now finding about beta exams has been a bit of a trick. Your best bets are forums or various blogs. [...]

C# as a language has matured over years. We have come a long way from the first version of C# to the current which incorporates LINQ. Here is an example I recently used in a training session. My objective was to show students how we can retrieve items from a collection based on a certain [...]

It is clear that when it comes to Web, Microsoft is not the leading player. That batch goes to a startup(when compared to Microsoft) named Google. At times I feel that in the process of introducing new products Microsoft at times forgets about their old products which could be widely in use. For example Hotmail. [...]

Few weeks ago Microsoft announced a new certification called Microsoft Certified Master. In an ever growing cluster of Microsoft certification this one allows you to specialise in a particular technology area. So what does this mean? Aren’t other certifications specialising as well? According to Microsoft, Master certification is intended towards candidates who spend most of [...]

Introduction
With .NET Framework 3.5 Microsoft released Language Integrated Query aka LINQ. LINQ enables developers to query data sources using a query like syntax with both C# and VB.NET. These data sources can be collections, SQL Server databases, XML, DataSets etc. Other than what is supplied by Microsoft, LINQ is also extensible. This means that you [...]

I have been thinking about splitting my blogging adventures between personal and technical for some time. Due to legitimate reasons such as procrastination I have held back. Finally the day has come when the sun is shining, birds are chirping and most importantly domain of choice is available. Hence a journey starts.
I am planning to [...]